KABUL (AIP): Initial indications reveal that enemy fire caused two CH-47 Chinook helicopters involved in offensive operations in southern Afghanistan to make hard landings Sunday, says a press release issued by the coalition forces on Monday.One of the helicopters had to make an immediate controlled...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A district in charge and three policemen were killed as Taliban fighters blew up their vehicle with remote control landmine in restive Kandahar province on Friday.Obaidullah, deputy district in charge of Shahwali Kot while giving details to Afghan Islamic Press on Saturday said: "The...

LOGAR (AIP): Taliban fighters claimed to have killed two soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) in Logar province on Friday night but officials reject the claim.Taliban guerillas' spokesman, Doctor Muhammad Hanif, on Saturday phoned Afghan Islamic Press and said: "Our fighters attacked vehicle of AN...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban militia claimed to have killed four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in Zabul province on Saturday.Qari Muhammad Yousuf, Taliban fighters' spokesman, phoned the office of Afghan Islamic Press by satellite and said: "Taliban ambushed a vehicle of ANA in Nawrak area of Shahj...

JALALABAD (AIP): Former Jehadi commander and member of Wolesi Jirga (National Assembly) of Afghanistan, Asmatullah and his bodyguard were killed and three others injured in Laghman province on Sunday morning.

KABUL (AIP):   Two US CH-47 Chinook helicopters made emergency landings today (Sunday) in separate locations in southern Afghanistan resulting in the injury of five US soldiers and one Afghan National Army soldier, says a press release issued by the coalition forces.    In t...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghans in Pakistan are informed that there will be a temporary break in the UNHCR assisted voluntary repatriation programme from Pakistan during the winter, says a press release issued by UNHCR on Friday.All repatriation from Pakistan will end from 20 December 2005.UNHCR repatriatio...

KANDAHAR (AIP): An Iranian working in brick-kiln was stabbed to death in Herat two days back.   Security sources in the province say that the Iranian was working in a brick-kiln and was killed by unidentified people by striking with knives.Hisar Ahmad, criminal investigation director in th...

PESHAWAR (AIP): An Islamabad-based Urdu daily  "HAMDARD" on Sunday carried out on its front page some points from the speech of  Maulana Hassan Jan Madani, a well-know religious scholar of North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan, in which he termed the cultivation of poppy crops as l...

PESHAWAR (AIP) Taliban guerillas said to have released the two Afghans on Wednesday who were also kidnapped with the Indian engineer from Nimroz province. Qari Muhammad Yousuf, Taliban militia spokesman, phoned Afghan Islamic Press and said: "Taliban had also abducted two Afghan policemen with the I...