One of the most interesting and exciting political movements that has emerged in parkestan. They are largely young people, bestons, who refuse to allow themselves to be labelled as islamic fundamentalists. It's just shocking the way they've been treated by military intelligence. When these movements reach a certain point, then they begin to affect people inside the army too.
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.
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