PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN ARMY PATROLS MOUNTAINS ALONG CLOSED BORDER WITH AFGHANISTAN SEARCHING FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND AL-QAEDA MEMBERS

Record ID: 858699

  • Title: PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN ARMY PATROLS MOUNTAINS ALONG CLOSED BORDER WITH AFGHANISTAN SEARCHING FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND AL-QAEDA MEMBERS
  • Date: 6th January 2002
  • Summary: (U5) PAKISTAN SIDE OF AFGHAN BORDER , NEAR TORA BORA (JANUARY 6, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: TORA BORA MOUNTAINS FROM THE PAKISTAN SIDE 0.05 2. SLV: PAKISTAN ARMY VEHICLE IN MOUNTAIN PASS 0.15 3. SV: YOUTH CARRYING WOOD 0.17 4. SLV: ARMY VEHICLE DRIVING ALONG PASS 0.25 5. VARIOUS OF ARMY PATROL WALKING THROUGH PASS BY RIVER (3 SHOTS) 0.44 6. VARIOUS OF PAKISTAN PATROL ARMED WITH RIFLES AND GRENADE LAUNCHERS (6 SHOTS) 1.14 7. VARIOUS OF PATROL LOOKING OUT FROM MOUNTAIN SIDE POSITION (2 SHOTS) 1.22 8. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Pashto) PAKISTAN ARMY SOLDIER, SAYING: "We are completely closing and patrolling the border. The last few days we captured 200 people who were crossing the border." 1.27 9. VARIOUS OF PAKISTAN ARMY PATROLLING THROUGH A NARROW VALLEY (8 SHOTS) 2.06 10. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Pashto) AZHAR ULLAH, PAKISTAN SOLDIER, SAYING: "The Pakistan army is here and we are in control (of the border). Nobody can cross the border or move illegally." 2.14 11. VARIOUS OF PAKISTAN SOLDIERS CARRYING AN AMMUNITION BOX (4 SHOTS) 2.37 12. GV: TORA BORA MOUNTAINS IN DISTANCE 2.41 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st January 2002 12:00
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  • Location: PAKISTAN SIDE OF AFGHAN BORDER, NEAR TORA BORA
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  • Country: Pakistan
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  • Reuters ID: LVADUM3AMO77E8XBQRJU292UBH20
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  • Story Text: Pakistan's army has been patrolling the mountains along
    the closed border with Afghanistan, searching for illegal
    immigrants including al-Qaeda members and Osama bin Laden.



    Pakistan soldiers on Sunday (January 6) patrolled the
    mountains along the closed border with Afghanistan, continuing
    the search for al Qaeda members and Osama bin Laden.

    The patrol was mounted south of the Tora Bora mountains where
    U.S. planes bombed the last main stronghold of the al Qaeda
    network in Afghanistan into submission.

    Fighters from the eastern alliance against Afghanistan's
    now ousted Taliban also played a part in the battle.

    What remains after that last stand is a painstaking search
    by Pakistan and U.S. forces for the last remnants of the
    network.

    Pakistan has closed its borders with Afghanistan in order
    to prevent a flood of Afghani refugees fleeing into a country
    already bloated with refugees on its northern border.

    "We are completely closing and patrolling the border. The
    last few days we captured 200 people who were crossing the
    border."
    "The Pakistan army is here and we are in control (of the
    border). Nobody can cross the border or move illegally," said
    soldier Azhar Ullah.

    At the same time it is attempting to catch members of the
    al Qaeda network and its leader, Osama bin Laden, accused
    of masterminding suicide air attacks on New York and Washington
    last September in which around 3,000 people died.



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