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It may yet prove to be a watershed in Moscow's dealings with the Third World. In Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, foreign ministers representing the 35 members of the Islamic Conference last week condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a "flagrant violation" of international law. The delegates...
The mujahidin- Muslim "holy warriors"-had converged on the Pakistani city of Peshawar last week for a gathering of the clans aimed at solving one obstacle border the success of their insurgency in Afghanistan: disunity. Torn by tribal rivalries going back centuries, the rebels hoped to form an umbrella alliance...
Beyond a general allegiance to Islam and hostility toward Marxism, there was little agreement over a future political system for Afghanistan. Argued Sayad Ahmed Gailani, 45, the strongly pro-Western chief of the relatively new United Islamic Revolutionary Council: "We believe in democracy and modernization, and the majority of Afghans...
The defense package was also being held up at Islamabad's request, in deference to regional political sensitivities. The Pakistanis had asked Washington to delay action until after a special session of the Islamic Foreign Ministers' Conference, which opened in Islamabad over the weekend. Thirty-three Muslim nations...
Still, a few leaders have maintained power. By far the most visible of Peshawar's refugees is Sayad Ahmed Gailani. The 45-year-old Islamic scholar fled Afghanistan with his large family in 1978 and now claims 70,000 soldiers in his National Liberation Front, with another 300,000...