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January 03, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): A Turkish construction company which had suspended work on Jalalabad-Kunar Highway when unknown assailants gun downed an engineer of the company restated the work on Sunday. The company had stopped work when its engineer Muhammad Ayub was kidnapped and later kille...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Two US soldiers were injured in a mine explosion in eastern Kunar province on Monday morning, eyewitnesses said. The witnesses told AIP from Asadabad, capital of Kunar that a vehicle of US forces hit a landmine at Sara Bagh on Jalalabad-Kunar Highway, about two km away from the we...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A key Mujahideen commander who was killed in American forces attack today morning was laid to rest in western Herat province, eyewitness said Sunday. The witnesses told AIP from Sheen Dand, a district of the province that a key Mujahideen leader against the former USSR forces was...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A fire broke out in Municipal Corporation building at Afghan capital on Sunday evening, burning down various records and documents. The AIP sources from Kabul said that first the fire broke out in the third floor of the building where a big number of land and shop records was plac...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Unknown robbers looted 8,500 USD after barging into the offices of two non-governmental organisations in Afghan capital on Saturday and Friday, sources said. The AIP sources from Kabul said that unidentified gunmen entered into the office of an NGO Afghan Research and Evolution Un...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Deputy to former Taliban defense minister was arrested in southern Kandahar province, an official claimed. Police chief of Kandahar General Khan Muhammad said that Mulla Nida Muhammad was arrested from a house at Shorabak district, about 232 kilometers south of Kandahar City two...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Security chief of southeastern Khost province has said that the prisoners fled from Khost jail included a murderer who had been arrested abroad and a local court awarded him death penalty for killing a person two weeks bavk. Security chief of Khost General Muhammad Ayub told AIP fro...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Residents of two Afghan refugee camps in southern Kandahar province said that torrential rains damaged most of houses in the camps. Two delegations comprising 23 elders from Zeri Dashti and Spin Boldak camps reached Kandahar told journalists that people living in camps were confr...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): An Afghan commission constituted to decide a unanimous national hymn Sunday approved a National Anthem for Afghanistan. The AIP sources from Kabul said that poetry of prominent Afghan poet and intellectual Abdul Rauof Banawa has been selected for the country anthem. A contemp...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): The newly appointed governor of southern Kandahar province has started his work formally on Sunday. The new governor Gul Agha Sherzai who occupied this post before was accorded warm welcome by the local elders after arriving at Kandahar City. On this occasion Afghan minister...