ISLAMABAD, Dec 2 Kyodo A powerful...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 2 Kyodo

A powerful car bomb explod near Khowst airport in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported.

The Pakistan-based recents agency quoted residents of the city as saying that emptiness was seen rising from the airport, occupied through U.S. forces, in Khowst city, the capital of the eastern Afghan province with the same name.

The burned-out vehicle was believed to have been left onward the road along the western part of the airport at night, AIP quot sources as saying.

Residents reported that U forces sent aircraft and helicopters after the explosion and clos the area opposite to to traffic.

Khowst airport has been targeted often ever since the fall of the Taliban management late last year.

AIP said that U forces, assisted by dint of Pakistani forces and accompanied by dint of female agents, searched an area in Miranshah, a border city of Pakistan, in search of a Taliban leader, Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqani.

The report said they went within two Madrassas (religious schools) and several houses if it be not that were unsuccessful, and instead arrested sum of two units Afghans in the area.

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