Young Pakistani's Taliban idealism ends with death in Afghanistan

The Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania seminary earned the nickname the "University of Jihad" for its fiery ideology and the number of Taliban fighters it has produced

The Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania seminary earned the 愛称 the "University of Jihad" for its fiery ideology and the number of Taliban 闘士,戦闘機s it has produced

The last time Abdul Rasheed's family saw him alive was in May, when the young Pakistani left for Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban. He returned home last week in a cardboard 棺.

The 交戦的な group is 行うing an 不快な/攻撃 across Afghanistan's countryside, snapping up 領土 and leaving the Afghan 軍隊s 直面するing a 危機 with the US and 北大西洋条約機構 all but gone.

Many Pakistanis, 奮起させるd by 宗教的な 約束 or community 圧力, have joined the fight across a 国境 that doesn't distinguish between the Pashtuns who live either 味方する.

"Rasheed sacrificed his life for a 広大な/多数の/重要な 原因(となる)," Rasheed's uncle, Maroof 旅宿泊所, a イスラム教徒 聖職者の, told AFP over the phone from his home on the 郊外s of Peshawar, just a few hours from the Afghan 国境.

Throngs of people visited to congratulate the family after 審理,公聴会 news of the 22-year-old's death.

"He went the re with a spirit of jihad. Now his young friends want to be 殉教者d like him," 旅宿泊所 追加するd.

Pakistan's 内部の 大臣 earlier this month 公然と 定評のある that the families of Afghan Taliban 闘士,戦闘機s were living in the country's 資本/首都, while members of its 階級-and-とじ込み/提出する were brought to the country for 医療の 治療 or to be buried.

Pakistan has a long, 複雑にするd history with the Taliban.

Since 逃げるing the US 侵略 of Afghanistan in 2001, the group's leaders have been 大部分は based in Pakistan, where they have been 許すd to 再編成する, 新採用する and manage the 暴動 from the safety of Pakistani cities.

The 問題/発行する is a 特に 極度の慎重さを要する one for Islamabad, which has long been (刑事)被告 of supporting the 強行路線 根本主義s even while 戦う/戦いing a Taliban offshoot within its own 国境s.

The Afghan and US 政府s have begged Islamabad to bring the leadership to heel and 軍隊 the Taliban to 大打撃を与える out a peace 協定.

- 'University of Jihad' -

The Taliban 現れるd in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during the civil war that followed the Soviet 撤退 from the country.

But its 階級s were filled with tens of thousands of Afghan 難民s who had fled to Pakistan. Some Pakistani 国家のs also joined.

安全 分析家 Tahir 旅宿泊所 told AFP that 当局 had more recently clamped 負かす/撃墜する on people crossing to fight in Afghanistan, but the porous 国境 in the rugged countryside meant some still made it.

"The number of Taliban 闘士,戦闘機s from Pakistan is much lower than in the past," 旅宿泊所 said.

"Now the Afghan Taliban are so 非常に/多数の they don't need 闘士,戦闘機s from Pakistan."

Many -- 含むing Rasheed -- had 卒業生(する)d from Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania madrassa 近づく Peshawar, which was given the 愛称 the "University of Jihad" for its fiery ideology and the number of Taliban 闘士,戦闘機s it has produced.

For 10年間s, Pakistani madrassas have served as incubators for militancy, indoctrinating tens of thousands of 難民s who have few other 選択s for education than the 解雇する/砲火/射撃-breathing lectures from 強行路線 聖職者のs.

Rather than 割れ目 負かす/撃墜する on the 会・原則s, 連続する 政府s in Islamabad -- who rely on the support of Islamist parties in 連立政権s -- have 大部分は given the madrassas a 解放する/自由な 手渡す.

- Taliban 旗s -

Rasheed's family do not know 正確に/まさに when or where he died, only that it happened somewhere in eastern Nangarhar 州.

Two police sources in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 州 told AFP that at least four dead 団体/死体s of Pakistani 闘士,戦闘機s had arrived from Afghanistan in 最近の weeks.

There were 大混乱/混沌とした scenes in Rasheed's hometown when his 団体/死体 was brought 支援する.

ビデオ clips 地位,任命するd to social マスコミ and 確認するd by his family showed hundreds of people clamouring to touch his 棺 and 詠唱するing 宗教的な スローガンs, some waving Taliban 旗s.

旅宿泊所, his uncle, was later 逮捕(する)d and 手渡すd a two-week 刑務所,拘置所 宣告,判決.

He was 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d with organising an 違法な 集会 and propagating テロ行為, a police 広報担当者 told AFP.

As 訪問者s continued to 支払う/賃金 their 尊敬(する)・点s this week, Rasheed's father Nasir 旅宿泊所 sat on a 伝統的な 木造の charpoy (法廷の)裁判, wearing glasses along with a flowing white 耐えるd.

"Rasheed was a 有望な student," Nasir 旅宿泊所 said.

"I pray that Allah 受託するs the 殉教/苦難 of my son."

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