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...Pakistan, which has suffered Afghan air and artillery attacks along the border as well as terror bombings in retribution for Islamabad's support for the mujahedin, the response to Gorbachev's concession was more clear-cut. Legislators thumped their desks in approval as President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq told a joint session of the parliament that a Soviet pullout was imminent. He called the development the "miracle of the 20th century, God willing...
...unanswered: Who will control the country, the mujahedin or the forces of the Najibullah government? Moscow apparently feels that Najibullah can survive with Soviet military and economic aid or at least hold heavily fortified Kabul and a broad corridor leading north to the Soviet border. Officials in Washington and Islamabad, on the other hand, are confident that the mujahedin will score telling successes against the unpopular Najibullah regime and its 150,000-man security forces, fewer than 20,000 of whom are considered reliable. In preparation for what may become the final showdown, both Washington and Moscow have been shipping...
...texts of the documents that are to be signed at Geneva are still secret. Cordovez said last week that they would bind Kabul and Islamabad to "noninterference and nonintervention" in each other's affairs, provide for the voluntary return of Afghan refugees, name the U.S. and Soviet Union co-guarantors, and stipulate a Soviet withdrawal within nine months. In a separate memorandum, the United Nations will agree to monitor compliance. At week's end translators were busy turning out copies of the 40-page document in Urdu for the Pakistanis and Pashto for the Afghans, as well as Russian...
Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, head of the seven-party Afghan guerrilla alliance, said in Islamabad, Pakistan, that it was "the first step toward victory" and a "defeat for the Russians." He said the guerrillas "will try to intensify...
...resistance leadership, based mostly in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, is not much help to its hosts. Islamabad is leaning heavily on the seven resistance leaders to propose, as an alternative to Najib's regime, a transitional government acceptable to Moscow and Kabul. "Zia is telling us not to be so stubborn," said one of the seven. Last week they agreed that a new government would be open to "good Muslims," but the proposal appeared too vague to have any practical value for Islamabad...