Labels:text | font | screenshot | black and white | document OCR: In 1991, the US-Russian agreement to suspend military supplies to the Afghan groups marked the end of the superpowers' active involvement in Afghanistan. The Kabul communists, in particular, had been almost totally dependent on Moscow for arms, even after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. In practice, Afghanistan has no formal defense arrangements. Ahmad Shah Massoud, who holds much of Kabul, is the current defense minister. He controls the "Jamiat-i-Islami," a leading Tajik "mujahideen" grouping. They have enough ex-Soviet arms stockpiled to last several years. Weapons dumps in no-man's-land on the border with Pakistan supply Golboddin Hekmatyar, the nominal prime minister. Afghanistan still has around 300-400 of the 1,000 Stinger missiles given by the USA to the "mujahideen" in the 1980s. The USA, worried that they may be used against civilian airliners, is offering $100,000 each to buy them back. To date, none have been returned.
