Date 6-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have also rejected a proposal of constructing a huge wall around the Buddhist era statues, which they have started demolishing amid growing international criticism. An Afghan engineer in London, Abdullah Naveed, has proposed the construction of a huge wall...

Date 5-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan met his Afghan counterpart in Islamabad to discuss the issue of statues demolition in Afghanistan. The meeting which lasted for an hour was held at the residence of Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeef. Japanese e...

Date 5-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeef has said that one fourth (1-4th) of two larger Buddha statues have been razed with dynamite in Bamyan province. Zaeef told AIP that Taliban have started demolishing the statutes with explosives on March 4, 200...

Date 4-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Mualvi Wakeel Ahmad, Foreign Minister of Taliban has rejected two proposals of Iran about the statues. A Foreign Ministry official of Iran, Mr. Barahemi, has talked with the Afghan government and said that Iran was ready to purchase the statues and make arrangement...

Date 4-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Foreign Minister Wakeel Ahmad Muttawakkil has said that there was no possibility that the decision of statues demolition will be reversed. This, he said while talking to special envoy of UNESCO, Mr. Fierre Lafrance, who called on him in Kandahar on March 4, 2001....

Date 3-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Special UNESCO envoy Mr. Fierre Lafrance held a meeting with Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad, Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeef at Afghan consulate on March 3, 2001. The UNESCO envoy handed over a letter of UNESCO director general to the Taliban official. Mull...

Date 3-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has appealed to the people of Afghanistan to plant at least one tree per head. In a statement issued from Kandahar, Omar said as the dry spell in the country was near to end, adding with the grace of Allah, the Almighty,...

Date 2-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): In order to completely destroy two larger statues of Buddhist era, Taliban have started collecting explosive materials. Informed sources told AIP that Taliban wanted to destroy the two larger statues of Buddhist era with dynamite, and in this connection they have st...

Date 1-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The Taliban have started demolishing historic Buddhist era statues in line with the directives of their supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, who called for demolishing the statues declaring them un-Islamic. A senior Taliban official told AIP from Kabul that Taliban...

Date 1-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban in Afghanistan after the demolition of statues in Bamyan province have started razing them in various Afghan museums. Taliban Foreign Minister Mualvi Qutratullah Jamal told AIP that statues were demolished at four Afghan museums include Jalalabad at Farm Ha...