Date 7-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): During last 24 hours, more than four hundreds Taliban fighters have joined the opposition ranks while near a hundred were detained in the same period, said a spokesman for the northern alliance forces on October 7, 2001. Muhammad Habeel, who claims to speak for the...

Date 7-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan ambassador to Islamabad, Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeed has said that the British reporter was still in their confinement and would be set free tomorrow (October 8). Zaeef told AIP that her release order had been issued by the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohamma...

Date 7-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan ambassador to Islamabad said to AIP that British journalist Yvenne Redley was still not freed and may be handed over to British government next morning. It is worth mentioning here that the women was shifted to Kabul Afghanistan after three days stay in Ja...

Date 6-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A powerful bomb near a wall of the Taliban office in Peshawar went off this morning, partially damaging the wall. Afghan consulate in Peshawar told AIP that the blast occurred at the previous office of the Taliban near Abdara Road which caused no casualty. The T...

Date 6-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid has issued the orders of releasing British journalist Yvonne Ridley, detained here over illegally entering Afghanistan, Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdussalam Zaeef told AIP on October 6, 2001. Zaeef sai...

Date 6-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said a mysterious plane was seen flying over Kabul about 2000 meters high. A Taliban spokesman said it was not clear whether it was a spy drone or something else. He said they have fired at the plane but it was too high. In September, the Taliban sho...

Date 6-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A spokesman for the Afghan foreign Ministry has poured scorn over the US plan to throw food and other items from the air to the Afghans. The spokesman said that the US wanted to show the world that it was not against the people of Afghanistan but in fact it was the...

Date 5-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said more than three hundred foreigners have arrived in northern Afghanistan in the opposition-controlled areas showing themselves as journalists. In northern Takhar province, chief of the Taliban intelligence agency, Qari Ahmadullah told AIP that they have...

Date 4-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Fierce fighting between the Taliban and their opposition forces erupted in central Kapisa this morning. Reports say the Taliban have captured two areas in the southwest of Mehmood Raqi, center of the province. Sources said the Taliban also overran Khanqah and S...

Date 4-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan communication minister has said that a digital telephonic lines system connecting Kabul with the rest of word has started functioning. Mullah Yar Mohammad, communication minister said that the Afghan government had purchased a digital telephonic system from...