March 26, 2001

Acceptance Speech by Ahmed Rashid

New AAR Photos from Washington D.C. Events

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

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

 

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

Taliban Say Took 20 Days to Destroy Giant Buddhas
By Sayed Salahuddin
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement needed 20 days to destroy two giant Buddhas hewn into a cliff more than 1,500 years ago, an official said on Monday.

Taliban wipe out heritage that survived centuries
By Jack Redden
KABUL, March 26 (Reuters) - In the long history of Afghanistan, the Taliban will go down as the Islamic iconoclasts who inflicted cultural destruction that exceeded the onslaught

Taliban show off complete destruction of Buddhas
By Sayed Salahuddin
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan, March 26 (Reuters) - The ruling Taliban on Monday lifted their ban on visiting the site of two colossal statues of the Buddha, allowing outsiders

Afghan opposition envoy invited to Paris for talks
KABUL, March 24 (AFP) - The French government has invited a senior representative of the anti-Taliban resistance groups to Paris for talks, opposition officials said Saturday.

Isolated Afghanistan nears `edge of an abyss,' U.N. warns
1 million risk starvation after years of drought
The Toronto Star, Martin Regg Cohn
HERAT, Afghanistan - They pour in by the truckload, children dangling barefoot from the railings or huddling with their parents to ward off the bitter cold.

Afghan women wage secret war
The Sunday Times-UK 3/25/01
CONCEALED by a fold in the desert floor, the walled village rises out of a dusty hollow. Its armed Afghan sentries scrutinise visitors before the heavy iron gates are thrown open.