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Northern Alliance commanders bitterly blame Islamabad--or rather, Washington's determination to keep Musharraf on board--for the fact that they haven't been given the green light. On Saturday U.S. bombs hit targets in Taloqan, far to the north. "The Taliban is kaput," said a soldier up there, with a Soviet-era RPG launcher slung over his soldier. But it's not; the Taliban's front lines outside Kabul still haven't been attacked. In fact, its position there has been reinforced; an extra 500 men and 20 tanks arrived toward the end of last week. The mood among...
...will try and contain extremism in Pakistan," the Times wrote. "After the Clinton administration had virtually discarded Pakistan to the dust heap, the Bush dispensation has decided that it needs to 'manage' Pakistan instead of isolating it. Indian officials say that suits India fine as long as it tempers Islamabad's behavior." The paper was particularly impressed that India's prime minister had been invited to Washington before Musharraf...
...Islamabad. The Taliban, despite their fierce zealousness, are not adverse to making a few dollars, too. And we hacks are happy to oblige. Last week, a convoy of 15 or so foreign journalists was escorted into Jalalabad by the Taliban to see a village that had reportedly been hit by several bombs. It was the first time journalists were allowed into Afghanistan, and you can imagine how that whetted the appetite of the remaining 1,600 of us left behind, especially among the TV networks. The Taliban announced a second convoy for this week or the next...
...before agreement is reached on a broad-based unity government. And progress is slow. Pakistan, meanwhile, is working overtime to persuade the Taliban to ditch its leader, Mullah Omar, and his close comrade Osama bin Laden, and to join a broadly-based government. Pakistani officials reportedly held meetings in Islamabad with Taliban foreign minister Mullah Mutawakil even as Secretary of State Colin Powell was visiting the city on Tuesday, and its efforts to salvage an "acceptable" Taliban minus the Al Qaeda connection are likely to intensify. Powell and Musharraf on Tuesday both emphasized a role for moderate Taliban elements...
...INDIA Kashmir Threat Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after a car bomb killed 38 people outside the state assembly in Srinagar. New Delhi demanded that Islamabad disband the group Jaish-e Mohammed, blamed for the attack, and asked the U.S. to outlaw the organization and freeze its assets...