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3 days ago · The movement’s spiritual and political leader was a former mujahideen fighter, Mullah Mohammad Omar, who was best known for his displays of piety and participation in the fight against the Soviet occupation.
6 days ago · The Soviet Union having dissolved in late 1991 and Russia having decided to end fuel shipments to Afghanistan, by 1992 the Afghan regime of President Mohammad Najibullah began to collapse. On 18 March 1992, Najibullah announced his willingness to resign in order to make way for a neutral interim government.
Jun 29, 2024 · Backed by US military air power, the mainly Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara soldiers of the Northern Alliance would, on that crisp, late-autumn day, recapture Afghanistan’s capital from the mainly Pashtun Taliban, which had seized it in 1996, hung Afghanistan’s president – the redoubtable Mohammad Najibullah – from a lamp-post with his severed ...
2 days ago · After the departure of Soviet troops in 1989, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan regime, then headed by Mohammad Najibullah, held its own against the mujahideen. Backed by a massive influx of weapons from the Soviet Union, the Afghan armed forces reached a level of performance they had never reached under direct Soviet tutelage.
2 days ago · India was one of the closest allies of the former Afghan president Mohammad Najibullah and it strongly condemned his public execution by the Taliban.
5 days ago · Najibullah was elected to the newly strengthened post of president. Despite renewals of the official cease-fire, Afghan resistance to the Soviet presence continued, and the effects of the war were felt in neighbouring countries: Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran numbered more than five million.
Jun 20, 2024 · Live Cricket Scoreboard: Get Afghanistan vs India 43rd Match, Super Eights, Group 1, cricket scorecard, ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 dated June 20, 2024.
