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<b>Baitullah ‘flees to Afghanistan’</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ISLAMABAD: Intelligence agencies have informed the Interior Ministry that Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Taliban in Waziristan, fled to Afghanistan on Friday. Sources told Daily Times on Tuesday that the intelligence reports mentioned that Mehsud had several meetings with “Indian spies” and former Afghan premier Gulbadin Hekmatyar in Afghanistan this week. The reports said that Hekmatyar had met Mehsud at an undisclosed location, while Indian intelligence officials met him at Mazar-e-Sharif. . The sources said that the intelligence agencies could not get the details of the meetings and Mehsud’s close aides in Waziristan were unaware of his whereabouts. Mehsud and his group are accused of involvement in several suicide attacks in Pakistan. They are also accused of giving refuge to foreign militants and using them against security officials in the restive South and North Waziristan agencies. But in a jirga some time ago, Mehsud denied that he was involved in five explosions during Muharram, and in an attack at the Islamabad Airport when a suicide bomber blew himself up after being stopped by the police from entering the area. naveed siddiqui<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->