41.  The Taliban in the past week have captured the two eastern provincial capitals Jalalabad and Mehtarlam and now threaten the Kabul district centre of Sarobi.

42.  This was a reference to fears in eastern European capitals that Moscow was trying to regain influence over the affairs of its former satellites.

43.  Nawaz Khokar, science and technology minister in sacked government, was taken into custody in the eastern provincial capital of Lahore late Sunday, officials said.

44.  Pro-Rabbani troops were on alert, although the front lines were relatively calm in the eastern capital Sunday.

45.  She said Ariana was ferrying this medical cargo to Kabul from stock-piles in the eastern provincial capital Jalalabad.