February 11, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Four people including three children and a woman were killed by unknown assailants at Maymana, capital of Faryab province (Feb. 9). Sources said that the children and the woman were killed at Khwaja Sar Sabz area, Maymana city. The motives behind the incident...

February 11, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Regional Public Information Officer of UNHCR Jack Redden called on Afghan Commissionerte official in Peshawar on Friday and discussed with him procedures of test census of Afghans starting from Monday (Feb. 23). The UN agency official met the trainees who would c...

February 11, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Police chief of Parwan province Muhammad Alqa Andrabi has said that Salang Highway, the only route linking northern Afghanistan with Kabul, is still closed for traffic due to heavy snowfall. Talking to AIP on Friday evening, he said that more than 100 passengers...

February 11, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Governor of Farah has strongly rejected reports that people of Bakwa district threatened to restart poppy cultivation in the area. Engineer Asadullah Falah told AIP on Friday that he himself visited Bakwa district on Thursday (Feb. 10) and asked the people to era...

February 10, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP) Famous Salang Highway leading to northern Afghanistan remained blocked and several vehicles got stuck in snowfall in the area, however, efforts are being made to open the road, police said. Talking to AIP, police chief of Parwan province Major General Muhammad Laq...

February 10, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Elder of Bakwa district of Farah province have threatened to cultivate poppy crop if their demands were not met. Reports said that the elders called upon the government to compensate them for abandoning poppy cultivation. An elder told newsmen that chieftains...

February 09, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): A drive of an NGO was killed and two others injured on Wednesday when landside hit their vehicle on Kabul-Jalalabad Highway. According to reports the vehicle was going to Peshawar from Kabul when it was struck by the landslide in Mahipur area. Gul Muhammad, a...

February 09, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Some 70 former militia officers disarmed under DDR programme Wednesday staged a protest demonstration in Herat City. They demanded of the government to grant them salaries for one year. A resident of the city told AIP that several army officials gathered and d...

February 08, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): The Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) has constructed 30 schools in far-flung areas of western Herat province, an official said. Addressing a press conference at Herat, the spokesman said that the buildings were mainly constructed in remote areas of the provi...

February 08, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Bad weather conditions on Tuesday hampered the rescue activities to trace the wreckage and bodies of crashed plane which went missing after returning from Kabul Airport in a storm a week ago (Feb. 03). Reports reaching here from Kabul suggest that ISAF, Afghan fo...