Date 14-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have completed the demolition process of the two largest Buddha civilization statues in central Bamyan province on March 14, 2001. Taliban on March 4, 2001, started demolishing the statues and after the end of Eid vacations, they restarted the demolition wo...

Date 14-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have asked the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to shut their office in Kabul and leave the country within 24 hours. The foreign ministry in a statement has directed the BBC officials in Kabul to shut down their office before the expiry of the deadlin...

Date 14-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan based in Islamabad, Mullah Abus Salam Zaeef called on Sri Lankan prime minister in Islamabad on March 14, 2001. Zaeef told AIP after the meeting, that the Sri Lankan prime minister expressed his deep shock and grief over the demolitio...

Date 12-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The prices of opium products in Afghanistan has been increased by 20 times following Taliban imposed ban on poppy cultivation in July, 2000. The prices of opium recorded a gradual increase, however, during the last week, these prices recorded a great surge, say Afg...

Date 12-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The meeting between the visiting Arab countries ulema and Afghan ulema to decide about the fate of Buddha statues concluded without any breakthrough. The delegation after holding talks with the Afghan ulema left for Kandahar Airport. Foreign Minister Wakeel Ah...

Date 11-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A twenty-member ulema delegation of Arab countries has arrived in Kandahar to hold talks with Taliban leadership over the issue of Buddha statues demolition. The delegation which arrived Afghanistan through a Qatar Airlines flight on March 11, 2001 at afternoon, ha...

Date 10-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have been trying to completely destroy the two larger statues of Buddha with use of dynamite ignoring growing international pressure to halt the demolition work. Sources told AIP that Taliban since March 7, have been trying to demolish the two largest Budd...

Date 10-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has made it clear that they would not budge on the decree being issued by Afghan clerics about the statues destruction. This, he said while talking to Pakistan interior minister Moinuddin Haider, who called on him at his...

Date 9-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on March 8 destroyed upper part of Buddha statue with dynamite in central Bamyan province. Buddha is a statue of Buddha, the title given to Gautama Siddhartha, the founder and teacher of Buddhism. Taliban destroyed upper part and bottom of the Buddha sta...

Date 8-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): As many as 90 Afghan disabled and handicapped children who were flown to Germany for treatment have arrived at Kabul airport in an Aryana Boeing 727 flight today morning (March 8). A non-governmental organization, Peace Village International has been providing treat...