1. Reconciliation of Ethnic Parties in Afghanistan afte
... and Iran, all of which have provided assistance to the Islamic resistance fighters known collectively as the mujahedin (defenders of Islam), and the Soviet Union, which has assisted the Afghan government of President Najibullah. The Secretary General's plan calls for a settlement based on an internationally assisted "transitional mechanism." This mechanism would enable the Afghans to hold "free ... in the professional class that developed with Zahir Shah's efforts to modernize the country. Barnett Rubin, an American political expert on Afghanistan at New York University, has described th...
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