Date 1-8-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A cent percent rise in opium prices was recorded in Afghanistan following Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar banned the cultivation of poppy in the Taliban-controlled areas of the country. Opium traders told AIP that after the announcement of the ban on July 28, 20...

Date 1-8-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar in a statement issued from Kandahar has appealed to all the warring factions to shun their differences and join the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Statement said that violence and war was not in the favour of the country...

Date 30-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban forces after capturing border area of Baghlan province, Burka, have launched a massive attack on Eshkamish in Takhar province where a fierce fighting was continuing. According to AIP sources Taliban destroyed the opposition frontline at Kuram Qul area in K...

Date 29-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said to have gained more ground in northern Baghlan province, capturing several areas in Nehreen including old City. Sources said Taliban have seized a huge quantity of ammunitions, tanks and artilleries. However no further details could be ascertained....

Date 28-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): After an eight-hour gunbattle, Taliban forces succeeded to capture a strategically important district Nahreen in northern Afghanistans Baghlan province, sources told AIP. Sources said Taliban have seized the headquarters of the district following the capture of Kot...

Date 28-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has announced a complete ban on poppy cultivation throughout Afghanistan and warmed of stern action if the directives were violated. A statement issued from the office of the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar i...

Date 25-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have denied a report that the Afghan government was planning to re-launch television broadcasting. Afghan information minister Mualvi Qutratullah Jamal told AIP that it was baseless and unfounded propeganda that Taliban would re-launch television as it cou...

Date 25-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): A bomb explosion took place near Presidential Palace in Kabul at Aryana Chowk but no report about causalties could be ascertained. The blast took place at about 300 meters away from the Presidential Palace at Aryana Square where the Taliban hanged the former commu...

Date 25-7-2000 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign minister while confirming two blasts near Presidential Palace said that both the blasts caused no casualties or damage to properties. Mualvi Qutratullah, the Afghan foreign minister, said that two blasts occurred in Aryana chowk one at night and whi...

Date 25-7-2000 PEHSWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have arrested two suspects in Kabul blasts incident, saying both the men belonged to the group involved in terrorist activities in Afghanistan. An official of Afghan information ministry, Abdul Hanan Himmat told AIP that they had arrested two men...