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| Pakistan Warns U.S. on Afghan Role |
| 2001-09-26 |
| Molly Moore and Kamran Khan Washington Post Pakistan warned the United States today against forging an alliance with rebels fighting the Taliban movement in northern Afghanistan, signaling the first public rift between Washington and Islamabad as plans move ahead for a possible attack on Afghanistan. In a statement clearly intended to warn the Bush administration not to adopt an Afghan strategy based on toppling the Taliban and replacing it with a rebel coalition known as the Northern Alliance, Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdus Sattar told reporters: "We must not make the blunder of trying to foist a government on the people of Afghanistan. We fear that any such decision on the part of foreign powers to give assistance to one side or the other in Afghanistan is a recipe for great disaster for the people of Afghanistan." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |