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Pak orders closure of Taleban offices

Pakistan has ordered immediate closure of all offices of Taleban militia and Afghan Airlines Ariana besides freezing assets of Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden in compliance with UN sanctions against Afghanistan, media reports said Sunday.

The Ministry for Interior and Tribal Affairs issued a directive to all provinces conveying the foreign ministry's request that all offices of Taleban and Ariana be closed down and bin Laden's funds frozen, The News said.

"We have received instructions from the federal government and orders have been passed on the respective government departments to implement them," it quoted a senior official as saying.

The UN sanctions came into effect on January 19 at the end of a one-month Security Council deadline to the militia to hand over bin Laden.

Pakistan foreign office spokesman Riaz Mohemmed Khan had said Saturday that Pakistan would not close its borders with Afghanistan but would comply with UN resolutions imposing sanctions.

He said that Pakistan would ask the Afghan militia to pursue peace efforts in the war-torn country.

PTI

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