Pakistan Refuses Bodies of Dead Combatants

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Pakistan not to accept dead bodies

By Nissar Hoath

Chaman, Balochistan, Nov 5--Authorities on the Afghan border have
placed a ban on allowing into the country the bodies of those
Pakistani Jihadis who have died on Afghanistan's frontlines.

The ban, according to a senior border official, was imposed a week
ago on instructions from Islamabad.

"Since the ban, five bodies of Jihadis have been refused entry to
Pakistan and were sent back to Afghanistan at Spin Boldak," said the
official, who wished not to be named.

Among the bodies sent back were that of two teenagers from Karachi
and three from Quetta.

"We have been receiving four to five bodies of young Pakistanis who
have died in the Afghan war every week before the ban. Just before
the ban, eight bodies were brought here in a single week. They
included four teenagers from Chaman, two from Pishin and two from
Karachi," he told Gulf News, adding that most the dead were between
18 and 25 years old.

On Saturday night, the authorities denied entry of two bodies, both
of teenagers. One of them, Mohammed Issa Barech, was a Quetta
resident, the other from Karachi. Similarly on Friday night, three
more bodies - one of a Karachi resident and two of Quetta residents -
were also denied entry and turned back to Taliban authorities.

The bodies, which were allowed entry just before the ban, were of
Noor Ahmed Karam, Salahuddin Fazle, Naseebullah, son of Inayatullah,
Mohammed Yousuf, son of Sultan (all from the Achakzai tribe in
Chaman) and two unidentified residents of Pishin. All six, according
to officials, were between 18 and 20 years old and were buried the
next day.

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=31499


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