Date 25-3-01 PESHAWAR (AIP): A twenty-member group of foreign journalists was flown to Bamyan city via an Afghan airline from Kabul where they would examine the site of Buddha statues demolished by Taliban. According to details, an Afghan airline Anthonove-24 airlifted 20 foreign journalists to...

Date 24-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have welcomed United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for his statement that relaxation should be granted to Aryana Airlines for purchasing spare-parts, fuel and other necessary things. Deputy director general of Aryana Airlines, Qari Rahmatullah told A...

Date 22-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Minister for Information Mualvi Qutrattullah Jamal has said that there were more than one thousand different archaeological objects being displayed at Kabul Museum. During an interview with AIP, Jamal said there were more than one thousand various kind of ancient...

Date 17-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said more than one hundred and fifty armed men of the opposition forces joined them in eastern Kunar province last night (March 16). Sources told AIP that 150 men of the opposition forces in leadership of commander Gul Amir joined Taliban forces after surre...

Date 16-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A bomb blast near Pakistan Consulate in Jalalabad last night spread a great wave of panic but caused no casualties, Taliban officials said. They said that it was a hand grenade blast which was thrown in a drain with a wall of a madrassah near Pakistan consulate....

Date 15-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): In accordance with the directives of Taliban leadership, BBC correspondent in Kabul has left the country and reached Pakistan via border on March 15, 2001 at 5: 15pm. The correspondent of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Ms Cate Clork left Afghanistan and c...

Date 14-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have completed the demolition process of the two largest Buddha civilization statues in central Bamyan province on March 14, 2001. Taliban on March 4, 2001, started demolishing the statues and after the end of Eid vacations, they restarted the demolition wo...

Date 14-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have asked the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to shut their office in Kabul and leave the country within 24 hours. The foreign ministry in a statement has directed the BBC officials in Kabul to shut down their office before the expiry of the deadlin...

Date 14-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan based in Islamabad, Mullah Abus Salam Zaeef called on Sri Lankan prime minister in Islamabad on March 14, 2001. Zaeef told AIP after the meeting, that the Sri Lankan prime minister expressed his deep shock and grief over the demolitio...

Date 12-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The prices of opium products in Afghanistan has been increased by 20 times following Taliban imposed ban on poppy cultivation in July, 2000. The prices of opium recorded a gradual increase, however, during the last week, these prices recorded a great surge, say Afg...