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Mullah Rabbani arrives in car2. Mullah Rabbani walking and greets Lakhdar Brahimi3. Close up of Mullah Rabbani and Taliban Ambassador4....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eIslamabad, 25/26/27 March, 1998, Southern Afghanistan, August, 1997\u003cbr/\u003eIslamabad, 25 March 1998 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Mullah Rabbani arrives in car\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mullah Rabbani walking and greets Lakhdar Brahimi\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of Mullah Rabbani and Taliban Ambassador\u003cbr/\u003e4. Reverse shot of press conference\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot of Taliban representatives\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid shot of Taliban\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway of media\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: Mullah Mohammed Rabbani, Taliban Prime Minister\u003cbr/\u003e26th March 1998, Islamabad\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: Lakhdar Brahimi, UN Secretary General's special envoy to Afghanistan\u003cbr/\u003eAugust 1997, Southern Afghanistan\u003cbr/\u003e10. Multiple rocket launcher firing\u003cbr/\u003e11. Loading rocket launcher\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up of loading, turning handle\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of rocket launcher firing\u003cbr/\u003e14. Tank drives up ridge\u003cbr/\u003e15. Tank driving down road\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of mortar round landing amongst men and casualties\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close up of man talking on radio\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide shot of smoke from exploding mortar shell\u003cbr/\u003e26th March, Islamabad\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: Lakhdar Brahimi, UN Secretary General's special envoy to Afghanistan\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: Ahmed Rashid, Far Eastern Economic Review\u003cbr/\u003eAugust 1997, Southern Afghanistan\u003cbr/\u003e23. Soldiers and refugees fleeing from frontline\u003cbr/\u003e24. Tank barrel and refugees leaving\u003cbr/\u003e25. Family and mule walking past truck\u003cbr/\u003e26. Reverse of family fleeing\u003cbr/\u003eEng/Pashtu/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eFighting and street battles have reignited in war-torn Afghanistan amid reports that high powered weapons are being shipped into the country.\u003cbr/\u003eWith the winter over, what is known as 'the fighting season' has resumed.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a last ditch effort to bring peace to the troubled country the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan sent special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to Islamabad to trigger peace talks amongst the warring factions and bring an end to the long running conflict.\u003cbr/\u003eThe United Nations was hoping that the rare visit to Islamabad of one of the Taliban's most senior leaders, Mullah Mohammed Rabbani, would give new hope to months of stalled peace initiatives.\u003cbr/\u003eHe came for face to face talks with Lakhdar Brahimi, the U-N Secretary General's special envoy for Afghanistan - the man who is hoping to restore peace to the war torn region.\u003cbr/\u003eBut within minutes of meeting they were faced with a crisis in U-N-Taliban relations. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the Taliban headquarters of Kandahar, a series of confrontations between officials from both sides culminated last week with a U-N official being slapped in the face by a Taliban leader.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Taliban fundamentalist army has been fighting to gain control of Northern Afghanistan -   the only area which remains in the hands of the anti-Taliban alliance, led by ousted President Burhanuddin Rabbani and his defeated military chief Ahmed\u003cbr/\u003eShah Massood. \u003cbr/\u003eBut some reports say the various northern factions have recently split into ethnic groups and are also fighting amongst themselves.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd as the Taliban peace delegation in Islamabad sat down for their first televised press conference, news came that the U-N had decided to pull its foreign staff out of Kandahar and suspend its operations in the territory controlled by the Taliban authorities.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Pashtun)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Mullah Omar (Taliban leader), has passed a guarantee today. The departure of the UN personnel was decided from their side without any discussion with us. Our government has guaranteed the safety and promises that these actions will not be repeated, but UN staff should work within our rules.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mullah Mohammed Rabbani, Taliban Leader No 2\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are lots of and insistent reports that there are masses of arms pouring in that seems to indicate that the two sides were preparing themselves for another bout of serious fighting, once the winter was over. So I told them that since we are talking about\u003cbr/\u003enegotiations why don't we also organise a ceasefire\".\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Lakhdar Brahimi, UN Secretary General's Special envoy to Afghanistan\u003cbr/\u003eBut a ceasefire is the most unlikely of all options.  \u003cbr/\u003eSimilar calls last year fell on deaf ears.\u003cbr/\u003eThe warring factions blame each other for starting the fighting. \u003cbr/\u003eWith frontlines shifting fast and the opportunity for large gains possible, battles have been intense and vicious with each side determined to inflict the maximum possible casualties.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter years of both factions snubbing peace efforts while escalating the conflict, the U-N is now seriously talking about the possibility of pulling out.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"If we do pull out it will be because we have been forced, we are not going to pull out if there is this little chance of working there and helping the people of Afghanistan\".\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Lakhdar Brahimi, UN Secretary General's special envoy to Afghanistan\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't think the factions really have the realisation how fed up the United Nations and the international community really is with this conflict, and the growing criticism by the NGO's (non governmental organisations) and other people that in fact humanitarian operations in Afghanistan are fueling the conflict because they are allowing the warlords to carry on fighting while the aid agencies are looking after the population, now the UN is faced with grave criticism and I think one of the reasons while it may well freeze operations is to basically tell the warlords that we are not going to be feeding the population while you carry on fighting\".\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Ahmed Rashid, Far Eastern Economic Review\u003cbr/\u003eAnd it's the Afghan people who are caught in the middle.\u003cbr/\u003eSuffering at the hands of 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