| TALIBAN''S PROPOSAL
DEMANDS TRIAL OF BIN LADEN IN "NEUTRAL" COUNTRY
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| KUN0032 4 GEN 0331 KUWAIT /KUNA-UAZ5
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| POL-KABUL-PROPOSAL-BIN LADEN
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| TALIBAN'S PROPOSAL DEMANDS TRIAL OF BIN LADEN IN "NEUTRAL"
COUNTRY
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| ISLAMABAD, SEPT 18, (KUNA)--AFGHANISTAN HANDED OVER A SET OF
PROPOSALS TO
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| PAKISTAN TO RESOLVE THE CRISIS OF OSAMA BIN LADEN DEMANDING
HIS TRIAL IN A
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| 'NEUTRAL' COUNTRY, LIFTING OF SANCTIONS FROM KABUL,
SUSPENSION OF AID AND
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| MILITARY SUPPLIES TO OPPOSITION NORTHERN ALLIANCE AND
ACTIVATION OF ECONOMIC
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| ASSISTANCE TO THE WAR AND DROUGHT RAVAGED NATION, A TALIBAN
FOREIGN MINISTRY
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| OFFICIAL MOULVI ABDUL AZIZ TOLD KUNA IN AN INTERVIEW FROM
KABUL.
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| HE SAID MONDAY NIGHT THAT AT LEAST TWO MEMBERS OF PAKISTAN
DELEGATION WENT
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| BACK TO ISLAMABAD WITH NEW PROPOSALS, WHICH ARE BEING
DISCUSSED WITH
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| WASHINGTON.
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| PAKISTANI OFFICIALS, HOWEVER, DID NOT CONFIRM THE ARRIVAL OF
TWO TEAM
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| MEMBERS. "WE WILL NOT BE SAYING ANYTHING UNTIL THEY ARE
BACK," RIAZ MUHAMMAD
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| KHAN, FOREIGN OFFICES SPOKESMAN SAID.
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| GENERAL FAIZ GILANI, THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE PAKISTANI
INTER SERVICES
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| INTELLIGENCE ( ISI ), AND AZIZ KHAN, THE PAKISTANI ADDITIONAL
SECRETARY OF
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| FOREIGN AFFAIRS, HAD LANDED IN ISLAMABAD LAST NIGHT AND
RETURNED TO
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| AFGHANISTAN THIS MORNING.
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| GENERAL MEHMOOD AHMED, THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF ISI,
NASSEERULLAH BABAR, THE
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| FORMER INTERIOR MINISTER AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DELEGATION
WERE STILL IN
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| AFGHANISTAN BUT MOVED FROM KANDAHAR TO KABUL.
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| THE PROPOSALS WERE GIVEN BY TALIBAN'S SUPREME LEADER MULLAH
MOHAMMAD OMAR
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| WITH WHOM PAKISTANI DELEGATION HELD NEGOTIATIONS FOR THREE
HOURS.
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| THE TALIBAN FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL, MOULVI AZIZ, CONFIRMED
TO KUNA THAT
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| THE TALIBAN WOULD NOT EXTRADITE OSAMA BIN LADEN FOR THREAT OF
WAR AND THE
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| ISSUE COULD ONLY RESOLVE THROUGH A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT.
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| PAKISTANI OFFICIALS WILL RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN THIS MORNING
TO CONVEY THE
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| RESPONSE OF US.
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| A MEETING OF AFGHAN SHOORA, OR ELDERS COUNCIL, WILL DECIDE
TODAY (TUESDAY)
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| ABOUT THE ISSUE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN AFTER LOOKING INTO THE US
RESPONSE ON
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| MULLAH OMAR'S PROPOSALS. (END)
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| SJA.BN.
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| KUNA 181242 Sep 01NNNN
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