Date 01-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign ministry has strongly rejected a statement by the Indian foreign minister, who had alleged that Taliban were involved in an Indian plane hijacking. A spokesman for the Afghan ministry while strongly rejecting the remarks of Indian foreign minister...

Date 01-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have captured a strategically important district, Imam Sahib district, in Kanduz province, after an eight hours long gun battle with their opposition forces. At least seven persons of Ahmad Shah Masood were killed an 39 others were injured dur...

Date 01-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Syed Muhammad Haqqani has said that the opposition attack on Taliban forces in north of Kabul was aimed at sabotaging peace efforts of Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC). Haqqani said that the OIC had invited them for ta...

Date 01-03-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban hired a Saudi airline plane Gulf Air Falcon on rent for carrying first batch of Afghan intending Hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia on 01-03-2000. Chief of Aryana Airlines, Mullah Hameedullah told AIP that due to shortage of planes with Aryana, they rented Gul...

Date 28-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have declared a US human rights report regarding Afghanistan as baseless and an insult to Islamic teachings. A spokesman for the Afghan foreign ministry strongly criticized the US reports which recently released by the US government. The report has sa...

Date 27-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Opposition forces of Taliban have claimed that the Taliban jet fighters planes blitzed Panjsher and Jablul Siraj, northern Afghanistan on 27-02-2000. Sources told AIP that Taliban jet fighters bombed at least two areas in Panjsher include Bazarak and Rukh. Wh...

Date 26-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have arrested six people on suspicion of their alleged involvement in a blast in Kabul airport in which a plane was destroyed. The arrested persons are not security men and are engineers who perform repair work and allied jobs. The authorities had arr...

Date 24-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign ministry has strongly rebuffed a report by International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in which it was stated that the Taliban had imposed tax on poppy cultivation. The ministry termed the report a biased one. A spokesman for foreign ministry...

Date 22-2-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): First flight of Aryana Airlines carrying intending pilgrims to Jeddah from Kandahar took off on 22-2-2000. It was first flight since the United Nations Security Council clamped sanctions on the Afghan airlines on November 14, 1999. According to details, an Ary...

Date 21-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A bomb planted under an Afghan jet detonated at Khwaja Rawish Airport in Kabul, destroying the jet completely, sources said. A series of blasts in Afghan capital Kabul has been taking place from last many days. Sources rejected that blast was occurred at an ar...