Date 20-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Ulema convention in Afghanistan has issued a decree saying if a non-Muslim state attacks a Muslim one, jihad becomes mandatory. On the second day of Ulema shura, who met in Kabul to decide about the tense situation owing to the US threats of possible air strike, w...

Date 19-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The grand shura of Afghan ulema was commenced at presidential palace in Kabul to discuss the gravity of the Afghan situation because of possible US armed retaliation against the country. Former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Syed Mohammad Haqqani told AIP that the...

Date 19-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Ulema shura in Afghanistan has started deliberating upon the issue of Osama and possible US air strike after the US blamed the Saudi-born Osama Bin Laden of masterminding the September 11 deadly attacks, Taliban sources told AIP on September 19. Afghan education m...

Date 19-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Provincial committees of ulema shura in Afghanistan have started their work to collect proposals regarding the tense situation prevailing in the country. Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi, a member of the shura, told AIP that the ulema committees constituted during the ul...

Date 18-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have contradicted reports that their cabinet head Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund had announced jihad against the US. A spokesman for Mullah Hassan while talking to AIP said that the report was not correct, adding Mullah Hassan had said during an interview...

Date 18-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A Pakistani delegation which reached Kandahar today held meetings with the top Taliban officials. The delegation met head of Afghan cabinet Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund in Kabul. His spokesman said the meeting was positive but would no elaborate on details....

Date 18-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said the grand shura of Afghan ulema, which was due to take place today, has been postponed for a day as participants from far off areas could not reach on time. Talking to AIP, Afghan education minister, Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi, who is also chief organiz...

Date 17-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A Pakistani delegation has reached Kandahar for discussion over the prevailing tense situation with the top leadership of the Taliban. The delegation reached Kandahar airport at 8:30am, Afghan time, on September 17, 2001. A Taliban spokesman in Kandahar told AI...

Date 17-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Pakistani delegation called on the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar Mujahid in Kandahar on Sept 17. The meeting lasted for three hours in which they thoroughly discussed the situation after terrorist attacks in the United Sates and its possible attacks...

Date 17-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have said they are sixty percent hopeful that conditions would be normal. The Taliban spokesman Mullah Abdulhai Mutmaen told AIP after a three-hour long meeting between the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar and Pakistani officials that other aspects of t...