Date 22-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have shot down a US spy plane in Afghanistan on (Sep 22). Afghan consul general in Peshawar told AIP that a US drone was hit by Taliban with heavy machineguns in northern Samangan province today. It was a US spy plane which was shot down by T...

Date 22-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban spokesman has confirmed that a pilotless spy plane had been shot down by the Taliban over Samangan province but were unable to say whether the plane was US. Mullah Abdul Hai Mutmaen told AIP from Kandahar that they had destroyed a spy plane but it was not...

Date 22-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed downing an ammunition-laden helicopter in northern Samangan province after they shot down a pilot-less drone in the same province today (Sep 22). Taliban sources said the helicopter was going from Panjsher to Dara Souf when the Taliban shot it down...

Date 21-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The opposition has said that the ulema convention in Kabul has no credibility as it would decide in line with the Taliban wishes. A spokesman for the northern alliance, Muhammad Habeel told AIP that Osama has already declared by the ulema of the opposition-contro...

Date 20-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Participants of Ulema convention on its second day assailed the US for its unjust behaviour. According to AIP sources, various ulema addressed the shura, who termed the US behavior towards the issue of Osama as hostile and beyond justice. An unidentified reli...

Date 20-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Ulema convention in Afghanistan has issued a decree saying if a non-Muslim state attacks a Muslim one, jihad becomes mandatory. On the second day of Ulema shura, who met in Kabul to decide about the tense situation owing to the US threats of possible air strike, w...

Date 19-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The grand shura of Afghan ulema was commenced at presidential palace in Kabul to discuss the gravity of the Afghan situation because of possible US armed retaliation against the country. Former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Syed Mohammad Haqqani told AIP that the...

Date 19-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Ulema shura in Afghanistan has started deliberating upon the issue of Osama and possible US air strike after the US blamed the Saudi-born Osama Bin Laden of masterminding the September 11 deadly attacks, Taliban sources told AIP on September 19. Afghan education m...

Date 19-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Provincial committees of ulema shura in Afghanistan have started their work to collect proposals regarding the tense situation prevailing in the country. Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi, a member of the shura, told AIP that the ulema committees constituted during the ul...

Date 18-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have contradicted reports that their cabinet head Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund had announced jihad against the US. A spokesman for Mullah Hassan while talking to AIP said that the report was not correct, adding Mullah Hassan had said during an interview...