May 22, 2001

Taliban Plans Dress Code to Identify Afghanistan's Non-Muslims
Paul Tighe
Kabul, Afghanistan, May 22 (Bloomberg) -- Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban rulers plan to impose a dress code to identify non-Muslim citizens, Agence France-Presse and Deutsche Presse-Agentur said,

Afghan Taliban plans dress code for non-Muslims
By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement said Monday it planned to prescribe distinctive dress for non-Muslims.

Afghans Against Taliban Gestapo-like actions
AAR Editorial Note - 5/22/01:
Another Gestapo-like action from the demented minds of a very dangerous non-Afghan entity imposed on the people of Afghanistan. This is another lesson for that ever-shrinking gang of western and Pakistani Taliban

Afghanistan's Taliban toughen line with world
By Jack Redden
ISLAMABAD, May 22 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban is taking an increasingly hard line with the outside world, closing U.N. offices, discussing a dress code for other religions and harassing aid workers.

Afghan former PM accuses CIA of murder
By AAMIR SHAH
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan May 21 (UPI) -- The CIA was involved in the killing of he former military ruler of Pakistan Gen. Zia-ul-Haq, the former Afghan

Italian hospital not to re-open without guarantees: ambassador
KABUL, May 22 (AFP) - Italian officials Tuesday refused to reopen Kabul's 120-bed Emergency hospital without firm guarantees from the authorities

Taleban compromise over women researchers
By Kate Clark in Islamabad - BBC
The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that Afghanistan's Taleban government have agreed to allow it to hire Afghan women to conduct a survey of vulnerable people in the capital, Kabul.

UN closes four provincial offices in Afghanistan
KABUL, May 21 (AFP) - The United Nations has closed its military-political offices in four Afghan cities in line with an order from the ruling Taliban Islamic militia, UN officials said Monday.

Taliban condemn Iranian team's visit to Afghan opposition base
KABUL, May 21 (AFP) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia Monday condemned an Iranian delegation's visit to the opposition's northern stronghold as an attempt to incite anti-Taliban resistance, official sources said.

UN official protests to Taliban FM over harassment
ISLAMABAD, May 21 (AFP) - United Nations Coordinator for Afghanistan Erick de Mul has protested to Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Mutawakel about the harassment of aid workers, UN officials said Monday.

EU team to hold talks with United Front of Afghanistan
 Islamabad, May 21, IRNA - A European Union (EU) team is scheduled to visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday (May 22) for talks with the Afghan United Front on the situation in the war-shattered country, an EU statement in Islamabad said Monday.

UN offer to set up new refugee camp turned down
Dawn
By Abdul Sami Paracha
KOHAT, May 21: The NWFP government has turned down a UNHCR offer to set up a new camp at Kahi, 75 km from here, for fresh Afghan refugees, in order to ease pressure on the Jalozai camp

New Taliban proposal on Osama issue
Dawn
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, May 21: The Taliban have said they will accept any decision on Osama bin Laden's future which is taken by a committee of religious scholars from Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and any third Islamic country.

Afghan refugees
Editorial The News/Jang 5/22/01
An Afghan deputy minister was barred from entering Pakistan on May 21 in view of the UN sanctions against the country which restrict travel abroad by its officials. This is for the second time such action

PAKISTANI MINISTER ATTENDS FOOD FESTIVAL IN AFGHANISTAN
Tuesday, May 21, 2001 11:38 PM EST
KARACHI, May 22, 2001 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- The Sindh Minister for Industries, Dewan Mohammad Yousaf Farooqui, has applauded the Afghanistan government's efforts in reconstructing