From: noorullah.kamil@gmail.com   
      
                                          Voice of The People of Afghanistan   
      
                                  Afghanistan and world hypocrisy at  21 Century   
      
   Notice to readers: My commentary and analysis below are made as a free   
   individual and as an Afghan who  has the privilege of having a Canadian status   
   as well.  I am not affiliated with any political parties whatsoever including   
   the Taliban.    
      
   Although I am not an historian, I am confident enough that I can clearly   
   recall the events of world political events during my lifetime starting from   
   Soviet invasion of Afghanistan until the date of this article.   
      
   I remember the day communists took over Afghanistan by toppling President   
   Daoud Khan. It was  27 April 1978 and we were having our lunch which our   
   mother had prepared just before going to the school.   
      
   As we were having lunch we heard sound of a loud explosion from a distance.    
   Until that day we had never heard anything like that. Upon hearing this sound   
   we all rushed out to the front door to see what happened. As we came out I saw   
   all the neighbors    
   out too.     
      
   Although we did not hear any of more of same loud explosion, we could hear the   
   sounds of machine guns from the distance around the presidential palace. We   
   were about 7-10 KM away from the presidential palace.  The next day we heard   
   the rumors of some    
   kind of revolution happening.   
      
   Regardless, little did we know that this day would be the start of the   
   destruction of Afghanistan by the two major superpowers and their allies   
   spanning over 40 years , one under the flag  of Russian Communism and the   
   other under the flag of so-called    
   democracy.    
      
   Year 1978- Revolution or the beginning of American and Pakistani Proxy wars in   
   Afghanistan    
      
   Within days Afghans were witness to a communist government formed by the   
   People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.  To everybody's surprise the new   
   government changed the flag of Afghanistan to a red flag which was similar to   
   the former Soviet communist    
   red flag.  Within months the new government passed seven laws that were   
   completely contradictory to Afghan Islamic and cultural values at the time. To   
   name one of their laws, forcing women and girls out of their homes to   
   workforce and for education.    
   Although, this was a noble cause but since it was not accommodated within   
   Afghan Islamic and cultural values, it backfired.    
      
   This action of communist along with other similar acts and changing the flag   
   to red was enough to give the Americans and the Pakistanis' precious   
   propaganda tools to instigate the conservative Afghans for a major revolt   
   against the Afghan communist    
   government  which eventually trapped the former Soviet by invading   
   Afghanistan.      
      
   I am quite surprised that the People's Democratic Party's actions. They had   
   not looked back at history and found out how British imperialism used pictures   
   of the Afghan Queen with bare upper arms to instigate a revolt against king   
   Amanullah Khan which    
   ended his kingdom in 1929.     
      
   The communist should have learned the lessons from Afghan history and   
   Amanullah Khan's downfall in 1929. Firstly the communists should have never   
   taken power in Afghanistan through a coup d'eta. The late president Doad Khan   
   was an excellent president who    
   was able to keep the superpowers in check with his special talent of balancing   
   techniques.  He also had excellent ability to keep the tribal Afghan society   
   and other ethnic groups united which was itself a very difficult job. The   
   communists should have    
   worked with the Daod Khan's government and used their ties with the former   
   Soviet Union to strengthen Afghanistan relations with its great northern   
   neighbor.  Afghanistan would have benefited greatly by having a good working   
   friendly relationship with    
   the former Soviet Union which would have kept the competing America and   
   Pakistan at bay from destruction of Afghanistan over all these 40 years. This   
   would also helped Afghanistan to claim its lost land south of Duran line from   
   Pakistan.   
      
      
   The Soviet Invasion and Afghan resistance    
      
   The Afghan communist government's  disregard to Afghan religion and culture   
   caused the Afghan people to rise. The recently published documents from the   
   former Soviet leadership reveals that even the Soviet leadership at the time   
   was critical of the    
   Afghan communist government's  forceful indoctrination of the conservative   
   Afghan people into becoming communists.   
      
   However, the Afghan communists did not even listen to their comrades in the   
   Soviet Union and kept on imposing an alien culture and ideology upon Afghan   
   People forcefully.  This behavior of the Afghan communists left the Afghan   
   people with no choice but    
   to defend their way of life and their religion. And rightfully so the people   
   of Afghanistan had to rise and resist the communist Afghan government and   
   which was totally against the Afghan way of life. Fearful of the collapse of   
   the communist government,    
   the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on 27 April 1979.    
      
   With Russian invasion of Afghanistan, it gave America the opportunity to   
   square up with the former Soviet Union for its defeat and its adventure in   
   Vietnam as well as to prevent the former Soviet Union from reaching the warm   
   water of the Indian ocean. At    
   the same time Pakistan saw an opportunity to either weaken the Afghan   
   government or replace it with a government under its influence so that   
   Afghanistan's claim of its lands from Duran line until Attock is undermined.    
   These lands were annexed by the    
   former British Imperialist on November 12, 1893 by its officer Durand as a   
   buffer zone between British India and the former Afghan Government headed by   
   Amir Abdul Rahman Khan.   
      
   As a result both America and Pakistan saw it in their mutual interest to get   
   involved in Afghan resistance for their ulterior motives as described above.   
   However , on the surface America portrayed its help to Afghan people as its   
   duty to free Afghanistan    
   from red commies who were allegedly enemies of human rights and freedom.    
      
   Pakistan declared its help on false pretext of helping Islam and its brotherly   
   neighbor.   
      
   Russian invasion left people of Afghanistan with no choice but to accept the   
   help of the above two countries. As simple and sincere people, the Afghan   
   people thought that the American and Pakistani help were really unconditional   
   and on humanitarian    
   grounds and that is why they accepted their help.   
      
      
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