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HERAT (AIP): Afghan National Police (ANP) conducted a raid on a madrassa (seminary) in the Bala Balook district of Farah province last night and detained 22 suspected Taliban, police chief said Tuesday (April. 03). Police had been tipped off that a Talib commander named Maulvi Hayatullah is provi...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Journalist community of the eastern region of Afghanistan strongly condemned ill-treatment of a journalist by police yesterday (April. 02). A press release issued here on Tuesday (April. 03) said the reporter of Spin Ghar Radio and Shaiq Cabal television channel, Zia-ur-Rahman, w...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A police officer and two growers were wounded during exchange of fire between police and poppy growers in eastern Ningarhar province today (April. 02), an official said Monday. Growers opened firing on police destroying poppy crops in the Daulatzi area. Police also returned fire...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Six Taliban and three policemen were killed during two separate clashes in the southern Kandahar province during the last 24 hours, police said Monday (April. 2). Taliban attacked security posts in the Takht Pul district of Kandahar province early today, killing three and wounding...
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KABUL (AIP): Angry protesters blocked Chaparhar-Jalalabad road after police killed a grower during the poppy eradication campaign in Charhpar district of eastern Ningarhar province today (April 02), residents and officials said Monday. Growers exchanged fire with police destroying poppy crops in...
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KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai left for New Delhi, India, this morning (April 02) to attend the 14th Summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). The Summit will start tomorrow in New Delhi and Afghanistan will be formally accepted as the new member of the SAARC....
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HERAT (AIP): Landsliding hit a village in Ghor province last night, leaving five people of a family dead and one wounded, governor said Monday (April. 04). Besides killing of the five people in the Marghab village, the landsliding caused by heavy rains also blocked several road link the provincia...
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KHOST (AIP): Unidentified people blown up the building of a primary school with explosives in the Shah Wali Kot district of Khost province last night, a security official said Monday (April 04). The school had been built by foreign forces in the Shambawat area, said Wazir Badshah, a security offi...
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HERAT (AIP): Flash floods caused by heavy rains killed three people in two districts of western Herat province today (April. 04), a Red Crescent official said Monday. The devastating floods killed two people in the Adreskan district and one in the Sheendand and destroyed 110 houses, said Noorudd...
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KABUL (AIP): The helicopters of Afghan National Army Air Corps evacuated flood victims in the Ghorban district of Parwan province yesterday (March. 31), a Coalition statement said Sunday. Elsewhere in the Parwan province, Afghan soldiers safely evacuated 350 families from the Sayed Khel distr...