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WORLD, Page 49World NotesAFGHANISTANConflicting Consensus
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.
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.
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."