August 20, 2001

Taliban reject visas for diplomats, return passports
ISLAMABAD, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Monday returned the passports and rejected new visas for three Western diplomats in Kabul seeking

Diplomats say Taliban violate international norms
By Syed Salahuddin
KABUL, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Western diplomats, refused visa extensions and blocked from seeing their jailed citizens, accused Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Monday

Diplomats likely to leave Afghanistan after failed mission
KABUL, Aug 20 (AFP) - Western diplomats have failed in a last-minute bid to visit foreigners facing trial for allegedly preaching Christianity in Afghanistan and will most likely

Afghan Taliban, opposition clash on several fronts
KABUL, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban forces on Monday clashed with opposition fighters loyal to commander Ahmad Shah Masood on several fronts in the country

Rabbani asks Afghans to forge unity
Frontier Post
F P ReportPESHAWAR: Ousted Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani in a message on the occasion of 82 Afghanistan Independence Day has said that Afghan people need

Taleban call for Muslim support
By Afghanistan correspondent Kate Clark - BBC
The Taleban have been celebrating Afghanistan's independence day, with a military parade in the capital Kabul.

Opposition arrest Taliban province security chief
Frontier Post
ISLAMABAD (NNI): The Northern Alliance has captured the Taliban security chief of western Herat Province, Mola Musa, Radio Mashhad has reported.

Taliban release 13 prisoners on Independence Day
Frontier Post
F P ReportPESHAWAR: In respect of the 82nd Independence Day of Afghanistan, Taliban government had released 13 prisoners from Nangarhar jail.

Boat carrying 140 Afghans wrecked
 Frontier Post
JAKARTA (APP): A boat carrying 140 Afghans on their way to Australia got stranded on an Indonesia's prison island south of central Java, a report said Sunday.

Taliban-Pakistan 'nexus'
DAWN opinion
NEW YORK, Aug 19 -- GEN (R) Khalid Mahmud Arifin "Tightening the noose around the Taliban," (Aug 12) includes several lengthy quotations from an article