Date 6-9-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on September 6, 2000 captured Taluqan city, center of Takhar province in northern Afghanistan after a series of attacks against the forces loyal to Ahmad Shah Masood, a key northern alliance commander. Taliban sources said that they launched a huge attacks l...

Date 6-9-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A fierce fighting was continuing in Baharak area, eight kilometers west of Taluqan, center of northern Takhar province, as most of the area is still under the control of the opposition forces. Taliban have seized the control of Taluqan, city, however, the oppositio...

Date 6-9-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have entered Taluqan airport without facing any resistance from opposition forces, sources told AIP on September 6. The airport, five to six kilometers in north of Taluqan city has been captured by Taliban after their capturing of Baharak city, r...

Date 6-9-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban forces after capture of Taluqan city, center of northern Takhar province, have launched a cleanup operation there, reports reaching here said on September 6, 2000. Reports say Taliban were conducting raids on suspected buildings and houses where the opposit...

Date 6-9-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have demanded of United Nations general secretary Kofi Annan to give Taliban government its Afghan seat in the organization. In his letter to the UN general secretary, Taliban Foreign Minister Mualvi Wakeel Ahmad has said that the Afghan seat should given t...

Date 4-09-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): For a second time Taliban forces managed to reach only four kilometers off the Taluqan city, center of northern Takhar province, after launching huge attacks on the city. Taliban sources said that their fighters were proceeding towards the city and now their front...

Date 1-9-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): An explosion in Pakistan Consulate in Jalalabad spread a great panic but caused no casualty, officials said. The blast occurred at 8am in morning, which damaged a wall of the consulate. However, officials of the consulate told AIP that the blast caused no casua...

Date 1-9-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A spokesman for the opposition forces said that northern alliance commander Ahmad Shah Masood was ready for holding talks with the delegation of Turkmenistan. The spokesman, Muhammad Habeel, told AIP on phone from Taluqan, center of Takhar province, that their comm...

Date 1-9-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have strongly condemned Jalalabad bomb blast in which a wall of Pakistan consulate in the city was damaged. In-charge of western zone, Mualvi Sadar Azam told AIP that it was a conspiracy to create vacuum in the brotherly relations between the two neighborin...

Date 31-8-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The opposition forces of Taliban claimed to have recaptured a strategically important district in northern Baghlan province. A spokesman for the opposition forces, Muhammad Habeel told AIP on phone from Taluqan, center of Takhar province, that they launched a mass...