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A1 WORKING AROUND PAKISTAN -- The Pentagon is planning to minimize the use of Pakistani bases in a military strike against the Taliban, to avoid risking destabilization of a volatile ally that has nuclear weapons.

Both the former king and the opposition commanders made clear that they believe that their plan is a way not just to rid their country of the Taliban, but to avoid American reprisals against Afghanistan, where the terror suspect Osama bin Laden is under Taliban protection.

He said he anticipated that insurgents would use more homemade bombs and attempt assassinations of local Afghan officials, part of what he called a Taliban strategy to avoid direct contact with United States forces and their superior firepower.

Ruud Lubbers, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, said the attacks should be focused on the terrorist network Al Qaeda and on its Taliban protectors to avoid the perception that the bombing is an attack on Afghanistan's people.

Like other nations, it has refrained from appointing an ambassador before the Afghan factions negotiate a post-Taliban regime to avoid the impression that accepts the Northern Alliance as the legitimate government.

Of the documented deaths, 77 percent were caused by the Taliban and other insurgent groups, an increase from 2010 despite repeated pledges by the Taliban to try to avoid killing civilians.

The Taliban prefers now to avoid frontal clashes and concentrates on laying roadside bombs.

Yousafzai said the Taliban would try to avoid a repeat of the rushed and controversial appointment of Mansoor in 2015.

Another local official said the police officers had changed into civilian clothes after the initial Taliban assault, hoping to avoid capture.

The Pakistani ambassador in Kabul still laughingly denies the suggestion that the Taliban is anything other than an Afghan phenomenon; but for everyone else it is an accepted fact that Pakistan promotes the Afghan Taliban in order to avoid the emergence of a strong state backed by India (see article).