PESHAWAR (AIP): UNHCR assisted voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees from Peshawar will restart on March. 02 while refugees of Jalozai camp have been directed to vacate the camp by April 15, UNHCR said Friday. Spokesman of UNHCR, Babar Baloch,...

KABUL (AIP): Troops of Afghan National Army (ANA) detained three suspected miscreants during operation in Kandahar province yesterday (Feb. 27), interior ministry said Thursday. The interior ministry said in a statement that the suspects were capt...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Thursday vowed attacks on installations of mobile phone companies in Afghanistan as the three day deadline they had set expired today (Feb. 28). "The deadline, we had set three days back for mobile phone companies to swi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Two Polish troops were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Paktika province yesterday (Feb. 26), a Polish television reported Wednesday. A military spokesman told the TV channel in Warsaw that two troops were killed and another wounde...

HERAT (AIP): The outbreak of measles disease in the Parchaman district of Farah province left 24 people dead during the past one week, police said Wednesday. Several more people are also suffering from this infectious disease but no steps have bee...

KABUL (AIP): Interior Minister Zarar Ahmad Maqbal escaped unhurt in a rocket attack on Kabul-Jalalabad highway today (Feb. 27), informed sources said Wednesday. The interior ministry accompanied by officials and police was on way to eastern Laghma...

HERAT (AIP): Afghan security forces seized approximately 3000 kilograms of narcotics in the western Herat province today (Feb. 27). The narcotics including hashish and opium had been smuggled to Herat from Mazar Sharif and were being smuggled to T...

KABUL (AIP): A delegation of elders from northern provinces of Afghanistan urged President Hamid Karzai to mediate between General Abdur Rashid Dostam and Akbarbay. The delegation including elders, and members of provincial councils of Faryab and Far...

KABUL (AIP): Interior ministry on Wednesday rejected reports suggesting attack on the motorcade of interior minister on Kabul-Jalabad highway near Sarobi. Spokesman of interior ministry, Zamaray Bashari told Afghan Islamic Press that he was with i...

KHOST (AIP): A land mine struck a vehicle traveling in by a police officer and his family members in Khost province today (Feb. 26), killing five people including the officer, a police official Thursday. Abdul Raziq, a police officer of Yaqubi distr...