January 6, 2000

Central Asia talks tough on terror, blames Afghans
By Sebastian Alison
ALMATY, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The presidents of four ex-Soviet Central Asian republics plan serious steps this year to stop what they regard as Afghan-inspired terrorism, Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov said on Friday.

Final touches being given to JUI round table moot
AKORA KHATTAK (NNI): Final touches is being given to the proposed round table moot which Jamiatul Ulema-e-Islam
Chief, Maulana Samee-ul-Haq has summoned

Indonesia's Bomb Suspects Trained in Afghanistan
JAKARTA (Jan. 6) XINHUA - Indonesian police said that two of the suspects behind the Christmas Eve bombings which
killed 18 persons claimed they received

Analysis: Terror's global reach
By RICHARD SALE, Terrorism Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- When the trial of four agents of Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden opened Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the U.S. government set out to prove that bin Laden is the power

Rabbani vows to eradicate ‘parda’ system - Frontier Post
TEHRAN (Online): Afghanistan’s former president Professor BurhanuddinRabbani has said that Afghan women would rid of
‘parda’ system (veiling) imposed by the Kabul government

Mohaqiq for broadly-based govt - Syed Bukhar - Shah Frontier Post
PESHAWAR - The Chairman Political Committee and Administrator Northern Areas, Hezb-e-Wahdat e Islami, Haji
Mohammad Mohaqiq has said

Situation in Bamyan calm: Taliban
ISLAMABAD (NNI): Afghanistan’s Taliban have denied gains by the Opposition Northern Alliance in the central Afghan
province of Bamyan saying that situation

Moin to visit Afghanistan on 21st - By Sohail Iqbal - The News Int
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider is set to visit Afghanistan in the third week of this month to discuss issues
concerning bilateral relations and regional

Afghan rivalry and drugs trade keep border tension high
Dushanbe, Jan 5, IRNA-Itar-Tass-ACSNA -- A state of high tension on the Tajik-Afghan border was driven over the past year by armed rivalry of Afghan military and political forces and drug-traffickers

Poppy cultivation totally eliminated: Umar envoy - The Nation 1/6
LAHORE – Afghan Deputy Ambassador in Pakistan and a special envoy of Mullah Umar, Qazi Habibullah Fozi has said that
UN sanctions against Taliban-led Afghanistan have

ANF forces closure of several drug factories in Afghanistan
Brig Baloch says 3,842 kg heroin, 18,833 kg hashish, 4,304 kg opium seized

The News: Jang By Muhammad Ejaz Khan
1/5/01
QUETTA: The chief of Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) Balochistan, Brig Razzaque Baloch has said due to their performance in