| Taliban commander Mullah Sazil Muslimyar said he was ready to surrender, but was negotiating how. "Tomorrow we will launch an attack from four sides if they do not surrender,'' United Front Gen. Daoud Khan said. Sky News broadcast television pictures it said showed hundreds of Taliban fighters surrendering. The broadcast from the edge of Kunduz showed hundreds of men in turbans, some of them armed, appearing to prepare for the surrender of the Taliban to the opposition Northern Alliance. Uzbek television reported that the Northern Alliance has announced the capture of the city. The television said the announcement was made by General Rashid Dostum. More than 10,000 Taliban fighters had surrendered. The Taliban denied the surrender, the Al-Jazeera satellite television channel reported. "The office of Mullah Omar strongly denied that and the Taliban army chief Akhdar Othmani said the information was totally false," correspondent Mohammad al-Shuli reported from the southeastern city of Spin Boldak. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf expressed deep concern over the safety of Afghan and non-Afghan Taliban in the Kunduz area, who reportedly wish to surrender to the UN or a neutral authority. |