Najibullah's 30th anniversary and the events of the times
Author: Arif Hasan Khan Akhundzada, researcher and analyst on regional affairs, member of the Advisory Council of “Sangar”
Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the hanging of Dr. Najibullah (the last Afghan Communist President) by the Taliban regime.
Najibullah was no angel. But then neither are most types in today's world. Many people -- especially those trying to hide the guilt of their complicity in Afghan Jihadi ruin -- will hasten to remind me how "bad" Najibullah was. Their 20-year American puppet "republic" vanished overnight on 15 August 2021.
But thankfully the very existence of this man gives the lie to shameless Pakistani accusations and whimpering against their Taliban charges and proteges, whom they now call with sly mendacity by a variety of exotic religious terms such as "Fitna-e Khawarij". Well, now in this era of the final American abandonment of Pakistan -- those tricks will just no longer work.
TERRORIST ACTIVITY??? What "terrorist activity"??? The Yanks and the "Paks" tell only half the story. Those complaining about it now, themselves created it. Way back in the 1980s. And they successfully evaded justice.. Or so they thought.
When they were busy destroying Afghanistan, it was not terrorism. It was "Strategic Depth." But now when America's unclean abandoned geopolitical sanitary worker is getting attacked, they are screaming to high heaven with righteous refrain. However if they really are as pious as they like to show they are -- then they should know that the "Wheels of God" grind exceedingly slow, but exceedingly fine.
They have cultivated and abused these Mujahideen-Taliban for two generations before the tables turned on them. Think about it: TWO WHOLE GENERATIONS means 50 years! So those now aged 60 will not even know the real story of what originally happened. That made the perpetrators confident that they could get away with it.
It was one of the most carefully orchestrated coverups and slanderings in history. I was myself only ten years old in 1978 when this sordid phase of world history began. But being aware more than average people, I know fully well what happened......Afghanistan -- already a basket case, was turned on its head and reduced to ash and became a breeding ground for religious viruses and Pashtun tribal extremism. And the rest, well y'all know don't ya? Charlie Wilson's War?? No. "Fitna-e Khawarij."
The Afghan situation is one which is making both America and it's flunkies pay through the nose. Witness it, O ye people!
