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Publication: Rediff on Net
Date: December 6, 2001
The Saudi newspaper Ar-Riyadh on
Thursday reported that the Northern Alliance extradited a group of Kashmiri
terrorists, captured while fighting for the Taliban, to India on November
28.
The report said the prisoners left
by a special Indian airforce aircraft, which had been sent to the Bagram
airbase, in the vicinity of Kabul.
The report also said that Mullah
Mohammed Omar, the Taliban spiritual leader, resigned as the leader of
the Islamic militia during session of their shura (council) on Wednesday.
According to the newspaper, Mullah
Omar has handed over the task of negotiating the surrender of Kandahar
to Pushtoon tribes, which are anti-American, to Mullah Mohammadai Baba.
Baba, according to the report, is
currently located in the Pakistani town of Quetta.
