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KABUL (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead a former prime minister and Senate member in Kabul today (May. 02), interior ministry said Wednesday. Member of Masharano Jirga and former prime minister, Ustad Abdul Saboor Farid was killed by unknown gunmen in the Khairkhana area of Capital Kabul, said...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Teachers and students took out a protest rally Tuesday (May 01) against the killing of civilians by coalition forces in the Ghani Khail district of eastern Ningarhar province. Approximately 300 teachers and students assembled in front of the Teacher Training Institute in the prov...
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HERAT (AIP): A roadside bomb detonated in the Enjeel district of western Herat province today's morning (May 01), causing no loss of lives, eyewitnesses said Tuesday. The bomb went off with a big bang soon after the passing of foreign troops from the Pul Pashtoon area of the district, eyewitnesse...
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KABUL (AIP): Coalition air strike killed four Taliban in the Spera District of Khost Province yesterday (April. 30), a coaltion statement said Tuesday. The Afghan National Police (ANP) requested coalition air support after a group of approximately 11 Taliban attacked the district centre from 12:3...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban executed an Afghan soldier on charges of spying for American forces. The head of Afghan soldier Abdur Rahim who had come to home on leave, was found in a school yesterday (April. 30), district chief of Panjwayee, Kandahar, Niaz Muhammad Sarhadi told Afghan Islamic Press Ma...
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KABUL (AIP): Predictable, disciplined, and coordinated finance through the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) is key to allow Afghans take responsibility for their own future and to build the institutions of a modern state, the World Bank said ahead of the Annual Meeting of ARTF Donors....
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KABUL (AIP): Police detained 11 Taliban including three commanders during a string of operations conducted in the Sabri district of Khost province last night, interior ministry said Tuesday (May. 01). The operation, launched after growing insecurity in the province, continued for three hours in w...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): The number of females drug addicts on the rise in the southern Kandahar province as it crosses 255 figures, a rights worker said Tuesday (May. 01). The number might be high but complete details will be ascertained after a survey which is underway, said Najeeb Hashmi, in-charge of...
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KABUL (AIP): The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Tuesday said a significant number of Taliban were killed in southern Helmand province April. 30. Some reports while quoting a commander of British troops in Helmand suggested that 75 Taliban were killed in Sangin district...
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MAZAR-E-SHARAIF (AIP): Unidentified assailants gunned down a high-ranking official of a local non-governmental organization and wounded three other workers early today in (April. 30), informed sources said Monday. The gunmen attacked the office of local NGO "Shah Rukhi" at approximately 1:30 a.m....