March 23, 2001

Condemn Taliban’s Destruction of Buddhist Statues

Afghan Statement on Forty-Fourth Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Gathering in Front of the US Congress

Congressman Phil English’s statement on House floor March 14, 2001

The world fails to halt tyranny Bangkok Post

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

 

Afghan protest rally (Los Angeles, CA) Sunday March 25, 2001 at 12:00 noon

Resolution of the Rally Protesting the Visit by an Envoy of the Taliban to the United States, Washington DC March 20, 2001

As Taliban Gear up for Spring Offensives, United Front Opens New Battle-fronts
Bin Laden and Extremists' Role on the Rise Within Taliban
WASHINGTON, Mar. 23, 2001 - AAR - In response to a major increase in Taliban military capabilities to unleash a definitive offensive this spring, Afghan resistance

Bin Laden allies 'seize control' in Taleban struggle
FROM ZAHID HUSSAIN IN KABUL
FIGHTERS linked to Osama bin Laden appear to have taken control of Taleban after moderates were pushed aside in the latest power struggle.

Afghans Confront Taliban Envoy in Washington - Dispute his Claims
Several Rallies Target Pakistan as Source of Afghan Crisis and Call for US Action
By Omar Samad
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2001 - AAR - A Taliban envoy, also introduced as an advisor to that group’s leader Mullah M. Omar, faced resentment and accusations by

500 children starve in Afghanistan: Taliban
ISLAMABAD, March 22 (AFP) - Nearly 500 children starved to death in western Afghanistan last week, the Taliban militia's ambassador to Pakistan said Thursday

Taliban Damage Control Tactic or Real Tragedy?
AAR Editors' Note - 3/23/01:
This tragic news of continuing famine, weather and disease-related deaths in Afghanistan cannot and should not be taken lightly. All efforts should be made to avoid such calamities

US wheat for Afghanistan arrives at Pakistani port
KARACHI, March 22 (AFP) - A United States ship carrying 30,000 metric tonnes of wheat for drought-hit Afghanistan arrived at the Pakistani port of Karachi on Thursday.

Taliban open Afghan museum, statues gone
By Jack Redden and Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL, March 22 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers threw open the doors to the National Museum in Kabul on Thursday to prove they had carried

Emptiness On Display In Afghan Museum
War, Taliban Edict Leave Few Artifacts
By Pamela Constable - Washington Post Foreign Service March 23, 2001
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 22 -- Three weeks after decreeing that all statues in Afghanistan be destroyed, the country's ruling Taliban movement briefly

Famed Kanishka statue destroyed: Taliban cultural minister
TOKYO, March 22 (AFP) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have smashed one of a pair of world-renowned statues of King Kanishka, the Taliban cultural minister

Indian premier condemns destruction of Bamyan Buddhas
NEW DELHI, March 22 (Kyodo) - Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Thursday strongly condemned the destruction of Afghanistan's world-famous

Russian guards kill five on Tajik-Afghan border
DUSHANBE, March 23 (Reuters) - Russian border guards killed five armed men on the border between former Soviet Tajikistan and Afghanistan on Friday, the guards said in a statement.

Japan to offer material aid for Afghan refugees
TOKYO, March 23 (Kyodo) - Japan will offer material assistance, including tents and blankets, for Afghan refugees through the International Organization for Migration

Ejection notices issued to Afghan refugees
By Mohammad Riaz - DAWN
PESHAWAR, March 22: The NWFP government has issued notices to the Afghan refugees, residing on state land in the Nasir Bagh camp, University Road,

Amritsar tense after miscreants burn holy book
The Times of India
AMRITSAR: Police commandos were posted in parts of the city on Thursday to prevent a clash after members of an little-known organisation

Rocca may succeed Inderfurth
By Ramesh Chandran
The Times of India News Service
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration, still in the throes of selecting key second and third rung officials, have sprung some surprises in choosing those who will be dealing

Containing the Taliban
By Hooman Peimani
The Moscow Times: Opinion March 22, 2001
Afghanistan has been unstable for more than two decades. The Soviet invasion in 1979 triggered a civil war but the 1989 Soviet withdrawal and the fall