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...Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev had set March 15 as the target date for concluding the negotiations, promising that if it was met, Moscow would begin withdrawing its 115,000-member army of occupation from Afghanistan by May 15. Yet last week key negotiators, including Pakistani Minister of State Zain Noorani, whose government represents the mujahedin rebels, admitted that the putative deadline would pass without an agreement. Said Noorani: "It's out of the question...
Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, as Moscow fully realizes, is in a tight spot. Says Zain Noorani, Pakistan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs: "We don't just want an agreement, we want an agreement that can be implemented." Specifically, Pakistan needs the cooperation of the seven-party mujahedin alliance to proceed with the peace agreement. Yet the guerrilla leadership will not accept an agreement with Najib. If Pakistan deals with him anyway, the results will probably be chaotic. The rebels would lose their arms pipeline -- including the Stingers -- and face a potent Soviet force for at least...
Pakistan's rejection virtually guarantees that the nuclear issue will continue to fester, thereby threatening the entire range of U.S. interests in the region. One effect of Washington's pressure so far has been to unite a normally vociferous opposition behind Zia's authoritarian government. Declared Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani, president of the right-wing Jamiatul-Ulema-e- Pakistan Party: "Pakistan must not accept the U.S. pressure. It should continue its nuclear program even if that means cutting off all American...
...Gafoor Noorani, an advocate in the Bombay high court, added that the philosophy of non-alignment embraced by Nehru is so deeply ingrained that a successor could not change it. Nehru did not create this philosophy, he said, but molded the Indian people's adherence...
...Ramachandran, a member of the All India Congress, will participate this Wednesday in the first of six International Seminars to be held throughout the summer. Gafoor Noorani, an advocate of the Bombay High Court, and Sunanda Kisor Datta-Ray, assistant editor of The Statesman, will join Ramachandran in evaluating "India after Nehru" in Burr...