Date 29-8-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): British High Commissioner in Islamabad has appealed to Taliban regime in Afghanistan to forgive detained Christian aid workers. High Commissioner Mr. Hilny Synnott held an hour-long meeting with the Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abudus Salam Zaeef in Islama...

Date 29-8-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Foreign Minister has appealed to United Nations secretary general to help the stranded Afghans near Christmas island on humanitarian basis. Wakeel Ahamd Muttawakkil in a letter to Kofi Annan, UN secretary general, has assured all-out support to the UN on th...

Date 28-8-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Diplomats from Australia, Germany and America held a meeting with high-ranking Afghan Foreign Ministry officials in Kabul on August 28, 2001 after they arrived in Kabul yesterday. In-charge foreign affairs Mualvi Abdur Rehman Hotak told AIP after his meeting with...

Date 28-8-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said they wanted to resolve the issue of Osama Bin Laden within the limits of Islamic principles and Afghan traditions. This was stated by Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad, Mualvi Abdus Salam Zaeef while talking to a US delegation in Afghan Consu...

Date 27-8-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan consulate in Islamabad has also issued visas to parents of two Christian aid workers, sources said. When asked Mullah Abus Salam Zaeef confirmed that visas have been issued to the parents of two aid workers besides issuing visas to diplomats from Australia,...

Date 25-8-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): After allowing ICRC officials to meet Christian detainees, Taliban also allowed foreign diplomats to meet them. Taliban spokesman Mullah Abdulhai Mutmaen told AIP from Kandahar that supreme leader of Taliban, Mullah Muhammad Omar Mujahid has allowed foreign diplom...

Date 21-08-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The opposition forces have reportedly overran a district in northern Takhar province during last night attack, sources told AIP. According to opposition sources, several Taliban fighters were killed and detained as they launched a sudden attack at the headquarters...

Date 20-08-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have ruled out extension in visas of visiting foreign diplomats, saying there was no chance. A spokesman of Afghan Foreign Ministry told AIP that there was no hope the Taliban would extend visas for the diplomats, who are in Afghanistan to secure the relea...

Date 20-08-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban returned passports to all the three diplomats and their seats have been reserved in a flight of the ICRC which is due tomorrow for Islamabad (August 21). A spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Ministry told AIP that the diplomats of US, Australia and Germany w...

Date 17-8-2001 PESHAWAR: Fighting between the Taliban and their opposition forces are continuing in Taywara area, western Ghor province from last many days. However, according to AIP sources, the clashes are not considerable as no side could make an advancement during the clashes.