>From an article today's FT entitled "Collapse of Taliban a 'matter of
time'" [p.2 of the US edition] [quote attributed to Powell]:
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The appeal to moderates, echoed by General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani president, came as the whereabouts of Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, the Taliban foreign minister widely regarded as among the Afghanistan regime's more moderate leaders, became the subject of increasing speculation in Pakistan amid reports that he had visited Islamabad or possibly even defected.
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