February 9, 2002

Afghan foreign minister says Taliban regrouping abroad
By Rosalind Russell

Saturday February 9, 5:25 PM

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan interim Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah said on Saturday leaders of the vanquished Taliban movement were regrouping outside Afghanistan and forming new organisations

Karzai says coalition troops to stay till very end of war
ISLAMABAD, Feb. 9 (Kyodo) - The head of the Afghan interim government Hamid Karzai said Friday the fight against terrorism was not over and coalition troops would stay in Afghanistan until the very end of the war.

US says Taliban foreign minister surrenders
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The Taliban's foreign minister surrendered to Afghan officials on Friday and was turned over to U.S. forces, becoming one of the highest ranking members

Afghan Leader Vows to Beat Terrorism
By JOHN LEICESTER

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Echoing the White House, Afghan leader Hamid Karzai pledged Friday that his country will not rest until terrorism is defeated and said prisoners will be screened

Captured Taliban minister may hold key information
By Andrew Marshal

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The surrender of one of the Taliban's most senior figures is a breakthrough in tracking down other fugitive leaders, Kandahar officials said on Saturday

Taliban Foreign Minister Surrenders Muttawakil Thought to Have Key Information
By MATT KELLEY .c The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (Feb. 9) - The Taliban's foreign minister turned himself in to authorities in Afghanistan, giving American forces what could be one of the biggest intelligence prizes in the war so far.

Taliban foreign minister surrenders
Saturday February 9, 3:14 PM AFP

The most senior Taliban official yet to fall into US hands was being held in Kandahar after officials said the ousted Afghan regime's foreign minister, a close ally of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar

Veils lifted as Afghan women jostle for jobs
By Rosalind Russell

KABUL, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Smiling and chatting with their veils lifted, hundreds of women gathered in the Afghan capital on Saturday to reclaim jobs denied to them under Taliban rule.

Afghanistan's Karzai to visit UEA on Sunday
KABUL, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai will pay a one-day visit to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah said.

Former Afghan leader says duped by UN at Bonn pact
DUBAI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was quoted on Saturday as saying the Bonn pact that sidelined him when it set up Afghanistan's new government

Afghans hold two over murders of foreign reporters
KABUL, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Afghan authorities are holding two people in connection with last year's murder of four foreign journalists, including two from Reuters, an Interior Ministry official said on Saturday.

Pakistan, Afghan leaders agree to revive pipeline
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai said Friday he and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had agreed to revive a plan for a trans-Afghan gas pipeline

Afghanistan and Pakistan bury past bitterness
By Stuart Doughty and Raja Asghar

Saturday February 9, 3:02 PM

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed on Friday to bury Taliban-era bitterness and work as brotherly neighbours as opposing

Afghanistan gets new press law
Saturday, 9 February, 2002, 16:33 GMT

Television was banned as un-Islamic by the Taleban

By the BBC's Michael Voss in Kabul

People can criticise us as much as they want

Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai

At a brief ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul, the Minister of Information and Culture, Said Makhtoum Rahim, handed over the new press freedom bill which was signed into law

U.S. Treasury Releases More Frozen Afghan Assets
Fri Feb 8, 6:16 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury Department said late Friday it had released more than $25 million in once-frozen assets that the cash-strapped fledgling Afghan government will now be free to use.

Ex-professor being designated as Afghan ambassador to Pakistan
Islamabad, Feb 9, IRNA -- Renowned educationist and former professor of Kabul University, Abdul Salam Azimi is likely to be designated as Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, a local news agency

Afghan Gov't Frees Taliban Prisoners
Saturday, February 09, 2002 12:09 PM EST

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Afghan government released 320 captured Taliban fighters Saturday, a gesture of reconciliation as the new administration focuses on rebuilding a country

N.Y. Afghan Navigates 2 Shattered Worlds
By Michael Powell

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, February 8, 2002; Page A03

Masuda Sultan came of age in Flatbush and Flushing, two of this city's neighborhoods. She watched the World Trade Center towers collapse Sept. 11 and days later walked downtown

Commission Launched to Shape Afghan Rule
By Doug Struck

Washington Post Foreign Service

Friday, February 8, 2002; Page A18

KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 7 -- The interim Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, today launched the process designed to steer this country toward democracy -- Afghan-style