May 1, 2001

The General's New Power Play

Patterns of Global Terrorism Report South Asia Overview

Children of War inc. at Jalozai camp

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

U.N. envoy says Afghans have lost hope of peace
By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL, May 1 (Reuters) - U.N. peace envoy to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell said he was pessimistic about the chances for negotiations to end the the decades-long conflict,

U.N. refugee chief at Afghan Taliban headquarters
By Tahir Ikram
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 1 (Reuters) - U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers arrived in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar on Tuesday for talks

Afghan Taliban says foes' attacks repulsed
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Forces of the ruling Taliban movement repulsed two opposition attacks in Afghanistan's northern province of Baghlan on Monday

US accuses Pakistan of backing Taliban
By Tahir Mirza  - DAWN
WASHINGTON, April 30: Washington continues to view South Asia as a focal point for terrorism directed against American interests, confirming in its view a "trend

Pak support to Taliban increasing, says US
From Afzal Khan The Nation 5/1/01
WASHINGTON‹In a strong indictment of Afghanistan under the Taliban in the latest report on " Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000",

Taliban threat to superpowers
By Latif Rana - The Nation 5/1/01
LAHORE * Well-known nuclear scientist Dr Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood has said that the prophecies made by the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) are coming

U.S. says more victims from "terrorism" in 2000
By Jonathan Wright
WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - The United States counted a 75 percent increase in the number of people killed in international "terrorist" operations in 2000,

Daily urges UN to pressure Taliban to form broad-based government
Tehran, April 30 (IRNA) -- `Tehran Times' i n its opinion column on Monday praising the current visit of the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ruud Lubbers

Taliban chief meets Pakistan's fundamentalist party head
KABUL, April 30 (AFP) - Afghanistan's Taliban supreme leader Mulla Mohammad Omar Monday met Maulana Fazlur Rahman, leader of Pakistan's fundamentalist

Iran supplying arms to anti-Taliban forces?
By Shyam Bhatia - Times of India 4/30/01
LONDON: As rival Afghan factions prepare for a fresh round of fighting this summer, Iran has apparently emerged as an important source of fuel and arms for the anti-Taliban

Kyrgyzstan seeking to mediate in Afghan conflict
MOSCOW, April 30 (AFP) - Authorities in Bishkek have establish ed contacts with Afghanistan's dominant Taliban militia and opposition factions in an effort to help stabilise Afghanistan,

Taliban music ban said destroying Afghan heritage
By Karen Matusic
LONDON (Reuters) - Music is high on the list of activities banned by the Taliban, the movement that rules most of Afghanistan with a religious zeal that has led

Afghan forests ravaged by illegal trade
By Nadeem Yaqub - Asia Times 5/1/01
CHAMAN - Away from the busy road, behind the automobile spare-parts shops and electronic goods market, three labourers unload wooden sleepers from a truck

India prostitutes oppose Taliban attitude to women
CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) - Calcutta prostitutes said they planned to mark May Day Tuesday by burning effigies of Afghanistan's Taliban leaders to demand that women

Afghanistan at the crossroads
By Khalid Mahmud Arif - DAWN (Pak) opinion 5/1/01
PERSISTENT infighting between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance has brought Afghanistan at the crossroads of time. Which way it goes hereafter