Date 6-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban shot down an American fighter jet, AIP sources said today. According to the sources, the jet was driven off near Pak-Afghan border and was destroyed in Ameen Abad Chaghi area of Balochistan Pakistan. Resi...

Date 6-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): At least 633 civilians were killed in the air strikes by the US jets in one month, sources said today. According to the reports the death toll has touched the figure of 633. Reports says that 18 civilians were k...

Date 5-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): US jets today carried out air strikes on Kabul, Parwan, Balkh, Samangan, Kunduz, Takhar, Helmand, Oruzgan and Kandahar provinces in which many civilians were reportedly killed and injured. According to AIP sources 1...

Date 4-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban today escorted a group of media-men of Al-Jazeera TV channel to Ghazni to record a film of the destroyed helicopters being shot down by them. A Taliban spokesman from Ghazni told AIP that a team of journalis...

Date 3-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have claimed that they had shot down two American choppers in Ghazni province. Afghan Counsel Moulvi Najibullah said that the choppers were bombarding Nawar area in Ghazni when they were hit by Taliban. H...

Date 3-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban executed three supporters of former King Zahir Shah being arrested in a gun-battle few days back. The executions were carried out in Orozgan province.

Date 3-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan envoy in Islamabad Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef has said that Taliban had decided to release a French journalist. Talking to AIP, he said that the allegations of spying were not confirmed and during investigation...

Date 3-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi, a Taliban spokesman has said that at least forty to fifty people were killed in a chopper that was shot down by Taliban in Ghazni. He said that the chopper was targeted with a rocket launch...

Date 3-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A Taliban spokesman in Jalalabad informed that French journalist arrested in Goshta was released today. He said that he along with security personnel left for Torkham where he will be handed over to French authoriti...

Date 3-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban intelligence chief in Jalalabad Mullah Tajmir Jawad has warned journalists not to enter Afghanistan illegally, if media-men found without permission will be trialed on spy allegations. Talking to AIP, he sai...