Two misconceptions to be cleared here
(1) India under Morarji Desai, the Indian PM at that time, PUBLICLY OPPOSED the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He was asked by the Soviet leadership to attack Pakistan and he refused.
It was only later when he died and Indira Gandhi came in power that India adopted a neutral stance. But there was still considerable opposition internally to the Soviet invasion. GoI position was more because they were a junior partner with the USSR and could not therefore formulate an independent stand. Although Morarji Desai did show leadership in this regard.
You have to remember that except for the period of the Taliban, India always had excellent relations with Afghanistan from the time of King Zahir Shah and maintained relations during various communist led govts. including the reformed govt. under Najibullah. At least, until 96 when Taliban took over Kabul.
(2) The Northern Alliance was not just supported by India and Russia. Infact, it had more support particularly in terms of military h/w from the predominantly muslim CIS countries, Iran and Turkey. Iran because of its affiliation with the shias and its perceived proxy war against KSA / Pakistan / US alliance. CIS because they preferred their ethnic partners and were opposed to arab afghans that dominated the Taliban decision making. And Turkey because of its ethnic affiliation to the CIS states and the elasticities dominating in the UIF.
The United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (UIF, or also Jabha-yi Muttahid-i Islami-yi Milli bara-yi Nijat-i Afghanistan aka the Northern Alliance) consisted of various factions from all across Afghanistan that formed the govt. under Burhanuddin Rabbani after the Soviets left.
However, Pakistan, along with Saudi Arabia, UAE choose the Taliban to back instead of this govt. The US at least initially backed the Taliban as well, mostly hijacked by gas companies.
So it was the UIF aka Northern Alliance backed by primarily CIS Iran and to a lesser extent India Russia and Turkey on one side with the Taliban backed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and to a lesser extent US on the other. US backed out in the late 90s. Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Taliban in 98, after the Taliban refused to handover bin laden to the Saudi GID.
This is a half cooked story at its best. And u sir are blaming by singling out some who u claimed to be die heart Soviet backers.
This is a clever ploy to blame few and absolve yourself and others from blame.
Now your account of Northern Alliance, is only half the story, u so conveiniently forgot to mention true facts of comming of Tlibans.
and make matters more confusing as u go into details of groups who were part of Northern Alliance
As the soviet control crumbled and they left Afghanistan, Warlords Incuding Northern alliance started fighting like cats and dogs and continues for years till some young Afghanis stood up and formed the movement to bring peace to Afghanistan, Pakistan backed them at the request of U.S as U.S was getting concerned about war lords fighting each other making Afghanistan vulenerable to soviets returning.
Talibans did kick the *** of Northern allaince the group mainly sustained and suported by Tajiks, An ethnic group.
Saudis, Egyptians and most other Arabs joined in with saudis, who were towing the line of U.S.
Talibans controlled most of the Aghanistan and needed money to help its sick childern and starving population,
Than Minister Hashimi is reported as saying: "When the Afghani head council asked visiting european consortium to provide the money to feed the children instead of fixing the statues, they refused and said, 'No, the money is just for the statues, not for the children'. Herein, they made the decision to destroy the statues".
U also go into silly and one sided Historical fact by twisting it to suit your agenda. The real story behind Zahir shah is the fact about durand line and hope u know the truth about it. and shamelessly India wasted no time in twiting the story and used Zahir shah to force their agenda of hating Pakistan.
Why i say India used Zahir shah becasue there are loads of facts about how India tried to undemine Pakistan by forcibly talking princely stats, interfering in East Pakitan by fooling Mujib into sending Muki buhins the traiters for training in India, and the stry goes on.
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/so dude, get your facts straight before posting or may be u r here to twist and confuse.
