August 5, 2001

UN Resolution Seen as Step to Weaken Taliban

A Visit to the Taliban’s Foreign Troops  By Julie Sirrs

 

Taliban shuts aid group over Christian activity
KABUL, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The ruling Taliban on Sunday shut down an international aid agency operating in Afghanistan and arrested 24 of its international and local staff,

Malaysia's PAS leader admits son's Afghanistan stint
Sunday August 5, 8:18 PM
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A leader of Malaysia's largest Islamic opposition party admitted on Sunday that his son, who was detained by police for suspected involvement in an Afghanistan-trained

Five Afghan Children Killed in Explosions in Kabul
Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:52 PM EST
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- At least five children were killed and another severely injured in two separate explosions in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday.

Taliban to conduct survey of deserving people
Updated on 8/5/2001 3:49:43 PM
Frontier Post
F P Report PESHAWAR: Aid agencies in Kabul say the Planning Ministry of the Afghan government has told them that it wanted to conduct a survey for ascertaining the number

London moot calls for peaceful solution to Afghan conflict
Updated on 8/5/2001 3:49:43 PM
Frontier Post
LONDON (Agencies): The London moot on Afghanistan urged the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan to accept amicable and negotiated settlement of the decades long Afghan conflict.

Northern Alliance may land paratroopers in Kabul
Fakhar-ur-Rehman
Updated on 8/5/2001 3:49:43 PM
Frontie Post
ISLAMABAD: The anti Taliban forces positioned in the north of the country are making large scale preparations to launch a multi directional attack on the Taliban forces which also include

Taliban want negotiated settlement of Osama issue
Updated on 8/5/2001 3:49:43 PM
Frontier Post
ISLAMABAD (NNI): Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Abdus Salam Zaeef says his country wants to resolve the Osama issue through talks with Washington but it supports a solution

Murder is my duty: Pakistani extremist
Sunday August 5, 9:55 AM
KARACHI, Aug 5 (AFP) - Pakistani religious extremist Tariq Mahmood went to a mosque one Friday and emerged a changed man.

No change in US policy
Updated on 8/5/2001 3:49:43 PM
Frontier Post
NEW YORK (Agencies): In the highest level meeting since George W Bush became president, the United States has told Afghanistan’s Taliban Government to stop its alleged sponsorship

Exports of Afghan made carpets reach $130m in current fiscal year
Updated on 8/5/2001 3:49:43 PM
Frontier Post
ISLAMABAD (Agencies): The carpet-weaving industry is flourishing in Pakistan due to the skills of thousands of Afghan refugees, allowing some benefit to the country that hosts them.

Two Afghan pedlars killed in Tajikistan
Updated on 8/5/2001 3:49:43 PM
Frontier Post
DUSHANBE (Agencies): Two Afghan drugs-runners were killed in a shoot-out with police on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border as they attempted to carry 11 kilograms (24 pounds)

India for effective UN embargo against Taliban
Updated on 8/5/2001 3:49:43 PM
Frontier Post
UNITED NATIONS (Online): India has asked the United Nations to effectively enforce the arms embargo against the Taliban in Afghanistan and to take stringent action against those

Taliban suffer heavy losses in Takhar
Updated on 8/5/2001 3:49:43 PM
Frontier Post
F P ReportPESHAWAR: Taliban opposition Northern Alliance claimed that the Taliban lost more than 150 of their men and several commanders in the offensive that they launched

Survey about Afghan prisoners demanded
Updated on 8/5/2001 3:49:43 PM
Frontier Post
F. P ReportPESHAWAR: An executive body meetingof the Afghanistan Human Rights Commission was held the other day in connection with the problems faced by the Afghan

The Rocca visit
The News: Jang (Editorial)
US assistant secretary of state Christina Rocca's visit to Pakistan apparently did not produce the kind of results that would suggest Pak-US relations were in good repair.

Outcome of Rocca's visit
The Nation (Editorial)
THE rather extensive rounds of discussions which US Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca had with the Pakistani authorities covered the entire gamut of relations between

UN monitors and Afghanistan
The News: Jang (Opinion)
Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema
The writer works for Islamabad Policy Research Institute
To enforce arms embargo, the UN Security Council has passed yet another resolution reflecting more of Washington's hardened Afghan policy than justice and fair play aimed to attain the real