Donation camps set up for Taliban

Published October 26, 2001

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Oct 25: Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam (JUI) and a number of Jihadi groups have established camps in Dera Ismail Khan for collection of donations to help Taliban and Afghan people and lessen their miseries.

Although response is poor but one truck consisting of medicines, food items, warm clothes, blankets etc. was dispatched to Afghanistan on Wednesday evening. A local shopkeeper donated a motorcycle which was also loaded in the truck.

Meanwhile Dera Union of Journalists and Anjuman-i-Tajiran Dera have launched a campaign to collect goods, medicines etc. for Afghan people.

The two bodies have decided to mobilize all their resources to help Afghan people who are passing through the hardest time of their history.

MUJAHIDEEN: Like other parts of the country, thousands of people have got themselves registered in Dera Ismail Khan to join the Taliban and fight against US aggression. These people who are affiliated to different Jihadi groups will take part in Jihad.

MARTYRED: According to details, five Mujahids from Dera Ismail Khan district, Obaidullah from Kulachi, Mohammad Javed from village Maulana, Mohammad Ramzan -a retired armyman from village Himat, Mohammad Arshad from D.I. Khan city and Mohammad Farooq from Rangpur Shumali were martyred during US bombardment.

Arshad and Mohammad Ramzan were laid to rest at Kabul graveyard while the border forces refused to allow the bodies of Obaidullah and Mohammad Farooq across the border but Harkat-ul-Mujahideen managed to bring the bodies through some other routes.

Body of Mohammad Javed arrived in Dera Ismail Khan and thousands of people from all walks of life irrespective of their sects and beliefs, attended his Namaz-i- Janaza, which was led by Khalifa Abdul Qayyum of Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan.

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