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IS LIKELY TO SUCCEED IN PERSUADING AFGHAN IIPATE. RESISTANCE LEADERS ARE UNDER STRONG PRESSURE FROM ISLAMABAD TOOVERNMENT AND PROBABLY WILL HOLD THE SHURA SOMETIME NEXT MONTH. DIVISIONS AMONG -AfCHAff GROUPS* ART 'PROBABLY TOO WIDE. HOWEVER. FOR THE SHURA TOONSENSUSEW GOVERNMENT. ONSENSUS. EACH INSURGENT PARTY IS LIKELY TO BREAK EVENTUALLY WITH THC ALLIANCE TO PURSUE ITS OWN INTERESTS,

THE RESISTANCE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

THC AFGHAN RESISTANCE'S PROPOSAL TOHURAOUNCIL) IS OESIGNEO TOOPULARLY SUPPORTED. RESISTAKCI-LED TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT TO TAKE POWER AFTER THE FALL OF THE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF AFGHANISTAN. THE SHURA OF SOME hBOEADING AFGHANS IS TO SETTLEORM OF GOVERNMENT ANO ELECTEAD OF STATEABINET FROM AMONG ITS OWN MEMBERS. THE SHURA IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO MEET FROMO EBRUARY, tff

RES ISTAHCE GROUPS. HOWEVER. HAVE HOTLY CONTESTED THE COUNCIL'S "AHDAT b AS WELL AS THE HETHOO FOR NOMINATING COUNCILLAN ANNOUNCED LAST OCTOBER TO HOLD ELECTIOHS FOR DELEGATES THROUGHOUT AFGHANISTAN WAS ABANDONED AFTER MANY FIELD COMMANDERS SAIO THEY COULO NOT BOTH FIGHT AND OVERSEE LOCAL ELECTIOHS. THE CURRENT PLAN FOR EACH OF THE SEVEN PARTIES BASED IN PESHAWAR TODELEGATES HAS BEEN CRITICIZED BY MINORITY GROUPS WHO FEAR BEING OVERLOOKED AND BY LARGER RESISTANCE GROUPS WHO BELIEVE THEY SHOULD,RECEIVE GREATER REPRESENTATIOH THAN THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN,

THE DEBATE APPEARS SHARPEST OVER THE ALLOCATION Of SEATS TO INSURGENT GROUPS OUTSIDE THE PESHAWAR ALLIANCE. THE EIGHT TEHRAN-BASED SHIA GROUPS SAY THEY SHOULD RECEIVE AT LEASTEATS. WHILE ISLAMIST SUNNI LEADERS MUHAMMAD TUNIS KHALISUL RASUL SAYYAF ARGUE THAT THE SHIAS DESERVC. AT MOST. ONLY FOUR. ALTHOUGH KHALIS* AHO SAYYAF APPEAR TO HAVE AGREED TO GO ALONG WITH THC CURRENT ALLIANCE OFFER OFEATS FOR THE SHIAS WITHORE GOING TO THREE MINOR PRO-TEHRAN SUNNI FACTIONS. THEY ARE CERTAIN TO OPPOSE ANY FURTHER CONCESSION TO MINORITY CROUPS.

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