1.   Haji Qadir was the governor of Jalalabad and head of the mujahedeen ruling council, who fled the city a day before the Taliban arrived.

2.   AIP said the resistance in eastern provinces involved elements backed by a former mujahedeen council and Ahmad Shah Masood, military chief of ousted Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani.

3.   The Taliban Islamic militia on Tuesday launched an offensive to take the eastern Afghanistan province of Ningarhar from a rival mujahedeen council, a Taliban official said.

4.   The Taliban Islamic militia on Tuesday launched an assault in the eastern Afghanistan province of Ningarhar which is controlled by a mujahedeen council, a Taliban official said.

5.   The city was previously in the hands of a mujahedeen council allied neither to the government nor the Taliban Islamic militia which has launched an offensive in the province.

6.   The city was previously in the hands of a mujahedeen council allied neither to the government nor the Taliban.