Date 29-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said to have gained more ground in northern Baghlan province, capturing several areas in Nehreen including old City. Sources said Taliban have seized a huge quantity of ammunitions, tanks and artilleries....

Date 28-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): After an eight-hour gunbattle, Taliban forces succeeded to capture a strategically important district Nahreen in northern Afghanistans Baghlan province, sources told AIP. Sources said Taliban have seized the headqua...

Date 28-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has announced a complete ban on poppy cultivation throughout Afghanistan and warmed of stern action if the directives were violated. A statement issued from the office of...

Date 25-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have denied a report that the Afghan government was planning to re-launch television broadcasting. Afghan information minister Mualvi Qutratullah Jamal told AIP that it was baseless and unfounded propeganda...

Date 25-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A bomb explosion took place near Presidential Palace in Kabul at Aryana Chowk but no report about causalties could be ascertained. The blast took place at about 300 meters away from the Presidential Palace at Aryan...

Date 25-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign minister while confirming two blasts near Presidential Palace said that both the blasts caused no casualties or damage to properties. Mualvi Qutratullah, the Afghan foreign minister, said that two bl...

Date 25-7-2000 PEHSWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have arrested two suspects in Kabul blasts incident, saying both the men belonged to the group involved in terrorist activities in Afghanistan. An official of Afghan information ministry, Abdul Ha...

Date 25-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan and Chinese officials held a meeting in Islamabad and discussed various issues of mutual interests including alleged terrorist camps in Afghanistan. Islamabad-based Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Syed...

Date 24-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan government has said that the US wanted to impose an anti-Islamic and anti-Afghan cultural system in Afghanistan. A statement issued from Afghan Consulate in Islamabad said that said the statements of an US o...

Date 23-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said that if the United States really wants solution to Bin Laden issue it should hold talks with the Afghan government instead of issuing threatening statements. A Taliban spokesman from Kandahar told AIP...