Mar 14 2006
Pakistan Evicting Afgahni Taliban
Pakistan is booting the Afgahn Taliban out of their norther province.
Authorities in a Pakistani tribal region troubled by Islamist militants said yesterday that thousands of Afghans thought to be living there must leave and return home.
The North Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan has been the scene of military strikes this month in which officials say nearly 200 pro-Taleban militants have been killed.
Officials have blamed unrest in the region on Afghans, thought to number several thousand, who took up residence there since the Soviet occupation of their country in the 1980s.
Yesterday, local state radio broadcast messages saying the Afghans must go. The top government official in North Waziristan, Political Agent Zaheerul Islam, said Afghans had been given deadlines to leave two or three times last year but had not done so.
Seems someone has worn out their welcome.
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