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...Dostum is angry that the three most important government portfolios--Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs--went to his Tajik rivals within the Northern Alliance. Another potential spoiler is Rabbani, the Alliance leader who was President from 1992 to 1996 but was excluded from the new government. Intelligence sources in Islamabad say that Rabbani's men, using money from Iran, are paying off Pashtun elders in the eastern regions to oppose both Karzai and the return of former King Mohammed Zahir Shah, 87, whom Karzai supports...
...scattered among camps outside that city, with more returning from Iran daily. An estimated 6 million Afghans are what the World Food Program labels "food insecure"--increasingly vulnerable to malnutrition and disease. "We're seeing the cumulative effects of years of suffering," says U.N. officer Stephanie Bunker in Islamabad. "The population is already weakened, so it's hard for many of them." Relief agencies take some solace in knowing there are fewer refugees than they originally feared. Reasons for this less dire outcome: the brevity of the war, the crushing poverty and people's realization they are safe at home...
...bottle up fleeing al-Qaeda men. His government has made valiant efforts lately to seal the long, porous border. But once fugitives from Afghanistan make it across, they will find broad pockets of sympathy throughout the provinces of Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier. In those semiautonomous tribal areas, Islamabad's authority has been limited, though army presence has been beefed up recently...
...warned that such Islamic fundamentalist elements ultimately posed a threat to Pakistan, too. "While there is justified worldwide condemnation of this incident, the Indian leaders would do well to exercise caution in reaching hasty conclusions about the attackers and their motives," noted an editorial, warning against cross-border retaliation. "Islamabad as a member of the international coalition against terrorism will be duty bound to extend assistance if needed. New Delhi would do well to realise that terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11 incident has become a universal phenomenon and Pakistan has supported all international efforts to strike...
...European politicians have joined those from the U.S. to sell the idea that Pakistan is no longer a pariah state, that Islamabad is suddenly Islamagood. Germany and Japan have again gone to war, this time on the same side as Britain and the U.S. Iran, which long called America the Great Satan, is showing more signs than ever that it is on the road to reform, and can play a role in rebuilding neighboring Afghanistan. But what's changed in Chechnya? Are the Balkans any less bitterly divided? Is Spain's terror-riven Basque country any more unified...