NEW YORK Afghanistans minority communities - Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara - are vowing to resist, and if necessary, fight, any deal that involves bringing members of the Taliban insurgency into a power-sharing arrangement with President Hamid Karzais government, The New York Times reported on its website Saturday afternoon. Alienated by discussions between President Hamid Karzai and the Pakistani military and intelligence officials, minority leaders are taking their first steps toward organising against what they fear is Karzais long-held desire to restore the dominance of ethnic Pashtuns, who ruled the country for generations, the newspaper said in a report from Kabul. In an earlier dispatch in The Times, Pakistani officials were quoted as saying they can deliver the network of Sirajuddin Haqqani, an ally of Al Qaeda who runs a major part of the insurgency in Afghanistan, into a power-sharing arrangement with the Afghan government. The dispute over the move is breaking along lines nearly identical to those that formed during the final years of the Afghan civil war, which began after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union in 1989 and ended only with the American invasion following the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the Times. Karzai is giving Afghanistan back to the Taliban, and he is opening up the old schisms, Rehman Oghly, an Uzbek member of Parliament and once a member of an anti-Taliban militia, was quoted as saying in the dispatch. If he wants to bring in the Taliban, and they begin to use force, then we will go back to civil war and Afghanistan will be split. American commanders have concluded that only a political settlement can end the war, the report said. But in helping Karzai to make a deal, they risk reigniting Afghanistans ethnic strife. Talks between Karzai and the Pakistani leaders have been unfolding here and in Islamabad for several weeks, with some discussions involving bestowing legitimacy on Taliban insurgents. The leaders of these minority communities say that President Karzai appears determined to hand Taliban leaders a share of power - and Pakistan a large degree of influence inside the country, according to The Times. The Americans, desperate to end their involvement here, are helping Karzai along and shunning the Afghan opposition, they say. Oghly said he was disillusioned with the Americans and their NATO allies, who he says appear to be urging Mr. Karzai along. We are losing faith in our foreign friends, he said. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he was worried about the Tajik-Pashtun divide that has been so strong. American and NATO leaders, he said, are trying to stifle any return to ethnic violence. It has the potential to really tear this country apart, Admiral Mullen said in an interview. Thats not what we are going to permit. Afghanistans minorities - especially the ethnic Tajiks - have always been the most reliable American allies, and made up the bulk of the anti-Taliban army that the Americans aided following the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, The Times pointed out. Two top Pakistani officials - Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the army chief of staff; and Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) - are set to arrive Monday for talks with Karzai. Afghanistans non-Pashtun leaders are watching these discussions unfold with growing alarm so far they have taken few concrete steps to resist them, The newspaper said. Karzai has begun the ethnic war, Mohammed Mohaqeq, a Hazara leader and a former ally of the president, was quoted as saying. The future is very dark.