June 25, 2001

Afghan opposition claims gains in new fighting against Taliban
KABUL, June 25 (AFP) - Opposition forces captured several villages from the ruling Taliban militia on Monday as fighting erupted in northern Afghanistan after a lull of several days, resistance officials said.

Gen. Dostum Denies Leaving Anti-Taliban Struggle
Says Taliban Unpopular and Weakening Despite Pakistani Backing
By Omar Samad
WASHINGTON, June 24, 2001 - AAR - General Abdul Rashid Dostum, the leader of a once-powerful militia based in Northern Afghanistan, who returned to Afghanistan

Bin Laden aide denies anti-US threats-news service
ISLAMABAD, June 25 (Reuters) - A deputy to Osama bin Laden was quoted on Monday as saying that an Arab reporter had met the Saudi militant but had

Afghan Taliban wants Islamic mission and aid
KABUL, June 25 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers urged the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) on Monday to open an office in

Taliban ask U.N. to vacate it's Kabul office till mid July
Islamabad, July 25, IRNA -- The foreign ministry of Taliban outfit has extended its earlier eviction order and asked the United Nations to vacate its premises in Kabul till July 16, said a U.N. official on Monday.

Afghanistan: Drought forces thousands out of Sar-e Pol
SAR-E POL, 25 June (IRIN) - Thousands of farmers in the northern Afghan province of Sar-e Pol have moved to neighbouring areas in search of food, water and work

Top UN relief official urges Taliban to improve working conditions for aid staff
UN Department of Public Information (DPI)
Welcoming the release of four Afghan aid workers, a top United Nations relief official urged the Taliban, who had detained the staff, to improve "in real terms" the working

Rise in Afghans seeking UK asylum - BBC
Figures released by the British home office show the number of applications for political asylum from Afghans is continuing to rise rapidly.

Outsiders blamed for fuelling Afghan conflict
DAWN
MIRANSHAH, June 24: A leader of the Great National Islamic United Front of Afghanistan, Shahzadah Masood, has said that the ongoing infighting in

Iran drug menace tied to Afghanistan's poppy cultivation
Sari, Mazandaran prov., June 24, IRNA -- Director of Iran's Anti-Narcotics Headquarters Mohammad Fallah said here Sunday that as long as Afghanistan

Further deterioration of Pak-US relations
by Dr Manzoor Ijaz
The News: Jang
Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Abdul Sattar's Washington visit started with a great promise but ended at a bitter note. Mr Sattar was being accorded

Musharraf's coup - Elections in Pakistan are now threatened
Monday June 25, 2001 - The Guardian
In perpetrating a second coup against democracy, General Pervez Musharraf may have strengthened his own position but he has done Pakistan no

Pakistan's Afghan policy
Kamal Matinuddin - The Nation 6/2/501
The foreign policy of any country is designed to preserve, protect and promote its national interests. A successful foreign policy must take into