31.   In Peshawar, along the Afghan border, officials from several key opposition factions met to discuss a coordinated attack against Rabbani and his allied defense force.

32.   International and local human rights groups have accused law enforcement agencies in Karachi of violating civil liberties and resorting to killings in a campaign to crush militant opposition factions.

33.   Iraqi opposition factions have sought in the past to form an effective alliance against the Iraqi president, but traditional rivalries have kept them fragmented.

34.   Meanwhile, there were rising tensions among rival opposition factions, some of which complain that they have been sidelined by Karzai.

35.   Moshe Katzav, head of the opposition Likud parliament faction said Friday his party would not honor any deals Rabin made with Syrian President Hafez Assad.

36.   On Friday, parliament adopted a resolution proposed by a centrist opposition faction.

37.   Opposition factions fought among themselves, U.N. officials said, with gunmen looting foreign aid agencies and diplomatic missions.

38.   Rival opposition factions quarreled over control of the city, with one faction accusing the other of sheltering Omar.

39.   Several party officials have since returned to Khartoum from exile and the party withdrew from the Eritrea-based National Democratic Alliance, an umbrella group of opposition factions.

40.   Some big names in the opposition faction are still seething for being outmanoeuvred by the Chuan team.