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Pak militants are helping Taliban: daily

PTI
The Times of India
July 24, 1999


    Title: Pak militants are helping Taliban: daily
    Author: PTI
    Publication: The Times of India
    Date: July 24, 1999
    
    Pakistani militants, engaged in militants, engaged in militancy in
    Kashmir, are also assisting the Taliban in Afghanistan in their
    offensive against the Northern Alliance to get complete control over
    the war-ravaged country, according to a media report here.
    
    "Between 3,000 and 5,000 Pakistani militants belonging to a dozen
    Islamic fundamentalist parties have arrived in Kabul and set up
    reception centres and office in the central district of the city,
    which now resembles a Pakistani suburb," a report in The Washington
    Times said.
    
    It added that "money of these militants fought in Kashmir against
    Indian forces recently.  Others have left their Islamic schools, which
    have closed for the summer holidays."
    
    Indicating that the Pakistan government was also helping the Taliban
    in its offensive against the Northern Alliance headed by former
    president headed by former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, the report
    said "transport planes from Pakistan landed on Wednesday night at
    Kabul airport with military supplies for the Taliban."
    
    Besides these militants, extremists owing allegiance to Saudi
    dissident Osama bin Laden have also moved into Kabul to join the
    fighting, the paper said.  "A brigade of some 400 Arab Islamic
    militants from a dozen countries in the West Asia, under the control
    of Bin Laden, has moved from barracks in Rishkor and taken up
    positions along an eight-mile section of the frontline north of the
    city," The Washington Times said.
    
    "The unit, called the '005 Brigade,' has an independent command and
    control system and is armed and financed by Bin Laden," the paper
    said.
    



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