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Pakistan rejects bodies of Harkat militants

Pakistan border guards on Wednesday refused to let in the bodies of eight of the 35 Harkat-ul-Mujahideen militants killed during an American air strike on Kabul, officials said.

The members killed were from the Pakistani city of Lahore, and included senior leader Ustad Farooq.

"We had instructions from higher authorities not to receive the bodies," an official at the Torkham crossing point in the eastern province of Bakhtiar Khan told a new agency.

Mufti Jamal, a cleric from the radical Islamic Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, told a news agency that the men were in Kabul to wage a jihad.

Harkat, which had already been banned by US for its alleged links with Laden, sought to explain to the media in Islamabad that its fighters were in Kabul in their personal capacity.

Earlier, security was beefed up, as pro-Taleban religious parties decided to have a "befitting funeral" for the Pakistani fighters.

Their bodies were expected to arrive later in the day in Karachi.

Agencies

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