PESHAWAR (AIP): Security forces of southern Zabul province on Monday seized 102 kilograms opium on Kabul-Kandahar highway, reports said. An official of Zabul security told AIP that the opium had been kept in the secret cavities of the vehicle. He added that it was being carried to Kandahar from Gha...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The authorities of eastern Nangarhar province have arrested two persons, who allegedly planned the attack on Jalalabad airport on Saturday evening. The officials said that the accused were detained along with some rockets and remote control bombs at Saraacha area, about eight kilom...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The number of registered voters has been reached one million in Afghanistan on Wednesday, reports said. The registration process is going on in some parts of the country to register more and more voters for the upcoming polls expected to be held in June this year. The number of vote...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have claimed killing 14 US soldiers in central Afghanistan in the last two days. A statement released to newspapers in Peshawar on Monday evening by Hamid Agha, spokesman of Taliban Movement said that three Americans soldiers were killed in an assault on a convoy of US forc...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Authorities in western Herat province have closed a course started by an NGO to teach driving to women. AIP sources said that a non-governmental organization had started a driving course to provide driving learning facilities to women in Herat. However, the organizers of the course...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The residefnts at Kabul camp in Jalalabad said that they would never vacate the camp unless the government rehabilitates them in other places near the city. A commission constituted by the Jalalabad administration had issued notices to the residents of the Kabul camp situated about...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Security situation in Northern Afghan province has improved and forces loyal to police chief withdrew from the area, reports said. AIP sources said that the fighters of police chief commander Ziauddin were compelled to leave Argou district, Badakhshan province during clashes. The ar...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The intelligence chief of southeastern Khost province was shot dead by an unidentified person on Wednesday morning. The attacker was also killed by blowing himself up, reports said. Eyewitnesses told AIP that the director general of Khost intelligence colonel Muhammad Essa was murd...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The intelligence chief of southeastern Khost province was shot dead by an unidentified attacker on Wednesday morning. The attacker was also killed by blowing himself up, reports said. More details are coming in. Ends

PESHAWAR (AIP): A local Afghan court Tuesday awarded death penalty to two persons who had killed a female employee of UNHCR in Ghazni last year. Sources in Kabul told AIP that Zia Ahmad and Abdul Nabi were booked for killing the employee last year. They were produced before a judge Abdul Basit B...