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PESHAWAR (AIP): The tribes of eastern Nangarhar province have decided that they will not exterminate opium poppies if the government failed to provide remuneration to the cultivators. A gathering of Shinwari tribes from Acheen and Spinghar districts held and unanimously decided that they would n...
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March 31, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): A key Taliban commander has joined government in southern Helmund province on Wednesday. Former Taliban commander Abdul Wahid announced support to government at Lashkargha, capital Helmund province. A government official in Helmund confirmed to AIP that the pr...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A police official in northern Balkh province was removed by Interior Ministry from his office on the complaints of local people who protested against him for his alleged involvement in criminal activities. The AIP sources from Mazar-e-Sharif said that the residents staged a prote...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday inaugurated construction work on Herat-Kandahar Highway in western Herat province. Mr. Karzai accompanied by US ambassador to Afghanistan Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad and a Saudi diplomat opened construction work on 557 kilometers road between He...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Three persons were killed on Tuesday in dam rupture incident in Ghazni province, governor said Wednesday. Governor Asadullah Khanlid told AIP that earlier there were reports of six deaths but added that three persons had been killed in flood. An official told AIP on Tuesday t...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A bomb exploded near Governor House in Jalalabad City of eastern Nangarhar province, killing one person on Wednesday. The explosion reported approximately at 8:10 am (local time) at a distance of some 300 meters from governor house killing the attacker. Security in-charge of...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Four policemen were killed and another injured in an attack in Farah province on Wednesday. A border security official Commander Toryali told AIP that unknown gunmen attacked police petrol and killed four policemen including an officer Abdul Raheem at Doghal area, Anardaru distri...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): At least 10 soldiers of Afghan National Army suffered wounds when three bomb explosions rocked eastern Kunor province on Tuesday, officials confirmed. The AIP sources from Asadabad, capital of Kunor said that a convoy of Afghan National Army was passing through Nawabad area, 10 k...
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March 29, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): An Afghan National Army soldier was wounded in a land mine blast yesterday near Shindand Airfield, coalition said. The soldier was injured in his bid to save a group of children scavenging inside a known minefield, coalition said in a statement. The statement said...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): The death toll rose to 14 following breaking of a dam in central Ghazni province on Tuesday. Police in-charge of Ghazni Abdul Rahman told AIP that 14 persons died in flood related incidents in the area. He said the death toll might further rise as hundreds of houses and shops...