Date 28-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Fierce fighting was continuing between Taliban and their opposition forces in northern Afghanistan, sources told AIP. The clashes, which erupted this morning at Andarab district in Baghlan province and last night at Chal district in northern Takhar province continu...

Date 27-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have captured two important peaks in northern Afghanistan on April 26 after a fierce firefight with the opposition forces. The fighting erupted in Eashkmush area, 100km south of Taluqan, center of northern Takhar province last night, which invol...

Date 26-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan government has asked Pakistani authorities to take action against the police involved in harassing Afghan refugees and forcing them for bribe. A letter of Afghan foreign minister Wakeel Ahmad was aired by Afghan Radio, Radio Shariat, last night which was ad...

Date 24-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The opposition forces have reportedly carried out a series of attacks against Taliban forces in northern Afghanistan. According to details, the opposition forces launched several massive attacks against Taliban militia last night and today morning at the frontlines...

Date 20-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The opposition forces last night launched a huge attack against Taliban positions in central Afghanistan, violating a three-day UN backed ceasefire in wake of polio vaccination drive in the war-torn country. According to details, the loyalists of a militant group o...

Date 16-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A top Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Rabbani breathed his last at CMH hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan today morning (April 16). He was suffering from lever cancer and was under treatment in Rawalpindi for last few weeks. Rabbani, 45, was a key commander of Hiz...

Date 16-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The corpse of the top leader of Taliban government in Afghanistan, Mullah Muhammad Rabbani, who breathed his last today, was airlifted by a UN sanctioned plane from Islamabad to Kandahar. Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeef told AIP that the bod...

Date 12-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan government said the wrong Indian policies has prompted Pakistan and other Asian countries to step into arm race, which is more likely to result in a nuclear war. A statement issued by Afghan Foreign Ministry strongly criticized the remarks of Indian prime m...

Date 11-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan government has asked the European Parliament to adopt an impartial course in connection with the Afghan issue. Afghan Foreign Ministry in a statement has expressed its apprehension over France government invitation to the arch rival of Taliban, Ahmad Shah M...

Date 10-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The forces loyal to an Afghan militant faction Hizbi Wahdat last night launched an attack on a district headquarters in northern Bamyan province, Taliban said. However, they claimed to have successfully repelled the attack. At least two persons were killed and fiv...