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>>>So. Now the Paks have been silenced up over yonder; what's next?
Their compatriots now join in? A<>E<>R <<<
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Hundreds of Pakistanis believed massacred
Alliance shoots troops Taliban left behind
Luke Harding and Rory McCarthy in Islamabad
Tuesday November 13, 2001
The Guardian
Hundreds of pro-Taliban Pakistani fighters appear to have been
systematically massacred in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif after
being callously abandoned by retreating Taliban fighters, sources
suggested last night.
The Taliban soldiers fled from Mazar four days ago but failed to
inform a contingent of up to 1,200 Pakistani jihadis that they were
leaving. Opposition troops trapped the Pakistanis in a school on the
outskirts of the city and then shot up to 200 of them, a commander
confirmed yesterday.
"We gave them warnings to surrender," Mohammed Muhahiq, a spokesman
for the opposition Shia militia, the Hizb-i-Wahdat, said. "They asked
us to send representatives over several times, but unfortunately they
shot them. Finally we gave the order to attack them. Some 200 of them
[Pakistanis] have been killed."
It was not clear last night whether the Pakistani volunteers, many of whom had only
just arrived in Afghanistan, were killed in battle or executed after surrendering. The
Pakistanis, trapped in Sultan Reza school, continu
ed to resist for at least 48 hours after Mazar fell, sources suggested.
"There are unconfirmed reports of incidents of violence and summary executions,"
Stephanie Bunker, the UN's spokeswoman in Islamabad, said last night.
Reports of a possible massacre by the Northern Alliance, who were last night closing
in on Kabul, will alarm the international coalition, which fears further reprisals if
opposition troops seize the Afghan capital. Presid
ent Bush has asked the opposition to hold off from taking Kabul until a broad-based
government is ready to assume power. But his strategy looks as if it will be swept
away by events.
The UN confirmed that armed gangs in Mazar-i-Sharif looted UN and aid agency offices
and raided food warehouses in the hours before and after the fall of the city last
Friday. Northern Alliance troops had seized a 10-truc
k convoy belonging to Unicef which was carrying tents and water pumps, the UN added.
The troops also looted furniture, computers and radios in Unicef's office. Taliban
fighters had already stolen all of Unicef's vehicles as they fled southwards to
Pul-i-Khumri on the road to Kabul, the agency's spokesman,
Chulho Huyan, said. "Soon after the fall of the city groups of armed people entered
Unicef premises and removed almost every item found inside," he added.
The reports confirm the impression that as more cities fall to the Northern Alliance
armed gangs are filling the power vacuum left by the departing Taliban. "So far it
remains volatile with reports of looting, abduction o
f civilians, uncontrolled gunmen and street battles on going," Lindsey Davies, a World
Food Programme spokeswoman, said.
Sources said the Taliban had frequently left "foreign" volunteers behind when staging
tactical withdrawals. "There is a latent racism in Afghanistan, despite all this talk
of the Taliban standing behind their Arab brother
s," one aid worker said. "There were always bound to be massacres. It is not at all
unlikely."
In the beleaguered city of Kabul a group of exhausted Pakistani tribesman who had
spent several days on the frontline clambered into a bus yesterday and headed home.
The group said they had entered the country 10 days ago
from Pakistan's semi-autonomous Pashtun tribal areas.
"They were bombing constantly and we seemed unable to stop it," the group leader
complained, before setting off. "We were told by the Taliban to leave and we are going
back to our village in Bajaur," he added, referring
to an area in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province from where
thousands of tribesmen have crossed into Afghanistan in the last few
weeks.
Carrying their assault rifles and small bags of belongings, the
fighters, aged from 30 to 60, clambered on to a coach hired to drive
them back home. Elsewhere in Kabul, pickup trucks camouflaged with
brown mud raced about, ferrying Taliban fighters to and from the
shrinking frontline to the north.
Other sources suggested that in Herat, which fell to opposition
troops led by the former mojahedin commander Ismail Khan yesterday,
large numbers of armed residents emerged on to the streets as the
first opposition pick-ups arrived in the city. The Taliban used the
same tactic of infiltrating fighters inside the city when they seized
it in 1995.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001
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