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Pakistan's Talks With Taliban Fail

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan tried and failed Friday to persuade Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to surrender Osama bin Laden and avert a possible U.S.-led military strike against their war-battered country.One Pakistani representative said he believed the Taliban's top leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, was ``not afraid of war'' with America. Against.. More

1817 24/04/2001
UN Council Adopts Broad Counter-Terrorism Measure

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council adopted late on Friday a sweeping counter-terrorism resolution that demands all nations freeze finances of terrorist suspects and crack down on groups who help them.The U.S.-sponsored resolution, approved by a 15-0 vote, dramatically expands the U.N. role in building a global coalition against terrorism.. More

1818 24/04/2001
Jordan's King Pledges United Front

WASHINGTON (AP) - King Abdullah II of Jordan told President Bush on Friday that most Arabs and Muslims were standing with the United States in the ``fight against evil,'' lending his nation's support to the U.S. counterterrorism campaign.``What these people stand for is completely against all the principles that Arab Muslims believe in,'' the king said.. More

1819 24/04/2001
WFP Sends Afghan Food Airlift, UNICEF Plans Convoy

PESHAWAR (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) began an emergency food airlift Friday in preparation for a massive effort to feed more than 1 million refugees fleeing an expected U.S. attack on Afghanistan. The operation started as some aid agencies warned they might have to use air drops if overland routes are blocked. The United Nations Children.. More

1820 24/04/2001
Trial of Christian Aid Workers to Resume in Kabul

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A lawyer for eight detained foreign aid workers, including two Americans, who are accused of spreading Christianity in Afghanistan left Pakistan for Kabul Friday on the eve of the next session of their trial, a German diplomat said.(Read photo caption below) Helmut Landes told Reuters that he had been informed by Afghanistan's.. More

1821 24/04/2001
Three Palestinians Killed in Gaza

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Tens of thousands of Palestinians marched in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Saturday in support of their uprising against Israeli occupation. Three Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in confrontations with Israeli occupation troops.The renewed fighting raised doubts about prospects for a truce sought.. More

1822 24/04/2001
U.N. Ships Food to Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Fearing widespread starvation in Afghanistan if America attacks, the United Nations on Saturday sent its first food shipments there since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a U.N. spokesman said. (Read photo caption below) In Islamabad, a spokesman for the World Food Program, Khaled Mansour, said convoys carrying 200 tons of.. More

1823 24/04/2001
Anti-Taliban Force Gathers in Rome

ROME (AP) - Members of the opposition force fighting Afghanistan's Taliban rulers gathered Saturday to plot further steps in a reinvigorated effort to unify the country's ethnic and religious groups against the Taliban. Field commanders in the anti-Taliban alliance met at a Rome hotel with a U.S. congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who said Afghans.. More

1824 24/04/2001
UN member nations mobilize against terrorism

UNITED NATIONS, (AFP) -UN member states were to begin discussing Monday ways of stepping up the fight against terrorism after the Security Council adopted a resolution threatening sanctions against countries that do not deny support to terrorists. (Read photo caption below) Diplomats believe that the General Assembly debate will demonstrate the international.. More

1825 24/04/2001
Suspect Handed Over to France

PARIS (AP) - An Algerian man arrested in Britain under anti-terrorism laws was handed over to France on Saturday for questioning, French authorities said. Kamel Daoudi, 27, was being held at French secret service headquarters in Paris, judicial and police officials told The Associated Press. Under French law, authorities may hold terrorism suspects.. More

1826 24/04/2001
US Trade Chief Cites WTO Progress

MOSCOW (AP) - A top U.S. trade envoy said Saturday that talks on Russian membership in the World Trade Organization could enter their final stretch early next year, but that the government must overcome several obstacles before it can join, news reports said.Trade Representative Robert Zoellick met with top Russian officials Friday and Saturday for.. More

1827 24/04/2001
Chechen Resistance Launches New Attacks on Russia Forces

MOSCOW (Islamweb and News Agencies) - Chechen Resistance said they had seized control of towns and major roads in Chechnya on Saturday in their first coordinated attacks since Russian President Vladimir Putin's call for disarmament and talks. (Read photo caption) Russian officials, quoted by news agencies, acknowledged widespread clashes and a number.. More

1828 24/04/2001
Pakistan Sees Hope Dim for Bin Laden Handover

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Sunday that hopes were dim that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban would hand over Osama bin Laden, although the doors were open to more talks. (Read photo caption) Although Pakistan has sent two missions for talks with Mullah Mohamad Omar, spiritual and supreme leader of the puritanical movement.. More

1830 24/04/2001
Saudi Says It Won't Be Base for Afghan Attacks

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia pledged Sunday to support a U.S.-led coalition against ``terrorism,'' but insisted it would not allow foreign forces to launch attacks against fellow Muslim Afghanistan from its territory. ``This is out of the question and no one has discussed anything of this sort with it (Saudi Arabia),'' Interior Minister Prince Nayef.. More

1831 24/04/2001
Afghan Opposition Says Taliban Fighters Deserting

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Several hundred Taliban fighters have defected to the Northern Alliance opposition in two different provinces of Afghanistan, opposition spokesmen said Sunday.Sayed Najibullah Hashimi told Reuters some 350 Taliban joined the opposition in the western province of Badghis on Sunday while 240 deserted Taliban ranks a day.. More

1832 24/04/2001

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