"… slamic alliances are strategic assets to keep at bay Indian influence over Kabul. And it is against a backdrop during which Pakistan and India have fought …"

"… s serve as “strategic assets” to keep at bay any Indian influence over Kabul.Pakistan and India have fought three wars since their independence in 1947 …"

"… the Jalalabad Shura [an advisory body or assembly], until the conquest of Kabul and Jalalabad by the Taliban in September 1996. In August 1996, he had iss …"

"… and their Pan-Islamic ideology was non-existent until the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996. Pakistan was closely involved in introducing Bin Laden to the Tal …"

"… . Several hundred Arab-Afghans, based in the Rishkor army garrison outside Kabul, fought on the Kabul front against [the Mujaheddin leader Ahmad Shah] Masu …"

"… b-Afghans, based in the Rishkor army garrison outside Kabul, fought on the Kabul front against [the Mujaheddin leader Ahmad Shah] Masud. Increasingly, Bin …"

"… 200 workers made soap and rubber shoes for sale to Western aid agencies in Kabul. But now most agencies have pulled out because of terrorist threats and be …"

"… f the whole country,” says Marcus Dolder, head of the ICRC delegation in Kabul.In Kabul’s main bazaar, the poorest of the poor who have sold all their …"

"… le country,” says Marcus Dolder, head of the ICRC delegation in Kabul.In Kabul’s main bazaar, the poorest of the poor who have sold all their other hou …"

"… een massing their forces along a wide east-west arc 20 kilometres north of Kabul. They are launching what they hope will be a final offensive against the N …"

"… are massing their forces along a wide east-west arc 20 kilometres north of Kabul. Since the Taliban—drawn from the majority Pashtun ethnic group—captur …"

"… ince the Taliban—drawn from the majority Pashtun ethnic group—captured Kabul in 1996, they have repeatedly tried to finish off the Northern Alliance ma …"

"… seeking to secure some strategic advantage in the heart of Central Asia.In Kabul, the Taliban have ordered Western relief agencies and Afghan doctors to em …"

"… louds of black diesel fumes as they lumber up the potholed road north from Kabul. The Taliban are on the move, preparing for what they hope will be a final …"

"… ��s civil war until February, when the first Chinese delegation arrived in Kabul for talks with the Taliban. At the time, Chinese officials said that their …"

"… tanis belonging to a dozen different Islamic fundamentalist parties are in Kabul with Islamabad’s blessing for the Taliban summer offensive against the N …"

"… aders have set up receiving centres and offices in the central district of Kabul, which now resembles a Pakistani suburb. Their presence has worrying impli …"

"… not suited to working in hostile environments. “The vast majority are in Kabul, not out in the countryside,” said Paul Hughes, a senior program officer …"

"… o has been in Afghanistan for three years. “I know there are officers in Kabul and they will say, ‘We are trying to reach out, but nobody will reach ou …"

"… in the bitter fighting in northern Afghanistan since the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996, but the rest have always remained close friends, comrades-in-arms …"

"… Laden’s Arab associates. Today they occupy all the top positions in the Kabul government, the army, the much-feared religious police and in the province …"

"… hari group, such as Mullah Mohammed Hassan Akhund, the present head of the Kabul government and second-ranking Taliban leader, is highly improbable. “The …"

"… 96. Today some of these figures occupy the second rung of top positions in Kabul, governorships in the provinces and commanders on the front. Many of them …"

"… illed the government for her time working for male Blackwater employees in Kabul. The prostitute’s salary was categorized as part of the company’s “M …"

"… service and uncovered by the Russian foreign intelligence service, SVR, in Kabul, the Afghan capital. A Western intelligence source told ICIJ that Rabinovi …"

"… liban was in opposition to President Burhanuddin Rabbani’s government in Kabul. One of Bout’s planes flying from Albania via Sharjah and transporting s …"

"… of the United Arab Emirates. Transavia had started flying cargo flights to Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad in May 1995 at the behest of Afghani traders in th …"

"… re picked up at the Afghan border and brought to a camp in Khost, south of Kabul. At the end of their training, the report said, the “mujahedeen,” or h …"