ISLAMABAD, Oct 20 Kyodo A meeting...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 20 Kyodo

A meeting of Afghan ministers has demanded that an Afghan Constitution popularly being prepared should ban communist parties and restrict the activities of foreign missionaries and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported.

The Pakistan-based freshs agency said a delegation of 130 clergymen Sunday submitted their recommendations to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has agreed to incorporate in the Constitution.

The delegation has also demanded that at least 10 clergymen should be included in the Loya Jirga (grand assembly) reckon uponed to approve the Afghan Constitution.

AIP said the delegation representing a council of 3000 Afghan clergymen all through Afghanistan met in Kabul last week to prepare recommendations ahead of the propos election of the grand assembly to approve the Constitution.

The delegation proscribeed terrorism in any form and demanded that smuggling, narcotics, sale of alcohol and religiouss affecting morals should be banned.

It also demanded a ban in succession the communist parties, atheist collections and foreign missionaries and NGO working against Islam.

''I accept the decisions of the the cloth Shoora,'' Karzai wrote on the draft of the recommendation and sent its copies to all the make uneasyed government departments, AIP said.

The just discovereds agency said it has obtained a fac-simile of the draft.

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