Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- It appears that the Pakistani dictatorship fears it's own people as much as it does the United States. mart ================================================================ >From The News -International Edition The largest English and Urdu Newspaper publication Group of Pakistan September 22, 2001 Saturday Rajab 04,1422 A.H http://www.jang-group.com/thenews/index.html No plan to follow UAE in snapping Taliban ties: Pakistan (Updated at 1405 PST) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Saturday it had no intention of following the lead of the United Arab Emirates in snapping diplomatic ties with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Riaz Mohammad Khan said maintaining diplomatic relations with Kabul was a "geographical compulsion" based on humanitarian and political considerations. "We do not want to close this link," Khan said. "Even during the Soviet intervention, we maintained our embassy in Kabul. It's a kind of geographical compulsion that we have to maintain our links with Afghanistan which is a landlocked country." He also described the Afghan embassy in Islamabad as a vital "window to the world" through which the Taliban's communications with the international community were maintained. ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://TOPICA.COM/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
