Date 09-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A steward of hijacked Afghan plane who reached Kabul has said that the number of hijackers were eight. Mullah Hameedullah, head of Aryana Airlines, told AIP that the steward was freed by the hijackers in Tashkent along with his mother. The captive was freed f...

Date 09-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Chairman of Afghan Aryana Airlines has rejected the reports that workers of the airlines have been arrested for investigation into plane hijacking case. Talking to AIP, Aryana Airlines chairman, Mullah Hameedullah said that the reports of arresting Aryana worke...

Date 08-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Syed Muhammad Haqqani has said that the Britain government had assured them that talks with the hijackers were progressing in positive direction. Haqqani told AIP from Islamabad that they were in regular contact with the Briti...

Date 07-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan government has appointed security guards in Aryana Airlines in order to prevent plane hijacking or any terror threat to the passengers. The decision was taken on the directives of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the supreme leader of Taliban in Afghanistan. Tal...

Date 7-2-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Ten freed passengers have reached Afghanistan from Tashkent as the Uzbekistan boarder officials handed them over to Taliban officials on 07-02-2000. Taliban fetched them to Mazar Sharif in a vehicle, Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Syed Mohammad Haqqani said....

Date 06-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have said that the United Nations Security Council had given permission to Aryana Airlines for carrying intending Haj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. Afghan civil aviation minister Mullah Akhtar Mansoor said they had received formal permission for flights to Sa...

Date 06-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): An Afghan 727 Boeing plane which took off for Mazar Sharif from Kabul could not reach its destination so far. Taliban said the plane was carrying 151 passengers and it is not clear whether it crashed or something else had happened to it. Officials in Kandahar...

Date 06-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad Mullah Syed Muhammad Haqqani that the embassy of Uzbekistan in Pakistan had confirmed that the Afghan plane had landed at Tashkent airport. Haqqani said that they were in contact with Uzbek officials and have told them...

Date 06-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban sources said the hijacked airplane took off from Tashkent Airport. It could not be confirmed that where the plane was moving but some sources said the plane was heading towards Moscow.

Date 06-02-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A spokesman for Ahmad Shah Masood forces said that they had no role in disappearance of an Aryana plane. A spokesman for the Masood army told AIP on phone that they had no hand in the drama, adding it might be a result of internal rift in Taliban. He said the...