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Rabbani flees, Pakistan recognises

Taliban in full control of Afghanistan
MAZAR-E-SHARIF (Afghanistan). May 25: Taliban fighters moved swiftly today to assert their authority over this northern stronghold, whose capture a day earlier nearly completed a three-year campaign to unite Afghanistan under the white flag of the radically Islamic army, report agencies.
The fall of Mazar-e-Sharif brought virtually all of Afghanistan — barring a few pockets of resistance — under one regime for the first time
since the Soviet army ended a 10-year occupation in 1989.
The Taliban now control about 80 per cent of the territory with the remnants of the opposition confined to the far northeast and the central province of Bamian.
The strategic Salang tunnel on the main highway from Kabul to central Asia fell into the hands of Taliban today, witnesses toW AFP.
The highway had remained closed since the Taliban seized Kabul In September, following
which President Burhanuddin Rabbani and his forces under Masood fled to the north.
Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani has fled to Iran, Pakistani foreign minister Gohar Ayub Khan said today.
General Abdul Rashid Dostum. arrived today in the Turkish capital, said a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry in Ankara.
"General Rashid Dostum arrived in Ankara this morning," the ministry spokesman said. He gave no other details.
Pictures made available to Reuters television showed Dostum, his wife and family arriving in the Turkish capital with suitcases. He checked into an Ankara hotel after travelling from the airport in a limousine.
Pakistan today became the first country to formally recognise the Taliban and Afghanistan's legitimate government.
"I am happy to announce that the government of Pakistan has decided to accord formal recognition to the new government of the Islamic state of Afghanistan," Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan told reporters in the Pakistani capital.
Pakistan will send its ambassador to visit Mazar-e-Sharif tomorrow. Khan said.
He said Pakistan would reopen its embassy in Kabul, vacant since 1995, "as soon as resources allow us to do so."
Meanwhile, the Taliban today banned music and arts as un-Islamic.
Taliban soldiers were seen enforcing their control. Thieves were caught and beaten. Guards who had been unable to prevent robberies during Saturday's chaos also received blows.
There was no immediate announcement about closing liquor stores or the two cinemas that used to screen Indian movies considered racy by Afghan standards.
Malik Pahalwan. the mustachioed commander whose defection to the Taliban led to the capture of the north, would have to grow a beard to conform to the Taliban's code.
Pahalwan said girls schools will remain closed for now and women will not be allowed to work.