ACCELERATION
The
Soviets invaded Afganistan in 1979 in order to prop up a friendly government.
They withdrew in 1989.
General
Zia Ul Haq, President of Pakistan, Chief of Army and US Ambassador to Pakistan were killed on August 17, 1988 when a
Pakistani Air Force plane exploded in midair and crashed on Pakistan soil.
After that US-Pakistan cooperation accelerated rapidly in military affairs. Mujahideens were furnished with US
shoulder launched ‘Stinger’ Surface –to-Air missiles to shoot down enemy attack
helicopters and fighter planes and other military hardware
Soviet
withdrew in 1989 after its systems and leadership changes. After Soviets
withdrew in 1989, they left a Pro Soviet Government to fend itself. The
Government fell in 1992
Taliban
(Persian: students) emerged in the fall of 1994. By 2001 Taliban’s power
extended over 9/10 of Afganistan. Panjshir Mujahideen militias known as
Northern Alliance maintain control of Northern Afganistan. Initially, Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia and UAE gave formal recognition to Taliban Government in mid 2001
On
the other side of the world in United States of America, on the morning of
September 11, 2001, there were series of four (4) coordinated terrorist attack
by the terrorist group of ‘al –queda ‘(Arabic: the base or the foundation or
the fundament). The attacks in New York killed 3,000 people, injured over 6,000
others and caused large long term infrastructure and property damage
DECELERATION
On
January 1, 2018, military backed US President tweeted that US ‘has foolishly
given Pakistan more than (33) billion dollars in aid over last (15) years and
they have been given us nothing but lies and deceit thinking our leaders as
fools’.
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