KABUL (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead a high-ranking intelligence officer and another police cop in Kapisa province yesterday, police sources said Friday.Intelligence officer Farooq Khan along with another policeman was on his way to home yester...

KHOST (AIP): Conflicting claims were made by both Taliban and government forces regarding causalities in Taliban attack on a security post in Paktia province last night. Taliban attacked Neknam post in Zarmat district of Paktia province but police di...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claim to have attacked a US base with rockets in Helmand province last night. Taliban fighters fired rockets at US base in Khud area of Charcheeno district, Urozgan province last night but have no details about the damage caus...

FARYAB (AIP): Two people were killed and as many wounded in an armed clash between the supporters of General Abdur Rasheed Dostam and General Abdul Malak in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan yesterday, police said Thursday.A clash erupted betwe...

KABUL (AIP): A team of American diplomats in Kabul visited the notorious Pul-e-Charkhi Jail Tuesday and collected in formations about a US prisoner made hostage by rioting inmates.Well-placed sources informed Afghan Islamic Press that a delegation of...

KABUL (AIP): Situation is still tense in Pul-e-Charkhi Jail today (Wednesday) as there was no sign which shows that the standoff has been resolved completely after negotiations between representatives of rioting prisoners and officials of National Re...

JALALABAD (AIP): The authorities of eastern Ningarhar province of Afghanistan on Wednesday slapped a ban on chicken imports from Pakistan and directed all chicken traders to disposes off the chicken till evening.Agriculture Department of Ningarhar pr...

PESHWAR (AIP): As many as 10500 chickens, believed to have developed bird flu virus, were culled at a poultry farm in Dehri Zardad, district Charsadda, 30 kilometer from Peshawar last night.District investigation officers and operation incharge, Dr....

KABUL (AIP): The Pul-e-Charkhi Jail standoff has not yet been over as bursts of gunfire were heard from inside the high-security jails just a while back (Tuesday afternoon).Security forces near Pul-e-Charkh confirmed to journalists that a group of pr...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Sixty Taliban who occupied different posts during Taliban government announced allegiance to Afghan government in Kandahar on Sunday.Some of them remained a at key government positions including, governor, deputy governor, mayor, dist...