October 8, 1998

Iran reports border clash with Taleban
Source: BBC

Iran says its armed forces have clashed with the Afghan Taleban movement on the border between the two countries.
Iranian troops inflict "heavy casualties" on Taliban: Guards commander
Thu 08 Oct 98 - 12:09 GMT

TEHRAN, Oct 8 (AFP) - Iranian Revolutionary Guards inflicted "heavy casualties" on Taliban militia forces during a three-hour clash on the Iran-Afghanistan border on Thursday, a Guards commander said.

Iran In First Clash With Afghan Taleban
08:22 a.m. Oct 08, 1998 Eastern

By Barry May

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian troops clashed with Afghan Taleban forces Thursday in the first skirmish of a military standoff between the two neighbors, Iran's state television reported.
Taliban spokesman says Iranian accusation of incursion baseless
Thu 08 Oct 98 - 13:16 GMT

KABUL, Oct 8 (AFP) - The Taliban militia's senior spokesman Mawlawi Wakil Ahmad said Thursday Iranian claims of Taliban incursions were lies and "totally baseless."

Voice of America

INTRO: TALEBAN OFFICIALS IN AFGHANISTAN HAVE DENIED REPORTED IRANIAN CLAIMS THAT TALEBAN SOLDIERS OPENED FIRE (THURSDAY) ON IRANIAN FORCES AND THEY HAVE

U.S. doubts Iran will cross Afghan border
03:41 p.m Oct 08, 1998 Eastern

By Jonathan Wright

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it doubted the shooting on the border between Iran and Afghanistan would lead to an Iranian incursion.

Marriage Taliban style: it's pretty grim

By CHRISTOPHER KREMMER in New Delhi
Sydney Morning Herald
Friday, October 9, 1998

When Mohammed Jawad weds Nadia, his fiancee of 13 months, in Kabul today, he will have no idea what she looks like.
UN envoy cautiously optimistic on efforts to ease Iran-Taliban tensions
Thu 08 Oct 98 - 13:01 GMT

TEHRAN, Oct 8 (AFP) - UN special envoy for Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi voiced cautious optimism here Thursday over a mission to help ease tension between Iran and the Taliban Islamic militia in Afghanistan.

UN to Taleban Afghan people have suffered enough
06:16 a.m. Oct 08, 1998 Eastern

By Barry May

TEHRAN, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The United Nations' special envoy on Afghanistan said on Thursday he would tell the Taleban militia that the Afghan people had suffered enough.

Taliban-rivals war may break out anytime

Frontier Post

By AIMAL KHAN & M.T. ALAM
PESHAWAR - A bloody war may break out anytime between the Taliban militia and the Northern Alliance forces in the north of ravaged Afghan capital, Kabul as front-line fighters are waiting for a green signal from their respective sides.

brahimi says iran's demands vis-a-vis taliban legitimate

tehran, oct. 8, irna -- the u.n. special envoy on afghanistan lakhdar brahimi said here on thursday that the international community supports iranian demands relating to the taliban and afghanistan. brahimi made the remark in a press

Osama bought N-weapons from Central Asia?

The News: Jang

LONDON: Osama bin Laden, accused of bombing two US embassies in East Africa, has acquired nuclear weapons from Central Asia, an Arabic newspaper in London reported. The exiled Saudi millionaire, who is based

Taliban responds to Saudi demand on Bin Laden

Date: 09-10-1998 :: Pg: 17 :: Col: c

By Kesava Menon
The Hindu Online

MANAMA (Bahrain), Oct 8.

So there is at least one Government, that of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which Afghanistan's Taliban militia will listen to. In a rare instance, the Taliban has indicated that they will respond to a stricture passed by another

Taliban want UN envoy to visit Afghanistan: Envoy


ISLAMABAD: Taliban have extended formal invitation to UN special envoy on Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi for talks on Iran-Afghan-border tension, a senior Taliban official said on Wednesday.

Taliban Said to Weigh Trial for Bin Laden

By DOUGLAS JEHL
The New York Times
October 8, 1998


CAIRO -- The Taliban movement in Afghanistan might consider putting Osama bin Laden on trial for a 1996 bomb attack that killed 19 American airmen in Saudi Arabia, a leading Saudi-owned newspaper reported Wednesday.

U.S. Hints More Strikes Vs. Bin Laden

By Tom Raum
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, October 8, 1998; 2:35 p.m. EDT


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Further U.S. missile attacks against the Afghanistan operations of Islamic extremist Osama bin Laden are possible, the Clinton administration suggested Thursday. ``We will take those actions we believe are

Taliban reject coalition idea

Thursday 8th October, 1998


ABU DHABI (NNI): A top spokesman for Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia Wednesday rejected the idea of a coalition government in his country, reports daily the Emirates News.

13 Pakistanis among 31 PoWs killed in Bamiyan


Frontier Post


PESHAWAR - Thirteen of the thirty-one prisoners, who were shot dead by the retreating Hizbe Wahdat militiamen outside the main city jail of Bamiyan, were Pakistanis when this strategic central Afghanistan province fell to Taliban about a month ago.

Afghanistan Weekly Update No. 284

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Date: 07 Oct 1998

UN Coordinator leaves


Alfredo Witschi-Cestari leaves Afghanistan on 7 October, after two eventful years as UN Coordinator. A final decision as to who will replace him has yet to be made, but in the meantime, Bronek Szynalski, Head of the WFP

Taleban Draw Active Chinese Response

Global Intelligence Update
Red Alert
October 8, 1998

ANALYSIS


Hong Kong's "Ming Pao" newspaper reported on October 7 that the Beijing Municipality recently issued a circular to all foreign- funded hotels, requiring they immediately report all information on new guests from Afghanistan, Egypt,

Half a Nation, Condemned

IN AMERICA / By BOB HERBERT

The New York Times: Editorial
October 8, 1998


Even as we overdose on the coverage of the frenzied, sex-based madness in Washington, the tragic subjugation of nearly the entire female population of Afghanistan goes scarcely noticed.

Recognising Taliban

Dr Ijaz Hussain

The News: Jang (Opinion)

Despite being in control of the capital Kabul for the last two years and their control over 90 per cent of Afghanistan yet Taliban have received recognition neither bilaterally by a large number of individual states (as only three