KARACHI (AFP) - Afghanistan has closed down alleged training camps but suspects wanted in serious criminal cases in Pakistan have not been extradited, Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said Thursday.
"There are no more training camps in Afghanistan but the terrorists we wanted back have not been handed over," Haider told reporters.
Officials say several Pakistanis accused of involvement in terrorism and sectarian violence have taken shelter in Afghanistan. Islamabad has already handed over a list of suspects to the Taliban authorities.
"We have not received any response on the list of terrorists" sent to the Taliban rulers of the war-torn country, Haider said.
"We have also advised them to arrest these suspects as some of them are required here in heinous crimes," the minister added.
He said the government had taken steps at the Afghan border to check the entry of suspects wanted for terrorist strikes in Pakistan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's special emissary, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, during a visit to Islamabad in September said Moscow had concrete evidence of at least five camps in Afghanistan for training Chechens.
But Taliban Information Minister Maulvi Qudratullah Jamal rejected the Russian claim as "baseless."
Haider renewed the call for the extradition of criminals after a series of bomb blasts in recent weeks in Pakistan.
Three people, including a suspected woman bomber, died and five were injured when a bomb ripped through the Nawa-i-Waqat media group's building in Karachi on Monday.
Police have so far found no clue to the Karachi blast, Haider said.
