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| Afghanistan |
| Harkat chief in Afghanistan to fight USA |
| 2001-11-09 |
| Fazlur Rehman Khalil, the leader of the Pakistan-based militant outfit Harkat-ul Mujahideen, has crossed over to Afghanistan to join Taliban's fight against the USA, amid reports that 85 militants of another Pakistani jehadi outfit were killed in the ongoing US bombing. Khalil was reported to have crossed over to Afghanistan early this week from Mian Mandi, a commercial town of Pakistan's north-western Mohammad Agency near the Afghan border, Pakistan daily The Nation said on Thursday. He was reportedly accompanied by a number of guards and colleagues, it said. Meanwhile, Kamal Azfar, a spokesman of the Harkat Jihad-i Islami, said 85 members of the group who fought along with the Taliban on the front lines against the Northern Alliance in the key Afghan town of Mazar-i-Sharif, were killed in the US air strikes. A number of others were reported to have been wounded. A large number of Pakistanis along with Arab associates of Osama Bin Laden held the front lines of the Taliban in the north. Harkat Jihad i-Islami, like Harkat-ul Mujahideen was part of the United Jihad Council (UJC), headed by the Kashmir militant group Hizbul Mujahideen. UJC is a conglomerate of 14 jehad groups. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |