Date 28-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have declared a US human rights report regarding Afghanistan as baseless and an insult to Islamic teachings. A spokesman for the Afghan foreign ministry strongly criticized the US reports which recently released by the US government. The report has sa...

Date 27-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Opposition forces of Taliban have claimed that the Taliban jet fighters planes blitzed Panjsher and Jablul Siraj, northern Afghanistan on 27-02-2000. Sources told AIP that Taliban jet fighters bombed at least two areas in Panjsher include Bazarak and Rukh. Wh...

Date 26-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have arrested six people on suspicion of their alleged involvement in a blast in Kabul airport in which a plane was destroyed. The arrested persons are not security men and are engineers who perform repair work and allied jobs. The authorities had arr...

Date 24-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign ministry has strongly rebuffed a report by International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in which it was stated that the Taliban had imposed tax on poppy cultivation. The ministry termed the report a biased one. A spokesman for foreign ministry...

Date 22-2-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): First flight of Aryana Airlines carrying intending pilgrims to Jeddah from Kandahar took off on 22-2-2000. It was first flight since the United Nations Security Council clamped sanctions on the Afghan airlines on November 14, 1999. According to details, an Ary...

Date 21-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A bomb planted under an Afghan jet detonated at Khwaja Rawish Airport in Kabul, destroying the jet completely, sources said. A series of blasts in Afghan capital Kabul has been taking place from last many days. Sources rejected that blast was occurred at an ar...

Date 19-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): An explosion at a hotel in Kabul city created panic but caused no casualties, officials told AIP. They said the blast occurred in front of Kabul Hotel, where an office of Aryana Airlines is also situated. An official in Aryana Airlines Mullah Rahmatullah told...

Date 18-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A close ally of Ahmad Shah Masood, commander Shukrullah has reportedly joined Taliban forces along with his 200 armed supporters and local commanders, sources told AIP. He met Taliban in district Tagab of Kapisa province, central Afghanistan. Commander Shurul...

Date 18-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Another notable commander belonging to northern alliance has reportedly joined Taliban after negotiations in Baghlan, Taliban officials said. Nasim Ahmad, a close commander to Ahmad Shah Masood has joined the Taliban along with his two hundred fighters in Nijrab...

Date 17-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Opposition forces of Taliban in Afghanistan feared that Taliban may launch a massive attack in north of Kabul. Sources in northern alliance told AIP that Taliban were preparing for a huge attack on them as they (Taliban) had gathered hundred of Taliban fighters w...