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| India-Pakistan |
| Afghan warlords deny release of Pak. captives |
| 2002-07-05 |
| Dawn reported today that efforts by Pakistan to secure the release of its citizens had been turned down by the Afghan warlords. Abdul Rashid Dostum has been cooperative, but other warlords want money in return for releasing the Pakistanis. "We have yet to ascertain the exact number of Pakistanis languishing in different private jails in Afghanistan," a source said. Islamabad has procured the release of some 300 Pakistanis who were arrested by the Northern Alliance forces during the US-led operations against the Taliban regime. Most of them have reached Peshawar and would be set free after interrogation, the source said. Golly, that's too bad that their families have to pay to get them out of the calaboose. I wonder if any of them have had second thoughts about whether they should have gone into somebody else's country and lorded it over the natives, beating their wives for them, and trying to impose their beliefs on them whether they wanted them or not. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |