The Afghan Taliban's Deputy Foreign Minister Mulla Abdul Jalil will hold talks with Pakistani Foreign Ministry officials on November 10 to seek Pakistan's help ahead of imminent UN sanctions, informed sources said.

A US-sponsored resolution in the UN Security Council, adopted unanimously last month, urged the Taliban to extradite the alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden for trial by November 14.

Mulla Jalil, heading a Taliban delegation, is currently in Pakistan for talks with officials of various ministries on a host of issues.

This is the first high-level Taliban delegation visiting Pakistan since the military takeover on October 12 in Islamabad.

Jalil is likely to meet Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar and other senior officials at the Foreign Office to review bilateral ties. The Taliban will seek Pakistan's help to deal with the possible UN sanctions on Afghanistan, the sources said.

The Taliban have offered to hold talks with the United States on the bin Laden issue but Washington has rejected the offer.

There has been no significant change in Pakistan's Afghan policy so far and Taliban supreme leader Mulla Mohammad Omar has said political changes will not affect relations between the two countries.

Sattar, the new foreign minister of Pakistan, Monday said Pakistan will "study very carefully" the UN Security Council's resolution that proposes sanctions on Afghanistan if the Taliban fail to hand over bin Laden for trial by November 14.

"The UN Security Council resolutions have a binding force but we will have to study them carefully and keep in view practice of members of the United Nations," the foreign minister said at his maiden news conference.

Pakistan is among the three countries which recognize the Taliban regime as the legal ruler of Afghanistan.