QUETTA, Jan 14: A transport plane of Afghanistan's Taliban militia crashed in a remote mountainous area of Pakistan near the Afghan border late on Tuesday with 80 people on board, border security forces said on Wednesday. Pakistani rescue teams said there was no hope of finding survivors. "It would be a miracle," a border guard from the Frontier Constabulary in Quetta, West Pakistan, said after contacting rescue teams, who battled through the night to reach the area.He added that the first teams had arrived at the crash site only at dawn on Wednesday, their progress hampered by bad weather and rough terrain.The transport plane went down in a fireball in Baluchistan province, bordering Afghanistan, late on Tuesday, witnesses said. It was not immediately clear if the plane carried any Taliban leaders. Sources said the Taliban did not operate regular commercial flights and the possibility that some Taliban officials were on board could not be ruled out.
