January 17, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): The intending Afghan Hujjaj left for Jeddah from Peshawar and Islamabad on Monday. More than 900 Afghan Hajjis, who had been waiting for the last few days, were flown to the Holy land in the planes of Saudi Airlines. Ends

January 16, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Expired and spurious medicines worth thousands of afghani were torched after being recovered from various stores in Jalalabad City on Sunday. Addressing a news conference, heath chief of Nangarhar province Dr. Fazl Muhammad Ibraheemi said that the provincial heath...

January 16, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): An unmanned US aircraft crashed in eastern Kunar province two days ago, sources said The AIP sources from Asadabad, capital of Kunar said that the spy plane crashed on Friday (Jan. 14) at Dangam district, about 50 kilometers to the east of the provincial capital....

January 16, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Zabul police on Sunday recovered opium worth thousands of rupees from a pick-up near Qallat, the provincial capital, an official said. A security official of Zabul Ghulam Jillani told AIP that two bags of opium were recovered from the pick-up between Shahra-e-Safa...

January 16, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Mobile telephone system of Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) has been out of order due to some technical problems for the last few days. According to reports reaching here suggest that thousands of subscribers of AWCC were faced with a host of problems....

January 14, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): A mine explosion left one Afghan soldier dead and three others wounded in eastern Kunar province, police said. Police chief of Naaray district Muhammad Yousuf told AIP that the incident happened when a pick-up carrying Afghan soldiers hit a landmine at Pashangar a...

January 13, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Consul-General in Peshawar said that Afghan planes would take all the intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in the next two days. Consul-General Abdul Khaliq Farahi told AIP on Thursday that the Saudi government had promised to take all the Hajjis to Jadda in...

January 13, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have killed six police in southern Helmond province on Wednesday. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi phoned AIP on Thursday and said that Taliban killed the police in Washir district under the pretext to protect them form robbers....

January 12, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Armed bandits broke into 12 currency shops and took away foreign currency worth thousands of US dollars in northern Jowzjan province, police said Faheemi, Police chief of Shiberghan, capital of Jowzjan province said that the bandits looted 12 shops at Faisal Mark...

January 12, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Seventeen kg heroine was recovered from a vehicle at Kunduz-Taloqan Highway on Monday (Jan. 11), sources said The AIP sources said that security officials of Kunduz recovered 17 km heroine from a prado vehicle. The driver of the vehicle made his escape good. En...