 Pakistani delegates stopped former Afghan president Sibghatullah Mujaddadi from leading Friday prayers after his "political speech" during the sermon, an elder said on Friday.
| Mojadeddi is the rather nice old man the warlords -- the guys who actually fought the Soviets -- settled on as president. Significantly, he's a Sufi. |
Those present during the sermon quoted Mujaddadi as saying that "terrorism taking place in Afghanistan originates from Pakistan".
| The fact that he's a nice old man doesn't make him stoopid. Or blind. |
"We all condemned his political speech ... which one is not supposed to do at a place of worship," Malik Syed Rehman from Khyber Agency said. Former Mujahideen leader Abdur Rab Rasool Sayyaf led the prayer instead.
| Also significantly, Rasool Sayyaf is the Soddies' man on the spot, leader of the Wahabbi faction within Afghanistan. |
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