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On January 3, [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]], the leader of the [[Jamiat Islami]] party, was sworn in as President. However Rabbani's authority remained limited to only part of [[Kabul]]; the rest of the city remained divided among rival [[mujahidin]] factions. In response, on January 19, a short-lived [[cease-fire]] broke down when [[Hezb-i-Islami]] forces renewed [[rocket]] attacks on [[Kabul]] from their base in the south of the city. Civilians were the main victims in the fighting which killed some 1,000 before a peace accord was signed on March 8.
Under the March accord, brokered by [[Pakistan]] and [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Rabbani]] and [[Hekmatyar]] agreed to share power until elections could be held in late 1994. Hekmatyar was named Prime Minister, but by November he had not entered [[Kabul]] because of continuing opposition from forces loyal to [[Massoud]] and sometimes those allied to the [[Uzbekistan|Uzbek]] commander, General [[Dostum]]. The cease-fire broke down again on May 11, leaving more than 700 dead in bombing raids, street battles and rocket attacks in and around Kabul. The parties agreed to a new peace accord in [[Jalalabad]] on May 20 under which Massoud agreed to relinquish the post of Defense Minister. A council of commanders was to assume that office, as well as the office of Interior Minister, but by mid-November the power struggle remained unresolved.
[[Category:Wars of Afghanistan]]
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