March 16, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday appointed Professor Sibghaullah Mujaddidi as chief of the Commission for Peace and Stability (CPS). A decree to this effect was issued by the president. The decree said that members of the commission would be announced late...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Two cultivators were injured when Afghan policemen opened fire on a mob during poppy eradication campaign in eastern Ningarhar province on Wednesday. The AIP sources said that government forces were eradicating poppy crop at Sandoq village, Acheen district when local growers come...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Poppy crop cultivated over 17,000 acre land has been destroyed in eastern Kunor province in the last few months, governor said. Governor of Kunor Asadullah Wafa told AIP that there were some areas covered with snow from where poppy would be eliminated after melting of snow. H...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The Afghan government has issued posting and transfer orders in police department with immediate effects. Reports from Kabul said that police chief of Balkh province General Muhammad Akram Khakraizwal has been transferred to Kabul. He will replace General Baba Jan who has been app...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Fierce clashes reported between Afghan forces and Taliban fighters in southern Kandahar City on Tuesday evening while both sides claimed inflicting casualties on each other. A Taliban spokesman Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP on Wednesday that a convoy of Afghan troops came u...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The Afghan Election Commission has announced to hold the upcoming elections in third week of September 2005, however, the final date yet to be decided. This was stated by chairman of the Commission Bismallah Bismal in an exclusive interview with the AIP on Tuesday. He rejected repo...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Hundreds of people blocked Mazar-Kabul highway on Tuesday as a protest against land grabbers in Balkh province. Police chief of Balkh General Muhammad Akram Khakraizwal told AIP that as many as 600 protesters took to the streets in Tash-e-Qarghan district and blocked Mazar-Kabul...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday inaugurated Charikaar-Punjshir road being constructed by a US company in Punjshir valley and Parwan province. The road is 77 kilometers long which is funded by a US firm. The US ambassador to Afghanistan Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad and Afghan F...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Thousands of protestors staged a gathering in Afghan capital to commemorate sacrifices of 24,000 people killed by the communist regime on March 14 1979 in western Herat province. They gathered at Shahi Doshamshira area and chanted slogans against the government. They chanted slog...

March 13, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban accepted responsibility for blowing up a vehicle carrying food items for US forces at Khost-Gardez highway on Sunday. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP over telephone that they destroyed a vehicle transporting goods for US forces at Is...