Taleban set terms to turn Laden in
Ahead of Tuesday's meeting of Islamic clerics and scholars convened by the Taleban in Kandahar to decide on the fate of Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, the militia has set a few conditions for his extradition.
The conditions include lifting the United Nations' sanctions against the war-ravaged country.
The conditions, set by Mullah Mohammed Omar, supreme spiritual leader of the Taleban, were conveyed to a visiting Pakistani delegation led by the Inter-Services Intelligence chief, Lieutenant General Mehmood Ahmad, in Kandahar on Monday.
The other conditions are Laden's trial in a neutral country, stoppage of all military support to the opposition Northern Alliance, and resumption of international economic aid to Afghanistan, The Nation reported on Tuesday.
Two of the six-member delegation returned to Islamabad on Monday night for consultations, the report said.
Officials, however, did not confirm the report. "We will not be saying anything until they [the delegation] are back," the daily quoted foreign office spokesman Riaz Mohammed Khan as saying.
The members who returned were named as the ISI deputy director, Major General Faiz Gilani, and Additional Foreign Secretary Aziz Khan.
They were expected to leave again for Afghanistan on Tuesday morning with a set of replies. |
