Date 7-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Fresh clashes broke out between the Taliban and Ahmad Shah Masood forces in northern Afghanistan last night which continued till this morning, reports reaching here said on September 7. A fierce gun-battle took place at Kohi Dafi frontline in Parwan province this m...

Date 7-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said they were deploying an extra 8000 troops along the border with Uzbekistan after the US sent its troops to the neighboring country. Sources in Afghan defense ministry said that although there were already thousands of their troops but the fresh deploym...

Date 7-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A British consulate official and Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdussalam Zaeef held a meeting on October 7, 2001 in Islamabad to discuss the detention of British reporter. After their meeting, Zaeef told AIP that after the directives of their supreme lead...

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...