Pakistan calls for peacekeeping force in Kabul

Pakistan’s president, General Pervez Musharraf, today called for a UN peacekeeping mission made up of Muslim nations to deploy in Kabul and said Turkey and Pakistan could contribute.

‘‘Kabul should remain as a demilitarised city, this is the cause of the atrocities of the past and they must not be repeated,’’ Musharraf said in Istanbul, hours after Afghan opposition forces seized the capital from the Taliban.