Afghanistan's Law enforcers have captured a Tajik terrorist in the country's south province of Kandahar, a statement of the Afghan National Security Directorate said Monday.
"Security personnel detained Syed Hijran, an operative of al- Qaida network and resident of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, from Boldak area of Kandahar last week," the statement added.
Hijran, the statement added, had used to stay in Kabul during Taliban regime and fled to Pakistan following the Taliban fall in Afghanistan late in 2001.
"During investigation, he admitted that he received religious and military training in Nizamia religious school in Quetta, the capital of (southwestern Pakistan's) Baluchistan province," the statement said.
Hijran had visited Khakriz district of Kandahar several times to conduct subversive activities in this part of Afghanistan, it further added.
No comment is available from the Pakistani government on the statement upon this story's releasing.
Following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the Pakistani government joined the U.S.-led international "war on terror" and has since sent around 90,000 troops to its border areas to fight Taliban and al-Qaida remnants, who were believed to have sneaked into Pakistan for shelter after the collapse of the Afghan Taliban regime.
Afghanistan and Pakistan share an around 2,600-km-long border.
Source: Xinhua
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