PESHAWAR (AIP): Three Taliban including a commander were arrested in Oruzgan province during a joint operation by Afghan and coalition forces on Thursday, an official said. Talking to AIP on Friday, chief commander of Kandahar army corps No-205 M...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A police officer was killed and another wounded in a landmine blast in eastern Kunor province last night. The AIP sources from capital Asadabad said that a police contingent was pulling out remains of Saturday mine blast which lef...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The tribes of eastern Nangarhar province have decided that they will not exterminate opium poppies if the government failed to provide remuneration to the cultivators. A gathering of Shinwari tribes from Acheen and Spinghar distri...

March 31, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): A key Taliban commander has joined government in southern Helmund province on Wednesday. Former Taliban commander Abdul Wahid announced support to government at Lashkargha, capital Helmund province. A governmen...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A police official in northern Balkh province was removed by Interior Ministry from his office on the complaints of local people who protested against him for his alleged involvement in criminal activities. The AIP sources from Maz...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday inaugurated construction work on Herat-Kandahar Highway in western Herat province. Mr. Karzai accompanied by US ambassador to Afghanistan Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad and a Saudi diplomat opened c...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Three persons were killed on Tuesday in dam rupture incident in Ghazni province, governor said Wednesday. Governor Asadullah Khanlid told AIP that earlier there were reports of six deaths but added that three persons had been kill...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A bomb exploded near Governor House in Jalalabad City of eastern Nangarhar province, killing one person on Wednesday. The explosion reported approximately at 8:10 am (local time) at a distance of some 300 meters from governor hous...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Four policemen were killed and another injured in an attack in Farah province on Wednesday. A border security official Commander Toryali told AIP that unknown gunmen attacked police petrol and killed four policemen including an of...

PESHAWAR (AIP): At least 10 soldiers of Afghan National Army suffered wounds when three bomb explosions rocked eastern Kunor province on Tuesday, officials confirmed. The AIP sources from Asadabad, capital of Kunor said that a convoy of Afghan Na...