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...role in a future government. (The Alliance believes "moderate Taliban" is an oxymoron, and is hostile to any Pakistani influence in Kabul.) And while the U.S. had hoped to see the exiled King Zahir Shah return and take the leading role in convening a new government, Northern Alliance leader Burnharuddin Rabbani made clear Tuesday that the king could return, but as a citizen rather than a sovereign. Pakistan...
...More ominously, though, former President Burnharuddin Rabbani had planned to return to Kabul Wednesday to take political charge of areas liberated by the Northern Alliance - although Rabbani desires reinstatement as the president of Afghanistan, he would be fiercely opposed by most Pashtun (the largest ethnic group). Even his Uzbek and Hazari allies in the Northern Alliance are not keen to see the Tajik Rabbani back in charge. Most Kabul residents remember his tenure as a nightmare of infighting between rival factions during which tens of thousands of Afghanis were killed. Alliance forces have already divided the capital into separate zones...
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