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Date 02/06/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Fierce fighting continuing in Bal Khab area of Sar Pul province, north of Bamyan province, as Taliban attacked Bal Khab to fight the militia of Hizbul Wahdat, hiding in the mountainous parts. Taliban launched the attack, using horses for climbing hilltops where the...
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Date 1/6/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Uzbekistan Foreign Minister on 1/6/99 called on Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar in Kandahar and discussed with him matters of mutual interests. Giving details about the meeting, Taliban spokesman Wakeel Ahmad Muttawakkil said the meeting lasted for 40 m...
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Date 29/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): More than 3,000 ulema backed Taliban policies during a two-day seminar held in Kandahar on 27-5-99. The seminar was attended by thousands of people including Taliban officials and some ulema from Pakistan. Afghan Information Minister Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi g...
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Date 24/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said they completed their clean-up operation in Yakawlang district of Bamyan province and collected a large quantity of small and heavy weapons during the operation. Taliban conducted the operation in the areas including Darra Foladi, Darra Dokani, Darra Ahi...
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Date 16/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed destroying poppy fields spreading over above 400 acre of land in southern Afghanistan. The head of anti-narcotic commission of Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Hameed, told AIP on telephone from Kandahar that they destroyed standing crop of poppy in three d...
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Date 15/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): At least 200 Taliban fighters entered the headquarters of Yakawlang district of Bamyan province without facing any remarkable resistance. According to AIP sources no fight took place between Taliban and opposition forces as most of fighters of the opposition forces...
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Date 14/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Islamic militia of Taliban destroyed poppy fields, spread over hundred of acres, in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, official said. Taliban spokesman Mullah Abdulhai Mutmaen told AIP on telephone that poppy fields were destroyed in Khakrez district of Kand...
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Date 14/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Ahmad Shah Masood army fired rockets and artillery fire at Dawlat Shah area of Legham province last night. However, Taliban launched retaliation attack at dawn. According reports, Taliban had sent fresh troops to the battlefield as the fighting between Taliban and A...
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Date 9/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): After a fierce gunbattle, Taliban managed to recapture Bamyan city in central Afghanistan, Taliban information minister said. Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi, Afghan information minister told AIP that it was short but fierce gunbattle in which Taliban succeeded in throwing aw...
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Date 5/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): String of blasts in an ammunition depot at army garrison in Khair Khana area, north of Kabul, killed at least two persons and more than a dozen were injured, reports said. Sources said that the blasts continued for few hours with short intervals in which at least tw...