February 10, 2000

Could Afghanistan be a Key to Asian Co-operation and Security? Timur Kocaoglu

Geopolitics of an Afghan Settlement Peter Tomsen

Containing the Taliban: Path to Peace in Afghanistan Ishtiaq Ahmad

Peace in Afghanitan? The Problem and Prospects Maqsudul Hasan Nuri

On the Situation in Afghanistan By Marianna Arunova

Taleban shut down in US
BBC News Saturday, 10 February, 2001, 11:20 GMT
Afghanistan's Taleban authorities have been ordered to close their office in New York, their only outpost in the United States.

Bombs Explode in Two Afghan Cities, Four Hurt
Saturday February 10 10:21 AM ET
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A powerful bomb exploded outside a government office in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, wounding four people,

Taliban rejects Musharraf's statement about bin Laden: report
ISLAMABAD, Feb. 10 (Kyodo) - Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister Abdul Wakil Mutwakkal has rejected reports that Pakistan's military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf

Afghan Taleban repeat will not hand over bin Laden
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban movement on Saturday repeated they will not hand over U.S. terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden

Bin Laden group denies link to US trial witness-TV
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's group has denied any link to a man presenting himself as a close aide to the Saudi dissident during

Mulla Omar proposes new way to sort out Osama issue
Islamabad, Feb 10, IRNA -- The Taliban leader, Mulla Mohammad Omar has proposed a new option for solving the issue of Osama bin Laden.

Let's start talking, Musharraf asks India
Says Taliban becoming less radical - The News Int.
DUBAI: While dreaming of going down in history as one who resolved the Kashmir issue, Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf has accused India

Pakistan says no to news Afghan refugee camp -UN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - The United Nations said Friday Pakistan has rejected its request to open a new refugee camp, leaving 80,000 Afghans

Afghan refugees stranded
UN "extremely concerned" by conditions at Jalozai - BBC
Pakistan has refused a United Nations request to open a new refugee camp, stranding 80,000 Afghans in fast deteriorating conditions.

Afghan refugees say they won't trespass border
JANGALI SUF, Tajik-Afghan border, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - The Afghans, who have fled the Imamsahib district of the Kunduz province to islands

US aid for Afghanistan not aimed at political objectives: envoy 
Islamabad, Feb 10, IRNA -- The US Ambassador in Pakistan, William B. Milam on Friday said his country's aid for Afghanistan was not directed

Taliban refuse to sign agreement with Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - The Taliban leaders have refused to sign with Islamabad an agreement on the mutual extradition of criminals.

Dealing with militancy
DAWN (Pak.) Editorials 02/10/01
IN HIS wide-ranging interview with the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, General Musharraf has touched upon a number of important issues,