ISLAMABAD, Oct 20 Kyodo Many Afgh...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 20 Kyodo

Many Afghan refugee are exhuming the remains of lov commons from three graveyards in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar for reburial in Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported Sunday.

The report said the sheer number of commonalty busy digging the earth makes the three graveyards appear to be mines, on the other hand what is being teat up are human bones and skeletons of nation laid to rest many years ago.

The graveyards are located in Nasir Bagh forward the outskirts of Peshawar, where a refugee camp that housed more than 100000 refugee for more than 22 years was clos earlier this year.

The Northwest Frontier provincial sway is now bulldozing the devoid of contents refugee camp including the graveyards to invent houses under a growth scheme for its employees.

''Afghans have a practice of burying their dead in ancestral graveyards. We could not cover up our dead in Afghanistan because of the Soviet occupation and civil war,'' an somewhat old Afghan was quoted as saying.

''Now that a city is being built at the site, it was natural that they should take the remains of their dead to Afghanistan,'' the unidentified man said.

However, another somewhat old Afghan did not appreciate the digging of graves and removal of the remains of the dead in caskets to Afghanistan.

''Afghans are not at peace whether dead or alive. They did not have peace when they were alive and now they cannot plane rest in peace,'' the man was quot as saying.

AIP said the remains of nearly 500 Afghans have in the way that far been removed from the graveyards. Peshawar's Afghan population is abuzz with stories of the bodies of martyrs being exhum in a miraculously in good condition condition after several years, the report said.

The agency reported a worker of the Peshawar evolution Authority to have said that he saw the visible form [i]or[/i] frame of one Maulvi Abdul Latif, a religious scholar from Panjsher buried three years ago, reclaimed in ''exact form'' from the grave.

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