Date 9-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): American jets today carried out air strikes on Kabul, Kandahar, Herat and Jalalabad cities. The US jets besides airports in these provinces also targeted other areas and attacked these areas for three times. Details of the attacks yet to be received, but reports...

Date 8-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Thousands of tribesmen staged a protest demonstration in Landikotal, Khyber Agency against the United States strikes in Afghanistan. According to reports at least five thousand people participated in the protest demonstration in which an effigy of President Bush wa...

Date 7-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Fresh clashes broke out between the Taliban and Ahmad Shah Masood forces in northern Afghanistan last night which continued till this morning, reports reaching here said on September 7. A fierce gun-battle took place at Kohi Dafi frontline in Parwan province this m...

Date 7-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said they were deploying an extra 8000 troops along the border with Uzbekistan after the US sent its troops to the neighboring country. Sources in Afghan defense ministry said that although there were already thousands of their troops but the fresh deploym...

Date 7-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A British consulate official and Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdussalam Zaeef held a meeting on October 7, 2001 in Islamabad to discuss the detention of British reporter. After their meeting, Zaeef told AIP that after the directives of their supreme lead...

Date 7-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): During last 24 hours, more than four hundreds Taliban fighters have joined the opposition ranks while near a hundred were detained in the same period, said a spokesman for the northern alliance forces on October 7, 2001. Muhammad Habeel, who claims to speak for the...

Date 7-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan ambassador to Islamabad, Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeed has said that the British reporter was still in their confinement and would be set free tomorrow (October 8). Zaeef told AIP that her release order had been issued by the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohamma...

Date 7-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan ambassador to Islamabad said to AIP that British journalist Yvenne Redley was still not freed and may be handed over to British government next morning. It is worth mentioning here that the women was shifted to Kabul Afghanistan after three days stay in Ja...

Date 6-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A powerful bomb near a wall of the Taliban office in Peshawar went off this morning, partially damaging the wall. Afghan consulate in Peshawar told AIP that the blast occurred at the previous office of the Taliban near Abdara Road which caused no casualty. The T...

Date 6-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid has issued the orders of releasing British journalist Yvonne Ridley, detained here over illegally entering Afghanistan, Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdussalam Zaeef told AIP on October 6, 2001. Zaeef sai...