December 25, 2000

US denies crusade against Muslim Afghanistan
From Afzal Khan - The Nation 12/25/00
WASHINGTON - Responding to increasing criticism of its highly hostile anti-Taliban policy, the United States has denied it has joined the Indo-Russian crusade against Muslim Afghanistan.

Taliban launch financial aid appeal
Updated on 12/25/2000 - Frontier Post
ISLAMABAD (NNI) - Afghanistan’s Taliban have launched an appeal throughits embassy in Islamabad calling on the Muslims in Pakistan to come to the succor of their Afghan brethren in their hour of ordeal.

'JI against Musharraf, not army' - DAWN
MULTAN, Dec 24: Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Husain Ahmed has said that the JI has no confrontation with the military government, adding that Pervez Musharraf has become a security risk

No Taliban response to extradition request
Updated on 12/25/2000 - Frontier Post
KABUL (Agencies) - Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider will ask Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to hand over around 60 people wanted by Islamabad during a visit there next month, officials said Sunday.

Iran sends 40 tonnes of aid to Afghan refugees
TEHRAN, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Iran has distributed 40 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Afghan refugees stranded for around three months on the border between Afghanistan

Afghans skeptical about UN arms embargo
ISLAMABAD (NNI): A number of Afghan leaders and prominent personalities have expressed doubts about the implementation of the UN sanctions particularly arms embargo on Taliban.

Bombs rock Pakistan - BBC
There has been a series of bomb blasts in Pakistan, which have injured at least sixty people.
The worst blast occured at a clothes shop in Lahore, wounding more than thirty-five people, two of them seriously.

Iran Seizes 15.6 Tons of Drugs in Central Province
TEHRAN (Dec. 25) XINHUA - Iranian security forces have seized some 15.6 tons of narcotics in the central Yazd province since the start of the current Iranian calendar year starting

Moscow's Coming Clash with the Talibans
By Brig (Rtd) M Abdul Hafiz - Opinion - The Daily Star
PERSPECTIVES
There are reports that Moscow may allow the US to launch attack against Afghanistan from Tajik territory to punish the Talibans harbouring Osama bin Laden, the Saudi

World community indifferent to the Afghan agony, but why?
Updated on 12/25/2000 - Frontier Post editorial
The heart of every Pakistani goes out to the Afghan brothers and sistersnow facing distress in near-famine conditions in several parts of their country, in addition to those now in displaced persons