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...Afghanistan. The unanimity of the witnesses' accounts-even allowing for some exaggeration-left little doubt that the Soviets were attempting to sanitize and seal the most porous part of the border with Pakistan by wiping out rebel resistance in Afghanistan's Kunar and Nangarhar provinces. Said one Pakistani official who has been trying to aid the nearly 600,000 refugees in his country: "Afghans arriving from Paktia, which is 100 miles away, say that helicopters are coming in and killing everything. We believe that the Soviets are trying to create a 25-km buffer zone along the border...
...guerrillas have suffered heavy casualties since the Soviet invasion last December. Intelligence experts believe the casualty ratio is about six mujahidin (holy warriors) to one Soviet soldier. Thus far an estimated 30,000 mujahidin have been killed or wounded. Last week leaders of five rebel groups met in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar to form yet another loosely structured "united front." Their aim: to seek financial support for more arms. One group sent representatives to mosques throughout Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, hoping to collect $20,000 for local gunsmiths to build portable armor-piercing guns...
Concern about arousing Moscow's enmity was one of the reasons why Pakistan, earlier this month, turned down a proposed $400 million U.S. aid package. Pakistani officials complained that the $200 million in military credits offered by the U.S. in the overall package was worse than nothing, since it would be totally insufficient to deter a Soviet threat. "What do I buy with $200 million?" asked Pakistani Strongman General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. "The hostility of the Soviet Union, and that does not suit me." He later hinted that he might soon visit Moscow to shore up relations...
...Pakistani province of Baluchistan, roughly the size of Montana or Finland, has long been considered a target of opportunity for the Soviet Union. Nestled next to Iran and Afghanistan, both of which have large Baluchi populations, the province has a 471-mile-long coast on the Arabian Sea. Gwadar, its principal port, sits at the entrance to the Persian Gulf and the oil lanes to the West. Moscow's intervention in Afghanistan has renewed fears of Soviet subversion in the province, where disaffected separatists have long been agitating for regional autonomy. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Ganger last...
...Iran. To do so would invite an insurrection as bloody as the one that engulfed Baluchistan between 1973 and 1977, when the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ah" Bhutto sought to impose the central government's authority on the province. That conflict cost the lives of 3,300 Pakistani soldiers and at least 5,300 Baluchi guerrillas. When General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq overthrew Bhutto in 1977, he declared an amnesty and released political prisoners...