WORLD IN BRIEF : AFGHANISTAN : Rebel Leader Offers One-Day Cease-Fire
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The leader of a dissident Afghan rebel group offered a one-day cease-fire to let foreigners leave Kabul, where at least 100 people died in blistering rocket fire. A spokesman for the fundamentalist Hezb-i-Islami group said its leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, offered the conditional cease-fire in response to Wednesday’s U.N. Security Council call for a halt to fighting between Hezb-i-Islami and the interim government so that foreigners could leave.
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