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Afghanistan
Paks will ask Talibs to hand over Binny
2001-09-16
  • ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani government, led by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, will ask the Taliban, Afghanistan's rulers, to hand over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden in three days or face massive military action led by the United States, CNN learned Sunday. In a move called "very encouraging" by a senior Bush administration official Sunday, a high-level Pakistani delegation is traveling to Afghanistan Monday to carry this message to the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar in Kandahar.

    And in New York, Afghan Ambassador to the U.N. Ravan Farhadi -- who represents the Northern Alliance, the anti-Taliban movement in Afghanistan -- said Sunday the Northern Alliance will make 15,000 troops available for any attack against Taliban-held Afghanistan.

    Abdullah Abdullah, Northern Alliance foreign minister, told CNN he is "skeptical" of Pakistan's stand. "We have been fighting against them, and they are getting stronger day by day. Terrorists from all over the world have joined them," Abdullah said. "There isn't a balance between our forces and the forces which the Taliban gather or terrorists, which are joining Osama in hundreds, if not thousands, every year."

    Bin Laden and Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar "have gone secret," Abdullah said, "and we haven't been able to find out where they stay. But of course we understand they are in southern Afghanistan, in Kandahar province. ... This is as much as we know at this moment."
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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