ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: Pakistan has not and will not oppose inclusion of either the Northern Alliance or the Taliban in a future government in Kabul so long as the formation of the government is broad-based giving representation to all major Afghan groups with their agreement. However, no government imposed from outside would be acceptable to Pakistan since it will not be able to bring peace to the war-torn country.

Foreign Office spokesman Riaz M. Khan was asked at his daily briefing on Monday whether Pakistan had any apprehension that efforts for imposing a government by any outside power were being made? He recalled that the past experience clearly shows that the Soviet Union had made such an attempt and after that various groups had started fighting with each other when anyone of them tried to retain control of Kabul contrary to the agreed accords.

Even the UN arms embargo against supplies from outside to Afghan parties, exempted Northern Alliance from the ban as a result of which even now the fighting had not ended although Taliban controlled 90 per cent of the Afghan territory, the spokesman said.

He explained that Pakistan was interested in a peaceful settlement of the Afghanistan problem because of its peculiar situation, specially the problem of the transit trade to the land-locked country. He also referred to the UN role in Afghanistan for a number of years for a broad-based government in Afghanistan in the interest of peace in the region.

When asked for comment on a recent agreement between China and Russia, urging an early end to the present military operation in Afghanistan, the spokesman said Pakistan too wanted an early end to the present war. Surely, Pakistan would like an early end to the military operation so that political process for peace could begin in Afghanistan, Mr Riaz Khan explained.

Pakistan could not allow free entry to all Afghan people fleeing their homeland because of the ongoing war because it was already under heavy burden of some three million Afghan refugees. However, Pakistan had been accepting hundreds of Afghan women, children and old people even now on compassionate grounds and facilitated passage of food and relief supplies into Afghanistan.

The spokesman said that there was no arrangement between Pakistan and the US-led coalition responsible for military operation, on a flow of feed-back to Islamabad on the state of operation, he said.

When asked for comment on reported statement by Indian interior minister declaring that India would launch military action against alleged camps (of Kashmiri fighters) situated in Pakistan, the spokesman said he would advise him (Mr Advani) not to make such a mistake.