The World - News from Sept. 1, 1986
More than 5,000 people including Pakistani exiles attended a tightly guarded rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, supporting dissident Pakistani border tribes. The annual rally, attended by Communist Party leader Najib, commemorated the 1893 split of the Pushtun tribal region between Afghanistan and what was then British India. Kabul has never recognized the line between the two countries. Meanwhile, Western diplomats said that Afghan rebels fired at least nene rockets at Soviet military installations near Kabul. Afghan officials claimed that the noise was from artillery practice.
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