Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, Taliban ambassador to Pakistan (R), speaks to a translator during a news conference in Islamabad on October 11, 2001, while a security personnel looks on. Zaeef said as many as 100 persons had been reported killed by US bombing in a village in eastern Afghanistan near the city of Jalalabad. However, he said the leader of the ruling Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, was alive.— REUTERS