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Foreign scribes covering Afghan crisis face tough time in Pak

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 3 min read

ISLAMABAD, Nov 10 (UNI) Nearly 1300 foreign journalists covering Afghanistan from Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta are passing through difficult times as the Paki...

Civilian deaths stir anti-US anger

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 3 min read

KABUL, Oct 26 (Reuters) With every western bomb that falls on acivilian target in Kabul the mood among those once disillusionedwith the Taliban worsens against ...

Khatami offers help on new Afghan government

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 1 min read

TEHRAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) Iranian president Mohammad Khatami hasoffered to cooperate with other countries, including the UnitedStates, to set up a new government...

Many terrorist groups need political treatment : Powel

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 3 min read

Washington, Oct 26 (Reuters) U S secretary of state Colin Powellsaid that some groups sometimes described as terrorist might beseeking to redress grievances, ga...

Bin Laden has access to nuclear material

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 1 min read

LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) British media said today Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 Kamikaze attacks on America, had obtained nuclea...

UN concerned over refugees entry into Pak

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 3 min read

CHAMAN (PAKISTAN), Oct 26 (Reuters) U.N. Officials are voicingconcern about cooperation between Islamabad and the Taliban to stopa growing tide of Afghan refuge...

King Gyanendra names son Paras as Crown Prince

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 2 min read

KATHMANDU, Oct 26 (DPA) Nepals Monarch King Gyanendra today named his unpopular son, Prince Paras, as the countrys new Crown Prince,state-run media reported. A ...

Hikmatiar to return home to support Taliban

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 1 min read

ABU DHABI, Oct 26 (UNI) Former Afghani premier Gulbudin Hekmatiarliving in Teheran in exile is going to come back home soon to participate in the military opera...

5 London-based Arabs killed in Afghanistan

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 1 min read

ABU DHABI, Oct 25 (UNI) Five Arab-britons, members of theLondon-based Al-Muhajiroun, who fought for the Taliban have beenkilled in Afghanistan, Saudi newspaper ...

US, Russia united over post-conflict Afghan govt.

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 2 min read

MOSCOW, Oct. 26 (UNI) Moscow and Washington "have no serious differences on opinions" about post-conflict formation of government in Afghanistan, Russian news a...

Ex-Afghan Kings son asks Taliban to spare Haq

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 1 min read

ROME, Oct 26 (Reuters) The son of the former Afghan king confirmed today that the Taliban had seized a top leader of the Afghan opposition in exile and appealed...

Pro-Taliban Pakistanis block Karakoram highway

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 26 (Reuters) Armed tribesmen blocked the mountainous Karakoram highway linking Pakistan and China today to protest against Islamabads support for...

Britain confirms sending troops to Afghanistan

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 1 min read

LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) Armed forces minister Adam Ingram today said Britain was sending in troops for use as ground forces in Afghanistan. Ingram, speaking to...

Afghan exile leader Abdul Aaq held in Jalalabad

Staff Reporter · Oct 27, 2001 · 1 min read

PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN), Oct 26 (Reuters) Exiled Afghan opposition leader Abdul Haq, captured inside Afghanistan by the ruling Taliban today, was being held in the ...

US commando raid foiled : Taliban

Staff Reporter · Oct 20, 2001 · 3 min read

KABUL, Oct 20 (Reuters): Taliban fighters foiled a US commando raid on positions to the west of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, powerbase of the hardline ...

Around 13,000 Islamic militants ready to fight Jehad against US

Staff Reporter · Oct 20, 2001 · 53 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 20 (UNI): There are between 10,000 to 13,000 Islamic militants, half of them Arabs, in Afghanistan at present with Saudi born terrorist Osama bin...

No support for Taliban in opposition jail

Staff Reporter · Oct 20, 2001 · 11 min read

KHOJA BAHAWUDDIN, (Afghanistan), Oct 19 (Reuters) Kamals career as a fighter for the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan lasted just one night. His forced recruitment...

Anthrax scare prompts evacuation of Philippine building

Staff Reporter · Oct 18, 2001 · 15 min read

MANILA, Oct 17 (DPA) More than 100 people were evacuated today from the administration building of a northern Philippine freeport due to an Anthrax scare trigge...

Sanctity of LoC key to avoiding Indo-Pak conflict: Powell

Staff Reporter · Oct 16, 2001 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (UNI): The United States believes that the maintenance of the sanctity of the line of control in Kashmir and the exercise of restraint are ve...

Kashmir central to Indo-Pak ties

Staff Reporter · Oct 16, 2001 · 42 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 16 (Reuters) US secretary of state Colin Powell said today that a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute was central to ending hostility betw...

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