PESHAWAR (AIP): The newly appointed governor of Wardak province has formally started work after taking charge of his office on Sunday. Governor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi was introduced by deputy minister for interior Shah Mehmood Miankhail in a ceremon...

PESHAWAR (AIP): As many as 400 supporters of Uzbek warlord General Rasheed Dostum held a gathering in Mazar-e-Sharif in order to thank President Hamid Karzai for appointing their leader on high post in Defense Ministry. AIP sources from Mazar-e...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Residents of Imam Sahib district in Kundoz province have expressed fear that overflow of water in River Aamu could cause floods if preventive measures were not taken. In-charge of Imam Sahib district Maalaim Jumma Khan told AIP o...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Elders of 13 district Shooras (councils) at a mammoth gathering pledged to preserve forests of eastern Afghan province. Governor of eastern Kunor province Haji Asadullah Wafa told AIP on Saturday that the meeting was held at Asada...

March 05, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Kunor police claimed to have arrested a person injured allegedly involved in an attack on a security post a few days ago, governor said Saturday. Governor of Kunor Haji Asadullah Wafa told AIP that Omara Khan was de...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Police foiled a sabotage bit and defused a time device in Jalalabad City of eastern Nangarhar province on Friday night. A police official of Jalalabad Sardar Shah told AIP that some miscreants had planted a time bomb at Gulfarash...

March 05, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Unknown gunmen fired five rockets at Nomaish district of Helmund province on Friday night, however, there was no report of casualties, an official said. Security official of Nomaish district Gul Muhammad told AIP th...

QUETTA, Pakistan, (AIP): The UN Refugee Agency has dispatched two convoys of trucks carrying, 1,000 tents to provide emergency shelter for Afghan refugees in the Loralai and Muslim Bagh areas whose houses have been destroyed by heavy rains in Balochi...

March 04, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Unknown miscreants blew up an electricity pylon in Sarobi area of Kabul City between the night of Wednesday and Thursday, disrupting power supply to the area, source said. The sources told Afghan Islamic Press that...

March 03, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Talks between Khost delegation and Kabul authorities have not made any progress regarding reopening of medical faculty at Khost University. The delegation led by Khost Shoora (council) elder Ghazi Nawaz Tani told AI...