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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41217)10/26/2001 9:11:39 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (2) of 50167
 
Moderate Taliban may be given 20 per cent representation in the proposed broad-based multi-ethnic interim setup in Afghanistan in case the US-led coalition overthrows the ruling Taliban militia through the ongoing military operation.
According to sources, broad details on the subject came under discussion during several meetings of Pakistani officials with their US counterparts recently.
Sources said that President General Pervez Musharraf and US Secretary of State Colin Powell in their meeting in Islamabad had also discussed the modalities as to how much share the moderate Taliban should be given in future multi-ethnic broad-based setup.
Serious but aborted efforts continue to remain under way to establish a broad-based government in Kabul on the assumption that the US-led coalition would manage to overthrow the Taliban government.
The process for a broad-based government in Afghanistan had started much before the beginning of the military operation in Afghanistan by the United States in retaliation for terrorist attacks on Pentagon and World Trade Centre on September 11.
President Pervez Musharraf’s meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in early October, the visit of envoy of former Afghan monarch Zahir Shah and visits of several foreign dignitaries in Islamabad were part of the international efforts to install a broad-based government in Kabul excluding the hardliner Taliban.
The recent two-day conference by Afghan leaders in Peshawar was also part of the efforts to nominate Zahir Shah as head of the proposed setup through the traditional Loya jirga.
Through a resolution, these influential Afghan leaders had observed that “military operations being carried out by the United States and its allied forces may bring about fall of the Taliban regime any time that will create a political vacuum. They had feared that if this vacuum was filled by a particular group through military operation, it would again throw Afghanistan into another spell of bloodshed thus adding to the misery of millions of Afghans taking refuge in various countries of the world.
The participants of the conference on “Peace and National Unity” wanted a political struggle to forestall creation of such a disastrous situation. However, all overt and covert efforts undertaken so far to spilt the Taliban from within have failed to deliver.
The US plan to capture Mazar-e-Sharif with the help of Northern Alliance and use its air base for air strikes on the Taliban has also come a cropper thus dealing a blow to the military strategy of the coalition forces.
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