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40 killed in intensified attack

Hekmatyar men rain rockets on Kabul
KABUL, May 5 : A barrage of rockets killed at least 40 peo plc and wounded 200 In Kabul today as the new Islamic government and dissident gucril las sat down to talks peacc
Afghan television said the rockets were fired by rebels — hardline guerillas pushed out of the city last week after heavy fighting.
The boom of heavy government shelling rolled across the city after first light as tanks and artillery pounded the crests of the bare, rocky hills guarding Kabul's southern approaches.
Forces loyal to hardline guerilla chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar responded with barrages of rockets, many of them striking around the city's military headquarters.
Doctor* at the city s hospital said they expected the casualty toll to rise further.
The exchanges were much more intense than on Monday when rockets fired by . Hekmatyar's Hezb-t-lslami forces killed al least 13 people and wounded 77. the official media reported.
Hekmatyar's representative Qader Karyab acknowledged reluctantly that the rockets came from llezb-i-lslami posi tions but said they were only In response to attacks on them.
Emerging from talks in the Kabul office of the new head of state. Sibghatullah Mojaddcdi. Karyab said he hoped the armed confrontation would soon end.
Karyab, who arrived in Kabul on Monday night with a convoy of Mujahideen fighters led by the leaders of several guerilla groups in the government coalition, made clear that Hekmatyar had softened his demands.
Hekmatyar continues to demand the removal from Kabul of Uzbek and Tajik-speaking militia forces who bore the brunt of fierce fighting Hezb fighters inside Kabul last week.
But Karyab said Hezb-I-Islaml was now prepared to accept that Mojaddedi should rule for two months before handing over the government to another guerilla leader Burhanuddin Rabbani, whose main field commander Ahmad Shah Masood is credited with sparking the collapse of the former government.
Previously Hekmatyar had been demanding that the complex formula for transferring power from the old Soviet-Installed government to the Mujahideen should be cut short.
"We will definitely change our" position if It's tn the Interests of Islam and the interests of the nation Otherwise we are committed to drive out those that endanger security," Karyab said In reference to the militiamen.