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...Around 900 Pakistanis were surrounded in a girls' school, Sultan Razinya, in the southeast of the city. Over three days, the Alliance commanders - Ustad Mohammed Atta, General Rashid Dostum and Haji Mohammed Mohaqiq - say they tried to persuade the Pakistanis to surrender. The Pakistanis refused. By Tuesday afternoon, the commanders had exhausted their patience, and warned civilians living in the area to move away. Then they attacked, and the fighting lasted four hours. The Alliance took just 175 prisoners...
...bazaar is open. Streetside shashlik stores send plumes of the thick smoke of lamb fat into the air, and yellow taxis ply their trade. The Alliance leader Ustad Mohammed Atta has become the unofficial mayor of Mazar, sitting cross-legged on the floor of his new home, receiving a stream of visits from town elders, tribal leaders and messengers from the frontlines...
...Taliban is finished," says Atta over a meal of flat bread, apples and qabeli, the traditional mound of rice, mutton, carrots, onions and raisins that is a staple of Afghan cooking. "Only the tourists remain...
...Talk is already turning to the future government, even elections. The plan is to call a Loyat Jirga, a national gathering of all Afghanistan's tribal chiefs to debate the shape of the country's new order. Atta says all the commanders are anxious to avoid a repeat of 1992 when, after defeating the Soviets, rival commanders turned on each other and fought pitched battles on the streets of the capital. "This time we want to have democracy," he says. "We have to keep the people with...
...tried and eventually expelled, although he does not rule out the possibility of executions. In this desolate battle-scarred landscape of dust and desert, barren mountain peaks and rusted, blown out Soviet tanks, killing is given little thought. "Maybe we will have to execute a few people," says Atta. "The people want to kill these tourists...