31.   It said that on Sunday, the Taliban arrested an unspecified number of people who staged an anti-Taliban demonstration, chanting slogans against the Islamic warriors.

32.   Meanwhile the Taliban militia on Wednesday denied a Kabul government charge that the Islamic warriors were manufacturing morphine and heroin in the areas under their control.

33.   No independent confirmation of the Taliban advance was immediately available and Dostam has reportedly denied losing ground to the Islamic warriors.

34.   No independent confirmation of the advance was immediately available and Dostam has reportedly denied losing ground to the Islamic warriors.

35.   Special Ambassador Norbert Holl held talks with Ghaus, who took over the post nine days ago after the Islamic warriors overran Kabul.

36.   The black-turbaned Islamic warriors have made several bids to break through government lines here since early October but have failed to make a significant advance.

37.   The defence ministry has routinely accused the Islamic warriors of carrying out the attacks from their bases on the hills south of here.

38.   The Islamic fundamentalist warriors have adopted an ultra-strict version of Islamic law which they have imposed over the two thirds of war-torn Afghanistan which they control.

39.   The Islamic warriors admitted carrying out the attacks, but said no civilian targets had been hit.

40.   The Islamic warriors overran Kabul spectacularly five weeks ago after seizing large areas of the east of the country.