PESHAWAR (AIP): Thousands of protestors staged a gathering in Afghan capital to commemorate sacrifices of 24,000 people killed by the communist regime on March 14 1979 in western Herat province. They gathered at Shahi Doshamshira area and chanted...

March 13, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban accepted responsibility for blowing up a vehicle carrying food items for US forces at Khost-Gardez highway on Sunday. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP over telephone that they destroye...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan security forces seized more than a ton opium after a brief clash with smugglers at Kandahar-Herat highway on Friday evening. The AIP sources from Kandahar said that the highway guards recovered 1200 kilogram opium from a lan...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Nangarhar Police has set on fire 150 kilograms opium worth thousands of US dollars on Saturday. Police chief of Ghani Khail district Matiaullah Khalid told AIP that Anti-Narcotics Department and police personnel arrived at five hel...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A police officer of Nangarhar was killed in a bomb blast on Friday night, an official said Saturday. Deputy police chief of Nangarhar Qari Ameer Jan Liwal told journalists at Jalalabad that the slain police officer was identified...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Two persons were injured when guards of a foreign construction company opened fire at a vehicle on Kabul-Jalalabad highway on Saturday evening. The AIP sources from Jalalabad said that two passengers traveling in a corolla car wou...

March 12, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Five persons were injured in exchange of fire between guards of two Afghan officials in Zabul province on Friday, governor said Saturday. Governor of Zabul Dilber Jan Arman told AIP that guards of in-charge Arghandab...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Investigation has been launched into a tribal clash that had left one person dead and three others injured in Balkh province on March 8, an official said Friday. Police chief of Chamtal district Hayatullah Roagh told AIP that a de...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Two nomads were killed and two others injured on Tuesday in an attack by local commanders in northern Balkh province two days ago. The AIP sources from Mazar-e-Sharif said that armed commanders attacked the nomads living at Alburs...

March 9, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Four persons were wounded when two blasts rocked Maymana City, Faryab province yesterday evening. The AIP sources said that blasts took place at Maymana City, the provincial capital, however, no official was availabl...