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...Washington, Islamabad and the rebels are all learning, success in negotiations can prove as tricky as winning on the battlefield. In Washington there has been widespread confusion in recent weeks about when the U.S. would cut off aid to the resistance under a peace agreement. Some U.S. officials have said that the assistance would be gradually reduced as the Soviets pull out. But the U.S. has already agreed, through the Pakistani negotiators in the U.N.-sponsored Geneva talks, to cut off military aid ($630 million in 1987) at the point when the Soviets begin to withdraw. Fearing that the mujahedin...
However that sounded, Gorbachev was by no means washing his hands of Najib. Said a Pentagon analyst: "It is somewhat naive to think that the Soviets will withdraw and leave a Communist regime to collapse." Sure enough, Moscow last week pressed Islamabad to drop its objection to dealing with Najib. To drive home that point, Yuli Vorontsov, First Deputy Foreign Minister, visited Islamabad to deliver a vague threat. Said he: "Any delays in the signing of the accords from now on will not be of the Soviet Union's making. We don't know who will take that responsibility." Continued...
Cordovez told reporters in Islamabad that only logistical details of the Soviet army's departure remain to be established. He has spent the past 20 days shuttling between Islamabad and Kabul, the Afghan capital...
...rebel statement was issued shortly before the arrival in Islamabad of U.N. Under Secretary-General Diego Cordovez, who has mediated at the previous eleven rounds of Geneva talks between the Afghan and Pakistani governments. Yunis Khalis, chairman of the loosely knit alliance of seven mujahedin groups, refused to meet Cordovez. He accused the U.N. official of presiding over negotiations designed "to recognize the Kabul puppet government" and demanded that Moscow bargain directly with the rebels...
When the Soviets lifted a rebel siege of the strategically placed town of Khost at the end of December, some Western diplomatic observers and Pakistani analysts in Islamabad thought that would give them a pretext to declare victory in the eight-year-old war and begin pulling out. But the Soviets have so far refused to fix a firm timetable for their withdrawal. The rebels, meanwhile, seemed determined to keep up the pressure, as they demonstrated late last week at the funeral of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and in later years an anti-mujahedin leftist...