From: noorullah.kamil@gmail.com   
      
         Voice of The People of Afghanistan   
      
                                             Afghanistan and world hypocrisy   
      
      
   Notice to readers: My commentary and analysis below are made as a free ias an   
   Afghan who  has the privilege of having a Canadian status as well.  I am not   
   affiliated with any political parties whatsoever..    
      
   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  26 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 on 27   
   April 1978  radio    
   announced the take over of the government by Afghan communists after killing   
   president Daod Khan and all his family including his grand children.     
      
   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 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 traditional three colored Afghan flag 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. 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 in invading   
   Afghanistan.      
      
   I am quite surprised that the Afghanistan's People 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. This picture was taken while the King   
   and the Queen had gone to Europe for an official tour. In that tour King   
   Amannullah and the queen were treated royally which made him blind from the   
   evil motives of the British    
   Imperialist behind his back.   
      
      
   The communist should have learned those lessons from Afghan history which   
   resulted in Amanullah Khan's downfall in 1929. The communists should have   
   never taken power in Afghanistan through a coup d'eta. The late president   
   Dawood 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 Dawood 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 which would prevented the 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 that    
   was totally against the Afghan way of life. Fearful of the collapse of the   
   communist government, the    
   former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on 24 December 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   
   waters 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 iand cooperate with each other n Afghan resistance in order to   
   achieve  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 for Afghanistan on false pretext of helping Islam   
   and its brotherly neighbor.   
      
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