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KABUL (AIP): Intelligence personnel arrested an official revenue department in Kabul on graft charges yesterday (Aug. 13), interior ministry said Thursday. The revenue official of 1st zone of Kabul City was held on charges of receiving 15000 afghani as bribe and forging official documents, the in...
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KABUL (AIP): Police killed five Taliban during an engagement in Uruzgan province yesterday (Aug. 13), interior ministry said Thursday. The five Taliban including a commander, Mulla Abdul Wali were killed after police ambushed them in Charchino district, the interior ministry said in a statement. It...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan intelligence personnel captured an alleged Pakistani would-be suicide bomber in the eastern Ningarhar province, they said Thursday. The alleged would-be suicide bomber, Saifullah son of Muhammad Din, wanted to attack international troops but was arrested by intelligence person...
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KABUL (AIP): Three Coalition soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan today (Aug. 14), a coalition statement said Thursday. The US-led force said the explosion was happened on a dismounted patrol. It would not disclose nationality of the deceased troops. Ends Posted @ 1...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): World Youth Day was observed in Kandahar today (Aug. 14). In this connection a ceremony was held in Kandahar City which was attended by a large number youths, women, government officials and representatives of different organization of UN. The ceremony was organized by Youth Af...
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KABUL (AIP): Intelligence personnel seized a vehicle loaded with explosive material in the Shindand District of Herat province earlier today (Aug. 13), interior ministry said Wednesday. A press release issued by the interior ministry said the explosive laden vehicle was seized in Azizabad area on...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Two fuel supply vehicles were burned in Laghman province today (Aug. 13), eyewitnesses said Wednesday. The torched vehicles could be seen smoke rising from it near Kabul-Jalalabad highway in Rekhmeen Tangi area of Laghman, an eyewitness told Afghan Islamic Press. Taliban spoke...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A roadside bomb wounded five ISAF troops in the volatile Kandahar province today (Aug. 13), an official said Wednesday. In the incident was happened in vincinity of Zehri District when the ISAF vehicle hit a roadside bomb, said Niaz Muhammad Sarhadi, district chief of Zehri. He...
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KABUL (AIP): Two ISAF soldier were killed and 13 civilians wounded in two separate attacks yesterday (Aug. 11) in northern and southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said Tuesday. One ISAF soldier was killed after Taliban attacked a patrol in southern Afghanistan, international force said in a sta...
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KABUL (AIP): A lower court in Kabul Tuesday (Aug. 12) awarded death penalty to three people and life sentence to nine people in a kidnapping case. The abductors had picked up an eight-year-old boy from Dasht-e-Barchi area of Kabul City some time back and later killed him. Head of the local cou...