PAKISTANI TALIBAN SEND ARAB, UZBEK FIGHTERS TO SYRIA

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban are sending their Arab and Uzbek comrades to Syria to fight against the forces of embattled President Bashar al-Assad, Taliban sources said on Saturday. “There is no plan to open a formal office in Syria but our people will fight against the forces of Bashar al-Assad,” a Taliban source said. “In the first step, mostly trainers, who are expert in guerrilla warfare, are going there,” the source said.