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°ber27,i(i; acre Marcus : of the ’’ star Jw-wieldt villains n is idem sers on a night high- re evil, family his chaim n improve- hove all, to Thisl ipressionii ne they The cine- tic and best be ic film ■S to a fra- wer a , playfully hem anxi live remab il and long ami' blems • Jose Cmz ve ii ince WORLD THE BATTALION Monday, October 27, 2003 Pakistan seeks U.S. help to fight terrorism along Afghan border By Sattar Khan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TARIQ OUTPOST, Pakistan — By day, Pakistani troops stake out a hilltop shelter built of mud and stone, peering through binoculars at the narrow gullies and expanse of plain below. At night, they climb into four-wheel-drive pickup trucks and patrol the unpaved tracks along the Afghan border — round-the-clock vigilance aimed at catching Taliban and al-Qaida militants. Stung by accusations by the Afghan government that mili tants find a safe haven in this desolate region, the Pakistani military gave journalists a rare look Friday and Saturday at their border operations. Diplomats and officials from 17 countries were given a separate tour farther north. The goal: To prove that Pakistan is using all available resources, including some help from the United States, to tight en this frustratingly porous bor der and to keep rebels from using its soil as a staging ground for attacks against Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s fledg ing government. Pakistani officers say their extra effort is paying off. In recent months, 62 foreign nationals have been arrested illegally crossing the border in the southwestern sector, said Maj. Gen. Sadaqat Ali Shah, the head of the Frontier Constabulary paramilitary troops in the province of Baluchistan. “They were not Afghans. I cannot say who they were,” said Shah. The detained men were I Twin earthquakes hit northwestern China / nine dead BEIJING (AP) — The central government sent cold-weather tents, seismological teams and cash Sunday to an earthquake- prone patch of remote north western China where powerful twin tremors, minutes apart, killed nine people and leveled houses in their wake. The first quake in rural Gansu province, which hit at 8:41 p.m. Saturday and measured mag nitude 6.1, sent people scurry handed over to Pakistani intelli gence agencies. Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, chief spokesman for the Pakistan army, added that tight ened controls have stopped almost all free movement over parts of the border. “We will not allow Pakistani soil to be used for terrorism in any neighboring country,” he said. Yet he also said the army needed more help from the Americans, who have provided five helicopters, vehicles and other equipment to bolster Pakistan’s border crackdown. “Whatever we got from the United States is just peanuts,” Sultan said. u We will notallow Pakistani soil to be used for terrorism in any neighboring country. — Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan spokesman for Pakistan army Marked mostly by intermit tent white-painted stones, the Pakistan-Afghan border runs 2,050 miles from the Himalayas in Pakistan’s northern territories to the desert of Baluchistan. Pakistani troops have not patrolled this border since their country gained independence from Britain in 1947. The area is largely undeveloped, and fol lows tribal law and enforced by tribal elders. Here, the federal government has little sway. NEWS IN BRIEF ing into freezing temperatures. As some ventured back inside, the second temblor — almost as powerful at magnitude 5.8 — hit seven minutes later. Another six people were seriously hurt and 37 more suffered minor injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency reported from Lanzhou, the provincial capital. More than 200 aftershocks were reported — several as strong as magni tude 4.0, the government said. The hardest-hit areas were Minle, Sunan and Shandan counties near the city of Zhangye, roughly 850 miles While Pakistan switched from supporting Afghanistan’s Taliban regime to aiding the U.S. war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, attacks, many Pakistani tribesmen still sympa thize with the Islamic militants. Though the surroundings look empty, there is a surprising amount of legal traffic across the border. Maj. Mohammed Ashraf, a senior government official in the provincial capital of Quetta, said 207 checkpoints have been set up along the border, and a 25-mile embankment was being built in the area of Chaman, a border town about 85 miles northwest of Quetta. Already, a towering gate stands in the middle of a deso late plane in Chaman, the main crossing point from southern Afghanistan. Up to 6,000 peo ple cross the so-called Friendship Gate every day, Shah said. Meanwhile, in the northern sector, commanders told the diplomats that 10 infantry battalions and three engineering battalions and a Special Services Group were now deployed, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan, a local news agency. Three weeks ago, the army conducted a major operation in the area after an intelligence tip that al-Qaida fighters were hid ing there. The army reported eight suspects killed and 18 captured in one day. Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai was quoted as saying a total of 230 suspects have been rounded up and 10 killed in various oper ations in his sector. west of the capital, Beijing. 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