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PESHAWAR (AIP): The UNHCR facilitated voluntary returning process of Afghan refugees from Pakistan will stop on Wednesday (Oct. 31) for the usual winter break this year, a UNHCR statement said Monday (Oct. 29). The statement advised Afghan returnees not to approach the UNHCR Voluntary Repatriatio...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Police escaped unhurt as Taliban attacked their vehicles in Ghazni province last night, police chief said Monday (Oct. 29). Police chief of Gahzni, General Ali Shah Ahmadzai told Afghan Islamic Press that the police vehicles were attacked in Andar district but did not cause any da...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Three rockets fired from unknown place hit the capital of North West Frontier Province, but caused no significant damage or injuries, police said Sunday. The rockets were fired before dawn, one of them hit the house of a politician Bashir Ahmad Bilour of Awami National Party (A...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan National Army and Coalition forces killed ten Taliban fighters and injured five others during a joint operation in Kandahar province Saturday afternoon (Oct 27), police said Sunday. The operation was conducted in Khak Shereen area of Shah Wali Kot district. A Coalition...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Five police men, who were protecting an Indian road construction company in western Afghanistan, were killed in a Taliban attack Saturday afternoon, officials said Sunday (October 28). The incident took place in the area between the center of Nimroz province, Zaranj and Dilara...
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KABUL (AIP): Bagram Airfield in Kabul was rocketed last night (Oct 27), but there were no casualties to Coalition forces as the rockets detonated on a remote portion of the airfield, said the press office of Coalition forces on Sunday. Earlier, the Taliban claimed to have fired rockets at Bgram a...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan president Hamid Karzai administered polio drops to a child in Kabul to formally launch the second phase of anti-polio campaign in Afghanistan on Sunday. Information deportment in a press release issued here said that the drive would continue for three days across the country...
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KHOST (AIP): A suicide bomber wearing army uniform blew himself up at an Afghan National Army (ANA) base near Pakistan border in Paktika province, killing five including four soldiers, an official said Saturday. Paktika governor Mohammad Akram Khpalwak told AIP that today (Saturday) about 10am (...
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HERAT (AIP): A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahamdi has claimed that thirty police officials of a check post in Dilaram district in Farah province have surrendered their arms and have joined the Taliban forces. However, when this scribe contacted the commander of the check-post, Genera...
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MAZAR SHARIF (AIP): Head of Char Bolak district Shura of northern Afghanistans Balkh province Haji Behram Khan was shot dead by two unknown armed men on a motorbike on Saturday (Oct 27), police said. Haji Behram Khan was riding in his car alongwith other friends in Char Bolak district when two u...