March 3, 2005 PAKTIKA (AIP): Paktiak Governor Mohammad Gulab Mangel welcomed new coalition forces to his province during a ceremony here March 1. Governor Mangel bid farewell to members of the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, out of Schofi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Pashtun nationalist leader Khan Abdul Wali Khan who has been ill for the last few days was shifted to Peshawar from his home town Charsadda in a precarious condition on Tuesday. Sources privy to Awami National Party (ANP) told AIP...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed former diplomat Abdul Jabbar Naeemi as governor of Wardak province, reports Kabul Television. He was appointed the governor on the recommendation of interior ministry. Mr. Naeemi was also...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appointed a woman as governor in Afghanistan. According to Kabul TV Ms. Habiba Suhrabi was designated as provincial chief of Bamyan province. Ms. Suhrabi, 47, is the first ever lady governor in Af...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Tension prevailed in Mazar-e-Sharif following arrest of a high police official by forces of provincial governor over a land dispute Tuesday. The AIP sources from Mazar-e-Sharif said that a building owned by police was reportedly o...

February 28, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): On the directives of Afghan Supreme Court, President Hamid Karzai issued appointment orders of the following judges on February 27, 2005. 1. Sham-ur-Rehman has been appointed as Chief Justice of Balkh High Court....

February 28, 2005 BAGRAM AIRFIELD (AIP): Coalition forces claimed to have recovered huge cache of arms in Khost, Paktika, Uruzgan and Kunar province on Sunday. The cache contained, machine guns, 40 boxes of ammunition, nine rocket-propelled grenad...

February 27, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Logar-Jalalabad Highway has been opened for all kinds of vehicular traffic on Sunday after being closed for one month. The AIP stringer at Jalalabad said the highway connecting Azra district of Logra and Jalalabad...

February 27, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Japanese Consul-General Yuichi Inouye said that 3,000 militiamen disarmed under Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) were recruited in police department in eastern Afghanistan. Talking to reporters...

February 27, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Former Jihaid commander Haji Inayat Khan alias Munjay escaped unhurt in a murder attack while his two body guards sustained injuries here on Sunday, police sources said An official of Pishtakhara Police Station t...