[ti:Officials: Afghan Children Taken to Pakistani Religious Schools] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:01.16]Officials say Afghan children are being taken to Pakistan [00:06.52]to study at religious schools in areas [00:09.96]controlled by the Taliban extremist group. [00:13.92]Officials say each year there are at least three or four cases of children [00:21.44]being illegally transported from Afghanistan to Pakistan. [00:27.20]In Pakistan the children are taken to religious schools, called madrassas. [00:34.68]Authorities say the goal is for the children to later return to Afghanistan [00:40.60]and enforce the same severe version of Islam observed by the Taliban. [00:48.20]The Taliban was removed from power in Afghanistan [00:51.84]in 2001 by United States-led coalition forces. [00:57.96]One Afghan counterterrorism official [01:01.08]spoke to the Associated Press about the issue. [01:05.20]The officials said Afghan authorities have identified 26 madrassas in Pakistan. [01:12.28]They are suspected of training future generations of Taliban members. [01:18.32]In some cases, students are trained in carrying out suicide bombings. [01:24.88]Police have stopped vehicles traveling from Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province [01:31.08]to Quetta, in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province. [01:37.84]After searching the vans, [01:39.78]police found groups of boys between the ages of four and 15. [01:45.26]They were all being taken illegally to Pakistan to study at madrassas. [01:53.36]Quetta is important to Afghanistan's Taliban. [01:57.68]It is the capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province [02:02.32]and shares a border with Afghanistan. [02:06.12]Many Taliban members graduated from madrassas there. [02:11.12]It also is considered the headquarters of the Taliban leadership council, [02:16.48]often called the "Quetta shura." [02:20.64]Several of the 26 madrassas identified as Taliban training centers are in Quetta. [02:28.88]One of the madrassas in Quetta is called Sheikh Abdul Hakim. [02:34.64]Azizullah Mainkhail, a teacher at the madrassa told the Associated Press [02:40.40]that some students there were from Afghanistan. [02:43.76]However, he said the majority are Pakistanis from villages throughout Baluchistan. [02:50.88]He denied any connection with the Taliban. [02:55.00]Mohammed Musa Mahmoodi is with the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. [03:02.28]He said a number of issues have aided the movement of children from Afghanistan. [03:08.80]These include war, poverty, insecurity [03:13.05]and a lack of understanding by the parents of the dangers for their children. [03:19.00]However sometimes parents say they want their children to study in Pakistan. [03:25.84]"Parents often agree to send their children but they don't know what is awaiting the child. [03:33.16]Sometimes they are told they will be educated [03:36.84]or will get a good job and be looked after," said Mahmoodi. " [03:42.36]But when they get there they are beaten, forced to work as cheap labor, [03:48.28]or taken by Taliban as new recruits." [03:52.84]Mohammed Naseer wanted his son, a nephew [03:55.88]and several other children from his area to study the Quran, [04:00.56]the Muslim holy book, in Quetta. [04:03.59]His son Mohammed Yaseen is just 9 years old, [04:08.44]but he said he was excited to be going to Quetta. [04:12.76]His dream: "I want to be a mullah [or a cleric]." [04:17.32]Naseer said his son had studied three years in a village school [04:23.12]but he still could not read or write in his native Pashto language. [04:29.36]He said the village school offers English lessons [04:33.44]but the teacher does not speak English. [04:37.28]He also worries about the lack of quality Islamic schools [04:41.72]where his son can study Islam. [04:44.56]So, he decided then to send his son to Pakistan. [04:50.12]He put his son with 26 other children into the two vans. [04:56.24]He gave his son a change of clothes and gave money to the men [05:00.54]taking his child to Pakistan "but only for transportation." [05:06.52]These stories are common, but senior police official Fazlur Rahman Bustani [05:12.84]in Kabul said the movement of children is a dangerous business. [05:18.04]"Those involved in the transport of children [05:21.32]are part of a dangerous network and it is a criminal act," said Bustani. [05:27.16]"It doesn't matter if the parents approve." [05:31.52]I'm Phil Dierking. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM