71.   Iranian border guards intercepted earlier the same day two groups of Mujahedeen rebels trying to enter Iran from Iraq through the southwestern Ilam province.

72.   A day earlier, they said two rebels had been killed in clashes with security forces and one captured in southwestern Khuzestan province.

73.   About a dozen private companies operate in the areas leased out by the government in southwestern Baluchistan province of which Quetta is the capital.

74.   Ahmed in a statement from the Taliban headquarters in southwestern Kandahar province asked the two leaders not to chose the battlefield as the way to settle differences.

75.   Ahmed in a statement from the Taliban headquarters in southwestern Kandahar province asked the two leaders not to chose the battlefield as the way to settle their differences.

76.   Arrests were also made in Quetta in southwestern Baluchistan province when opposition party members tried to hold a rally at a site banned by the local government.

77.   Colleges and universities have also been closed in the southwestern Baluchistan province since a clash between rival groups belonging to ethnic Baluch and Pashtun students last week.

78.   The Taliban militia of Islamic students has taken southwestern Nimroz province, Afghan sources here said Sunday.

79.   They were executed at a prison in Muchh in southwestern Baluchistan province early Tuesday after President Pervez Musharraf rejected their mercy petitions, officials said.

80.   Three people were killed in Quetta, capital of southwestern Baluchistan province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, while seven deaths have been reported from Sibbi district.