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KABUL (AIP): Police recovered 160 bottles liqueur from a house in Takhar province the other day, police claimed Friday.Police Chief of Takhar province, Colonel Muhammad Zaman told Afghan Islamic Press that 160 bottles of liqueurs were seized from a house in Taluqan city by police two days back.The l...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Heavy fighting between Taliban and US-led coalition and Afghan forces left seven Taliban fighters dead on Saturday, an Afghan Army officer said. Corps commander of Kandahar, General Rahmatullah Raufi, while confirming the clash told Afghan Islamic Press that seven Taliban fighters we...
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PESHAWAR: The coalition forces have issued the following press release.BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan One U.S. service member was killed in action, and one U.S. service member and one Afghan National Army soldier were wounded as ANA and Coalition forces conducted joint offensive operations in the San...
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KABUL (AIP): A big explosion in weapons depot of Afghan National Army in Perwan province last night left two people dead and 45 others wounded including women and children, governor said Friday.The explosion happened in weapons depot of Afghan National Army in Jablul Siraj at 7:00 P.M last night whe...
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ISLAMABAD: Afghan returnees are advised go back directly to their place of origin or habitual residence in Afghanistan, especially those who do not own homes or land for housing, says a press release issued by UNHCR on Friday.This is because government land will only be distributed in the province o...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): One policeman was critically wounded in roadside bomb blast in Helmand province on Friday, sources said.Informed sources told Afghan Islamic Press that a police jeep struck a landmine in Shar Shari area of Marja district in Helmand province today, leaving on policeman wounded, inform...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A tanker supplying oil to coalition forces in Afghanistan from Pakistan destroyed in an explosion in Torkham on Friday afternoon, two kilometers inside Afghan border, said security official said.The flames engulfed the tanker soon after the explosives, planted in the tanker, detonat...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Troops of Afghan National Army having the air support of coalition helicopters have reached Spin Boldak so that supporters of Commander Abdur Raziq may not create problems as situation was tense at this border town, eyewitness said Friday.An eyewitness told Afghan Islamic Press that...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): The bodies of 17 people who were killed by security forces for being Taliban fighters in Kandahar on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, have been brought to Chaman border from where it will be shifted to their respective areas.An elder of Nourzi tribe, Haji Abdul Qadar told Afg...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Six Pakistanis were also among 17 people killed by Afghan forces in Spin Boldak by taking them Taliban, an elder of Nourzai tribe said on Thursday.An elder of Nourzai tribe in border town of Chaman, Haji Abdul Qadar Nourzai told Afghan Islamic Press that among the 17 people who were...