Muslim clerics abandon Afghanistan mission
Muslim clerics - disappointed by the rigid stands of the Taliban and the US, have cancelled a planned visit to Afghanistan aimed at resolving the crisis over Osama bin Laden,.
Leaders of four major pro-Taliban Islamic parties in Pakistan planned to travel to the militia’s headquarters in southern city of Kandahar this week to meet its leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.
However, the trip has been called off because the clerics see no chance of a breakthrough, said Ameerul Azeem, a spokesman of the Jamaat-e-Islami, or Islamic Party.
Last Friday, a similar delegation of Pakistani Islamic clerics and a senior intelligence officer returned from Kandahar empty-handed after failing to convince Omar to soften his stand on bin Laden.
