Date 9-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban spokesman in Kandahar has said that Taliban vacated the areas they captured during clashes with the opposition forces, adding there was no change in the previous frontline. Mullah Abdulhai Mutmaen told AIP that the Taliban attacked the opposition forces as...

Date 9-07-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban government in Afghanistan has asked all the Non-Governmental Organizations and other missionary agencies to immediately expel female workers from their organizations. Informed sources told AIP that the Afghan ministry of planning invited the representative...

Date 5-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban in a letter to the UN Secretary General has drawn his attention towards the use of mines by the opposition forces and supply to them from certain countries. The Afghan Foreign Minister Wakeel Ahmad Muttawakkil in his statement said that Taliban supreme lead...

Date 3-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Foreign Ministry in a letter handed over to the UN office in Islamabad has said the opposition forces were continuously carrying out attacks against Taliban in order to deteriorate the situation. The Afghan foreign minister has sent a letter to UN secretary...

Date 3-7-2000 0PESHAWAR: The Russian federation was openly providing military and other assistance to the opposition forces of Taliban in Afghanistan in order to promote violence. Taliban spokesman, Mullah Abdulhai Mutmaen, while talking to Afghan Islamic Press on July 3, 2000, expressed these...

Date 1-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Fierce fighting was continuing in north of Kabul between Taliban and their opposition forces involving heavy weapons including artillery fire, sources said. Reports said last night clashes erupted between Taliban fighters and forces loyal to Ahmad Shah Masood at Do...

Date 1-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have repelled two attacks by their opposition forces in north of Kabul. Muhammad Syed Haqqani, Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, told AIP that the pre-dawn attacks of northern forces were repelled successfully at Bagram frontline, 50km north of Kabu...

Date 1-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban opposition forces have said that several Taliban fighters were killed during clashes in north of Kabul. A spokesman for the Masood forces told AIP from Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, that Taliban forces carried out several attacks in north of Kabul against...

Date 30-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said the opposition forces attacked Taliban positions at several frontlines in northern Afghanistan, sparking fierce gunbattles. A government official in Kabul told AIP that forces loyal to Ahmad Shah Masood attacked Taliban positions at Khost Wa Fereng in...

Date 25-6-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said to have installed a satellite telephone exchange in a commercial city Toor Ghundi of Herat province, which is capable of connecting the Afghans to the entire world. The exchange, which opened for public, has been installed with the help of an Afghan c...