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Hundreds of Pak youths joining Taliban, al Qaeda: Reports
New Delhi, Nov 17: Despite Pakistan government`s claim to check the activities of militant outfits, hundreds of youths from its religious seminaries have started joining the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan with the two outfits regrouping and rearming themselves against the US-led forces there, media reports said.
New Delhi, Nov 17: Despite Pakistan government's claim to check the activities of militant outfits, hundreds of youths from its religious seminaries have started joining the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan with the two outfits regrouping and rearming themselves against the US-led forces there, media reports said.
"At least 5,000 youths including former Taliban soldiers and students from religious seminaries of Baluchistan, have joined their compatriots in Afghanistan," prominent Pakistani magazine 'Newsline' reported.
"Regrouped, reorganised and rearmed, these warriors are now all set to launch a new guerilla war for as long as it takes to expel what they call the 'infidel forces' from Afghanistan," it said in an exclusive report based on interviews of Taliban leaders and several young men who have taken up arms in the recent past.
It said the fugitive Taliban chief, Mullah Omar, was directly involved in the reorganisation process and had deputed top Taliban leaders like war veterans Mullah Dadullah Kakar, Maulvi Sadiq Hameed and Hafiz Majeed, to recruit volunteers from Baluchistan and other areas of Pakistan.The monthly quoted a prominent Taliban activist Habibullah as claiming that "we could probably even take
Kabul, but we recognise our limitations and the fact that we probably wouldn't be able to hold it".
Bureau Report