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March 05, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Unknown gunmen fired five rockets at Nomaish district of Helmund province on Friday night, however, there was no report of casualties, an official said. Security official of Nomaish district Gul Muhammad told AIP that anti-state elements fired five rockets at Nomai...
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QUETTA, Pakistan, (AIP): The UN Refugee Agency has dispatched two convoys of trucks carrying, 1,000 tents to provide emergency shelter for Afghan refugees in the Loralai and Muslim Bagh areas whose houses have been destroyed by heavy rains in Balochistan. The first convoy of five trucks arrived at...
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March 04, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Unknown miscreants blew up an electricity pylon in Sarobi area of Kabul City between the night of Wednesday and Thursday, disrupting power supply to the area, source said. The sources told Afghan Islamic Press that explosives had been planted to the pylon at Sarchi...
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March 03, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Talks between Khost delegation and Kabul authorities have not made any progress regarding reopening of medical faculty at Khost University. The delegation led by Khost Shoora (council) elder Ghazi Nawaz Tani told AIP on Thursday that they arrived had been called to...
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March 3, 2005 PAKTIKA (AIP): Paktiak Governor Mohammad Gulab Mangel welcomed new coalition forces to his province during a ceremony here March 1. Governor Mangel bid farewell to members of the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, who have just completed thei...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Pashtun nationalist leader Khan Abdul Wali Khan who has been ill for the last few days was shifted to Peshawar from his home town Charsadda in a precarious condition on Tuesday. Sources privy to Awami National Party (ANP) told AIP that Wali Khan was suffering from heart, istemma a...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed former diplomat Abdul Jabbar Naeemi as governor of Wardak province, reports Kabul Television. He was appointed the governor on the recommendation of interior ministry. Mr. Naeemi was also served as first and second secretaries in Afghan...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appointed a woman as governor in Afghanistan. According to Kabul TV Ms. Habiba Suhrabi was designated as provincial chief of Bamyan province. Ms. Suhrabi, 47, is the first ever lady governor in Afghan history. Ends
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Tension prevailed in Mazar-e-Sharif following arrest of a high police official by forces of provincial governor over a land dispute Tuesday. The AIP sources from Mazar-e-Sharif said that a building owned by police was reportedly occupied by governor forces and rented it out to a...
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February 28, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): On the directives of Afghan Supreme Court, President Hamid Karzai issued appointment orders of the following judges on February 27, 2005. 1. Sham-ur-Rehman has been appointed as Chief Justice of Balkh High Court. 2. Abdul Manan has been appointed as Chief Justi...