From: hareb_s@cubldr.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Afghan News Item #5
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:34:55 GMT

I Heard that Qazi Hussien Ahmad is an ethnic Puthan. Does this have
any thing to do with the related news?

A confusing piece in this news is the description of Dustom as 
a Tajik militia leader .. I thought he is a turkic Uzbek all the 
time and not a persian Tajik .. where did I get lost?

For your comments. I am following these news impatiently!




bTW what is/are the source(s) of these news?

In article <92273.101205OMARS@auvm.american.edu>, OMARS@auvm.american.edu writes:
> From: clarinews@clarinet.com (RALPH JOSEPH)
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 10:24:19 PDT
> Location: afghanistan, pakistan
> Approved: clarinews@clarinet.com
> 
> 
> 
> Here is some more relating to my previous note attached to News Item #4:
> 
> 
>         ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- Afghanistan accused a Pakistani Islamic
> fundamentalist leader Monday of secretly supplying Afghan warlord
> Gulbuddin Hekmatyar with arms and men to assist his bid to topple the
> interim government.
>         Afghan diplomatic sources said the arms were being smuggled across
> the border to Hekmatyar's forces without the knowledge of the Pakistani
> authorities, and Islamabad has pledged not to allow its territory to be
> used for any kind of hostile activity against the Afghan government
> headed by President Burhanuddin Rabbani.
>         Rabbani, who ended a two-day visit to Islamabad Sunday, told
> journalists before flying to Tehran that Qazi Hussein Ahmed, chief of
> Pakistan's Jamaat-i-Islami party, was sending arms and men across the
> border between the two countries.
>         Afghan diplomats said Rabbani was not accusing the Jamaat-i-Islami of
> being involved. The Jamaat-i-Islami, a mainly sunni Muslim
> fundamentalist group, is not linked to the Afghan party of the same
> name, of which the near-legendary mujahideen leader Ahmed Shah Masoud is
> a member.
>         The sources said Qazi Hussein Ahmed was carrying out the operation
> independently of the party he headed, and against the advice of the
> party's other leaders. ``He is doing this with the help of his
> relatives,'' one diplomat said. ``It is more a clan matter,'' he said.
>         The Jamaat-i-Islami chief was not immediately available for comment.
> A party spokesman said he was now touring the Peshawar area, some 25
> miles from the Afghan border.
>         In his news conference Sunday, Rabbani gave no details of the type,
> quantity or origin of the arms Ahmed was allegedly supplying to
> Hekmatyar. Neither he, nor the Afghan diplomats said when the alleged
> supply operations began.
>         Hekmatyar, who heads a mujahideen gurrilla group affiliated to the
> Hezbe-Islami, has been battling the forces of Kabul's interim government
> almost since the day it was established in April, after communist
> President Najibullah was forced from power.
>         The Afghan diplomats said Hekmatyar had large quantities of arms and
> ammunition hidden away in warehouses and dumps near the Pakistan border
> at the time his rebellion started.
>         There was no immediate explanation of why Ahmed was now allegedly
> supplying him with arms, but analysts said the rebels arms stock were
> apparently heavily depleted by his five-month civil war with the Kabul
> governmemt.
>         The Frontier Post, a daily newspaper published simultaneously in
> Peshawar and Lahore, suggested the new supplies consisted mainly of
> ammunition.
>         Hekmatyar, whose original stock of arms, including heavy weapons,
> came from the U.S. and Pakistan to assist him in the war against Soviet
> forces backing Najibullah, Monday invited Peshawar-based journalists to
> a news conference scheduled for Tuesday at an undisclosed point inside
> Afghanistan.
>         The invitation did not specify what the Hiebe-Islami chief wished to
> talk about, but local journalists assumed he would answer questions
> about the charges Rabbani made Sunday.
>         Hekmatyar, whose majority ethnic Pushtun forces are holding territory
> south of Kabul, began his rebellion against the interim government after
> demanding the removal from the capital of forces loyal to Gen. Rashid
> Dostam, a Tajik militia leader whose defection to the mujahideen led to
> Najibullah's fall.
>         Masud, now Defense Minister in Kabul, is also an ethnic Tajik and has
> steadfastly refused to remove Dostam's forces from the Afghan capital.
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