Afghanistan
DATE=1/16/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-208777 TITLE=AFGHAN FIGHTING (S) BYLINE=DOUGLAS BAKSHIAN DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: IN AFGHANISTAN, THE TALEBAN HAVE MADE A SIGNIFICANT ADVANCE, CAPTURING AN AIR BASE AND TOWN NORTH OF KABUL. V-O-A CORRESPONDENT DOUGLAS BAKSHIAN IS FOLLOWING THE STORY IN OUR ISLAMABAD BUREAU. TEXT: THE TALEBAN SEIZED BAGRAM…
Afghanistan
OVERALL SITUATION Clashes involving rocket fire and artillery shelling continued between the Taliban and the forces of the northern alliance in frontline areas to the north of Kabul. Several bombing raids were carried out by jet fighters of the opposition…
Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (Reuter) - Feuding Afghan factions met in Islamabad under United Nations auspices on Monday to discuss a ceasefire for war-ravaged Afghanistan, a U.N. official said. The official gave no details and declined to release the names of the…
Afghanistan
The General Assembly, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights, and accepted humanitarian rules, as set out in the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the…
Afghanistan
KABUL, Jan 9 (Reuter) - The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights for Afghanistan said on Thursday he was in the country to assess the situation, particularly the plight of women under the Taleban administration. ''I am here to…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The U.S. Treasury has given a Minneapolis firm permission to export 500,000 tons of food to North Korea, a U.S. official said Monday, a week after the Communist nation apologized for a submarine incursion into South…
Afghanistan
KABUL, Jan 6 (Reuter) - A senior Taleban official has threatened to begin hanging some prisoners if attacks on Kabul, which it has blamed on the opposition alliance, are repeated. ''We have arrested some people on charges of terrorism in…
Afghanistan
KABUL, Jan 5 (Reuter) - An air raid and a bomb blast in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday killed at least seven people and wounded 69, government sources and a private news service said. Kabul radio, monitored in Islamabad, said…
Afghanistan
This is an excerpt of the original WFP report which includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania C) Ethiopia D) Afghanistan. PART I - HIGHLIGHTS D. AFGHANISTAN 1. Update (information as of 24 December) a) WFP interim policy,…
Afghanistan
John Zubrzycki, Special to The Christian Science Monitor LASHKARGAH, AFGHANISTAN -- Come spring, the now frozen fields around Lashkargah in southern Afghanistan will be a blaze of pink and white flowers. By June, another bumper crop of opium will be…
