Word: rabbani
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...presidential candidate, urged the 2,000 delegates (including 200 women) to choose U.S.-backed Karzai to lead the country until elections in 2004. In return for standing aside, the King received the ceremonial role of "Father of the Afghan Nation." The only other serious challenger, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, also pulled out of the race. PAKISTAN Consulate Car Bomb A car bomb exploded outside the U.S. consulate in the southern city of Karachi, injuring more than 40 people and killing at least 11, including the bomber. The blast left a crater about 1.5-m deep and a 3-m-wide...
KABUL The battles roiling again among regional warlords have been a headache for interim President HAMID KARZAI. A Pashtun, Karzai has endured political sniping from those left out of the government. Former President BURHANUDDIN RABBANI, a Tajik, does not command forces but has scattered support. So does former Premier GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR, a Pashtun. In early May, the CIA tried to assassinate Hekmatyar--whom it considers a dangerous enemy of Karzai as well as of the U.S.--but he escaped the missile attack, which killed several supporters...
...another. Last month saw two pitched gun battles at the gates of the presidential palace in Kabul?while Karzai was inside working?between different bands of the palace guards: Panshiris loyal to Defense Minister Mohamed Fahim and another group from Badakshan province allied to former President Burhanuddin Rabbani. The latest confidential U.N. report on security, seen by TIME, concludes that a full-fledged "power struggle" is under way. "Those elements that have the most to lose from a stable and democratic order in Afghanistan have begun to react," U.N. undersecretary for political affairs Kieran Prendergast says. Moreover...
...Before that, Mansoor had lived in the shadow of his more famous father, Maulvi Nasrullah Mansoor, a mujahedeen commander against the Soviets in the 1980s. But while the father had backed the government of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani before being killed by political rivals in a 1993 car bombing, the young Mansoor joined the Taliban and served as deputy commander of the garrison at Kargha near Kabul until last November. Following the movement's collapse, Mansoor returned home and reactivated the base at Shahi Kot, which had served his father so well against the Soviets...
...controls a big chunk of northern Afghanistan and who has already announced that the Uzbeks will boycott Karzai's government. Dostum is angry that the three most important government portfolios--Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs--went to his Tajik rivals within the Northern Alliance. Another potential spoiler is Rabbani, the Alliance leader who was President from 1992 to 1996 but was excluded from the new government. Intelligence sources in Islamabad say that Rabbani's men, using money from Iran, are paying off Pashtun elders in the eastern regions to oppose both Karzai and the return of former King Mohammed Zahir...