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JALALABAD (AIP): A roadside bomb killed two security personnel including a military officer and wounded six more in the eastern Ningarhar province last night, sources said Monday (Aug. 18). The incident occurred in Farm Hada area, three kilometers to south of Jalalabad City when a vehicle of Ning...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf announces his resignation. The announcement was made in his address to nation on radio and television channels.
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MAIDAN SHAHAR (AIP): Ministry for Rural uplift has completed 41 reconstruction projects under National Solidarity Programme during the past one week in Maidan Wardak province. A statement issued by press office of Maidan Wardak province said 20 projects including potable water, construction of a...
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KHOST (AIP): Six police including a district police chief were wounded in mine explosion in Khost province today (Aug. 18), police said Monday. The roadside bomb exploded on a security patrol of police in Gurbaz district, said General Muhammad Qayum, police chief of Khost province. He told Afg...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Afghan officials Sunday claimed nine Taliban were killed in the Maqur district of Ghazni province yesterday (Aug. 16). Off the nine Taliban killed during ground and air raid in the Gadakhel areas, three were Afghans while the rest were Pakistani, Arab and Chechen fighters, said Sayy...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan forces launched biggest ever operation today (Aug. 17) in Kabul province to maintain security on 89th Independence Day of Afghanistan being celebrated tomorrow, interior ministry said Sunday. Nearly 2000 personnel of counter-terrorist police, border police, security guards of...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A roadside bomb killed 10 Afghan police in the troubled Kandahar province yesterday (Aug. 17), police Sunday. The policemen were on patrol in Shah Wali Kot District when the roadside bomb struck their vehicle Khajamal area, said Colonel Matiullah, police chief of Kandahar province...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Afghan security forces killed 25 Taliban after Taliban attacked security guards of a special private security company in Zabul province today (Aug. 17), killing nine and wounding 13 security guards, interior ministry said Sunday. The security guards were escorting a supply convoy of...
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Newly-appointed governor reaches Kandahar Date 16-8-08 KANDAHAR (AIP): Newly-appointed governor and ex-commander 205 corps, General Rehmatullah Raufi of the southern Kandahar province, arrived here along with an official delegation on Saturday (Aug 16). A ceremony was held in this regard in whi...
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Bomb attack on education minister convey Date 16-8-08 KABUL (AIP): A roadside bomb exploded on the convey of Education Minister Muhammad Haneef Atmar here on Saturday (Aug 16) while the officials said no word regarding any damage or human loss in the incident. Sources told AIP that the minister...