DUSHANBE, May 22 (AVN) - The ex-governor of Afghanistan's Herat province, Ismail Kahn, left for the central Afghan province of Ghor on Tuesday to scale up activities of his supporters against the Taliban movement, a spokesman for the Afghan embassy in Tajikistan told the Military News Agency.
The embassy's first secretary, Dr. Mukhitdin Mehdi, said Kahn had recently met Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and leader of the Northern Alliance Ahmad Shah Massoud. The officials discussed organisation of a new front to battle Taliban troops in central Afghanistan.
Sources in the Russian and Tajik Defence Ministries told the Agency that emergence of the second anti-Taliban front would reduce armed Islamic extremists' chances to penetrate Tajikistan and trigger a new conflict in Central Asia.