PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have launched fresh attacks in Laghman and Kunar provinces on Sunday.A spokesman of Taliban fighters, Doctor Muhammad Hanif phoned the office of Afghan Islamic Press in Peshawar and claimed fresh attacks in Kunar and Laghman province.Taliban fired three rounds of B...

KABUL (AIP): Deputy Afghan President Muhammad Karim Khalili will attend funeral ceremony of Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).It was officially announced in Kabul  on Wednesday that second deputy Afghan President Muhamm...

KABUL (AIP): Doctor Ghulam Farooq was inducted as state minister for parliamentary affairs in the cabinet of Hamid Karzai government.It was officially announced on Wednesday that following an order of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Doctor Ghulam Farooq Wardak was inducted in the cabinet and given th...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified murderers killed a headmaster of a school in Zabul province last night, governor said Wednesday.   Abdul Habib was the headmaster of Sheikh Mati High School in Qalat city, capital of Zabul province and he was killed by unknown people in his house last night.Gov...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan refugees in Sada area of Kurram Agency in Pakistan have been directed to leave the area.Besides several warning in the past, the Afghan refugees were directed on December 30, 2005 to leave the area. On Saturday security forces rounded up dozens of Afghan refugees in Sada.A res...

JALALABAD (AIP): Two people were killed in separate incidents in Kunar and Kandahar provinces during the last 24 hours.As per details, unidentified gunmen attacked a housed in Watapur aea of Kunar province, killing one and injuring another inmate. The security forces of Kunar said that cause of the...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Border forces destroyed four heroin laboratories near Pakistan border in Kandahar province and seized 3800 kilograms of charas yesterday, sources Tuesday.

KANDAHAR (AIP): Two passers-by including a woman and a child were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a convoy of American troops in Kandahar on Monday, governor siad..

KABUL (AIP): The ISAF's US-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Farah assisted local police to recover a large weapons and ammunition cache in Farah province yesterday, says a press released issued by the ISAF press office on Thursday. The statement said a PRT explosives team was brought...

KABUL (AIP): At least 2000 kilograms of narcotics was recovered during the last several days, government sources said in Kabul on Tuesday.The Afghan National television and other sources reported that different kinds of drugs were seized in different provinces of the country. The security forces sei...