May 13, 1999

Harrakat e Islami e Afghanistan
Kunduz, Afghanistan

1.30pm Kabul Time / 12 May 1999

Bamiyan

On late Tuesday afternoon, Alliance forces foiled a major Taliban offensive to the south of the city, in the region known as Haidarabad (adjacent to Bamiyan Airport), managing to inflict heavy losses on the enemy.

Taliban not to allow co-education: CJ
ISLAMABAD (NNI): Afghanistan ruling Taliban have said they would not allow co-education as there is no justification for such kind of system in Islam.

FEATURE-Commerce crawls out from ruins of Kabul
09:32 p.m May 12, 1999 Eastern

By Andrew Hill

KABUL, May 13 (Reuters) - Two decades of unrelenting warfare have laid waste to Kabul and its economy, but the phoenix of free enterprise is rising from the ashes of the Afghan capital.

Small Steps for Afghan Women
In Need of Foreign Aid and Investment, Taliban Subtly Eases Restrictions

By Pamela Constable

Washington Post Foreign Service

Tuesday, May 11, 1999; Page A13

KABUL, Afghanistan—It is just after dawn, and a chorus of high-pitched murmurs rises as 200 girls huddle on the floor of a mosque, memorizing verses from the Koran. Stern-faced, bearded religious teachers carrying long sticks

Taleban reach airline, gas deals with Turkmenistan
09:40 a.m. May 12, 1999 Eastern

KABUL, May 12 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban has agreed to several trade pacts with neighbouring Turkmenistan, the first deals with another country the ruling movement has made since coming to power, a news

Rethinking Afghanistan
Abubaker

Frontier Post (Article)

Pessimism seems to be the fashion of postmodernist age. Afghanistan is one such victim, all sorts of commentators, ranging from column writers of the vernacular press to well-versed academicians are filtering more pessimism to the