Date 3-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The opposition forces claimed to have moved forward 15 kilometers on the Taliban-controlled areas in western Afghanistan. A spokesman for the opposition forces, Muhammad Habeel told AIP that their forces have gained control of eight villages in Ghor province near...

Date 2-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said the decision taken by the former Afghan King Zahir Shah and northern alliance in a meeting in Rome has no credibility as it would produce no positive results. Deputy Foreign Minister of Taliban, Mualvi Muhammad Zahid told AIP that the decisions and me...

Date 2-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The tribal chiefs and elders of three southeastern provinces have given a list of more than six thousands youth, who they said were ready to join the Taliban forces in case of the US attack on the country. A spokesman for the Taliban told AIP from Gardez, center of...

Date 1-10-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have agreed to include the elders and former jihadi commanders of three southern Afghan provinces in the government machinery. A senior Afghan official, Rehmatullah Wahid Yar told AIP from Khost that a Taliban delegation visited three provinces including K...

Date 25-09-01 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have appealed to the people of America to draw the attention of their government, which is preparing for war, towards the consequences of war. Afghan foreign ministry in a letter to the citizens of America has said that the US had helped the people of Afghan...

Date 24-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): The Taliban have acknowledged they lost a district to the opposition forces in northern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Taliban told AIP that the opposition forces during an attack on the night of September 22-23 had seized the headquarters of Zarey district, 10...

Date 23-09-2001 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said they had found two secret cameras installed in the spy plane they downed yesterday in northern Afghanistan. Taliban took the cameras for an unknown location after they were recovered from secret parts of the pilot-less drone, sources told AIP on Sept...

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...