March 13, 2001

Appeal for justice on behalf the Afghan people

Islamic Relief Emergency Fundraiser for Afghanistan March 30, 2001

UF/ISA Press Release

List of  foreign Taliban prisoners of war captured by the United Front

The letter of Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq to Kofi Annan

CPNUA statement by Prof. A. Sattar Sirat on Taliban Destruction of Afghan Heritage

 

Resolution of Afghan Rally in Melbourne

Afghan Rallies in Europe

Resolution of Afghan Rally in Washington D.C

Exclusive AAR photos from Afghan protest rally

Taliban Completes Destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas, UN Envoy Says
Kabul, Afghanistan, March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Afghanistan's Taliban rulers completed the destruction of the 1,500-year old giant Buddhas carved into cliffs at Bamiyan near Kabul,

Call to action against insulting subliminal messages:
AAR urges its readers to read the following interview - a subtle defense sheet for the Taliban and deliberate misrepresentation of the issue of destructions of the Afghan relics and

Afghans divided over destruction of Buddha statues
KABUL, March 13 (AFP) - Educated Afghans Tuesday lashed the ruling Taliban Islamic militia for the "brutal" demolition of two ancient Buddha sculptures in the central province of Bamiyan.

Overwhelming Majority of Afghans Disapprove of Taliban Act of Cultural Vandalism
Most Afghans not Divided on Issue
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13, 2001 - AAR - For the past two weeks, Afghan internet polls, interviews, statements and radio call-in shows in the United States were inundated

Afghani refugees in India stage protest against statue destruction
Tuesday March 13, 4:25 PM
NEW DELHI, March 13 (AFP) - More than 100 Afghani refugees staged a protest here Tuesday against the Taliban's destruction of ancient Buddha statues

People protest outside Taliban embassy in Islamabad
The News: Jang 3/13/01
ISLAMABAD: Scores of people including children protested at the Afghan embassy here on Tuesday, to condemn the destruction of ancient Buddhist relics in Afghanistan, witnesses said.

INTERVIEW-Taliban says determined to rule all Afghanistan
By Jack Redden
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil said Monday that United Nations mediation in Afghanistan's civil war was dead

US decries Taliban destruction of Buddha statues but will not cut aid
WASHINGTON, March 12 (AFP) - The United States Monday decried the destruction of two ancient Buddha statues by Afghanistan's Taliban militia as a "crime a

Sri Lanka PM heads to Pakistan to lobby for Bamiyan Buddhas
The News: Jang 3/13/01
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Buddhist clergy staged a demonstration here Tuesday as the prime minister left for Pakistan to lobby Islamabad and pressure the Taliban

Pak-Afghan border closed over Taliban high-handedness
The News: Jang 3/13/01
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: An attempt by Taliban border guards, on Tuesday, to kidnap two Pakistani counterparts at Afghanistan¹s border with Pakistan

Afghanistan’s forgotten people
Amid outrage over statues, U.N. fears international aid will dry up
UNITED NATIONS, March 11 —  The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas has rained new criticism on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban movement and further isolated the

Opposition says 400,000 Afghans may die of famine
KABUL, March 13 (Reuters) - About 400,000 people may die of famine caused by drought in northeastern Afghanistan unless they get urgent foreign aid, anti-Taliban officials controlling the region said on Tuesday.

UN steps up Afghan food aid
The United Nations World Food Programme has launched an appeal for an emergency operation to save millions of Afghans threatened with starvation.

UN Chief Tells Afghanistan's Refugees They Aren't Forgotten
Islamabad, March 13 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said the world hadn't forgotten the tens of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing war

Massive hike in Afghan opium prices
ISLAMABAD, March 12 (AFP) - The price of opium in Taliban-controlled AfghaStatues Still Intact

Pakistan can't dictate to Taliban: Sattar  - DAWN
PESHAWAR, March 12: Foreign Minister Abdus Sattar said on Monday that Afghanistan was a free and sovereign state to take decisions on its own.

Who Really Destroyed the Statues?
The Moscow Times.com 3/13/01 - Editorial
"The destruction work is not as easy as people would think," Taliban Information Minister Qudratullah Jamal told CNN in regard to his government's

demolition of the unique
Relic-bashing by the Taliban
By M.H. Askari - DAWN opinion
REGARDLESS of whether or not it is a service in the cause of Islam, the Taliban regime, with its determination to destroy all statues in Afghanistan, is going to be