December 1, 1999

PAKISTAN'S TALIBAN TROUBLES
JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY   1 Dec. 1999.
by Anthony Davis
Since the military coup of 12 October the attention of Pakistan's new ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, has been focused mainly on domestic issues of economic stabilisation and a campaign against debt defaulters. Before long, however, he will need to

Afghan Taleban warns UN over child soldiers charge
01:05 p.m Nov 30, 1999 Eastern
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar on Tuesday threatened to forcibly take U.N. officials to the frontlines of its war with rival Afghan groups ``to see the truth''

Taliban Leader Attacks U.N. Report
By Kathy Gannon
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, Nov. 30, 1999; 2:09 p.m. EST
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan –– Afghanistan's Taliban leader offered Tuesday to take U.N. officials to the battlefield to debunk U.N. accusations that his forces have recruited children as soldiers.

U.N. Official Taken to Front Line
By Amir Shah
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1999; 6:48 a.m. EST
KABUL, Afghanistan –– The Taliban took a senior U.N. official to the front line in Afghanistan today to disprove charges that children are fighting in the religious militia's protracted war to gain full control of the country.

20 Taliban killed in ambush in Kabul
TEHRAN (NNI): At least 20 Taliban were killed and scores of others injured when an unidentified armed group attacked their base near Kabul city, reports Radio Tehran.

Hezb-i-Wahdat leader off to Saudia to win  support
Frontier Post
By AIMAL KHAN
PESHAWAR - Prominent Afghan Shia leader, Karim Khalili is touring Saudi Arabia on a special mission, Afghan sources said.  Until now Khalili was underground after the fall of Shia-dominated Bamyan province in central Afghanistan to Taliban last year.

Annan calls for resolving Afghan conflict
By Masood Haider
Dawn
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 30: Warning that the Afghan conflict could spin out of control and adversely impact peace and security in the region, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called upon the international community to pay full attention to

Taliban media: US issues 'fact-sheet'
By Shaheen Sehbai
Dawn
WASHINGTON, Nov 30: The US State Department on Tuesday issued a detailed fact-sheet to clarify what it called "distortions" created by the Taliban-controlled mass media in Afghanistan and even some Pakistani newspapers about UN

UN freezes Brahimi's peace initiatives
By Hasan Akhtar
Dawn
ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has announced that peace efforts in Afghanistan by his special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi were being indefinitely "frozen" because of lack of any meaningful progress to end the 10-year old

Afghanistan unaffected by UN sanctions
The Times of India
December 1, 1999
KABUL: If the United Nations intended to punish the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan through its sanctions imposed since November 14, the plan seems to have failed. The sanctions, imposed to force the radical Islamic movement to surrender

Taliban express conditional support to Loya Jirga
LONDON (NNI): The ruling Taliban in Afghanistan have expressed conditional support to the Loya Jirga (grand assembly), reports BBC.

Neighbours involved in Afghan conflict: UN
Frontier Post
From JEHANGIR KHATTAK
NEW YORK __ UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Monday condemned Afghanistan's neighbours for getting involved militarily in the conflict rather than ending it.