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- <text id=89TT0619>
- <title>
- Mar. 06, 1989: World Notes:Afghanistan
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 06, 1989 The Tower Fiasco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 49
- World Notes
- Afghanistan
- Conflicting Consensus
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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