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Avoiding Armageddon 4

Avoiding Armageddon 4 When Brezinski offered $ 400 million in aid over two years , Zia turned down the offer as a ” peanuts ” a gratuitous insult to Carter , a peanut farmer from Georgia . On Jan 10 , 1980 , the first CIA provided arms for the mujahedin arrived in Pakistan via […]

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Avoiding Armageddon 3

Avoiding Armageddon 3 Pakistan and Saudi Arab were the first ally against Soviet invasion in Afghanistan  As the Soviets invaded Afghanistan , Zia dispatched Gen Akhter to Riyadh with an urgent message for the king . Zia wanted Saudis assistance to strengthen the mujahedin , the anti communist rebels in Afghanistan Author Bruce Riedel In […]

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Avoiding Armageddon 2

Avoiding Armageddon 2 ISI under Gen Akhter Abdul Rehman’s command Akhter vastly expanded the size and strength of the service and  much of its growth  was design to wage jihad in Afghanistan Author Bruce Riedel The Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence grew . Zia’s handpicked choice for director general in 1979 was a Pashtun , Akhter […]

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Avoiding Armageddon 1

Avoiding Armageddon 1 Author Bruce Riedel In the 1980’s American enjoyed Pakistan’s support and won the war . Now in twenty first century , America and Pakistan are an opposite sides in Afghanistan TAMPA , FLORIDA IS a long way from South Asia , but in mid – 2011 I was there to attend a […]

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جنرل اختر عبدالرحمن کی افغان ڈاکٹرین حکمت

جنرل اختر عبدالرحمن کی افغان ڈاکٹرین حکمت تحریر: یار خان افغانستان پاکستان کا مسلمان ہمسایہ ملک ہے اور اس سے پاکستان کے مسلمانوں کے تہذیبی رشتے صدیوں پرانے ہیں؛ لیکن بدقسمتی سے ریاستی سطح پر پاکستان اور افغانستان کے درمیان ہمیشہ ایک تناو رہا ہے، جو عالمی حالات و واقعات کے زیر اثر گھٹتا بڑھتا […]

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Gen Zia , Gen Akhtar and Geneva Agreement Part 3

Gen Zia , Gen Akhtar and Geneva Agreement Part 3 Author Diego Cordoves and Seling s Harrison While acknowledging that Zia had geopolitical objectives in Afghanistan , former Foreign Secretary Sattar expressed his own belief that Zia’s power struggle with Junejo was the governing factor behind the President’s eleventh hour attempt to delay the signing […]

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Gen Zia , Gen Akhtar and Geneva Agreement Part 2

Gen Zia , Gen Akhtar and Geneva Agreement Part 2 Author Diego Cordoves and Seling s Harrison Zia’s new civilian prime minister Mohammad Khan Junejo , sympathiszed with Yaqoob’s efforts but lacked the power to challenge the ISI , which reports directly and exclusively to the President . Another important factor that killed the Yaqoob’s […]

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