AFGHANISTAN SITUATION REPORT

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• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 5, 1985
• Content Type: REPORT

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AFGHANISTAN SITUATION REPORT
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AFGHAN OFFICIAL EXPELLED BY PAKISTAN
Islamabad expelled the Afghan Consul General in
Peshawar after linking him with ecent terrorist
incidents in Pakistan.
SELLING AFGHAN REFUGEE FAMILIES
Sales of Afghan refugee families in Pakistan are
reportedly increasing so that buyers can gain food
rations and support allowances.
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PERSPECTIVE
THE WAR IN KONARHA PROVINCE, 1978-1984 4
Major Soviet offensives in early 1980 wrested
control of the Konar Valley from the insurgents,
but increasing insurgent effectiveness and a
declining Soviet effort have left the Afghan
Government with only a slightly better situation
than at the time of the invasion.
This document is prepared weekly by the Office of
Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis and the
Office of Soviet Analysis.
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AFGHAN OFFICIAL EXPELLED BY PAKISTAN
The Government of Pakistan recently declared the Afghan
Consul General in Peshawar persona non grata, reports
the US Embassy in Islamabad. A Pakistani Ministry of
Foreign Affairs official told US diplomats that
Islamabad had evidence linking the Afghan to a failed
attempt to bomb the Peshawar headquarters of resistance
leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and to several other recent
terrorist incidents. Afghanistan retaliated for the
Consul General's expulsion by expelling the Pakistani
third secretary in Kabul.
Comment: Islamabad has long suspected the Afghan
Consulates in Peshawar and Quetta of aiding KHAD
activities in Baluchistan and the North West Frontier
Provinces. Islamabad believes KHAD spent about
$140,000 in 1984 in the North West Frontier Province,
albeit with little success in disrupting the mujahidin
or fomenting Pakistani resistance to the Zia
government. Pakistan continues to tolerate an Afghan
diplomatic presence, however, in order to maintain its
consulates in Afghanistan to monitor Soviet and Afghan
regime activities there.
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SELLING
AFGHAN REFUGEE
FAMILIES
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increase in the "sale" of Afghan refugee families
living in camps in Baluchistan. The buyer becomes the
new tribal head of the family that is sold and gain
control of its aid rations and support allowances.
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in two recent sales,
the going
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price for a family
was about 1.000 Pakistani
rupees--a
little over $60.
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Comment: Refugee
administrators in Pakistan
use Afghan
tribal leaders to help distribute assistance to Afghan
refugees. Although this system follows tribal
traditions, it also provides opportunities for graft
and inequities. If the selling of families becomes
more widespread, refugee and insurgent morale is likely
to decline because buyers tend to show less interest in
the welfare of their charges than did the original
leaders.
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Afghan party
factionalism was responsible for a fight between
a KI-IAD unit and a provincial police force near
Kabul that resulted in 28 dead and eight
wounded.
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PERSPECTIVE
THE WAR IN KONARHA PROVINCE: 1978-1984
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Insurgents controlled all but a few isolated posts in
Konarha Province at the time of the Soviet invasion.
Major Soviet operations in the spring of 1980 restored
tenuous government control in the Konar Valley. Since
then, increasing insurgent effectiveness and a
declining Soviet effort have left the government with
only a few more posts than it held at the time of the
invasion.
The Province
Difficult terrain has evidently discouraged Soviet or
government military operations. Only a few narrow
valleys cut through the rugged mountains of Konarha
Province where travel is possible only by animal or on
foot. Almost all military operations have been along
the province's only motorable roads in the valleys of
the Konar River and its two main tributaries the Basgul
(or Landay Sin) and the Pech Dara.
The Konar flows through the southern part of the
province roughly paralleling the Afghan-
Pakistani border after entering Afghanistan near
Barikowt. Before the war, about half the
population--predominately Pushtun--lived in the
Konar Valley. Much of Konarha's population has
since fled to Pakistan. Asadabad, the
provincial capital, and Asmar, the main military
base about 30 kilometers to the north, are
located .on the Konar's banks.
The. Basgul (or Landay Sin) roughly parallels the
border in the northern part of the province,
joining the Konar nearBarikowt. Kamdesh is the
most important town in the. valley. About 10
percent of the population--predominately
Nuristanis--lived in this region before the war.
The Pech Dara flows east through southern
Konarha to Asadabad, located about halfway
between Barikowt and the province's southern
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Konarha's main importance to the insurgents is probably
symbolic--the resistance began in Konarha and had some
of its greatest victories there early in the war.
Islamic fundamentalist resistance broke out in the Pech
Dara Valley in December 1977,
After the Communist coup in Kabul the
following April, tribesmen in the Basgul Valley also
rose against the government. By autumn, fighting was
heavy in the Pech Dara, insurgents had seized most of
the Basgul, and some insurgents were active in the
Konar Valley.
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