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...Washington there has been widespread confusion in recent weeks about when the U.S. would cut off aid to the resistance under a peace agreement. Some U.S. officials have said that the assistance would be gradually reduced as the Soviets pull out. But the U.S. has already agreed, through the Pakistani negotiators in the U.N.-sponsored Geneva talks, to cut off military aid ($630 million in 1987) at the point when the Soviets begin to withdraw. Fearing that the mujahedin may be left exposed to attack by the Soviets, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz declared last month that the Soviet...
...Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, as Moscow fully realizes, is in a tight spot. Says Zain Noorani, Pakistan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs: "We don't just want an agreement, we want an agreement that can be implemented." Specifically, Pakistan needs the cooperation of the seven-party mujahedin alliance to proceed with the peace agreement. Yet the guerrilla leadership will not accept an agreement with Najib. If Pakistan deals with him anyway, the results will probably be chaotic. The rebels would lose their arms pipeline -- including the Stingers -- and face a potent Soviet force for at least...
...resistance leadership, based mostly in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, is not much help to its hosts. Islamabad is leaning heavily on the seven resistance leaders to propose, as an alternative to Najib's regime, a transitional government acceptable to Moscow and Kabul. "Zia is telling us not to be so stubborn," said one of the seven. Last week they agreed that a new government would be open to "good Muslims," but the proposal appeared too vague to have any practical value for Islamabad...
Khalis' outburst was also a pointed reply to earlier remarks by Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who has allowed the U.S.-supplied rebels to operate from his territory. In an interview with the New York Times, Zia said an interim government including members of the Soviet-backed ruling party would be "not much of a price to pay in my opinion." Khalis sought to make it clear that the rebels, not Zia, would be the judge of any such concessions...
When the Soviets lifted a rebel siege of the strategically placed town of Khost at the end of December, some Western diplomatic observers and Pakistani analysts in Islamabad thought that would give them a pretext to declare victory in the eight-year-old war and begin pulling out. But the Soviets have so far refused to fix a firm timetable for their withdrawal. The rebels, meanwhile, seemed determined to keep up the pressure, as they demonstrated late last week at the funeral of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and in later years an anti-mujahedin leftist...