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- WORLD, Page 49World NotesAFGHANISTANConflicting Consensus
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- The stormy two-week session was marred by infighting and
- last-minute reversals. But last week outside Islamabad, a
- council of the seven Pakistan-based mujahedin factions at last
- agreed on a formula for sharing power if they overthrow the
- Soviet-backed government of President Najibullah in Afghanistan.
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- Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, leader of the fundamentalist Islamic
- Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan, was named the
- potential Prime Minister, while Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, leader
- of the moderate Afghan National Liberation Front, would be
- President. Five other rebel leaders also received Cabinet
- assignments.
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- The agreement reached by the guerrillas impressed U.S. and
- Pakistani observers, but the unity may prove fleeting. A rival
- group of mujahedin based in Iran opposed the council's choices.
- Mojaddedi nonetheless called on other countries to recognize the
- interim rebel government, which he predicted would be
- functioning inside Afghanistan within a month, "God willing."
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