PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have expressed ignorance about the explosion in Afghan capital, saying they have not carried out the attack which left two persons dead and six others wounded on Saturday evening. Taliban spokesman Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi phoned AIP and said they have not carried out th...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The American and Afghan forces have withdrawn from Zarmat district of Paktia province after some Taliban commanders surrendered to the government. Secretary of governor Paktia told AIP that the joint troops left the area at the request of local people. The locals said that securi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Ten Taliban were captured during an operation by Afghan forces in southern Kandahar province on Friday, military commander said. Talking to AIP, chief commander of 205-army division Kandahar Muhammad Muslim Amid said that the operation was launched this morning to oust Taliban fi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Nine soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) were killed and three others wounded on Wednesday in Taliban attack in southern Kandahar province, an official confirmed. Talking to AIP spokesman of Afghan Defense Ministry General Muhammad Zahir Azeemi said that soldiers of ANA came u...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Police chief of Rodad district escaped unhurt in mine explosion conducted by Taliban on Thursday in eastern Nangarhar province. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP that the vehicle was destroyed through remote control blast at Zakhail area, killing all the per...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Three persons including two brothers were killed on Tuesday on account of old enmity in eastern Jalalabad City, sources said. The AIP sources from Jalalabad said that some persons were traveling in a car when their rivals opened fire on them at Lalma area, 10 kilometers south of...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Eight people were killed on Tuesday night when food water inundated at least 80 houses in western Farah province last night. The AIP sources from Farah said that the houses were damaged in foods at Perchaman district, about 350 kilometers northeast of capital Farah city. The...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday appointed Qazi Inayatullah Inayat as governor of Badghees province. Earlier, Mr. Inayat was working as governor of Western Faryab province; however, supporter of Uzbek warlord General Rasheed Dostum attacked him on April 2004 and forced...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A mine explosion left a driver injured in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, eyewitness said. They told AIP that a tractor of an Indian road construction hit a roadside bomb at Shor Andam area on Kandahar-Speen Boldak Highway. There has been no claim of responsibility s...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A Pakistani private Pashto language television channel broadcast through cable has been banned in Jalalabad City by the government for unknown reasons. A cable operator Shafiqullah Shiaq told AIP on Tuesday that they received a notification from Nangahar director information. Muh...