Date 18-5-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Former governor of Samangan province, Mualvi Mohammad Zahir along with his two hundred fighters joined Taliban government in Afghanistan, sources told AIP. Sources said the men of Mualvi Mohammad Zahir were still fighting against Taliban in Kanduz and Takhar provi...

Date 16-5-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): An eight member Afghan delegation headed by their interior minister called on Pakistani interior minister in Islamabad on April 16, 2000. Talking to AIP after their meeting, Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Syed Mohammad said that only two issues were discu...

Date 16-5-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan police claimed to have recovered artifacts worth millions of dollars, from a man in Kabul. The government-run news agency of Afghanistan, Ba-Akhtar, has said that recently the Afghan police recovered 34 different types of artifacts from a man namely Humayun...

Date 14-5-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan security forces raided a group of alleged robbers near Iran border, sparking a nine-hour long fierce fighting, which resulted in killing of at least nine people, informed sources told AIP. Government sources in Kabul told AIP that the killed people were robb...

Date 14-5-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): An eight-member Afghan delegation led by Afghan interior minister Mullah Abdur Razzaq arrived in Islamabad, said Afghan envoy to Pakistan in Islamabad. The delegation comprising the officials of defence, refugees, anti-narcotics, border affairs and trade ministrie...

Date 12-5-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan deputy foreign minister Mullah Abdul Jalil held a meeting with Libyan foreign minister, Abdur Rehman, in Islamabad and discussed with him various issues of mutual interests. Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Syed Mohammad Haqqani, also attended the meet...

Date 12-5-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The United Nations has pledged to support the Afghan government in providing relief to the drought-hit areas of the country. Talking to AIP, Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Mualvi Syed Muhammd Haqqani said that deputy foreign minister of Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Ja...

Date 10-5-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Talks between Taliban leaders and northern alliance ended without any breakthrough on ceasefire in Jeddah today, Taliban officials said. Head of Taliban delegation, Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi told AIP over phone from Jeddah that their talks achieved no breakthrough....

Date 9-5-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): At least 25 people, majority of them children, have died due to the ongoing dry spell in Kunar and Helmand provinces of Afghanistan, affectees coming from Registan told AIP. According to details, at least 25 people including children and women have been died of star...

Date 9-5-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): The fire, which broke out in forests of Kunar province a few days ago, has been brought under control following the hectic efforts of the local people and the government fire fighters. Afghan officials in Kabul told AIP that the fire was brought under control on Ma...