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KHOST (AIP): Five policemen were missing as Taliban attacked the headquarters of Janikhel district of Paktia province last night, a security official said Tuesday (April. 03). Taliban torched five vehicles, weapons and damaged offices in the district headquarters, said Dastagir Rustam Yar, securi...
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HERAT (AIP): Afghan National Police (ANP) arrested 22 people including two Taliban fighters during operation conducted in the Bala Balook district of Farah province last night, police said Tuesday (April. 03). The operation was conducted on the basis of prior information regarding Taliban's presen...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A roadside bomb injured four personnel of border police in the Chaparhar district of eastern Ningarhar province today (April. 03), police said Tuesday. A vehicle of the border police of Agam district hit a landmine in the Sara Qala area, leaving a commander Muhammad Bilal and th...
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HERAT (AIP): Afghan National Police (ANP) conducted a raid on a madrassa (seminary) in the Bala Balook district of Farah province last night and detained 22 suspected Taliban, police chief said Tuesday (April. 03). Police had been tipped off that a Talib commander named Maulvi Hayatullah is provi...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Journalist community of the eastern region of Afghanistan strongly condemned ill-treatment of a journalist by police yesterday (April. 02). A press release issued here on Tuesday (April. 03) said the reporter of Spin Ghar Radio and Shaiq Cabal television channel, Zia-ur-Rahman, w...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A police officer and two growers were wounded during exchange of fire between police and poppy growers in eastern Ningarhar province today (April. 02), an official said Monday. Growers opened firing on police destroying poppy crops in the Daulatzi area. Police also returned fire...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Six Taliban and three policemen were killed during two separate clashes in the southern Kandahar province during the last 24 hours, police said Monday (April. 2). Taliban attacked security posts in the Takht Pul district of Kandahar province early today, killing three and wounding...
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KABUL (AIP): Angry protesters blocked Chaparhar-Jalalabad road after police killed a grower during the poppy eradication campaign in Charhpar district of eastern Ningarhar province today (April 02), residents and officials said Monday. Growers exchanged fire with police destroying poppy crops in...
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KABUL (AIP): President Hamid Karzai left for New Delhi, India, this morning (April 02) to attend the 14th Summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). The Summit will start tomorrow in New Delhi and Afghanistan will be formally accepted as the new member of the SAARC....
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HERAT (AIP): Landsliding hit a village in Ghor province last night, leaving five people of a family dead and one wounded, governor said Monday (April. 04). Besides killing of the five people in the Marghab village, the landsliding caused by heavy rains also blocked several road link the provincia...