Muhammad Arshad Sharif

 135  Taliban treated us with respect, say aid workers 

 IslamABAD, Nov 16: The American and Australian aid workers, released from captivity, told reporters on Friday that they were "well treated by the Taliban during their three-month captivity" , allowed religious freedom to practise their faith and had their meals prepared by a cook of a Taliban commander. "They treated us with respect and gave us the best they could," the 24-year-old American Heather Mercer told reporters at a news conference at the United States Information Centre........17 November 2001Saturday01 Ramazan 1422 /By M. Arshad Sharif  in  Dawn/