Date 3-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi, a Taliban spokesman has said that at least forty to fifty people were killed in a chopper that was shot down by Taliban in Ghazni. He said that the chopper was targeted with a rocket launcher. Charred dead bodies and shoes and other thi...

Date 3-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A Taliban spokesman in Jalalabad informed that French journalist arrested in Goshta was released today. He said that he along with security personnel left for Torkham where he will be handed over to French authorities. He said that his guide Muhammad Irfan Qures...

Date 3-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban intelligence chief in Jalalabad Mullah Tajmir Jawad has warned journalists not to enter Afghanistan illegally, if media-men found without permission will be trialed on spy allegations. Talking to AIP, he said that they had received information that America...

Date 3-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): French journalist released by Taliban today arrived in Pakistan. According to AIP reports Michal Peyrard who was detained by Taliban in Goshta near Jalalabad crossed the Pak-Afghan border and entered to Pakistan. He was handed-over to French envoy to Islamabad a...

Date 2-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban sources has claimed that 25 supporters of former King Zahir Shah arrested during a gun-battle will be executed today. They were arrested in Dehrawad mountains , sources said. Taliban has decided to execute them, the execution will be carried out in Kanda...

Date 2-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said that an American jet was shot down in Balkh when it was carrying air strikes on its positions. Afghan envoy to Islamabad Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef said that Taliban had reached the area where the burnt parts of jet were laying scattered. To a query h...

Date 1-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): American jets today carried out airstrikes on Kajaki Dam, stated a Taliban spokesman Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi. He said that the bombardment on Dam is continued from last night causing power breakdown to Herat and Kandahar provinces. Dam has damaged in the bomba...

Date 1-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed they have shoot down an American jet in Balkh,. A Taliban spokesman said the American jet was driven-down in Charbolack area. AIP sources said Taliban today circulated a massage on wireless sets that an American jet was shoot down in Balkh. Me...

Date 1-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban today carried out an offensive on secret hideouts of Hamid Karzai-led opposition forces, killing four of them. Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef giving details to AIP said that attacks were carried out in Dehrawad Orozgan province. He said several armed men injur...

Date 30-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have constituted a special team to grill the British journalist Yvonne Ridley. Taliban sources told AIP that Yvonne Ridley, 41, who was arrested near Pakistani border while dressed in Afghan clothes and her head swathed in an Afghani scarf at Daur Baba dis...