PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban guerillas on Wednesday claimed to have killed four soldiers in an attack in Kata Waz area of Paktika province yesterday.Doctor Muhammad Hanif, spokesman for ousted Taliban militia phoned the office of Afghan Islamic Press from an undisclosed location and said: "Student militi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have fired five rockets on Kandahar airport on Tuesday morning.Taliban spokesman, Qari Muhammad Yosaf told Afghan Islamic Press by phone from an undisclosed location that Taliban fired five rockets on Kandahar airport at about 7:00 A.M. in the morning.He did not gi...

ISLAMABAD (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai leading a high-level delegation, landed at Chaklala Airport on Monday.Afghan President Hamid Karzai who has arrived in Islamabad to express sympathy and condolence over the large-scale destruction caused by October 8 devastating earthquake, will meet Pr...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Only two out of six leaders of the former Taliban regime were elected in the parliamentary elections of Afghanistan.Six former leaders of Taliban tried their luck in the recently held parliamentary elections of Afghanistan from different provinces but only two were elected for Wolesi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A moderate earthquake rocked parts of Pakistan on Monday evening 6:14 P.M.Official of the Met office Peshawar told Afghan Islamic Press that the earthquake was occurred at 6: 14 PM and its intensity was 5.2 on the Richter scale which was felt in Mansehra, Islamabad and other parts of...

JALALABAD (AIP): Hundreds of former Afghan soldiers, dismissed from their services on different occasion in the past, started demonstrations in Jalalabad, Mehtarlam and Asadabad.A number of former officials of Afghan Army who were fired during the last two or three years under deregulation and Disar...

KHOST (AIP): One person was killed and at least one injured when a bomb went off near the vehicle of a former Army commander, General Khyal Baz, in Khost province on Saturday.According to details a bomb blasted near a vehicle of former chief commander of defunct 25th army division killing a passerby...

JALALABAD (AIP): Taliban fighters claimed to have fired 60 mortar shells at two districts headquarters of eastern Kunar province on Thursday night. Talking to Afghan Islamic Press by telephone from an undisclosed location Taliban fighters' spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousuf said: "Mujahideen fired 60 mo...

KABUL (AIP): Nine policemen and four Taliban insurgents were killed in southern Helmand province on Thursday last, Spokesman for the Interior Ministry of Afghanistan said.Talking to Afghan Islamic Press on Saturday Muhammad Yousuf Stanikzai said: "The fighting erupted with Taliban rebels in Zar Khak...

KABUL (AIP): The Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) has announced certified results of five provinces and 100 percent vote count has been completed in all provinces except Kandahar and Paktika.According to the official website of JEMB 100 percent vote count has been completed in all provinces ex...