President Gen. Pervez Musharraf returned home Wednesday after appealing for a U.N. peacekeeping force and a broad-based government in Afghanistan, where the Taliban movement fell during his absence from the region. Musharraf said the United Nations should send a peacekeeping force to Afghanistan made up of Muslim nations, adding that Pakistan could contribute.
"Kabul should remain as a demilitarized city," Musharraf said in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday.
Pakistan was allied with the Taliban until the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the U.S. But Musharraf then abandoned the Taliban, which has harbored bin Laden, and sided with the US. Bureau Report