Afghanistan appears dangerous place to use a mobile phone

An Afghan describes the dangers of passing through Taliban checkpoints on the road to Kandahar. He said that mobile phones are checked and often any suspicious number stored on the mobile phone, will be dialed by the Taliban.

If a voice answers the phone in English, reports Besmillah, the Taliban immediately kill the phone's owner.

The same report suggests that the Taliban themselves are keen mobile phone users.

"They are all Afghans," the paper quotes a villager from Panjwai as saying, "But they talk to Pakistan two, three times a day on the phone."

We wonder who's listening. µ