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254 ~ NOTESmuddin, Religious Police, Mansur, Agriculture and Arif, Deputy Finance Minister.See Appendix for further details.16. Interview with Maulana Samiul Haq, February 1999.17. Herald magazine, 'Binori madrassa', December 1997.18. After the Clinton administration classified them as a group supporting internationalterrorism in 1998, they changed their name to Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin.Chapter 71. Sikorski, Radek, Dust of the Saints, Chatto and Windus, London 1989. This isthe most comprehensive account of the field commanders' meeting.2. Magnus, Ralph and Naby, Eden, Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx and Mujahid,Harper Collins, India 1998.1 am grateful to the authors for providing this helpfuldivision of the Mujaheddin leadership.3. There are 31 provinces (wilayat) in Afghanistan, each governed by a governor(wali). Each province is divided into districts (uluswali) and sub-districts (ahqdari).Kabul is divided into karts and subdivided into smaller districts call nahia.4. At every opportunity during my visits to Kabul I would ask ministers their viewson how they saw the future government of the Taliban. No two ministers had thesame opinion and clearly there was very little thought being put into the subject.5. M-MajaSah, 23 October, 1996. Interview given to Arabic magazine.6. Interview with author. Kandahar, March 1997.7. The Nation, 'Four killed in revolt against Taliban', 10 January 1998.8. Interviews with international aid workers in Kandahar, who had met the villageelders. Islamabad, February 1998.9. Interview with former inmate of Kandahar jail.10. AFP, 'Taliban arrest dozens of alleged coup plotter', 23 October 1998.Chapter 81. Rubin, Barnett, The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapsein the International System, Yale University Press, 1995.2. Braudel, Ferdinand, A History of Civilizations, Penguin Books, London 1993.3. Interview with Maulvizada, Kabul, June 1997.4- UNDP Country Development Indicators, 1995.5. UNOCHA statement, October 1996.6. UNICEF statement, 11 December 1998.7. Rubin, Barnett: The Fragentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and CoUapse inthe International System.8. 'In The Firing Line: War and Children's Rights', Amnesty International 1999.9. Anders, Fange, 'Difficulties and Opportunities; Challenges of Aid in Afghanistan'.Paper for Stockholm Conference on Afghanistan, 24 February 1999.10. Wali, Sima, 'Statement on Afghanistan' to the US Congressional HumanNOTES ~ 255Rights Caucus, 30 October 1997. Wali is head of the Refugee Women in Development.11. Interview with Maulvizada, Kabul, June 1997.12. UNICEF issued an official communique on 10 November 1995 and Save theChildren on 8 March 1996.13. Interview, Kabul, June 1996.14. Dupree, Nancy Hatch, 'Afghan women under the Taliban', in FundamentalismReborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban, (Maley, William ed.) C. Hurst, London 1998.This is the best essay on the history of the gender issue under the Taliban.15. Power, Carla, 'City of Secrets', Newsweek, 13 July 1998. Power's beautiful,tragic piece written with enormous flair, had a major influence on American feminists.16. UNOCHA statement, 31 October 1996.17. AFP, 'One survives Taliban death sentence for sodomy', 28 February 1998.18. Burns, John, 'With sugared tea and caustic rules, an Afghan leader explainshimself, the New York Times, 24 November 1996.19. AP, 'Taliban restrict music', 18 December 1996.20. Reuters, 'Iranian leader accuses Taliban of defaming Islam', 4 October 1996.Chapter 91. I am grateful for interviews with officials from the UN International DrugControl Programme (UNDCP) in Islamabad for their help in describing theopium-growing process.2. Interviews, Kandahar May 1997- See also Rashid, Ahmed, 'Drug the infidels',Far Eastern Economic Review, May 1997.3. As above.4. Lifschultz, Lawrence, 'Pakistan, the Empire of Heroin,' in McCoy, Alfred andBlock, Alan, War on Drugs, Studies in the Failure of US Narcotics Policy, WestviewPress 1992.5. Rubin, Barnett, The Fragmentation of Afghanistan, Slate Formation and CoUapsein the International System, Yale University Press 1995.6. Lifschulz, Lawrence, 'Pakistan: the Empire of Heroin,' in McCoy, Alfred andBlock, Alan, op.rit.7. Rashid, Ahmed, 'Dangerous Liaisons', Far Eastern Economic Review, 16 April1998.8. Interviews with UNDCP and DEA officials, March 1998.9. Interviews with Iranian officials, Tehran, March 1998. Rashid, Ahmed: 'DangerousLiaisons'.10. Observatorie Geopohtique de Drogues, Paris, 'Report on Turkmenistan',March 1999.11. Interview with President Akayev in Davos, Switzerland, 29 January 1999.12. Interview with Ambassador, Islamabad, May 1998.13. UNDCP Report, 25 October 1998.