Date 19-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): After devaluation of Afghan currency, the Taliban leadership has taken various important decisions to prevent further crisis, sources told AIP. It has been decided that inflow of currency from northern areas and international borders would not be allowed as the Ta...

Date 17-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have arrested two foreign nationals in Kabul on spy charges and were under investigation, sources told AIP. A spokesman for the office of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar said that two were arrested on the charge of spying and they were interrog...

Date 17-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The arrested two foreign nationals were said to be Arab, who have been shifted to Kandahar, Taliban sources told AIP. Two foreign nations were detained in Kabul by Taliban over spying charges and were shifted to Kandahar by air. Sources said sensitive maps and...

Date 15-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The opposition forces of Taliban in Afghanistan have claimed capturing a vast area in Ghor province and fighting was continuing near center of the province. According to details, northern alliance forces had captured at least 80 villages in Ghor province during la...

Date 13-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A Taliban jet aircraft crashed in west of Kandahar, killing three persons on board, sources told AIP. While, the opposition forces of the Taliban in northern Afghanistan also claimed that their helicopter was crashed three days ago in Takhar province, resulted in k...

Date 12-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has appealed to the neighboring countries, where the Afghan refugees are residing, to stop forced repatriation of refugees. A statement issued from the office of Mullah Omar in Kandahar said that the Afghan government ha...

Date 11-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Syed Muhammad Haqqani met his Chinese counter Mr Lu Shulin in Islamabad on April 11, 2000. Talking to AIP, Haqqani said that it was a very positive meeting in which they discussed various issues of mutual interests. He sai...

Date 9-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The Afghan government has categorically rejected the existence of safe havens of terrorists in Afghanistan. Afghan Foreign Minister Mualvi Wakeel Ahmad Muttawakil during an interview with Afghan Islamic Press rejected the allegations that there were safe havens...

Date 8-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The proposed peace talks between Taliban and opposition forces hit snag as the northern alliance is not ready to attend the meeting on the scheduled date of April 12 in Jeddah. Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad, Mullah Syed Muhammad Haqqani told AIP that T...

Date 5-4-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Next round of talks between Taliban and Northern Alliance officials is scheduled to be held on April 12 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sources told AIP. Sources said that the upcoming talks between the two warring rival groups is a part of the talks which were held in Mar...