Date 21-1-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Foreign Minister Mualvi Wakeel Ahmad is due in Islamabad on January 23, 2000. Talking to AIP, Wakeel said, his visit to neighboring Pakistan is aimed at holding an introductory meeting, discuss bilateral ties and cooperation in diverse fields of life with...

Date 21-01-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have assured the US government that Osama Bin Laden has been restricted and he was unable to carry out any activity against anyone from Afghan soil. A statement issued by Afghan consulate in Islamabad about the recent meeting of Taliban officials with an...

Date 20-1-2000 ISLAMABAD (AIP): An important meeting between Taliban officials and a high-ranking official of US foreign ministry, Carl Ender Fort held in Islamabad on 20-01-2000. Taliban delegation was comprised of deputy Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and Afghan ambassador to Paki...

Date 19-01-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A powerful earthquake jolted Afghanistan on 19-01-2000 at 11:40 (local time). The shock was felt in Kabul and Jalalabad but no reports of human losses could be ascertained. Afghan Information Minister Mualvi Qudrattullah Jamal told AIP the quake was terrifyin...

Date 17-01-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Pakistani government has decided to hand over the impounded trade goods of Afghan government and Afghan traders. Afghan ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad Mullah Syed Muhammad Haqqani told AIP that the Pakistan's Foreign Ministry informed them that the Chief Exe...

Date 16-1-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Commander Agha Shereen Salangi, who recently joined Taliban ranks, in a letter to United Nations has alleged that the UNHCR assistance for refugees was reaching to the fighters of Ahmad Shah Masood not to the deserving people. In a letter handed over to a represen...

Date 16-01-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have recognized the independent government of Chechnya. Afghan Foreign Minister Mualvi Wakeel Ahmad told AIP that a Chechen delegation led by Saleem Khan Yendrayove met Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar in Kandahar. The delegation urged Tali...

Date 13-1-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): At least 120 shops were gutted in Bin Laden market in Peshawar Saddar, as fire broke out in the market at about 11:30 at night, officials said. Most of shops in the market are of Kabbar, scrap or used items, clothes and plastic goods, which turned into ashes within...

Date 13-01-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Unidentified robbers looted a renowned currency exchange market in Kabul, Sarai Shahzada, last night, taking away money from at least ten shops. According to details, ten shops were robbed by some unknown thieves in the market two kilometer away from Presidenti...

Date 12-1-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The supporters of slain commander Najmuddin have detained more than two hundred suspected people including fifty women for killing the commander. The people were arrested from Baharak area in Badakhshan province, northern Afghanistan. According to the sources,...