November 24, 2001	Saturday	Ramazan 8, 1422

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PESHAWAR, Nov 23: An Afghan delegation left here for Kabul on Friday to track down missing Pakistani fighters in Afghanistan and secure their release.

The 22-member delegation would meet ‘President’ Rabbani and other Northern Alliance leaders in Kabul and negotiate with them for the release of Pakistani fighters in Afghanistan, a Press release said.

The Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi(TNSM) that had mobilised and taken thousands of its activists to Afghanistan to take part in the fight against the United States, says that over 2000 of its fighters are still unaccounted for.

Hundreds of Pakistani fighters are holding out along with Taliban and other non-Afghan militants in the besieged northern city of Kunduz. The Northern Alliance says that the non-Afghan fighters would be arrested and tried under the laws of the Islamic State of Afghanistan.

The Press release said the Pakistani nation had treated Afghan refugees with sympathy and a spirit of brotherhood since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Therefore, it was incumbent upon the Afghans to try allout efforts to maintain these relations and secure the release of Pakistanis captured by the Northern Alliance.

Prominent among the delegates are Qazi Amin Waqad, Haji Roohullah, Qazi Muhammad Rafiq, Maulvi Samiullah Najibi, Maulvi Fazl-i-Hadi, Maulvi Qayamuddin Kashaf, Haji Esa Khan, Jawad, Engr Obaidullah Serat, Wakil Baz Muhammad Razmati, Maulvi Faizan, Maulvi Muhammad Saeed Hashimi, Maulvi Abdur Rehman, Saadullah, Dr Muhammad Anwar, Munshi Abdul Majeed, Ustad Muzzamil, Raes Qasim Khan, Haji Deen Muhammad and Gul Mohammad Gulzai.