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KANDAHAR (AIP): Governor of southern Kandahar province, Asadullah Khalid opened a bridge during a ceremony on Tuesday (Jan. 08). The bridge linking Zehri with Pajwayee district was recently built on Arghandab River. It is said that the bridge was temporarily constructed at cost of 200,000 do...
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KABUL (AIP): Hundreds of Afghan pilgrims, stranded at Jeddah Airport after performing Hajj rituals, have been facing severe hardships as Kam Air line failed to bring them back to Afghanistan as per schedule. "Pilgrims scheduled to be flown to Afghanistan in five flights have been waiting at the a...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan authorities appointed a former Taliban commander as chief of the Musa Qala district of Helmand province which was recaptured by ISAF and Afghan forces from Taliban last month, reports said Tuesday (Jan. 08) Mullah Abdul Salaam was a Taliban commanders and joined Afghan gove...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two Canadian troops were killed in a road mishap in the southern Kandahar province yesterday evening (Jan. 06), a PRT spokesperson said Monday. The vehicle traveling in by the Canadian troops, serving under the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Kandahar, overturned while crossi...
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KABUL (AIP): Two civilians were found dead and five others injured after a clash between Taliban and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops in Uruzgan Province Jan. 4 evening, an ISAF statement said Monday (Jan. 07). Taliban attacked ISAF forces approximately 10 kilomete...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Government terminated the services of 273 police personnel of southwest zone for negligence, corruption and robbery charges during the past two months, an official said Sunday (Jan. 06). Head of outhwest police zone, Ghulam Ali Wahdat told Afghan Islamic Press the fired police per...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Five people were killed and four others wounded during separate attacks in the southern Helmand province yesterday (Jan. 06), police said Monday. A roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in the Nad Ali district, killing one police officer, an intelligence employ and two civilians,...
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KABUL (AIP): One Coalition soldier was killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion the Kot District of eastern Nangarhar Province today (Jan. 07), a coalition statement said late Monday. "The servicemembers were responding to an IED discovered by Afghan National Security Forces e...
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HERAT (AIP): As many as 50 Afghan and Iranian workers, working on the construction of a rail track from Iran to Afghanistan, are stranded in the Ghoryan district of Heart province due to heavy snowfall and downpours, an official said Monday (Jan. 07). All kind of road links were cutoff with the A...
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KABUL (AIP): An Afghan was detained on suspicion of planting a mine in southern Kandahar province Saturday (Jan 5) by Afghan National Army (ANA) troops, said a press statement released by Afghan Defense Ministry on Sunday. The statement said a man was apprehended for allegedly planting a mine in Hoo...