January 18, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Paktia Governor Asadullah Wafa said that 11 suspected Taliban, who had been released from Bagram airbase on Sunday, were allowed to go home. Talking to AIP on Tuesday, the governor said that military freed 81 detainees from Bagram airbase the other day. He said th...

January 18, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): An Afghan official has claimed that 98 per cent poppy crops have been destroyed in Uruzgan province during a campaign in last several weeks. Security chief of Uruzgan Rozi Khan told AIP on Tuesday that drive against poppy was still in progress, adding that standin...

January 17, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): The intending Afghan Hujjaj left for Jeddah from Peshawar and Islamabad on Monday. More than 900 Afghan Hajjis, who had been waiting for the last few days, were flown to the Holy land in the planes of Saudi Airlines. Ends

January 16, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Expired and spurious medicines worth thousands of afghani were torched after being recovered from various stores in Jalalabad City on Sunday. Addressing a news conference, heath chief of Nangarhar province Dr. Fazl Muhammad Ibraheemi said that the provincial heath...

January 16, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): An unmanned US aircraft crashed in eastern Kunar province two days ago, sources said The AIP sources from Asadabad, capital of Kunar said that the spy plane crashed on Friday (Jan. 14) at Dangam district, about 50 kilometers to the east of the provincial capital....

January 16, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Zabul police on Sunday recovered opium worth thousands of rupees from a pick-up near Qallat, the provincial capital, an official said. A security official of Zabul Ghulam Jillani told AIP that two bags of opium were recovered from the pick-up between Shahra-e-Safa...

January 16, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Mobile telephone system of Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) has been out of order due to some technical problems for the last few days. According to reports reaching here suggest that thousands of subscribers of AWCC were faced with a host of problems....

January 14, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): A mine explosion left one Afghan soldier dead and three others wounded in eastern Kunar province, police said. Police chief of Naaray district Muhammad Yousuf told AIP that the incident happened when a pick-up carrying Afghan soldiers hit a landmine at Pashangar a...

January 13, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Consul-General in Peshawar said that Afghan planes would take all the intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in the next two days. Consul-General Abdul Khaliq Farahi told AIP on Thursday that the Saudi government had promised to take all the Hajjis to Jadda in...

January 13, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have killed six police in southern Helmond province on Wednesday. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi phoned AIP on Thursday and said that Taliban killed the police in Washir district under the pretext to protect them form robbers....