10:45 am
LONDON - All Taleban forces in the besieged northern Afghan city of Kunduz have agreed to surrender, CNN reported today.
Its correspondent in the nearby city of Mazar-i-Sharif, which is under Northern Alliance control, said two Taleban commanders from Kunduz had agreed to surrender in talks with the Northern Alliance commander General Abdul Rashid Dostum in Mazar.
Citing Northern Alliance sources, the report said Afghan Taleban fighting in Kunduz may have been offered amnesty in exchange for giving up the city. Foreign troops fighting for the Taleban have not been offered any deal.
The report quoted a Kunduz Taleban commander, named as Mullah Faizal, as telling reporters allowed into the meeting room that all his forces, Afghans and foreigners alike, would surrender.
"Nothing will happen (in Kunduz)," CNN quoted Faizal as saying.
Dostum told reporters the Kunduz problem would be solved "without a fight" and that the fight for the city was finished, CNN said.
He said he was also in contact with Taleban leaders in other parts of Afghanistan including Kandahar, the movement's southern stronghold.
CNN said the Mazar meeting was still going on in order to work out details of how the Kunduz surrender will take place.
- REUTERS
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