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GHAZNI (AIP): Nearly seven tons of narcotics were torched in Ghazn province today (Nov. 25), police said Tuesday. The narcotics seized by security forces during the past one year were set ablaze in present of government officials, said Allah Nazar, conter-crimes police chief of Ghazni. Most of...
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Mr. Muhammad Ashraf (Nasari) Governor of western Badghes province while giving details of the accident told AIP that three Afghan engineers of a Chinese road constriction company have been kidnapped by a Taliban commander between Ghormach and Bala Murghab district on Monda...
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HERAT (AIP): Taliban abducted three Afghan engineers in the western Badghis province yesterday (Nov. 24), governor said Tuesday. The Afghan engineers going to Bala Murghab district from Ghormach to conduct survey of a road were captured by a Taliban commander Mulla Ameruddin in the vicinity of Bala...
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KABUL (AIP): A commander of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbadin Hekmatyar (HIG) was killed with his four aides during an operation by foreign forces in Taqab district of Kapisa province last night, sources said Tuesday (Nov. 25). Informed sources told Afghan Islamic Press that Commander Muhammad Ismail, Musta...
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KABUL (AIP): British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrived in Kabul on an official visit last night (Nov.24- 25). Besides Afghan foreign minister, Miliban will also meet other Afghan officials and discuss matters of bilateral interest. British Foreign Secretary arrives in Afghanistan at a t...
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KHOST (AIP): Taliban Monday (Nov. 24) claimed they had captured a district in Paktika province last night. The headquarter of Omna district of Paktika province fell to Taliban after a fierce attack, said Zabihullah Mujhaid, spokesman of Taliban. He told Afghan Islamic Press that five police we...
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KABUL (AIP): Coalition forces killed five Taliban including a commander during ground and air operation in Ghazni province last night, governor said Monday. The operation was conducted in Qara Bagh district in which a Taliban commander known as Khayat was killed with four aides, Muhammad Usman Us...
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KHSOT (AIP): A mine explosion left two workers of a road construction company wounded in Khost province today (Nov. 24), an official said Monday. The roadside bomb exploded on a vehicle of an Afghan road construction company in Yaqoobi district, said Gul Qasim Mujahid, in-charge of Yaqoobi distri...
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KABUL (AIP): First Deputy Afghan President Muhammad Karim Khalili has urged world community and NGOs to send emergency aid to Afghanistan as six million people of this war ravaged country were faced with death threat due to continue drought. This he said while addressing a joint press conference...
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KABUL (AIP): US will send 3000 to 4000 additional troops to Afghanistan in January next year to be deployed at porous eastern Pak-Afghan border, US military spokesman said Sunday (Nov. 23). Addressing a joint press conference, spokesmen of Afghan defence ministry and US military said the deployme...