61.  The Afghan capital, Kabul, is occupied by the Northern Alliance, traditionally hostile to Pakistan.

62.  The announcement came even as many residents of Kabul, the Afghan capital, began packing up in anticipation of an American strike.

63.  The bombing of frontline Taliban positions near Kabul, the Afghan capital, has been largely avoided pending agreement on what sort of government might replace the Taliban.

64.  The Bonn accord also asks the U.N. Security Council to consider sending an international force to maintain security for the Afghan capital of Kabul and surrounding areas.

65.  The Bush administration has had a strained relationship with the Al Jazeera network, the only foreign television network with a functioning bureau in the Afghan capital of Kabul.

66.  The concern at the time was that an international force was needed to guarantee order in the Afghan capital.

67.  The family moved from Kapisa to the Afghan capital, Kabul, where the young family stayed in an abandoned hospital.

68.  The hamlet, off the main provincial highway at the base of foothills leading south from the Afghan capital, was home to three families.

69.  The negotiating team that hurried here from the Afghan capital is headed by Ashraf Rafi Ahmedzai, an adviser to the U.N. special envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi.

70.  The offer of U.S. assistance follows weeks of quiet negotiations among U.S., British and Turkish officials over the future of the peacekeeping mission in the Afghan capital.