Afghanistan: Is This Progress?
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- Taleban won't blow up Bamiyan Buddha. // Archaeology;Jul/Aug97, Vol. 50 Issue 4, p19
Presents information on the denial of the Taleban of its plans to destroy a giant third-or-fourth century cliff-face statute of Buddha. Information on the Taleban.
- Kandahar and the Distraction War. Shaw, Michael // BAGnewsNotes;5/9/2011, p1
Several photographs related to the Taliban attack on the Traffic Department building in Kandahar, Afghanistan are presented which include one of an Afghan police officer firing at the attackers, another of a counter-assault by Afghan security forces, and another depicting the Taliban attack.
- Alan Chin, Afghanistan. Shaw, Michael // BAGnewsNotes;1/8/2010, p1
A photograph showing Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan, taken in 2001 by the U.S. is presented.
- Going nowhere. Scott, Roddy // Middle East;May98, Issue 278, p4
Presents information on the situation in Afghanistan concerning the Taliban. Details on what plans the Taliban have for the country; Details on the level of heroin production in the country; Indication of the amount of weapons being flooded into the country by foreign backers of both sides.
- Taleban victory in north in jeopardy. // MEED: Middle East Economic Digest;06/06/97, Vol. 41 Issue 23, p15
Reports on Islamist Taleban movement's capture of Mazar-e-Sahrif, Afghanistan. End of their conquest of the country; Involvement of little bloodshed; Formal diplomatic recognition from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
- Inside Afghanistan. Nelson, Cassandra // Junior Scholastic;5/14/2007, Vol. 109 Issue 18, p10
The article presents information about the current socio-political status of Afghanistan, after the fall of the Taliban regime in December 2001.
- Quote. // New Internationalist;Jul97, Issue 292, p6
Presents a quote from Wali Jan, a farmer in Kandahar, Afghanistan, stating the reason he supports the Taliban, the rebel government in the country.
- KANDAHAR IN RUINS. Peress, Gilles // New Yorker;1/28/2002, Vol. 77 Issue 45, p70
Features a photo essay about the ruins in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Destruction of establishments used by Al Qaeda and the Taliban; Presentation of graffiti signed in Farsi and Arabic; Ruins of a compound owned by a Taliban leader.
- Afghanistan: Women kept out of hospitals. Cad // Off Our Backs;Dec97, Vol. 27 Issue 11, p5
Presents information from The New York Times, November 5, 1997 on women being kept out of hospitals in Afghanistan by the Taliban regime. Name of the hospital in which women can go for health care; Funding of a hospital for women by the World Health Organization; Indepth look at the ban.
