PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed that they had fired 10 rockets at Khost Airport and destroyed an Afghan forces vehicle in Khost province on Thursday morning. A Taliban spokesman Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP that 10 rockets were fired at Khost Airport, which landed inside the area, however,...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Governors and police chiefs of seven Afghan provinces held two-day marathon meetings in central Afghanistan aimed at enhancing cooperation and improving law and order situation in their respective areas. Giving details of the meetings, Governor of Ghazni province Haji Asadullah Kha...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Governor of Nangarhar Deen Muhammad has asked a Pakistani construction company to resume work on Jalalabad-Torkhum Highway as soon as possible. The governor met with Pakistani Council General at Jalalabad on Wednesday. He called on the officials of the company to restart its work...

PESHAWAR (AIP): American forces have released three men and a woman arrested on night between Friday and Saturday some 20-kilometer east of Jalalabad in the Barikab area. Informed sources said the American forces late last night handed over all the three men and a woman to officials of Jalalabad. P...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A delegation of experts Sunday reached Jalalabad from Kabul and has started inspection in three district of Nangarhar province where standing crops, animal and human beings were reportedly affected due to powder spray by US airplanes for destroying poppy crop. Some days ago US airpl...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Deputy police chief of Nangarhar province, Qari Amir Khan Laiwal, has said that identity of the four persons killed by the allied forces during an operation on Saturday in the Barikaab area east of Jalalabad has not been confirmed so far. He told AIP that the dead bodies of these pe...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A trader of Kosovo Behgjet Pacolli has appealed to kidnappers for the safe release of the Kosovan UN worker Shqipe Hebibi and her two colleagues kidnapped on October 28 from Kabul. Ends

PESHAWAR (AIP): A key commander in western Ghor province handd over weapons to the government on Tuesday. Commander Mulla Mustafa told AIP that he was never defiant to the government. He added he had in contact with the provincial governor earlier. He said after installation of an elected go...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Four policemen including a district police chief were killed while five others injured in a landmine blast in Oruzgan province on Tuesday, an official said. Provincial Police Chief Rozi Khan told AIP that vehicle of Chora district police chief Muhammad Ibraheem hit a landmine at D...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have killed a government commander in Oruzgan province on Tuesday, a spokesman claimed. Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP that a government commander Muhammad Azam Nomee was arrested at Khas Oruzgan, a district of Oruzgan on Tuesday. He further said that the commander...