February 4, 2000

Pak, Taliban want early implementation of gas pipeline project
ISLAMABAD (NNI): Pakistan and Taliban on Thursday agreed for early implementation of Pak-Afghan-Turkmenistan gas Pipeline Project and Refinery Project in Afghanistan.

Pakistan offers technical support to Afghan refinery project
BUSINESS RECORDER REPORT
ISLAMABAD (February 4) : Pakistani experts would provide technical support to the Afghan government for the establishment of an oil refinery in Afghanistan, it was agreed between Petroleum and Natural Resources minister Usman

Pakistan to help Afghanistan in rehabilitating communications network
ISLAMABAD (NNI): Pakistan will help the Taliban government in rehabilitating communications network in Afghanistan.

Pakistan's National Highway Authorityto help re-construct Afghan highway network
BUSINESS RECORDER
ISLAMABAD (February 4) : Torkham Kabul Road is being rehabilitated as the highway network in Afghanistan would help create links with Central Asian States. National Highway Authority Chairman Viqar-ul-Haq Khan stated this while talking to

Taliban minister hopeful of implementation of Pak-Afghan trade accord
ISLAMABAD (NNI): Afghanistan Deputy Minister of Frontiers Moulvi Abdul Hakim Monib has hoped that the Pak-Afghan agreement on transit trade would be implemented in letter and spirit.

mulla omar invites musharraf to visit afghanistan
islamabad, feb. 04, irna -- the leader of taliban, mulla omar has invited the chief executive of pakistan, general prvez musharraf to visit afghanistan. this was dislcosed by the pakistan foreign minister, abdul sattar, while addressing islamabad-based local

No UN permission received for haj flights: Taliban
ISLAMABAD (NNI): Afghanistan ruling Taliban say they have not yet received any permission from the United Nations to allow flights for this year pilgrimage.

UN envoy to Afghanistan arrives in Islamabad -- to proceed to Afghanistan to Sunday
ISLAMABAD (NNI): United Nations Secretary Generals Personal Representative to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell Thursday arrived in Islamabad as part of his first visit to the region to familiarize himself of the situation, UN officials said.

Screening of visas may be intensified
The Nation (Thailand)
Saturday, February 5 1:33 AM SGT
IMMIGRATION police have asked the Foreign Ministry to intensify its visa-screening methods for those coming from the Middle East, Afghanistan and South Asia to prevent transnational criminals from entering the country, a senior immigration

100 killed in measles epidemic in Afghanistan: UN
ISLAMABAD, Feb 4 (AFP) - A measles epidemic has claimed 100 lives in Darra Souf district in Samangan province of northern Afghanistan over the past month, the United Nations said Friday.

Over 400 Afghan scholars, politicians begin talks in Tehran
TEHRAN (NNI): Over 400 Shia and Sunni scholars and political leaders of Afghanistan are holding three-day negotiations in Tehran, with calls for unity and understanding of the problems to bring peace to the conflict-torn country.

"America has no proof against Harkat; it is merely toeing India's line..."
Imtiaz Gul
The Friday Times (Pakistan)
Vol XI, No. 49, Regd No. CPL-116
February 4-10, 2000
Maulana Fazlurrehman Khalil (MFK), 38, is a soft-spoken man. But he is also a radical Muslim wedded to pan-Islamism and the "war of liberation" in Kashmir. Khalil shot into prominance in August 1998 after American Tomahawk missiles destroyed

Muslim countries don't offer aid to Chechens -- emissary
Friday, February 04, 2000 12:21 PM EST
ISLAMABAD, February 4 (Itar-Tass) - Not a single Muslim country has offered assistance to rebels in Chechnya, Chechen emissary Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev admitted at a news conference in Islamabad on Friday. "We have established a contact with

The grand Deobandi consensus
Khaled Ahmed
The Friday Times (Pakistan) : OPINION
Vol XI, No. 49, Regd No. CPL-116
February 4-10, 2000
The civil war in Afghanistan and the jehad in Kashmir have gradually veered to a Deobandi consensus. The dominant Hizbe Islami of Hekmatyar, a flag-bearer of modernist-Islamist thinking of Maududi and Hasan al-Banna, lost favour with the

CIA terms Pak breeding ground for extremists
The Times of India
WASHINGTON: In a remarkably sobering assessment of the threats facing the US, CIA director George Tenet told a Senate committee Wednesday that growing resentment of American power plus new technologies means that the US has become