Kabul ‘ready for coalition’
NZPA-Reuter Kabul President Najibullah has pledged an all-out effort for national reconciliation at an assembly of Afghan leaders disrupted by a rebel rocket attack and gunfights. President Najibullah, aged 41, told delegates to the two-day grand national assembly in Kabul he was ready to form a coalition and negotiate with any opposition leader to find a way of ending the eight-year war with Muslim rebels. After a rebel rocket attack on Sunday in which one missile landed close to the conference centre, gun battles broke out yes-
terday, killing at least 20 people, according to diplomats.
The gun fights involved Afghan security forces and a former guerrilla commander named by authorities as Esmat Muslim, who gained the rank of general and a post on the ruling council after going over to the Government side two years ago. The first exchanges started in the morning with machine-gun fire echoing across Kabul and 11 people reported dead, eight of them armed men who tried to force their way into the assembly with the general.
General Muslim was believed to have survived the attack.
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