KABUL (AIP): Amanulla Paiman, was elected as 2nd deputy speaker of Wolesi Jirga (lower house of Afghan parliament) Monday (Jan. 28). He bagged 99 votes in Wolesi Jirga while his rival candidate who is representing Herat in the lower house of parli...

KABUL (AIP): Traders and shopkeepers of Zabul province called off the strike after the coalition forces assurance that they would not conducted operation on their own in the province. Shopkeepers closed down their businesses today (Jan. 28) on the...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Nine Afghan police were killed and wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb last night (Jan 26-27) in southern Kandahar province, an official said Sunday. The incident occurred in Panjwoy district of Kandahar, a former power...

KABUL (AIP): Police on Sunday (Jan. 27) seized a motorcar loaded with ammunition in Kabul City. A senior anti-crimes police officer, Ali Shah Paktiawal told Afghan Islamic Press that dozens of box of different kinds of rounds were recovered from t...

KABUL (AIP): Taliban claimed they had inflicted huge casualties on Afghan and foreign troops during separate attacks in Khost, Noristan and Kapisa province. But there was no confirmation of the attacks by Afghan and foreign forces. Taliban clashe...

JALALABAD (AIP): Two policemen were injured in a remote controlled landmine explosion in the Sarkano district of Kunar province today (Jan. 28), police said Tuesday. Provincial Police Chief Abdul Jalal Jalal told Afghan Islamic Press that the rem...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan National Army distributed 103 tons of relief goods among snow and rain hit people of six districts of western Herat province, a defence ministry spokesman said Saturday (Jan. 26). The relief goods consisting of food items, blan...

KABUL (AIP): Mirwais Yasini of Ningarhar, who grabbed 107 votes, was elected as first secretary of the Wolesi Jirga or lower house of the parliament on Saturday (Jan 26). Similarly, Mohammad Saleh Saljoqe from Herat was voted as deputy secretary...

HERAT (AIP): Afghan security forces recovered huge cache of landmine in the western Farah province today (Jan. 24), police said Thursday. The police and intelligence personnel discovered over 110 different kinds of mine in Anar Darad district clos...

KHOST (AIP): A roadside bomb blast left three police dead and as many wounded in Khost province today (Jan. 25), foreign troops said Friday. The Afghan campaign police were on a patrol when the roadside bomb struck their patrol in the Shinkai ar...