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Pakistani troops picked up in al-Qaeda raid
I think we all saw this one coming.Three Pakistani armymen were captured inside Afghan territory during a raid on an Al-Qaida hideout in the Kandahar region, the main stronghold of the former Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. Okay, Kandahar is well into the interior of Afghanistan. Iâm guessing they just got lost ... Afghan officials later handed them over to the Pakistan embassy in Kabul. Although the Afghan government says the men have been released as a goodwill gesture, it is bound to cause a lot of embarrassment to Pakistan. Ya think? President Musharraf has been insisting that his army has no links with the Al-Qaida. He also says that Pakistan only provides moral support to the Kashmiri groups ... Afghan security forces had recently arrested the three Pakistani nationals in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province. Since the fall of the extremist Taliban regime, Afghan authorities have released hundreds of Pakistani prisoners who had been jailed mainly in and around the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-11-03 |
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