Six bodies arrive from Afghanistan

Published October 30, 2001

QUETTA, Oct 29: The dead bodies of six Pakistanis, who were killed three days ago fighting the Northern Alliance forces, were brought to Chaman from Afghanistan on Monday .

The Pakistanis, belonging to Jamiat Ulema Islam and residents of Chaman, had joined Taliban forces one year ago.

“They were killed while fighting against Toran Ismail forces in Badghis province in northwest of Kandahar, bordering with Turkmenistan,” family sources of 18-year-old Nasibullah, one of the six persons whose bodies were brought, told this correspondent on telephone from Chaman.

Later they were buried in a local graveyard in the presence of hundreds of JUI supporters.

THEY WERE: Nasibullah, Fazal Mohammad, Mohammad Yousaf, Shamsullah, Salahuddin and Noor Mohammad.