March 27, 2001

Taliban shoot at refugees on Tajik border -Russia
DUSHANBE, March 27 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's radical Islamic Taliban militia opened fire on Afghan refugees in camps on the border with Tajikistan, Russian border guards said on Tuesday.

Taliban, northern alliance troops clash in Afghanistan
ABU DHABI, Mar 26, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- Heavy fighting was going on in Afghanistan's Bamyan province between the Taliban radical militia and troops

Afghan opposition, Taliban clash close to Bamiyan city
KABUL, March 25 (AFP) - Afghan opposition forces and the ruling Taliban militia have been engaged in a series of clashes in the outlying areas of the central Bamiyan

Taliban bomb northern alliance positions in Bamyan
Tehran, March 26, IRNA -- Taliban bombers on Sunday strafed the Fooladi district, where forces of the northern alliance are stationed, according to latest dispatches.

Thousands of Afghan DPs to be deported
By M. Ismail Khan - DAWN
PESHAWAR, March 26: Thousands of Afghan refugees who arrived here recently would be deported back to Afghanistan, and a policy in this regard would

Text of Ambassador Cameron Hume of the U.S. Mission to the UN
Hume's  March 23 statement in the Security Council:
I would like to thank Mr. Oshima for his briefing and commend the excellent work being done in the field - under difficult and often dangerous conditions

Text of Sichan Siv, a public member of the U.S. Delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights,
Geneva, March 26, 2001:
The Honorable Sichan Siv U.S. Delegate to the UN Commission on Human Rights Special Debate on Tolerance and Respect: Tolerance and Respect from the Point of View of Religion March 26, 2001

Ulema Council calls for help to Afghan people
The News: Jang March 26, 2001
RAWALPINDI: Religious leaders held the United Nations responsible for the possible death of children in Afghanistan due to drought and stressed the Ummah to help

Sanctions affects repatriation of Afghan refugees: Taliban envoy
Islamabad, March 26, IRNA -- Taliban envoy in Pakistan, Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef on Monday said the U.N. sancitons had affected the repatriation and rehabilitation

Hikmatyar calls for an elected government:
Blueprint for future setup proposed By Mohammed Riaz Dawn, March 26, 2001
PESHAWAR, March 25: Former prime minister and chief of his own faction of Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan, Gulbadin Hikmatyar, has proposed a blueprint

Pak-Afghan dispute over water resolved
By Behroz Khan The News: Jang - March 26, 2001
PESHAWAR: The dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan over regulation of water and claim over territory at Torkham has been resolved peacefully, officials from

PESHAWAR: Aid workers robbed in Afghanistan
By M. Ismail Khan
PESHAWAR, March 26: Workers of an international relief agency in Afghanistan were robbed of their vehicle, cash and other belongings by armed men on the main

Taliban Ban on Idolatry Makes a Country Without Faces
By Pamela Constable
Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, March 26, 2001
KABUL, Afghanistan--This is a country without faces. The postage stamps show landscapes, the currency is engraved with mosques. Government ministry walls

Former Afghan politician dies - BBC
The former Afghan politician, General Khalilullah Azam, has died of a stroke in the Netherlands where he was living as refugee. He was fifty-seven.

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