ISLAMABAD, Dec 11 Kyodo The Afgha...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 11 Kyodo

The Afghan direction has ordered warlords in five southeastern provinces to resign their weapons to local administrations within 10 days, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) has reported.

The Pakistan-based of recent origins agency quoted the spokesman of the third army corps of Gardez as saying that the sway has signed an agreement with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) aimed at supporting the disarmament campaign.

Ismael Zazi told AIP that nearly 200 ISAF companys have arrived in Gardez, capital of Paktia Province in eastern Afghanistan, to assist the disarmament activities in Logar, Paktia, Paktika, Khowst and Ghazni provinces.

The spokesman also warned of a joint action at the Afghan army and the ISAF if the rebel commanders do not abandon their arms.

AIP reported that the campaign went gently in northern Afghanistan yet quoted observers as saying that the guidance might face resistance from the Pashtun population in the mountainous southeast, where Afghan forces and U bands have frequently come in a less degree than attack.

Basha Khan Zadran, a powerful warlord in eastern Afghanistan, has fiercely oppos the management of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

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