Anti-Taliban reactions follow fall of Kabul

(13 Nov 2001)
1. Various of men in garden of Rahman Lodge, the office of the Eastern Zone Committee, anti-Taliban organisation
2. Various of members of the organisation inside offices
3. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Haji Zaman Ghamsharik, Leader of the Eastern Zone Committee "We explain to the world that war is no solution. We want a national government to steer the country out of the present crisis. We need the world and we need to live with the world."
4. Various of journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Haji Zaman Ghamsharik, Leader of the Eastern Zone Committee "We want the United Nations to help us in setting up a national government, even if the US does help us. We want peace to be brought to Afghanistan."
6. Cutaway journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Haji Zaman Ghamsharik, Leader of the Eastern Zone Committee "Osama can't deliver anything to the Afghans. He has no role to play in our affairs because the world and the Afghans want to live in peace."
8. Ghamsharik with journalists
9. Ghamsharik on telephone
10. Exterior of offices
11. Rahman Lodge sign on wall
12. Various of men in garden of Rahman Lodge
14. Newspaper
15. Various of security outside offices
STORYLINE:
The leader of an anti-Taliban Pashtun group in exile in Pakistan has called on the United Nations to help establish a post-Taliban government in Afghanistan.
Haji Zaman Ghamsharik, leader of the Eastern Zone Committee, told reporters in Peshawar on Tuesday that he's concerned about the future government of Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul.
The Eastern Zone Committee is an organisation made up of opponents of the Taliban from the four Eastern provinces in Afghanistan bordering Pakistan - Mandahar, Aunar, Nooristan and Laghman.
These provinces are mainly populated by Pashtun people, the majority ethnic group in Afghanistan, but one which is under-represented among the Northern Alliance forces who entered Kabul overnight.
Western leaders have repeatedly expressed their desire for a future government of Afghanistan representing all ethnic groups, but with Northern Alliance soldiers in Kabul it still isn't clear how this will be achieved.
The Eastern Zone Committee was established in Peshawar last week and on Monday met Western diplomats to discuss the future of Afghanistan's government.

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