AFGHANISTAN: ANTI-TALBAN WARLORD ISMAIL KHAN SAYS HE WILL SET UP AN INTERIM ADMINISTRATION IN HERAT AND VOWS TO MARCH ON TO KANDAHAR

Record ID: 208352

  • Title: AFGHANISTAN: ANTI-TALBAN WARLORD ISMAIL KHAN SAYS HE WILL SET UP AN INTERIM ADMINISTRATION IN HERAT AND VOWS TO MARCH ON TO KANDAHAR
  • Date: 16th November 2001
  • Summary: (W3) HERAT, AFGHANISTAN (NOVEMBER 16, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) ***NIGHT SHOTS 1. WS/SV'S: NORTHERN ALLIANCE FIGHTERS FIRING INTO THE AIR IN JUBILATION AT HAVING TAKEN THE CITY (3 SHOTS) 0.16 (W3) HERAT, AFGHANISTAN (NOVEMBER 16, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) ***DAY SHOTS 2. WIDE OF THE CITY 0.22 3. LV: MOSQUE 0.28 4. WIDE OF PEOPLE GSTHERD IN MARKET 0.34 5. SV: WOMEN SHOPPING IN THE MARKET WEARING BURKA 0.42 6. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE GATHERED BY CITY WALL 0.49 7. SV: NORTHERN ALLIANCE FIGHTERS GROUPED BY THE EDGE OF THE ROAD IN THE CITY 0.53 8. VARIOUS OF NORTHERN ALLIANCE GATHERED/ LISTENING TO RADIO (2 SHOTS) 1.03 9. SV: NORTHERN ALLIANCE FIGHTER GOING INTO ROOM WHERE CAPTURED TALIBAN ARE BEING HELD 1.08 10. SV/WS: TALIBAN BEING LED OUT OF ROOM TO BE PARADED IN LINE AGAINST WALL (2 SHOTS) 1.29 11. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Dari) MEMBER OF THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE, SAHID ZALY, SAYING: "The prisoners are from Pakistan, Chechnya and Arabia." 1.42 12. ZOOM OUT: CAPTURED TALIBAN FIGHTERS IN TRUCK 1.48 13. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Dari) ANTI-TALIBAN WARLORD ISMAIL KHAN SAYING: "We asked the pupils of Herat to introduce the most learned and capable members so that we can set up an administration with those pupils and their capabilities. Setting up the administration is not a matter to be monopolised by political parties or agents. The administration should be in the hands of the most capable pupils among the citizens of Herat, whether they belong to the Shia Muslim, Hezb-i-Wahdat or the Sunni Muslim Jamiat-i-Islami. You are witness to the fact that the political parties do not have offices in Herat. The whole city was liberated by the Alliance and its administration should be run by the pupils too." 2.37 14. WIDE OF ANTI-TALIBAN WARLORD ISMAIL KHAN WITH FOLLOWERS 2.41 15. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Dari) ANTI-TALIBAN WARLORD ISMAIL KHAN SAYING: "If the Taliban do not leave Kandahar and that city remains hostage to the terrorism of the Taliban then naturally we will have the duty to liberate Kandahar." 2.53 16. VARIOUS OF NORTHERN ALLIANCE FIGHTERS WITH WEAPONS AND TANKS AT THE EDGE OF THE CITY (9 SHOTS) 4.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: HERAT, AFGHANISTAN
  • Country: Afghanistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA3JF0316U9AHTSUN3NCVSWQDRN
  • Story Text: In the northern Afghan city of Herat on Friday
    anti-Taliban warlord Ismail Khan said he was setting up an
    interim administration in the city and vowed to march on the
    Taliban's spiritual stronghold of Kandahar to the south.


    The forces of anti-Taliban warlord Ismail Khan have
    advanced toward Kandahar and halted at the junction of three
    provinces after taking a town at the entrance to the heart of
    Taliban territory, a spokesman said on Saturday (November 17).

    Fighters of Ismail Khan had reached the town of Daralam on
    the borders of Farah, Nimroz and Helmand provinces and
    occupied it, Khan's spokesman Mohamadullah Afsari told
    Reuters.

    Khan had vowed on Friday to march on the Taliban's
    stronghold of Kandahar -- and occupy it if necessary --
    despite opposition from local tribes to an outside force
    taking the city.

    Khan, a veteran mujahideen commander, this week retook his
    old powerbase, the western city of Herat that commands a major
    road through the Desert of Death to Kandahar. Khan is an old
    enemy of the Taliban -- they drove him out of Herat in 1995
    and jailed him in 1997, but he escaped last year.

    Although Khan is a respected figure, he is a
    Persian-speaker, a fact which inspires distrust among the
    ethnic Pashtuns who dominate the south and make up most of the
    Taliban.

    His spokesman said one reason Khan's fighters had stopped
    at the border of Helmand province -- from which many members
    of the Taliban sprang -- was because Khan wanted to see a
    Pashtun takeover of Kandahar, the stronghold of Taliban
    supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

    Many anti-Taliban Pashtun leaders say they do not want
    non-Pashtun forces moving on the city.


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