SOVIET THRUST AT GULF IS SEEN BY AFGHAN

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2008
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nel in Afg an s army said in an they ' will begin"a movement calling or plies.
interview here independence from Pakistan. The recent cease. fire between the
"'`The'southOesfernX`egiop`of Pakistan 'Ain'"independent Baluchistan -.with Soviets aria guerrillas in the Panjsher
- knownas Baluchistan will become friendly ties to; the Soviet-backed gov. Valley became"necessary.; Wardak said
the new focus of ` Sovie't' effortsto pro erninent of Babrak Karmal in Af because the Russians had destroyed the
cut a va water sort` in the ?stragic . ghanistan - Would provide the - Rus food supply an d were blocking:. the
X_accQSS ka a oil traffic mouth ofrtthe valley with troops to pre
~8fi3^ gulf, p edict d ; hul siaris with rqad
' lanes of the ulf w t otft hav 3"
Dastageer, rdtlc,VvboeftxtiA l:. g j,.,. gent aupgltesrom coming frAm:: the
army sh~fter the99 vief tnva directly confront the pro-Western.gov capital of Kabul, about 50 miles to the
:si fiof t% ut ry`to ead a group of` ernment of Pakistan . south.
resistance fighters Only direct Western.} intervention "They afire o a 'Cease-fire, but only
Wardak and Iris fa 710 ' e in the could persuade the Soviets to : abandon:: .until August, ,- he said "I cannot con-
Annapolis, are . He was.. interviewed':. the plan, Wardak,said.: ceive that the Afghani people would ever
along. with his two sons - Farooq and "We are fighting the entire Eastern lay down their weapons against the Sovi-
Waleed;,whoOcted as hiq interpreters - bloc," Wardak Said, ,asserting?'that the , ets." t Rz' ' % t *" '