January 9, 1999

Voice of America
INTRO: A U-N DELEGATION HAS RETURNED FROM IRAN AFTER DISCUSSING UNITED NATIONS' WORK IN AFGHANISTAN. SARAH HORNER REPORTS THAT THE MAIN TOPIC

  unhcr denies iran forcing afghan refugees to return home
tehran, jan. 8, irna -- the united nations high commissioner for refugees (unhcr) has denied reports that iran is forcing afghan refugees to return to the war-torn country. "there has been no forced repatriation of afghan

Iran expels another six hundred Afghan refugees
KABUL: Iran has expelled over six hundred more Afghan refugees from Iran, Afghanistan's official news agency Bakhtar reported on Thursday.

Osama, Taliban cause trouble to Nawaz
The Nation
ISLAMABAD - The Sharif government is having a hard time convincing its neighbours and other important capitals of the world that it does not have much influence left with the Taliban and that it can

Taliban reject opposition's ceasefire offer
Frontier Post
By Aimal Khan

PESHAWAR - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers Thursday outrightly rejected the opposition's offer for negotiations on ceasefire in the war-battered country.

WFP completes emergency food delivery to central Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD: Just as the first snows closed roads in the Hazarajat region of Central Afghanistan, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has completed its three-week-long delivery of emergency winter food aid to