91. Ivanchenko admitted that heroin smuggling has mushroomed in recent months amid fighting between the ruling Taliban and the Afghan opposition alliance based along part of the Tajik border. 92. Mahmaud Zahir is a platoon leader for the Afghan northern opposition forces. 93. Many members of those groups fled back to Pakistan after the Taliban regime fell in December after relentless U.S. airstrikes and ground attacks by the Afghan opposition northern alliance. 94. Moscow has also provided intelligence and promised to help arm the Afghan opposition forces. 95. Muttaqi accused Russia of plotting with the Afghan opposition to divide Afghanistan. 96. Mullah Omar called on all Taliban to resist Afghan opposition forces, basically urging them to fight to the death. 97. Newspaper reports also have quoted unidentified sources as saying one or more Americans were with Afghan opposition leader Abdul Haq when he was captured and executed last week. 98. On Wednesday, Pakistan said it launched renewed peace efforts and held talks with the Afghan opposition in a bid to broker peace in war-ravaged Afghanistan. 99. Now, with the Taliban largely defeated, the goals of the United States and Afghan opposition leaders may diverge even more, Wolfowitz said. 100. On Friday, the Taliban hanged a key Afghan opposition leader captured inside Afghanistan on a mission to encourage opposition to the Taliban in their own territory. |