KABUL (AIP): Talks between President Hamid Karzai and his challenger Abdullah Abdullah once again broke down, informed sources said Saturday night (Oct. 31). Informed sources close to Dr. Abdullah told Afghan Islamic Press that both sides stuck t...

KABUL (AIP): National Security on Saturday (Oct. 31) claimed to have arrested six suspects reportedly involved in attack on the guesthouse of the United Nations in Kabul. Amrullah Saleh, chief of National Security told media that the arrested peop...

KABUL (AIP): An Afghan national died of Swine flue, H1N1, in capital Kabul yesterday (Oct. 28) while six of his family members were also found positive of the disease, health ministry said Thursday. The health ministry in a statement said the Afgh...

JALALABAD (AIP): Several candidates who contested elections for provincial council in Ningarhar province held a demonstration in Jalalabad Thursday (Oct. 29) against delay in announcement of results. The candidates their supporters demanded of the...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan border police recovered 25 kilograms of heroin from five people at Kandahar Airport today (Oct. 29), interior ministry said Thursday. The five alleged smugglers who wanted to smuggle the heroin to Delhi, capital of India, were...

KABUL (AIP): Four people were killed and two more wounded in a mine explosion today (Oct. 29) in southern Kandahar province, interior ministry said Thursday. The incident occurred shortly before noon when a vehicle traveling in by the civilians st...

KABUL (AIP): Heavy earthquake rocked several areas of Afghanistan including capital Kabul and different regions of Pakistan Thursday night (Oct. 29). The 6.01 magnitude quake rattled western, central and northern areas of Afghanistan at 17:44 GMT wit...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Four people including two children were killed in an explosion while four tribal elders were allegedly killed by Taliban in southern Zabul province, police said Wednesday (Oct. 28). Taliban killed four tribal elders in Jafaro Vill...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan spy agency claimed to have detained an alleged Pakistani spy in Kandahar province. A statement issued by National Directorate of Security (NDS) identified the alleged spy the alleged spy as Malak Ghulam Rasool resident of Sialk...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Death toll in bomb explosion happened in Meena Bazar, Peshawar, has reached to 45 while more than 100 were wounded, hospital sources said Wednesday. Provincial Information Minister, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, said 80 people were kil...