Date 12-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The meeting between the visiting Arab countries ulema and Afghan ulema to decide about the fate of Buddha statues concluded without any breakthrough. The delegation after holding talks with the Afghan ulema left for Kandahar Airport. Foreign Minister Wakeel Ah...

Date 11-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A twenty-member ulema delegation of Arab countries has arrived in Kandahar to hold talks with Taliban leadership over the issue of Buddha statues demolition. The delegation which arrived Afghanistan through a Qatar Airlines flight on March 11, 2001 at afternoon, ha...

Date 10-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have been trying to completely destroy the two larger statues of Buddha with use of dynamite ignoring growing international pressure to halt the demolition work. Sources told AIP that Taliban since March 7, have been trying to demolish the two largest Budd...

Date 10-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has made it clear that they would not budge on the decree being issued by Afghan clerics about the statues destruction. This, he said while talking to Pakistan interior minister Moinuddin Haider, who called on him at his...

Date 9-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on March 8 destroyed upper part of Buddha statue with dynamite in central Bamyan province. Buddha is a statue of Buddha, the title given to Gautama Siddhartha, the founder and teacher of Buddhism. Taliban destroyed upper part and bottom of the Buddha sta...

Date 8-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): As many as 90 Afghan disabled and handicapped children who were flown to Germany for treatment have arrived at Kabul airport in an Aryana Boeing 727 flight today morning (March 8). A non-governmental organization, Peace Village International has been providing treat...

Date 8-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A Shiite militant organization of the opposition forces, Hizbi Wahdat, last night attacked Taliban forces, sparking a three hours long fierce gunbattle in central Afghanistan. However, Taliban sources said the attack was repelled and claimed to have killed five fig...

Date 7-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A three-member delegation of Japanese parliamentarians is due to arrive Islamabad tomorrow (March 8, 2001) for holding talks with the Afghan officials on the Buddhist era statues demolition issue. Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan Sadaaka Numata held a meeting with h...

Date 6-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have also rejected a proposal of constructing a huge wall around the Buddhist era statues, which they have started demolishing amid growing international criticism. An Afghan engineer in London, Abdullah Naveed, has proposed the construction of a huge wall...

Date 5-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan met his Afghan counterpart in Islamabad to discuss the issue of statues demolition in Afghanistan. The meeting which lasted for an hour was held at the residence of Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeef. Japanese e...