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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41764)	11/18/2001 5:44:00 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

In the south...Kandahar..Former warlord, ex-Kandahar Mujahideen governor Gul Agha, is also operating inside southern Afghanistan with 1,000 men, his spokesman said. All the factions want the same thing -- a Loya Jirga, or grand council, to be presided over by former Afghan king Zahir Shah. In Kandahar, the Taliban said they were still in control but extended a night curfew as US planes bombed targets around the city on Sunday. Meanwhile, Popalzai tribal leader Hamid Karzai continued his four-week campaign inside Afghanistan to sway other tribal leaders away from their allegiance to the Taliban. Karzai said on Sunday he and local tribes had repulsed a Taliban advance into Uruzgan province on Saturday. Everything was calm on Sunday afternoon. Karzai, a former deputy foreign minister of a pre-Taliban government, is in touch not only with Pashtun leaders in the south, but also with the Northern Alliance in Kabul and with the United Nations. A faction of Afghan leaders, seeking the peaceful surrender of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, said on Sunday that talks were under way with the fundamentalist militia, but there was no agreement yet. A spokesman for the former Mujahideen commanders of the majority ethnic Pashtun group said a second delegation sent to Kandahar had failed to win the handover of the city from some Taliban commanders. But it was unclear how authoritative the talks were since the Pashtun leaders came from Quetta to launch their peace mission, are not in contact with Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. The head of the group, Noorzai tribe member Abdul Khaliq, told Reuters they were still awaiting a Taliban envoy. The commanders from Pashtun tribes are one of several factions trying to secure the peaceful surrender of Kandahar. "We did not get any news (from Kandahar) today," Khaliq said. The commanders decided they would give the Taliban three chances to negotiate before going to war. The group's spokesman said it was confident it would be supported by the Pentagon if it took military action. The tribal leaders' ability to raise an army was not clear.