KABOL CAPTURED AFTER FIVE YEARS

TEHRAN 13 Nov. (IPS) The capital of Afghanistan Kabol felt into the hands of the victorious Northern Alliance forces, as the Taleban, who had captured the ruined city in 1996, fled towards Qandahar, reports confirmed, coming from the front.

Tehran Television showed scenes of popular jubilations similar of those seen three days ago in Mazar Sharif, the first major city to be recaptured by the Northern Alliance led by the Uzbek General Abdol Rashid Dostom.

The Alliance forces entered Kabol despite appeals by American President George Bush not to enter the city before an interim government is formed.

"But it seems that political events does not move as fast as the military", said one Afghan source.

In Dubai, President Jacques Chirac of France called for an urgend move from the United Nations special representative for Afghanistan, Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi while Pakistan demanded the "demilitarisation" of Kabol.

There was no official reaction from either Tehran or Washington to the fall of Kabol.

Speaking from Kabol, sources described situation in the capital as stable, saying the capital fell to alliance forces early on Tuesday morning without almost no clashes with Taleban.

The source said Alliance forces had immediately set up an uninformed police force of 2.000 men patrolling Kabol to establish security in Kabul, he added.

Hours earlier, another unit of the Northern Alliance, under the commandment of General Esma’il Khan had entered Heart, a key city near the Iranian borders and

Jalalabad, the provincial capital of Nangarhar province, southeast of Kabul, is on the brink of fall, Afghan sources in Iran reported Tuesday, quoted by the official Iranian news agency IRNA.

According to these information, the United Front forces had reached Pakistan borders in some eastern parts of Afghanistan, he said, adding the resistance troops had completed rounding up Jalalabad during their Monday night and Tuesday advances.

Coming only three days after Bush specifically urged Afghan opposition forces to stay away from the capital, the development appeared to present the US Administration with a potential diplomatic quandary as it tries to put together a broad post-Taleban government for the war-torn country.

"We've seen reports, we are evaluating the reports, and at the moment the situation on the ground is very fluid," White House spokeswoman Jeanie Mamo told the French news agency AFP. ENDS KABOL CAPTURED 131101