Date 4-10-08 KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban claimed that they had inflicted heavy human loss to the Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in various attacks. Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP Friday (Oct 3) from an unknown place said that as many as 21 soldiers of ANA were killed and...

Date 4-10-08 PESHAWAR (AIP): All Afghan refugees have been asked to leave Bajaur Agency within three days, say reports and information received in the province and from Bajaur Agency on Friday (Oct 3). The agency is situated near the bordering Kunar province of Afghanistan, where security forces...

Date 4-10-08 PESHAWAR (AIP): As many as twenty people, women and children among them, were killed in a missile attack on Muhammad Khel village in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Friday (Oct 3). According to Pakistani sources, the missile was fired from a Predator drone which targeted two houses...

Date 4-10-08 KANDAHAR (AIP): Four persons were injured in a mine blast in Greeshak district, Helmand province on Friday (Oct 3), district police chief Asadullah Sherzad told AIP Saturday (Oct 4). The blast occurred near the district bazaar on a vehicle carrying passengers in which the said four...

Date 4-10-08 KANDAHAR (AIP): Five Taliban were killed in a clash with police in Pangwaeey district, Kandahar province on Friday (Oct 3), district chief Haji Baran told AIP Saturday (Oct 4). The district chief said that the clash erupted between the security forces and armed Taliban in the centre...

Date 4-10-08 KHOST (AIP): Armed anti-state opposition persons killed Olympic committee chairman Ali Khel of Paktika province Saturday (Oct 4), Pakitika governor assistant Abdul Malik Tani told AIP today. Abdul Malik said that some armed persons whisked away Ali Khel and his son Friday (Oct 2) wh...

Date 4-10-08 KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai is likely to conduct reshuffle in the cabinet in few days in which the Education Minister Muhammad Haneef Atmar will be appointed as Interior minister, well informed sources told AIP Saturday (Oct 4). The new interior minister will be posted in pl...

JALALABAD (AIP): Diarrhea broke out in Mandol District of Noristan province, killed eight people and afflicting dozens more for the last few days, a health official said Friday (Oct. 03). Dr. Hazrat Shah, Director of Noristan Health Department, told Afghan Islamic Press that the disease broke in...

Date 2-10-08 KABUL (AIP): Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated with religious enthusiasm and fervour all across Afghanistan on Tuesday (Sep 30), sticking to the tradition of celebrating all religious festivals, including Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Azha, and fast during Ramazan simultaneously with Saudi Arabia....

Date 2-10-08 JALALABAD (AIP): Police chief of Lalpura district in eastern Ningarhar province, Lutufullah Pacha was laid to rest in Kami district on Wednesday (Oct 1). The police chief was killed while three other policemen were wounded in traffic accident on Tuesday (Sep 30) in Momand Darra dis...