PESHAWAR (AIP): A landmine explosion left two boys injured in northern Jowz Jan province on Thursday (April 14), police said Tuesday. A police official of Jouzjan province Muhammad Ibraheem told AIP that the mine blasted near 620-army division at...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A landmine exploded at Hadda-Jalalabad road on Tuesday morning, causing no casualties, police sources said. The sources said that the mine went off at Jalalabad-Hadda road, about seven kilometers away from the city at 1:00 a.m. mi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban abducted four government servants in Zabul province on Sunday night, an official confirmed Monday. In-charge of Arghandab district, Zabul Abdul Qayyum told AIP that Taliban picked up a revenue official along with three oth...

April 18, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): On the appeal of governor of Balkh province hundreds of students, local officials and elders joined hands to launch a campaign against opium and standing crop in three districts. A police official of Balkh Dr. Nasee...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Deputy President Zia Massod visited Jalalabad City and held meetings with officials and local elders. Reports from Jalalabad said that the deputy president leading a delegation met with officials, tribal chiefs and other co...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban accepted responsibility for targeting oil tankers transporting fuel to US forces in Kandahar on Sunday morning. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi said that seven oil tankers were been destroyed in the rocket th...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Three brothers died of suffocation while cleaning a well near Jalalabad on Sunday, reports said. Sher Ali Khan, a resident of Muqam village told AIP that three brothers went inside the well one after another and were found dead in...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Former Taliban information minister strongly rejected reports that he held talks with Afghan government and American forces. Talking to Afghan Islamic Press over phone on Saturday (April 16), he dispelled the impression that he wa...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have killed five Afghan soldiers in Zabul province on Wednesday. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP on phone that Taliban attacked convoy of Afghan forces at Nawrak area, Kabul-Kandahar High...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Two weapons depots of Taliban times have been discovered by Afghan army in southern Kandahar province on Friday, a military commander said. Talking to AIP, chief commander of Kandahar army corps No-205 Muhammad Muslim Amid said tha...