March 20, 2001

Protest Against Taliban Presence in Washington March 20, 2001

US slams Taliban for justifying statue destruction Image full size
WASHINGTON, March 19 (AFP) - The United States on Monday accused Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia of inaccurate and self-serving reasoning to justify

Taliban sends Bush letter, no proposal on bin Laden
WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - The Taliban who rule Afghanistan delivered a letter for President George W. Bush on Monday but made no new proposals

Taliban in Washington to improve ties
By ELI J. LAKE
 WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- In the wake of destroying two 1,400 year year old giant Buddha statues, the Taliban sent one of their rising stars to

Protests Against Mullah Omar's Envoy in Washington
WASHINGTON - Mar. 20, 2001 - AAR - While a controversial envoy of the Taliban regime - educated in Pakistan and, so conveniently, praising American

UNESCO official criticizes Taliban destruction
BERLIN (Reuters) - A senior official at the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO criticized Afghanistan's Taliban rulers Monday for obliterating two giant statues of Buddha.

France denounces "barbarous" Afghan destruction
PARIS, March 20 (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac denounced Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Tuesday, calling their recent destruction of Buddha statues

Demolition of Bhuddist monuments contradicts Islam
MOSCOW, Mar 19, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- The destruction of Bhuddist moments in Afghanistan contradicts the spirit of Islam and the standards

Ancient Afghanistan, smuggled in pieces
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN, Mar 20, 2001 (The Christian Science Monitor via COMTEX) -- Across the border in Afghanistan, the Taliban government has destroyed

Pakistan, Russia have no differences in strategic issues
MOSCOW, Mar 19, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- "We consider Russia a great power, and we will never allow any hostile acts to be prepared or lunched from

Long-term implications of Bamiyan vandalism
By M.P. Bhandara - DAWN opinion 3/20/01
MULLA OMAR's vandalism in ordering the destruction of the symbols of pre-Islamic civilization of Afghanistan is an assault on civil society and civilization itself.

Want to learn English? Keep ears to the ground
IN TALIBAN COUNTRY/Siddharth Varadarajan
The Times of India - March 19, 2001
KABUL: As the people of Afghanistan realise that the Taliban - and their unpopular decree banning female education - are here to stay, they have begun to take

Buddhas' Rubble Marks a Turn for Taliban
By Pamela Constable
Washington Post Foreign Service
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 19 -- Ten days after Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement began blasting two historic Buddha statues to rubble despite protests

Transcript Excerpts: State Dept on U.S. Contact with Taliban
(Meeting does not imply recognition of Taliban)(760)
The State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that working-level State Department officials met with Said Ramatullah Hashemi from the Taliban

Payam-e Mujahid Enters into Fifth Year of Publication
When the government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan left Kabul in late 1996, it felt the need to have a newsletter to inform the public about developments in the country