KABUL (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has designated a teacher of Kabul University as transport minister of the country, informed sources said Thursday.. President Karzai fired transport minister Hamidullah Qaderi on charges of embezzlement and...

KHOST (AIP): A roadside bomb killed two police and wounded three more in Khost province today (Feb. 12), police said Thursday. A high-ranking police commander Sher Ahmad Kochi told Afghan Islamic Press that the incident was happened in Babrak Tana...

KABUL (AIP): Afghanistan and Coalition forcesr have agreed Thursday (Feb. 12) that Afghan forces will conduct search of houses during operation to minimize risk of civilian casualties. A statement issued by Afghan Defence Ministry here today (...

JALALABAD (AIP): A child was killed while his nine family members injured when a gas cylinder exploded between the night of Tuesday and Wednesday (Feb. 10/11) in Kunar province, hospital sources said Dr Naseer Ahmed, at Jalalabad Public Health Hosp...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A journalist, who had been kidnapped a few months ago, was released after the mediation of a local Jirga today (Feb 10), an official said Tuesday. The official told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that a former BBC Pashto service employ...

KABUL (AIP): Counter-narcotics police seized 25 kg of narcotics called crystal in the western Herat province yesterday (Feb. 09), interior ministry said Tuesday. The narcotics were recovered from a house in Shaheed Abdul Latif area, vicinity of Hera...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday appointed new head of Afghanistan Olympic Committee. Lieutenant General Muhammad Zaher Akbar, was appointed as head of the Olympic committee following order no. 156 of President Hamid Karzai. He...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and foreign forces eliminated10 heroin laboratories during an operation in eastern Ningahar province yesterday (Feb. 09), interior ministry said Tuesday. The heroin laboratories were destroyed by counter narcotics police with t...

KABUL (AIP): One ISAF soldier was killed and four others injured when a vehicle they were traveling in rolled over today (Feb. 10), ISAF said in a statement Tuesday. However, the statement did not mention the place where the mishap had occurred. Na...

JALALABAD (AIP): Three police were killed and two more when a roadside bomb exploded on their vehicle in the eastern Ningarhar province today (Feb. 09), interior ministry said. The incident was happened in Surdag, Bar Behar Village of Khugyani distr...