22 November 2001, 10:48 AFX-ASIA: Al-Jazeera TV: Taliban force in Kunduz have not agreed to surrender
The Taliban rejected reports its fighters in the
northern city of Kunduz have agreed to surrender to Northern Alliance
forces, the Al-Jazeera satellite television channel reported.
"The office of Mullah Omar strongly denied that and the Taliban
army chief Akhdar Othmani said the information was totally false,"
correspondent Mohammad al-Shuli reported from the southeastern city of
Spin Boldak, close to the Pakistani border.
The Taliban said its deputy defence minister, Mullah Mohammad
Fazil, who would have negotiated any agreement to surrender, "is in
Kunduz, with the town's defenders."
"The fighters' situation in Kunduz is good and they have good
morale," Al-Jazeera quoted a Taliban official as saying.
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