Butto and the Cuditar

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Zoficar ali buto, the patriarch of the dynasty ya sulficareli was deposed in 77. Many countries pleaded for his life to be spared, except one, the united states. The military seized pa in april 19 77 and then for the next two years, they had but on trial. And there's the famous scene described by some one who was present, that butto had got an money to bring to build a nuclear bomb,. Foolishly, but that was what it was meant to be.

Legendary socialist scholar Tariq Ali on the long history of Afghanistan: the 19th and early 20th-century wars against the British Empire; the communist coup, Soviet invasion, and US-backed mujahideen war; the rise of the Taliban; and the 2001 US-led NATO invasion through the recent US defeat and withdrawal. Plus, a lot about Pakistan. Pre-order Ali's forthcoming book The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold versobooks.com/books/3939-the-forty-year-war-in-afghanistan Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter