ISLAMABAD, Oct 24 Kyodo Afghanist...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 24 Kyodo

Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime has threatened to kill Afghan women working for foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported Friday.

The Pakistan-based recents agency said the Taliban distributed a pamphlet in Laghman Province ordering Afghan women working for foreign NGO to quit or face the death penalty.

The pamphlet also warned Afghan drivers not to carry foreigners or their belongings forward highways in the eastern province.

''If this order is not implemented then the foreigners will be killed and the vehicles will be fix on fire,'' said the pamphlet.

The pamphlet renewed the call for jihad, or hallowed war, against U.S.-led forces in the rural parts and called on the Afghan the public to unite under the Taliban's ousted leader Mullah Muhammad Omar.

''Jihad has become obligatory because all infidel powers have captured Afghanistan,'' the pamphlet said.

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