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February 12, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Several people were killed when avalanches hit houses in Logar province on Friday. Dr. Mirwais told AIP over phone on Saturday from Azra district that several people were killed when avalanches struck houses in Lware Mena, Azra district. He said that dead bodi...
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February 12, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Three villages have been cut off from the provincial capital and more than 40 children feared dead due to heavy snowfall and cold-related diseases in eastern Nangarhar province. A 10-member delegation of Marki Khel area 55 km to the southeast of Jalalabad City ca...
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February 12, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Rumors of an earthquake in Afghanistan and Pakistan forced the people to spend night outside homes on Friday night. However meteorological office in Peshawar repeated denied the rumors and termed it baseless information. Ends
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February 11, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): One person was killed and three others injured during a clash between the residents of two villages in northern Faryab province three days ago, sources said Friday. Sources told AIP that the clash took place between the villages of Matou and Hazar Qala on Tuesday...
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February 11, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Four people including three children and a woman were killed by unknown assailants at Maymana, capital of Faryab province (Feb. 9). Sources said that the children and the woman were killed at Khwaja Sar Sabz area, Maymana city. The motives behind the incident...
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February 11, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Regional Public Information Officer of UNHCR Jack Redden called on Afghan Commissionerte official in Peshawar on Friday and discussed with him procedures of test census of Afghans starting from Monday (Feb. 23). The UN agency official met the trainees who would c...
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February 11, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Police chief of Parwan province Muhammad Alqa Andrabi has said that Salang Highway, the only route linking northern Afghanistan with Kabul, is still closed for traffic due to heavy snowfall. Talking to AIP on Friday evening, he said that more than 100 passengers...
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February 11, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Governor of Farah has strongly rejected reports that people of Bakwa district threatened to restart poppy cultivation in the area. Engineer Asadullah Falah told AIP on Friday that he himself visited Bakwa district on Thursday (Feb. 10) and asked the people to era...
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February 10, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP) Famous Salang Highway leading to northern Afghanistan remained blocked and several vehicles got stuck in snowfall in the area, however, efforts are being made to open the road, police said. Talking to AIP, police chief of Parwan province Major General Muhammad Laq...
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February 10, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Elder of Bakwa district of Farah province have threatened to cultivate poppy crop if their demands were not met. Reports said that the elders called upon the government to compensate them for abandoning poppy cultivation. An elder told newsmen that chieftains...