Date 7-8-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Kabul Radio (renamed by the Taliban as Shariah Radio) has announced that Taliban would execute four persons in public for their alleged involvement in Kabul blasts, who were detained by Afghan intelligence forces with explosives and a wireless set. It said Mullah O...

Date 23-7-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has directed the establishment of a camp for the Afghan refugees inside Afghanistan. The camp would be established in western Ningarhar province bordering Pakistan for the refugees arriving from Pakistani refugees camps...

Date 20-7-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Two powerful explosions in front of a hotel in Kabul last night created great panic among the residents but caused no casualties, Taliban said. The bombs were reportedly placed near two separate gates of Kabul Hotel, where the offices of Afghan Aryana Airlines are...

Date 20-7-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Opposition forces last night launched a major offensive against Taliban forces in northern Afghanistan, forcing the later to retreat from the newly-captured areas. Sources in opposition forces told AIP that they have recaptured several seized areas from Taliban, w...

Date 18-7-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Foreign Minister Wakeel Ahmad has called upon the United Nations to provide relief to the Afghan people inside the country so that they could avoid migrating to other countries. This, he said while talking to newly-appointed UN organizer for Afghanistan, Mi...

Date 11-7-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A series of powerful explosions in an arms depot in Kabul has injured at least three Taliban officials last night, sources told AIP. The incident occurred in Darulaman area, a few kilometers in northern parts of Kabul, last night as a series of blasts completely de...

Date 29-6-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The United States ambassador to Pakistan has warned the Afghan government that if Osama launched any attack against the people of America from Afghan soil, it would be held responsible for that. It was his first visit to the Afghan embassy in Islamabad on June 29,...

Date 27-6-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): An Afghan special court awarded an eight-year imprisonment to another Afghan trader in fraud case. A spokesman for the Afghan government in Kabul told AIP that a famous Afghan trader Abdullah Pashtoonyar, who was arrested in a fraud case a few weeks ago, was awarde...

Date 25-6-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has ordered a major reshuffle in Afghan ministries. A spokesman for Taliban told AIP that the minister of agriculture, Mualvi Abdul Latif Mansoor has been appointed as Mayer of Kandahar while Afghan minister for social w...

Date 21-6-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A special Afghan court in Kabul awarded a ten-year imprisonment to a famous Afghan trader Gulabuddin Sherzai in fraud case. A Taliban spokesman in Kabul told AIP that the special court announced its ruling yesterday (June 20) after hearing the case for two months....