ISLAMABAD, Feb 8 Kyodo At least 3...

ISLAMABAD, Feb 8 Kyodo

At least 30 populace have been killed and more than 50 injured in fighting from one side of to the other the past three days between pair factions of the Jameat-e-Islami party in northern Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported Sunday.

The Pakistan-based stranges agency said fighting broke revealed between two commanders across collecting tax on a poppy lop in Argu district of Badakhshan Province.

Muhammad Saddiq Chakri, a spokesman of former Afghan President Burhan Uddin Rubbani, chief of Jameat-e-Islami, told AIP in Kabul that a meeting of the party was in progres in Kabul to arrange a cease-fire between sum of two units feuding groups.

Poppy cultivation, which the country's former Taliban lords banned in 2000, has been spreading in novel years.

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