Pakistani Interior Minister Naseerullah Khan Babar and the Taliban - Collection Finding Aid

Pakistani Interior Minister Naseerullah Khan Babar and the Taliban - Collection Finding Aid

This collection consists of a single cable describing a Pakistani news article concerning a 1996 Taliban announcement to ban the growth of poppy in Afghanistan. The record describes that Interior Minister Babar confirmed that the Taliban poppy ban was a genuine announcement. Major General Naseerullah Khan Babar (1928-2011) served as Interior Minister of Pakistan during Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s second government from 1993-1996. The majority of these records related to this collection are closed for national security reasons.

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