1.   The Afghan government claimed that artillery and infantry units of the Pakistan army had actually entered the battle at a decisive stage in late March.

2.   A PAKISTANI peace broker won a ceasefire yesterday, apparently halting artillery battles between the Afghan government and guerrillas that have caused thousands of civilian casualties.

3.   A PAKISTANI peace broker won a ceasefire yesterday, apparently halting artillery battles in Kabul between the Afghan government and guerrillas that have caused thousands of civilian casualties.

4.   An Afghan was also injured in the incident, the latest in a series of attacks by opponents of the US military presence and the interim Afghan government.

5.   An intelligence official in the Afghan government said recently that bin Laden had been seen in Waziristan, a nearby tribal area of Pakistan.

6.   And I say to all the people and all the world, help us make a broad-based Afghan government.

7.   Another complication is the hostility between the Northern Alliance and Pakistan, which has a long, porous border with Afghanistan, over the future Afghan government.

8.   Arif is a prominent member of the deposed Afghan government who has lived legally in Virginia for a number of years.

9.   Aryubi plans to leave his family in Clarkston next month to return to diplomacy, perhaps as an ambassador or consul for the Afghan government.

10.   As joyful U.N. and Northern Alliance negotiators announced an agreement in Bonn on Wednesday for the creation of an interim Afghan government, two men in Kabul remained silent.