Military

DATE=10/29/01

TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT

NUMBER=2-282377

TITLE=PAKISTAN / AFGHAN/DEPORTATION (L)

BYLINE=AYAZ GUL

DATELINE=QUETTA, PAKISTAN

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INTRO: Authorities in Pakistan have deported 15 Afghan refugees for

their alleged role in violent anti-American demonstrations in the southwestern

city, Quetta. The move comes as another demonstration was held

Monday in the capital city of Balochistan Province. Ayaz Gul reports from

Quetta.

TEXT: Senior police officials say the Afghan deportees were actively involved in staging violent anti-American demonstrations in the provincial capital, Quetta, October Eighth. At a news conference, Police Chief Shoaib Suddle, gave a stern warning to other Afghan refugees that they would be arrested and returned to Afghanistan for taking part in protest rallies.

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Under no circumstances are we going to allow them to create troubles for

us by way of resorting to any sort of violence or damage to property.

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The police chief says the government will continue to allow

demonstrations, as long as they are peaceful. He says provincial

authorities have been in negotiation with religious leaders to ensure

future rallies remain peaceful.

Five people were killed and businesses were set on fire in a major

demonstration in Quetta, one day after the U-S led forces began the

bombing campaign against the ruling Taleban movement in Afghanistan.

Pro-Taleban Islamic groups in Pakistan have been demonstrating against

the strikes and the Pakistani Government for supporting the American-

led military action is aimed at destroying Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaida

terrorist network, based in Afghanistan.

Monday's deportation comes as the United Nations says that more than

80-thousand Afghans could have entered Pakistan illegally in the last

three weeks. Many of them have taken refugee in and around this border city. (SIGNED)

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