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KHOST (AIP): Coalition forces killed 12 Taliban near Pak-Afghan border in Paktika province last night, US-led Coalition said Sunday (March. 25). "The 12 insurgents were engaged by Afghan National Security Forces and Coalition forces with small arms fire as the extremists attempted to stage an att...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A roadside bomb blast left five border policemen wounded, two of them critically, in the bordering Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province yesterday (March. 24), police said Sunday. The border police was on a patrol when it was hit by a landmine in the Shero Ubo area of Spin Bol...
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KHOST (AIP): Over two dozens of government opponents in the Paktia and Paktika provinces have announced support to Karzai led Afghan government under the National Reconciliation Programme Sunday (March. 25). These 25 people had links with Taliban and Hezb-e-Islami but now they assured backing the...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified gunmen kidnapped and killed a lady police in Helmand province yesterday (March. 24), a security official said Sunday. The lady police of Central Jail Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province was kidnapped yesterday and her dead body was found today (March. 25) in the B...
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HERAT (AIP): Flash floods hit 56 villages in the western Nimroz province causing loss of lives and properties, governor said Sunday (March. 25). The floods have killed six people, damaged 2500 houses and washed away 20,000 hector land in the 56 villages of five areas incluing Kang and Chakhansur s...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan Defence Minister, Abdur Rahim Wardak and Senate Chairman jointly inaugurated a new block at Pul-e-Charkhi Prison in Kabul Sunday (March. 25). The new block will accommodate Afghan prisoners presently in the detention of foreign troops and in Guantanamo Bay. Chairman Senate, S...
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KABUL (AIP): Three-day anti-polio campaign was launched in Afghanistan Sunday (March. 25). Health Minister Sayyed Muhammad Amin Fatimi opened the campaign by administering polio drops to a child in Kabul. He said 46000 volunteers would administer polio and vitamin-A drops to around six million...
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KHOST (AIP): A border policeman and a fighter were killed during a clash in Khost province last night, borer police said Saturday (March. 24). Anti-government elements attacked a post of border police in the Banai area of Gubaz district and the firefight continued for several hours, said Sher Muh...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four Afghan militia and 10 truck drivers were killed as Taliban attacked a convoy of vehicles, supplying logistic goods to foreign troops, in Kandahar today (March. 24), police said Friday. The vehicles were supplying goods to foreign troops in Uruzgan and was attacked in the Shah...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan and NATO forces killed two and wounded six Taliban during a clash on Kandahar-Kabul highway in Zabul yesterday (March. 23), a military officer said Saturday. The NATO and Afghan troops engaged Taliban in the Tazi area after they were informed that Taliban had blocked Kandah...