ISLAMABAD Reuter: Afghanistan’s official Kabul Radio said that guerrillas fighting the Soviet backed Afghan government have burned 254 mosques in nearly seven years of war the official Kabul Radio said.
The radio monitored in Islamabad said the 254th mosque was burned in Paghman district northwest of the Afghan capital Kabul by what it called wild and criminal counterrevolutionaries. Afghan exiles in Pakistan say Kabul often accuses the anticommunist guerrillas of burning mosques and killing religious scholars to put Afghanistan’s mainly orthodox Moslem population against them.
The radio said hundreds of volumes of the Koran the sacred book of Moslems and other religious books were also burned in the main mosque of Chandalbai a village near the war ravaged Paghman town.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 26, 1986
