Date 5-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Next round of talks between Taliban and Northern Alliance officials is scheduled to be held on April 12 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sources told AIP. Sources said that the upcoming talks between the two warring rival gr...

Date 5-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan government has demanded of the Pakistani authorities to take measures for arresting the murders of Kanduz governor, who was killed the other day (April 4) in Peshawar. The Afghan foreign ministry in Kabul sum...

Date 4-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Muhammad Arif Khan, Governor of Kanduz, and a companion was gunned down on April 4, 2000, at Ring Road near Hayatabad, a posh area of Peshawar, provincial capital of NWFP province. Some unknown gunmen opened fired a...

Date 29-3-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Commander Muhammad Ismail and son of former governor, who fled a jail in Kandahar, have reached Iran, son of Haji Abdul Qadeer, Abdul Qadir told AIP over phone on 29-03-2000. Abdul Qadir said commander Muhammad Ism...

Date 29-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Despite the opposition claim that commander Ismail had reached Iran, Taliban supreme leader issued a fresh warning in this regard. A statement issued from the office of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar s...

Date 28-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): An explosion in a shop near Pak-Afghan borer killed at least seven people including five children, border officials told AIP. The incident took place in Pakistani side of the border, 25 meters inside in a general...

Date 27-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have launched a massive search operation to trace out a key opposition commander captain Ismail Khan, who yesterday fled a jail in Kandahar. Taliban sources said that they were searching every nock and cor...

Date 26-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said a key opposition commander Captain Muhammad Ismail Khan has escaped from a jail in Kandahar, stronghold of Taliban, said a spokesman for Mullah Omar office on 26-03-2000. The spokesman told AIP that...

Date 20-03-2000 PEHSHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have formed a committee on directives of their supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar to evacuate nomads from drought-hit seven provinces to other Afghan provinces where situation is better. Head of Kandahar...

Date 19-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The Taliban vice and virtue department has announced a ban on celebrating Jashni Nauroz (new year), falls on 20-03-2000. An official told AIP that no one was allowed to mark the day and stern action would be initi...