August 29, 2001

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security  PDF

Ode to the survivors of Jalozai-Camp A Poem by Soloman Wahab

AFGHANISTAN PEACE PLAN Council for Peace and National Unity of Afghanistan

 


Australian troops take control of refugee ship
By Jason Reed
CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Crack troops seized control of a Norwegian freighter crammed with sick and exhausted asylum seekers on Wednesday

INTERVIEW-Taliban blames U.N sanctions for Afghan refugees
By Tahir Ikram
KABUL, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement has told western diplomats in Kabul to see foreign aid workers that "crippling" U.N. sanctions

The Evil within
AAR Editorial - 8/29/2001
A.R. Hotak, the Taliban's so-called director of Consular Affairs at the Foreign Ministry, formerly a deputy at the Taliban information ministry

Red Cross visits correction centre in Afghanistan as probe drags
KABUL, Aug 29 (AFP) - The Red Cross Wednesday visited the correction centre where eight Western aid workers are detained in Afghanistan as diplomats prepared

Afghanistan -- an evangelical no-go area
By Andy Soloman
KARACHI (Reuters) - The detention of aid workers by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on charges of spreading Christianity has thrown the spotlight on the risks

Algerian indicted for U.S. plot, bin Laden ties
By Gail Appleson, Law Correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug 28 (Reuters) - An Algerian living in London who was accused in a plot to bomb U.S. targets in late 1999 and early 2000 has been indicted on expanded

US for Afghan solution through Loya Jirga
Frontier Post
ISLAMABAD (NNI): A visiting U.S Congressional delegation Tuesday called for solution to Afghan problem through Afghanistan's traditional "Loya Jirga"

Text of report by Afghan Taleban radio from Balkh Province on 27 August
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Aug 28, 2001
[Presenter] Dear listeners, A political commentator of the radio [Voice of Shari'ah] writes:
Talk is heard at times from Rome or Cyprus about the convention of Loya Jerga [grand assembly] on Afghanistan. From time to time, hot or cold talk has been

Third of Afghan refugee families in camps near Peshawar seek repatriation
GENEVA, Aug 28 (AFP) - Nearly a third of 21,000 Afghan refugee families in camps near Peshawar in Pakistan want to be repatriated, according to the results