Date 4-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Muhammad Arif Khan, Governor of Kanduz, and a companion was gunned down on April 4, 2000, at Ring Road near Hayatabad, a posh area of Peshawar, provincial capital of NWFP province. Some unknown gunmen opened fired at the vehicle of Muhammad Arif, killing him and on...

Date 29-3-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Commander Muhammad Ismail and son of former governor, who fled a jail in Kandahar, have reached Iran, son of Haji Abdul Qadeer, Abdul Qadir told AIP over phone on 29-03-2000. Abdul Qadir said commander Muhammad Ismail and his brother Abdul Zahir, who escaped from...

Date 29-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Despite the opposition claim that commander Ismail had reached Iran, Taliban supreme leader issued a fresh warning in this regard. A statement issued from the office of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar said that if the officials, who are blamed for help...

Date 28-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): An explosion in a shop near Pak-Afghan borer killed at least seven people including five children, border officials told AIP. The incident took place in Pakistani side of the border, 25 meters inside in a general store, killing seven and injuring 12 others, resid...

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...