Date 8-3-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban set ablaze a huge quantity of heroin and charas in presence of UNDP officials, journalists and officials of other foreign agencies in Kandahar on 07-03-2000. Taliban spokesman Mullah Abdulhai Mutmaen speaking on the occasion said that more than 355 kilo gra...

Date 07-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban acknowledged on 07-03-2000 that their opposition forces had recaptured Sher Khan port and Imam Sahib district in northern Afghanistan. A spokesman for Taliban said that the Masood army launched an attack against them at late in night and seized Imam Sahib...

Date 03-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): An Afghan passenger plane which was hijacked on February 6 during a domestic flight has left for Afghanistan from United Kingdom, sources told AIP on 03-03-2000. Head of Aryana Airlines Mullah Hameedullah told AIP from Kabul that the plane has left for Afghanistan...

Date 03-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan hijacked plane reached Afghanistan after almost a month on 03-03-2000. Mullah Hameedullah, head of Aryana Airlines, told AIP that the hijacked plane Boeing 727 landed at Mazar Sharif Airport at 12:07 noon (local time). He said that according to program...

Date 02-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has directed for constituting a powerful and authorized commission to deal with issues pertaining to terrorism in Afghanistan. A statement issued from the office of Omar said that very soon council of ministers would st...

Date 01-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban launched a major offensive against their opposition forces in north of Kabul, breaking the frontline of Masood militia, sources told AIP on 01-03-2000. In the pre-dawn attack, both the sides were using heavy weapons including artillery fire. However,...

Date 01-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign ministry has strongly rejected a statement by the Indian foreign minister, who had alleged that Taliban were involved in an Indian plane hijacking. A spokesman for the Afghan ministry while strongly rejecting the remarks of Indian foreign minister...

Date 01-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have captured a strategically important district, Imam Sahib district, in Kanduz province, after an eight hours long gun battle with their opposition forces. At least seven persons of Ahmad Shah Masood were killed an 39 others were injured dur...

Date 01-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Syed Muhammad Haqqani has said that the opposition attack on Taliban forces in north of Kabul was aimed at sabotaging peace efforts of Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC). Haqqani said that the OIC had invited them for ta...

Date 01-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban hired a Saudi airline plane Gulf Air Falcon on rent for carrying first batch of Afghan intending Hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia on 01-03-2000. Chief of Aryana Airlines, Mullah Hameedullah told AIP that due to shortage of planes with Aryana, they rented Gul...