MANSEHRA, Nov 25: Ex-senator and JUI’s leader Hafiz Hussain Ahmad has said the US is not interested in a broad-based, multi-ethnic government in Afghanistan, but wants to induct a foreign-based dispensation.

“We want to clarify to the US that no setup excluding the Taliban could succeed because they have ruled over 90 per cent of their country,” he said while talking to this correspondent here on Sunday.

He said the US wanted to make the government of Zahir Shah on the dead bodies of Afghans but no imported setup in Afghanistan could sustain itself without the Taliban.

He said even though the Taliban surprised the world by retreating from Kabul, “I want to tell the world that in two weeks’ time the coffins of the US and its allies’ soldiers would be deported to their respective countries.

Asked about Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts, he said “he is present in South Asia” but would not tell the exact place of his hiding.

He said the Taliban had entered Kabul without making any bloodshed and have now retreated peacefully.

Inshallah, very soon, they would again give the world a surprise by entering Kabul without a combat, Hafiz Hussain Ahmad added.

He said the Pakistan government wilted in the face of US threats despite having nuclear assets, but the Taliban braved the US-led forces’ bombardment for forty days “and are still facing their ruthless strikes.”

He said the Northern Alliance forces will clash with each other once the US-led forces went back to their countries because the Taliban, while on retreat, left behind their respective areas in control of the warlords and it was impossible to regain these areas from them.

He said now President Gen Pervaz Musharraf and Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz “are saying openly that neither the US would write off loans nor fulfil their promises, but we had made these remarks even before the strikes began.”

He said it was now a proven fact as the US had not only ignored Pakistan in the government-making process for Kabul, it had thrown all its tall promises to the wind.

He warned the government that if it did not change its policies towards religious parties and their leaders “we would be left with no other option but to fight against the government instead of the US.”