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 corner of the city and its surrounding areas. A T...

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 the commander was in an intelligence department ja...

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 agriculture department, Mullah Sher Muhammad told...

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 initiated against the violators. Jashni Nauroz, is...

Date 11-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign minister has ruled out any programme of holding talks with opposition forces in Japan. Wakeel Ahmad Muttawakkil, the Afghan foreign minister, told AIP from Kandahar that an Afghan delegation headed by deputy foreign minister Mullah Abdur Rehman Zah...

Date 11-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban attacked forces of Masood militia in northern Salang in Baghlan province and captured bazaar of Do Shakh, sources told AIP. The bazaar is few kilo meters away from northern Salang. Taliban stepped forward at least four kilometers inside the area as bo...

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...