Date 1-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban opposition forces have said that several Taliban fighters were killed during clashes in north of Kabul. A spokesman for the Masood forces told AIP from Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, that Taliban forces carried out several attacks in north of Kabul against...

Date 30-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said the opposition forces attacked Taliban positions at several frontlines in northern Afghanistan, sparking fierce gunbattles. A government official in Kabul told AIP that forces loyal to Ahmad Shah Masood attacked Taliban positions at Khost Wa Fereng in...

Date 25-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said to have installed a satellite telephone exchange in a commercial city Toor Ghundi of Herat province, which is capable of connecting the Afghans to the entire world. The exchange, which opened for public, has been installed with the help of an Afghan c...

Date 23-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): NWFP government has expelled an Afghan professor from the country declaring him persona-non-grata. Professor Mohammad Rahim Elham, who was a senior worker in a German-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Basic Education for Afghan Refugees (BEFR), has been ex...

Date 20-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Delegations of the Taliban and Ahmad Shah Masood would visit Panjsher and Kabul respectively to mull strategies for exchange of prisoners. Afghan officials in Kabul told AIP that a Taliban delegation headed by Mulavi Hamdullah Hamid would leave for Panjsher tomorr...

Date 18-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Communication Minister Mullah Yar Mohammad Rahimi inaugurated a satellite telephone exchange in Herat province on June 18, 2000. A Taliban spokesman in Herat, Mufti Latifullah Hakimi told AIP that the telephone exchange was a joint venture of an Afghani and...

Date 14-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The opposition forces of Taliban have seized control of the center of Ghor province in northern Afghanistan. According to sources, the opposition forces launched a pre-dawn attack on the center of Ghor province, Chakhcharan, seizing control of old and new city....

Date 14-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have rejected reports about the capturing of Ghor center by their opposition forces, saying the Taliban were still in control of the district. Director of Afghanistans news agency, Ba-akhtar, Mullah Abdul Hanan Himmat told AIP that the reports of falling G...

Date 14-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad Mullah Syed Mohammad Haqqani held separate meetings with his Australian and Belgium counterparts and discussed with them various issues of mutual interests. Talking to AIP, the Afghan envoy said that the meetings held at...

Date 10-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The Afghan government said launched reconstruction and repairing work on 1,000 kilometers long roads in two separate areas in Afghanistan. Deputy minister of Afghan social welfare department Maulvi Syed Rehman Haqqani in an interview with Afghan Islamic Press said...