from saur revolution to the taliban

On December 25, 1979, Soviet Union repeated the mistake, sending troops to Afghanistan to help PDPA regime to withstand the rising onslaught of West-funded fundamentalists. Afghanistan led to the emergence of Taliban.. To aggravate things for Afghan people, Al Qaeda got..

30 years on, russia views afghan war with pride

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ordered the pullout amid his efforts to conduct liberal reforms and end confrontation with the West. Afghanistan’s communist government held for three more years, collapsing shortly after the December 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. . ..

economic occidentalism, fatf and pakistan

The competence of Pakistan's armed forces cobbled with capability, however, has impeded the forces of North to treat it like Afghanistan.. Professor Edward Said demarcates this division between West and East by coining the notion of ' Orientalism His work is kind discourse that explains..

matthieu aikins

At the ceremony--which had added touch of drama due to the last-minute of Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras--I spoke of the importance of maintaining West's with Afghanistan even after its military presence winds down. ..

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