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| Afghan king to urge anti-Taliban uprising |
| 2001-09-30 |
| Washington Times Afghanistan's former king Mohammed Zahir Shah is expected to urge the Afghan people to rise up against their Taliban rulers in a message to be released within the next 48 hours, his grandson Prince Musatapha Zahir Shah indicated to ABC television Sunday. The king expects to return to the country he left 27 years ago as a constitutional monarch with the help of the United States and anti-Taliban rebels, his grandson said. "The king will be making a very important statement in the next 48 hours," said Shah when asked if the deposed monarch was to make a formal declaration that the Afghan people should rise up and remove the Taliban from power. King Zahir, who ruled Afghanistan for 40 years, has been living outside Rome since 1973 when his cousin Mohammed Dawood ousted him. In a brief message in Afghanistan's Dari language, the former king said "disunity has caused a lot of problems in Afghanistan and we have to unite and cooperate with each other in order to take our country forward." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |