The World - News from May 11, 1987
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Afghan rebels plan to hold elections in Afghanistan and among exiles to choose a council that will draft an Islamic constitution and pick a leader of an interim government for Afghanistan after a Soviet withdrawal. Yunis Khalis, spokesman for a divided alliance of seven Pakistan-based rebel groups, said in Islamabad, Pakistan, that the election will take about six months to organize. He said the council is to include 270 representatives elected by guerrillas in Afghanistan and 50 approved by Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran.
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