Date 26-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): A team of United Nations has arrived in Kandahar at 9:45 (PST) to hold talks with the hijackers of an Indian plane. The delegation has not yet started talks with the hijackers but it is expected that the talks would start soon. Afghan ambassador to Pakistan i...

Date 26-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Talks between Taliban and an UN delegation were underway in Kandahar Airport about the Indian hijacked plane. Sources said that when the UN delegation arrived in Kandahar they refused to hold talks with hijackers. Instead of holding talks with the hijackers, th...

Date 26-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Foreign Minister Wakeel Ahmad said the UN negotiating team contacted the hijackers though a wireless set and the hijackers released one of passengers as a goodwill gesture. Wakeel said hijackers told the UN team that if an authorized team was sent to them fo...

Date 26-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said that no response on the part of Indian government and the UN refusal to play an arbitration role between the hijackers and India have put the lives of all the passengers on at stake. Afghan foreign minister Wakeel Ahmad said that they tried their best...

Date 25-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said they provided food and water to the passengers on the request of the Indian hijacked plane. Mualvi Wakeel Ahmad, Afghan foreing minister, said they were in contact with the Indian government and it was not cleat as yet that what they would do with the p...

Date 25-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said that the Indian government was insisting to hold talks with hijackers and resolve the issue through peaceful means in order to save the lives of passengers. Afghan foreign minister Mualvi Wakeel Ahmad told AIP that the India government wanted to solve t...

Date 25-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban foreign minister Wakeel Ahmad has again appealed to the United Nations to take measures for resolving the issue of Indian hijacked plane through arbitration. He said that the situation of passengers was deteriorating with each passing day, urging the UN to in...

Date 25-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): The hijackers of an Indian plane carrying 160 passengers, have demanded of the Indian government to set free a famous religious scholar Maulana Masood Azhar and his companions. Afghan Foreign Minister Qudratullah Jamal told AIP that the hijackers had demanded of th...

Date 25-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): The people of Kandahar believe that the Indian plane hijacking drama was meant to create problems for Taliban and a conspiracy to attack Kandahar city. According to AIP correspondent, the people of Kandahar facing an unrest due to uncertain situation created after...

Date 20-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign minister has said that Iran should play a positive role in resolving the Afghan issue instead of helping the Taliban opposition forces as it would further deteriorate the situation. In an interview with the Afghan Islamic Press, Afghan foreign minist...