December 13, 1999

Diarrhoea kills 85,000 Afghan children a year

06:57 a.m. Dec 13, 1999 Eastern
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Diarrhoea kills 85,000 children a year in war-torn Afghanistan, the U.N. children's fund said on Monday.

The Afghan Conflict and Regional Security
P. Stobdan, Fellow, IDSA
During the last phase of the Cold War, an influential school of thought in the United States felt that if the Soviets' "fraternal" aggression against Afghanistan had not happened, it would

Pakistan Bks To Freeze Taliban Assets, Meet UN Condition
KARACHI (AP)--The State Bank of Pakistan on Monday ordered banks to submit an inventory of Taliban assets and ordered all assets belonging to Afghanistan's ruling Taliban army frozen in keeping with a United Nations resolution.

US covert operation in Afghanistan
Dawn
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: Despite formal denials, the United States launched a covert operation to bolster anti-Communist guerrillas in Afghanistan at least six months before the 1979 Soviet invasion of the country, according to a former top US

Wheat smuggling to Pakistan main reason of price hike: Taliban
ISLAMABAD (NNI): The ruling Taliban in Afghanistan have termed wheat smuggling to the neighbouring Pakistan as one of the main reasons for price hike of wheat and flour in the war-torn Afghanistan saying the crisis is temporary and would be