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...diplomatic efforts aimed at cobbling together a successor government to the Taliban. But that political alchemy can't be ordered off the shelf. The West must first broker a consensus among Afghanistan's multitude of opposition groups. In Pakistan last week, Colin Powell seemed to get behind Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's proposal that a governing coalition would include Taliban "moderates"--members of the majority Pashtun tribe in the south who could be convinced, or bribed, to peel away from the regime. Rumsfeld signaled that the Pentagon no longer intends to eradicate Taliban forces wholesale. "It is going...
...most Americans, the term moderate Taliban would be an oxymoron, not unlike "middle-of-the-road Nazi"--just a joke in search of a punch line. So when Secretary of State Colin Powell cautiously endorsed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's view that such members of the repressive Afghan regime might have a role to play in a future coalition government, many people shared the same reaction as the partisans in the conflict. Both the Northern Alliance's Foreign Minister and the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan declared defiantly, "There's no such thing...
...Northern Alliance troops are predominantly from Afghanistan's other minorities. And in part, it's because of the memory of the years from 1992 to 1996, when warlords held Kabul and did little else other than wreck it and fight among themselves. The Northern Alliance's fighters, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said last week, were responsible for "all kinds of atrocities. I think their return would mean a return to anarchy and criminal killing." A senior British source lends some support to this position. Those fighting the Taliban, he says, are "good guys to the extent that they are helping...
...ruling coup-prone Pakistan is perilous in the best of times, consider the current plight of Pervez Musharraf. The general who seized power exactly two years ago to domestic acclaim now sees his effigy burned in the streets. The self-appointed President who favored the Taliban has turned his back on a Muslim neighbor. The military ruler shunned by the West has cast his lot with Washington. After two years of mollycoddling religious extremists, he has vowed to move "swiftly and firmly" if they protest his new policies too violently. Now he must navigate a country with enough enriched uranium...
...offered the Taliban a "second chance," saying he would call off the assault if they surrendered bin Laden. The regime rejected the proposal. The Western military action sparked protests in Pakistan, Indonesia, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, where police opened fire on bin Laden supporters in Gaza. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf struggled to contain anti-American demonstrations in several major cities. He sidelined two generals and replaced his intelligence chief - all three had pro-Taliban sympathies - before allowing the country?s airspace and later airbases to be used by U.S. forces...