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Iran and Pakistan are particularly interested in the future shape of Afghanistan's government. Pakistan despises the Northern Alliance because of its tilt against the Pashtun (also represented in Pakistan), its ties to archrival India and its disastrous rule of Kabul from 1992 to '96. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is blunt: "Their return would mean a return to anarchy and criminal killing." For its part, Iran, whose Muslims belong mainly to the Shi'ite branch of Islam, has backed members of the Northern Alliance representing Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority. On the sidelines of last week's meeting...
First he must weather the gathering crisis that could flash into ungovernable riots at any provocation. Last week he agreed to let U.S. forces use two Pakistani air bases, while assuring his countrymen they would be used only for logistics, not combat. Although Washington forewarned him, the President will take heat from all sides now that the U.S. has issued a freeze order on the assets of the Rabita Trust, a three-decade-old Pakistan charity reportedly enjoying support from top officials, including Musharraf. The U.S. said Rabita's secretary-general was a founder of bin Laden's al-Qaeda...
OSAMA & BERT? American culture is so powerful it permeates even anti-American protests. Last week Pakistani demonstrators carried posters of Osama bin Laden seated next to grouchy Sesame Street straight man Bert. The pictures were apparently downloaded from one of many websites publishing parody images of the Muppets in compromising positions. Sesame Street executives were none too pleased. You can find the images on the Web by searching for "Bert bin Laden...
...Iran and Pakistan are particularly interested in the future shape of Afghanistan's government. Pakistan despises the Northern Alliance because of its tilt against the Pashtun (also represented in Pakistan), its ties to archrival India and its disastrous rule of Kabul from 1992 to '96. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is blunt: "Their return would mean a return to anarchy and criminal killing." For its part, Iran, whose Muslims belong mainly to the Shi'ite branch of Islam, has backed members of the Northern Alliance representing Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority. On the sidelines of last week's meeting...
...there's no safe place to hide from bombs anyway." That's why some got out of town; October is the time of the grape and melon harvest in Afghanistan, so trucks laden with fruit lumbered for 24 hours down the road from Kabul to the markets in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar. In Jalalabad, just up the Khyber Pass from Peshawar, 60% of the population is thought to have fled to the relative safety of mountain villages or across the border into Pakistan. By the weekend there were reports that civilians?how many was a matter of wild...