January 09, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): One child was killed and two others wounded when a shell dumped in scrap blasted in southeastern Zabul province, governor said Sunday. Zabul Governor Khyaal Muhammad Hussaini told AIP that the shell was collected by children in scrap and dumped in a street at Ali...

January 09, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Laghman security chief on Sunday handed over heavy weapons to the national army under Disarmament and Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programme. General Gul Karam handed over heavy weapons to the government forces at a gathering which was attended by the of...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan agriculture minister Abdul Rameen paid a visit to Jalalabad City and inspected several projects on Sunday. The minister visited Huda Farm, Olive farms, animal husbandry and later left for Kabul. Several agricultural projects initiated by the government in Jalalabad would...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A clash took place between the residents of two villages over the ownership of a piece of land in Jalalabad City on Saturday, however, there was no report of casualties. Residents of Hada and Lalma villages situated 10 km to the south of Jalalabad City exchanged heavy fire which...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have made it clear that they were not involved in Uruzgan-Dehrawad clash which took place between government forces and local people on Wednesday (Jan. 05). Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi called AIP on Friday and said that the clashed occurred due to injust...

January 7, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Paktia police recovered 2,000 km hashish in various raids in the last few days, governor said Friday. Paktia Governor Asadullah Wafa told AIP the hashish worth thousands of US dollars was recovered by police in raid on different places in the province. He said t...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Chief of Jamiaat-ul-Islam (JUI) Maulana Fazlur Rehman has clarified that they supported Taliban movement before and would continue its support to them in the future as well. According to a Peshawar-based Pashto daily the JUI chief who is also an opposition leader in Pakistan Natio...

January 5, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): A local Taliban commander was killed during a clash with Afghan forces in Zabul province a few days ago, governor claimed. Talking to AIP on Wednesday, Governor of Zabul Khyal Muhammad Hussaini claimed that Mulla Abdul Razzaq was killed during a clash at Atghar dis...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed responsibility for targeting US forces in eastern Kunar province on Monday. Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi, spokesman of Taliban, called AIP and claimed that four US soldiers were killed in rocket and light weapons assault. He said that Taliban managed to escape from...

January 03, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): A Turkish construction company which had suspended work on Jalalabad-Kunar Highway when unknown assailants gun downed an engineer of the company restated the work on Sunday. The company had stopped work when its engineer Muhammad Ayub was kidnapped and later kille...