Afghanistan: From USSR to United States!
Mujahideen, Taliban and the American Hypocrisy. The Truth of Afghanistan That Media Will Never Tell You.
Although the history of Afghanistan is very old. Afghanistan was a Indian part named Gandhara but after the Turkic invasion of Gandhara they changed the culture, religion, education system of Gandhara and from there Gandhara started turning into Afghanistan. People say Afghanistan a graveyard of empires because Britishers lost there, Soviets lost there and in 2020 Americans also lost there. I will write a complete history of Afghanistan in another article, in this article let’s start to understand Afghanistan from the 1980s Soviet-Afghan War.
Soviet–Afghan War (1979 - 1989)
In 1978, there a was communist revolution in Afghanistan called “Saur Revolution” and the Soviet backed People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) took power from the then Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan in a coup and the General Secretary of PDPA Nur Muhammad Taraki become the new President of Afghanistan but Muhammad Taraki was a cruel ruler and he committed so many atrocities within 3 months that there was a possibility of rebellion in Afghanistan and to stop this, in 1979 USSR invaded the Afghanistan, and we all know that in 1979 the Cold War between US and USSR was also going on. Now in 1979, the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan to increase its influence in Afghanistan, but this thing was troubling the Americans, they were very worried to see the increasing influence of the Soviets in Afghanistan.
The Americans started taking help of Pakistan’s the then dictator Zia-Ul-Haq to stop this growing influence of Soviets in Afghanistan, the Americans gave Zia-Ul-Haq billions of dollars, arms and ammunition and made Pakistan a proxy to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. When the USSR invaded Afghanistan, many Afghan refugees had migrated from Afghanistan to Pakistan. Now these Afghan refugees who had come to Pakistan, Pak trained them with the help of American dollars, made them Mujahideen and sent them to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet military. For the next ten years, there was this war going on between the Mujahideen and Soviet military, and gradually they destabilized the Soviet military in Afghanistan and the Soviets found it dificult to stay there and in Feb 1989 the USSR withdrew its military from Afghanistan.
Mujahideen to Taliban
Now when the USSR withdrew its military from Afghanistan in 1989, a power struggle started between these Afghan Pashtun groups who were fighting against the Soviet military for Americans and these people started fighting among themselves but at the end they made some compromises and formed a government in Kabul.
After the withdrawal of the Soviet military, many Mujahideens became jobless, so what did Pakistan’s the then PM Benazir Bhutto and ISI Chief Hamid Gul do is that with the help of Americans, these jobless Afghan Mujahideen were sent to Jammu & Kashmir in India and terrorism in Kashmir increased immidiately in 1990s. Genocide of Kashmiri Hindus is also a painful incident of that time.
Pakistan was sending Afghan Mujahideens to fight in Jammu and Kashmir, but their main objective was to build a backyard in Afghanistan where they could store a lot of terrorists or so-called fighters who would fight against India when the time came and help Pakistan to fulfill their dream of so called Ghazwa-e-hind and to make this plan a reality they have to re-engineer the whole of Afghanistan.
So what did they do is that, they started traning the students from Madarsas of Afghanistan and made a new terrorist group called “Taliban”. In Arabic, the student is called “Talib” and the multiple of “Talib” is “Taliban”. Pakistan, with the blessings of US, trained Afghan Pashtun students, gave them weapons and sent them to Afghanistan, and shortly after, in 1996, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.
India’s Nuclear Test, Terrorism in Kashmir and 9/11
What happens now is that Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji becomes the Prime Minister of India and does 5 consecutive nuclear tests and India declares that now India is also a nuclear state. But as soon as India does these nuclear tests, US does not like it at all and they impose heavy sanctions on India but the Americans did not stop there, they started sending Taliban terrorists to Kashmir and there were continuous terrorist attacks on India and whenever India complained of terrorism to US, Americans used to say that there is no such thing as terrorism, it’s simply a law and order problem and India need to improve it’s law and order. These attacks on India was being done by the same people who had full support of US.
Now the year 2001 had come and on September 9, 2001, there is a terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York State of America and the Pentagon in Washington which changed the whole world forever. In this terrorist attack, more than 3000 people were lost their lives and the resources of billions of dollars were damaged.
Now US came to know in the investigation that Osama Bin Laden is behind this terrorist attack and Osama is a Mujahideen whom US helped to grow to fight against USSR in 1980s. Osama was in Afghanistan at that time and when the US government asked the Taliban to hand over Osama to the US, the Taliban refused to do this and in 2001 the US forces invaded the Afghanistan and began to eliminate their own product Taliban.
Here the amazing thing which expose American hypocrisy is that - US, who used to say India that there is no such thing as terrorism, had itself invade a country in the name of terrorism. US itself created terrorists and itself went to eliminate them, but the US did not eliminate the entire Taliban, they send Taliban’s top leadership to Pakistan and starts killing small Taliban leaders and fighters and after some years US brought so-called democracy to Afghanistan well we all know what American democracy is like.
US spent 2 Trillion USDs in Afghanistan war from 2001 to 2020 but do you know that out of this money, majority of this amount came back to US. US government outsourced this war completely to the arms contractors who made trillions of dollars by this war in these 20 years.
US’s Gift to Taliban
When the US military went back to United States from Afghanistan in 2020, they left weapons worth trillions of dollars there, many people were saying that why US has done this stupid thing, but US never does anything without a reason or by mistake.
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- Poorvam Tomar.
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