Date 26-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have arrested six people on suspicion of their alleged involvement in a blast in Kabul airport in which a plane was destroyed. The arrested persons are not security men and are engineers who perform repair work and allied jobs. The authorities had arr...

Date 24-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign ministry has strongly rebuffed a report by International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in which it was stated that the Taliban had imposed tax on poppy cultivation. The ministry termed the report a biased one. A spokesman for foreign ministry...

Date 22-2-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): First flight of Aryana Airlines carrying intending pilgrims to Jeddah from Kandahar took off on 22-2-2000. It was first flight since the United Nations Security Council clamped sanctions on the Afghan airlines on November 14, 1999. According to details, an Ary...

Date 21-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A bomb planted under an Afghan jet detonated at Khwaja Rawish Airport in Kabul, destroying the jet completely, sources said. A series of blasts in Afghan capital Kabul has been taking place from last many days. Sources rejected that blast was occurred at an ar...

Date 19-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): An explosion at a hotel in Kabul city created panic but caused no casualties, officials told AIP. They said the blast occurred in front of Kabul Hotel, where an office of Aryana Airlines is also situated. An official in Aryana Airlines Mullah Rahmatullah told...

Date 18-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A close ally of Ahmad Shah Masood, commander Shukrullah has reportedly joined Taliban forces along with his 200 armed supporters and local commanders, sources told AIP. He met Taliban in district Tagab of Kapisa province, central Afghanistan. Commander Shurul...

Date 18-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Another notable commander belonging to northern alliance has reportedly joined Taliban after negotiations in Baghlan, Taliban officials said. Nasim Ahmad, a close commander to Ahmad Shah Masood has joined the Taliban along with his two hundred fighters in Nijrab...

Date 17-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Opposition forces of Taliban in Afghanistan feared that Taliban may launch a massive attack in north of Kabul. Sources in northern alliance told AIP that Taliban were preparing for a huge attack on them as they (Taliban) had gathered hundred of Taliban fighters w...

Date 15-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has said that the west provided assistance to Afghans for its own vested interest during jihad era. In a statement issued by Amarat-Islami on occasion of marking 11th anniversary of withdrawal of former USSR troops from...

Date 14-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said that a rousing welcome was awaiting the arrival of passengers as all the arrangements have been finalized at Kandahar Airport. Afghan Civil Aviation Minister Mullah Akhtar Mansoor said that all the arrangements at Kandahar Airport have been finalized...