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HERAT (AIP): Border police detained six alleged Iranian smugglers and recovered arms and narcotics today (July 29), police said Tuesday. The alleged Iranian smugglers were on way to the house of another smuggler in Dahna Village, Gulran district, near Afghan-Iran border when nabbed by police, sai...
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KHOST (AIP): Foundation stone of two health clinics were laid today (July 29) in Paktia province. The health clinics one each would be built in Sepahi near Gardez, capital of Paktia province and Aryub Zazi district, said Roohullah Samoon, spokesman of governor Paktia. He told Afghan Islamic Pr...
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KABUL (AIP): A soldier of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died of wounds yesterday (July 28) in the opium-rich southern Helmand province, an ISAF statement said Tuesday. The ISAF soldiers were on food patrol when attacked by in the Nad Ali District, the statement said....
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KABUL (AIP): Hundreds of people took out a protest demonstration in Kabul Monday (July 28) against Abdul Latif Pidram, leader of National Congress, for his insulting remarks against former Afghan king Ghazni Amanullah Khan. The protesters carrying portraits of late Amanullah Khan declared Latif P...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A rocket struck a seminary in South Waziristan, a tribal district of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan, early today (July 28), state-run-television reported Monday. Some sources said it might not be a rocket attack but the munitions might have been fired from an aircraft. There w...
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HERAT (AIP): Taliban shot dead a district attorney in Ghor province yesterday evening (July 27), police said Monday. Mulla Muhammad Naib, attorney of Shahrak District, was on his way home from office when attacked and killed by Taliban, said Shah Jahan Noori, police chief of Ghor province. He...
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KABUL (AIP): Germen Foreign Minister Frank Walter SteinMeier visited Mazaar Sharif, capital of Balkh province today (July 27), third day of his official visit to this war ravaged country to meet German troops in northern region. During his stay in Kabul, the German foreign minister met President...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban killed four police during an attack in Marja District of southern Helmand province yesterday (July 26), informed sources said Sunday. Sources in Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province told Afghan Islamic Press that the policemen were attacked in Trekh Nawar area. Accor...
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KHOST (AIP): A suicide bomber killed a worker of road construction company in Khost province today (July 27), an official said Sunday. The suicide bomber who was on foot blew up himself near the office of road construction in Khulbisat area of Sabari district, said Gul Qaseem Jahadyar, district c...
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HERAT (AIP): Five people were killed and 10 other wounded in a traffic accident in the western Herat province today (July 27), police said Sunday. The incident was happened on Herat-Islam Qala highway in Tanqnaqi of Ghoryan district when a car rammed into another coming from opposite direction,...