Once Upon a Time - Afghanistan
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Nov 2001
As the future of Afghanistan hangs in the balance, we look back on the country's past and ask where its future lies?
The rugged terrain of Afghanistan has often found itself at the centre of some of the world's major conflicts. The pictures on our television screens show a country virtually destroyed by war. Yet it wasn't always so: film footage from the 1970s paints a very different picture, of an open and modern society. The capital Kabul buzzes with life, its streets filled with cars, bicycles and pedestrians. At this time, Kabul was famed as an exotic stop-off point on the hippy trail between Europe and India. "That was a golden period for the Afghans," reminisces Dr Ahmed Abdul Javid, former Chancellor of Kabul University. Until the Taliban enforced an Islamic year zero in 1996, Afghanistan was a relatively liberal Place. Farah Hawad, a female journalist who left Kabul for Britain in 1994, describes the country's progressive attitude towards women back then: "Afghanistan was the first Asian country that had women in parliament." But even during this so-called golden era, tensions existed between the country's different
ethnic factions, which finally ignited after the Soviet defeat. The task of establishing a lasting peace between these various ethnic groups is likely to be a long and complex one. If Afghanistan is finally freed from the foreign intervention that has dogged it for so long, perhaps new kind of society will finally be able to flourish in this ruined land.
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Let's pray, hope and WORK for OUR PEOPLE, COUNTRY
Long Live Afghanistan.. Morda bad Doshmanane Afghanistan wa Islam ...
I hope 1 day Afghanistan return back to the good people of Afghan
CORRECTION: Former Pres. Najibullah was not killed in '92 by mujahideen, as the film claims; he was hiding out in a UN compound in '96, refusing to leave, when the Taliban took over the city. They stormed the compound and beat him and his brother nearly to death and dragged them through the streets before hanging them at a roundabout in the center of the city. Nasty business.
YOUR Dr. najeeb had his plane ready to ...!
he didnt left kabul because he left the power to hekmatyar s men!
Dr.najeed wasnt killed by the mujahiden ... it was his own animal tribe the pashtuns ( talibs) who killed him !
THE ONLY ASSHOLE YOUR CIA HELPED WHERE gulbudin hekmatyar s men ... and the taliban .. which u created in camps ( in pakistan)
n i dont like too that they heng Masod's pic around. i dont no why ppl of afghanistan worship that leader
wash your mouth before you talk about Massoud!
hahahaha!!! he even beated you Dr.najeebak! back in his young teenage ... they use to be in the same area in afg... n once they picked on each other Dr najeeb got fucked! b
HAHAHAahaha
he was born as a winner
Massoud was power ! he didnt need anything of this world ... haramzadaz like u wont undrestand
he had the power from the day he was born! cause God was on his side!
FUK THE KING! king of barbarics ... slave of ... = ) n cheers to rebbelious ppl!
he fought against muslimes! why ... he was a slave ... and he loved his power ...
wtf he predicted ... lool even a blind man can tell u that the country will be ruined when u have a civil war that is that is prepared