Date 20-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The opposition forces last night launched a huge attack against Taliban positions in central Afghanistan, violating a three-day UN backed ceasefire in wake of polio vaccination drive in the war-torn country. According to details, the loyalists of a militant group o...

Date 16-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): A top Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Rabbani breathed his last at CMH hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan today morning (April 16). He was suffering from lever cancer and was under treatment in Rawalpindi for last few weeks. Rabbani, 45, was a key commander of Hiz...

Date 16-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The corpse of the top leader of Taliban government in Afghanistan, Mullah Muhammad Rabbani, who breathed his last today, was airlifted by a UN sanctioned plane from Islamabad to Kandahar. Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeef told AIP that the bod...

Date 12-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan government said the wrong Indian policies has prompted Pakistan and other Asian countries to step into arm race, which is more likely to result in a nuclear war. A statement issued by Afghan Foreign Ministry strongly criticized the remarks of Indian prime m...

Date 11-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan government has asked the European Parliament to adopt an impartial course in connection with the Afghan issue. Afghan Foreign Ministry in a statement has expressed its apprehension over France government invitation to the arch rival of Taliban, Ahmad Shah M...

Date 10-4-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The forces loyal to an Afghan militant faction Hizbi Wahdat last night launched an attack on a district headquarters in northern Bamyan province, Taliban said. However, they claimed to have successfully repelled the attack. At least two persons were killed and fiv...

Date 25-3-01 PESHAWAR (AIP): A twenty-member group of foreign journalists was flown to Bamyan city via an Afghan airline from Kabul where they would examine the site of Buddha statues demolished by Taliban. According to details, an Afghan airline Anthonove-24 airlifted 20 foreign journalists to...

Date 24-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have welcomed United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for his statement that relaxation should be granted to Aryana Airlines for purchasing spare-parts, fuel and other necessary things. Deputy director general of Aryana Airlines, Qari Rahmatullah told A...

Date 22-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Minister for Information Mualvi Qutrattullah Jamal has said that there were more than one thousand different archaeological objects being displayed at Kabul Museum. During an interview with AIP, Jamal said there were more than one thousand various kind of ancient...

Date 17-3-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said more than one hundred and fifty armed men of the opposition forces joined them in eastern Kunar province last night (March 16). Sources told AIP that 150 men of the opposition forces in leadership of commander Gul Amir joined Taliban forces after surre...