WORLD : Soviet Mothers Seek POW Sons
A group of tearful Soviet mothers, hoping for reunions with soldier sons held prisoner by Afghan guerrillas, arrived in Islamabad today on a special plane from Moscow.
Two of the women said they had been promised that their sons, Andrei Lopukh and Valery Prokoppchuk, would be handed over by a guerrilla group in a few days, following Pakistani efforts to win their release.
Three others, armed with old photographs, are on a mission for any news of men missing during the Afghan war.
Rebel sources say up to 80 Soviet soldiers are being held prisoner by the guerrillas, who themselves demand the release of thousands of moujahedeen guerrillas they say are held by the Soviet-backed Kabul government.
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