Date 2-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban sources has claimed that 25 supporters of former King Zahir Shah arrested during a gun-battle will be executed today. They were arrested in Dehrawad mountains , sources said. Taliban has decided to execute them, the execution will be carried out in Kanda...

Date 2-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said that an American jet was shot down in Balkh when it was carrying air strikes on its positions. Afghan envoy to Islamabad Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef said that Taliban had reached the area where the burnt parts of jet were laying scattered. To a query h...

Date 1-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): American jets today carried out airstrikes on Kajaki Dam, stated a Taliban spokesman Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi. He said that the bombardment on Dam is continued from last night causing power breakdown to Herat and Kandahar provinces. Dam has damaged in the bomba...

Date 1-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed they have shoot down an American jet in Balkh,. A Taliban spokesman said the American jet was driven-down in Charbolack area. AIP sources said Taliban today circulated a massage on wireless sets that an American jet was shoot down in Balkh. Me...

Date 1-11-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban today carried out an offensive on secret hideouts of Hamid Karzai-led opposition forces, killing four of them. Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef giving details to AIP said that attacks were carried out in Dehrawad Orozgan province. He said several armed men injur...

Date 30-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have constituted a special team to grill the British journalist Yvonne Ridley. Taliban sources told AIP that Yvonne Ridley, 41, who was arrested near Pakistani border while dressed in Afghan clothes and her head swathed in an Afghani scarf at Daur Baba dis...

Date 30-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The opposition forces claimed to have recaptured a town in western Badges province after a fierce gun-battle with the Taliban fighters last night. The opposition forces last night launched a huge offensive on the headquarters of Qadis district in western Badghes...

Date 30-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said they had arrested six people allegedly involved in throwing and distributing pamphlets provoking masses against the Taliban in favour of the US and former king Muhammad Zahir Shah. According to reports, some unidentified people had distributed and cir...

Date 30-10-01 PESHAWAR (AIP): Announcing all-out support to Taliban regime in Afghanistan, a grand council of 150 elders representing various tribes in the eastern provinces of Khost, Paktia and Paktika had decided to burn the houses of the US and its puppet Zahir Shah supporters. Burning house...

Date 29-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban officials said the arrested British journalist, Yvonne Ridley was under investigation by the Afghan intelligence officials. A government official told AIP that the Taliban have handed over the case of UK-based, Sunday Express reporter to the intelligence...