February 25, 2000

Jehadis and Taliban

Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan Human Rights Watch Report, February 2001

Afghanistan : Action Needed to Prevent More Killings Human Rights Watch Report, February 2001

Islamic Leaders Complain of Lopsided Trade, Debt
By Alistair Lyon
CAIRO (Reuters) - Leaders of the most populous Muslim nations, some of them entangled in crises at home, aired grievances about globalization at a summit Sunday.

Afghan Taliban execute two women for adultery, flog 12 others
KABUL, Feb 24 (AFP) -- Afghanistan's ultra-orthodox Taliban regime publicly executed two women and flogged a dozen others convicted of adultery in the southern city of Kandahar,

Key Afghan opposition commander joins Taliban
KABUL, Feb 24 (AFP) - A key Afghan opposition commander joined the ruling Taliban militia saying he had switched sides because of Russia's backing to the resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masood.

Bin Laden brother runs suspect company in Hungary: report
BUDAPEST, Feb 24 (AFP) - A brother of alleged Islamic militant Osama bin Laden has been running a shadowy trade representation in Hungary for years

Taliban forces fire tank shells into Tajikistan
DUSHANBE, Feb 24 (AFP) - Russian guards policing the border between the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan and Afghanistan said Saturday that Afghan Taliban forces

Quake hits Afghan, Pakistan, India - no injuries
KABUL, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A strong earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northern parts of neighbouring Pakistan and India on Sunday, spreading fear across the region

UK pledges support for Iran's war on drugs
TEHRAN, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Mo Mowlam, the first British cabinet minister to visit the Islamic Republic of Iran, pledged British support on Sunday for Tehran's

Letter from Herat
By Matt Frei - The Daily Telegraph 2/25/01
I WAS waiting near the Khyber Pass to fly to the west of Afghanistan on a Red Cross charter. It was my first visit to the land of the Taliban, the world's

Pakistan takes hard line as refugee crisis grows
PESHAWAR, Feb 24 (AsiaTimes) -- Poorly-clad, barefoot children are shivering in sub-zero temperatures, people are begging for food and fresh graves

Afghan Defence Council to persuade countries to defy sanctions
The News:  2/25/01
KARACHI: Leader of Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Islam (JUI), Maulana Samiul Haq has announced that after Eidul Azha the Afghan Defence Council would send

100 Afghan aliens arrested in central Yazd
Mehriz, Yazd Province of Iran, Feb 25, IRNA -- Iran's police on Sunday arrested 100 illegal Afghan immigrants crammed on a truck heading for Isfahan from this

Narcotics smugglers to face stern action: Moin
DAWN
 KARACHI, Feb 24: Interior Minister, Lt Gen (retd) Moinuddin Haider, has said that Pakistan will not allow anyone to use it's territory for drug trafficking,

Jehadis and Taliban
Humayun Gauhar - The Nation opinion 2/25/01
There are three kinds of mullahs:1) The age-old de facto priest who presides over a mosque. People reluctantly accept him because he fulfills ritualistic functions

Osama conundrum: the fourth option
By Ijaz Hussain - DAWN Opinion 2/25/01
FOLLOWING the imposition of the second instalment of sanctions against the Taliban government for their refusal to extradite Osama bin Laden and to close

This festering sore
DAWN editorial 2/25/01
THE crackdown on the Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan - including the arrest of its main leader, Maulana Azam Tariq - is ostensibly connected with the imminent hanging