February 5, 2000

Eyewitnesses Give Grim Account of Civilian Massacres by Taliban


by Omar Samad
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2001 - AAR - Unlike previous occasions, this time around, the bad news first came from the United Nations' Secretary-General himself.

Taliban Says It Will Swap Bin Laden for Recognition
by Nick Wells - Bloomberg
Kandahar, Afghanistan, Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement will consider deporting Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden if it is recognized as the

Taliban trying U.S. citizen on spying charges
UPI, Sun 4 Feb 2001
Taliban authorities are trying a U.S. national for allegedly spying on Osama bin Laden and other Arabs living in Afghanistan, Afghan sources said. Richard Picket, an computer

Trial of 4 alleged bin Laden allies starts Monday
By Gail Appleson, Law Correspondent
NEW YORK, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Prosecutors will accuse four men later on Monday of conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the 1998 fatal bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa

Ex-bin Laden aide among four on trial in NY court
NEW YORK, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Opening arguments begin on Monday in the trial of four men accused of conspiring with Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden to bomb the U.S.

Afghan tangle can be politically solved, Russia tells Pak
India Abroad News Service Arun Mohanty, Moscow Feb 03, 2001
USSIA has told Pakistan that the crisis in Afghanistan can be solved politically and urged Islamabad to convince the Taliban regime to abandon the course of military solution to factional conflicts.

Russio-Iranian Talks on Afghanistan
TEHRAN -- ITAR_RASS - Russo-Iranian talks on the preparation of a forthcoming official visit of Sayed Mohammad Khatami, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran,

Taliban has legitimised state terrorism: Jaswant
DUBAI: Terrorism as an extension of state policy had received tacit legitimacy since the birth of the Taliban in Afghanistan, external affairs minister Jaswant Singh has said.

Iran, Kazakh FMs review expansion of ties, Caspian legal regime
Tehran, Feb 4, IRNA -- The visiting Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov and his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharrazi here on Sunday reviewed expansion of bilateral ties,

US to cement ties with India
Times of India
BERLIN: The Bush administration is committed to maintain the "momentum" in consolidating Indo-US relations, American Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

Curbs force Afghans to flee country: Fazl
The News Int.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Afghans were fleeing their country not because of lawlessness but because of the situation created by the US-inspired UN sanctions, chief of Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Islam

UNHCR should not call for lifting of border for DPs: Pak official
Islamabad, Feb 4, IRNA -- A senior Pakistani official on Sunday said, ``The UNHCR has no right to ask Islamabad to lift the ban on entry of (Afghan) refugees.''

Humanitarian assistance
DAWN editorial
A terrible human catastrophe is in the making on the Pakistan-Afghan border. In the last several weeks since harsh winter set in, nearly 154,000 Afghan refugees

Sanctions against Taliban: an assessment ­ II
Hamid Alvi - The Nation Opinion
As one would expect, the Taliban and US government have come out with conflicting interpretations of the impact of sanctions on Afghan society. In a series of statements made\