Falkestan - A Front Line State

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Weapons poured into that country, weapons which were sold to other groups who were in need of weaponry. Falkestan had become, as they used to boast, a front line state in the war against communism and russia. A lot of afgon refugee hod come out in the ten years of the russian occupation, had kids. The kids were being schooled and trained in religious schools in the paston belt of parkestan. And these kids were made ready, once they had graduated from these bizarre schools, to go and fight. There were leban means student. That's what the word means.

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