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Afghanistan marks anniversary of national hero Massoud

9th September, 2017 · admin 2 Comments
Ahmad Shah Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud

KABUL, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — Afghanistan marked on Saturday the 16th anniversary of martyrdom of National Hero Ahmad Shah Massoud to pay tribute to all those who had lost their lives in the war against invasion of the former Soviet Union and the Taliban onslaught.

Saturday also marked the start of Hafta-e-Shaheed or Martyrs Week as several official gatherings were held across the country to commemorate the week.

The late Massoud had got international fame for offering stiff resistance against the invasion of former Soviet Union in the 1980s and blocking Taliban onslaught in the 1990s to capture the whole Afghanistan.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in his message described Massoud as a great freedom fighter and national hero of the country, besides lauding his resistance against foreign invasions.

Although there is no official number of Afghans killed in the war against the erstwhile Soviet Union and the Taliban, but more than 2 million Afghans were believed to be killed in the wars in Afghanistan over the past more than three decades.

Afghans from all walks of life also visited the tomb of Massoud in eastern Panjshir province Saturday and paid homage to his services and sacrifices rendered for the freedom of their country.

Earlier in the day, Afghan government Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah laid wreath to the Resistance Monument in Massoud Square in Kabul to honor the sacrifices of the national hero while Afghan teenagers and youths marched by cars and bikes through the streets of Kabul carrying national flags and photos of Massoud.

Massoud was killed in a suicide attack by two terrorists who disguised themselves as journalists during an interview in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province on Sept. 9, 2001.

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2 thoughts on “Afghanistan marks anniversary of national hero Massoud”

  1. Baghlani says:
    September 17, 2018 at 1:50 pm

    ON
    *A
    “Sacred Mission”
    •••••••••••••••••••••••••••
    ===================
    GREAT
    AHMAD SHAH MASSOOD
    OF
    Afghanistan
    .
    **************************
    ***************************
    ************
    *****
    ***
    THE
    HIGH RIVER VALLEY :
    •••••••••••••••••••••
    *
    Strong sense of traditional Islamic piety
    always dominated most aspects of lives; like
    daily prayer calls- all through out the constellations of towns and villages that stretched below under the high peaked glaciers and lower rugged terrains
    along
    the steep mountain slopes and swift-running river flows of Punj-Shayr high valley ((roughly 75 miles long)).

    Interacting towns and villages are also dotted along
    the Punj-Shayr river banks, on its winding path ways, from
    “Gul-Bahahr” rapids and falls, all the way
    to
    “Tug-Aub” hamlets
    south of
    “Kapisa” Province.
    ((next to eastern high flanks
    of
    the
    “Shamali’s big valley”)).

    *****
    ***
    *
    Those loosely-connected
    and
    traditional networks of isolated communities were always culturally well-defined and tacitly maintained
    under
    unofficially-strict Islamic norms and jurisdictions which gave the whole region a rare form
    of
    “cohesive unity”- unparalleled
    to
    most other parts
    of
    the country at large.
    *
    Those deeply-held ancient symbolic expressions
    ((early 70’s)) were always acting as a sort of
    counterbalance
    to
    whimsical
    shifting cultural modes and trends
    of
    “Kabul City”
    ((roughly 60 miles southeast from the entrance to the Punj-Shayr valley))
    *
    Kabul City was rapidly modernizing
    and
    slowly turning into a major international political hub right in the midst
    of
    Central
    and
    Southwest Asia.
    *
    A case in point, was the presence
    of
    more than thirty embassies that were representing many countries across the world.
    *
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    ~~~~~~~~~
    ~~~~~
    ~~~
    ~
    FOR
    A
    SACRED CAUSE :
    ••••••••••••••••••••
    *
    The intensification of tug of the cold-wars among the major international political power brokers and their collaborators,
    ((later 70’s and onwards)), began
    to
    gradually stir endemic regional instabilities that made the whole region, at times, greatly-vulnerable
    to
    extreme forms of social upheaval and foreign take overs.
    *
    *
    The Capital was getting increasingly alienated, on
    its social, economical and political platforms and affairs, from the rest
    of
    the strongly-established traditional rural lives, outside
    the mainstreams of the Capital city where foreigners, ((even hippies)), were freely mingling and actively
    pushing
    and
    selling
    their unique agendas
    to
    agents of the government and local businesses
    *
    The political mobilization and later tactical resistance and stands of the alliance under
    Ahmad Shah Massood’s charismatic ideological and military leadership against the Soviet invasion ((December of 1979)) turned as a solid model,
    for
    most other parts of the country.
    *
    The mottos of his movement were closely resonated with the traditional cultural
    and
    religious aspirations
    of
    the majority
    of
    the people of Afghanistan
    *
    =================
    Social mobilization
    of
    the Muslim people of
    “Punj-Shayr”, ((a conservative and isolated river valley bastion)), was set
    to
    be used as a model
    for
    the rest of the country- it was the beginning
    of
    a “sacred cause” that soon transcended the
    geographic boundaries
    and
    ethnic lines.
    ==================
    ========•••••••••========•======••••••
    The wise leadership formulated something special by embracing
    deeply-rooted traditionally-practical schools of Islamic jurisprudence
    as
    an inspirational guide- it was all meant to address the cherished traditional religious norms, as well as, the cultural independence
    of
    those isolated folks that were increasingly coming
    under
    intense social pressures and harmful grips of foreign-inspired ideologies.
    ===================
    ===================
    *
    Ahmad Shah Massood was
    keenly aware
    of
    his position and the required urgency
    and
    devotion to help counter the imposing agendas that were mainly serving the exclusive geopolitical interests
    of
    the imposing powers.
    *
    ==========
    =====
    ===
    =
    ON
    A
    STRAIGHT PATH :
    ••••••••••••••••••••
    *
    Soon, after the Soviet departure from Afghanistan, ((1989)), all hopeful signs
    of
    a peaceful Afghanistan dashed; due to executions
    of
    new rounds
    of destabilizing plots that were obviously meant to perpetuate
    anarchies and derail peaceful process among the Islamic political parties inside Afghanistan.
    *
    *
    The dilemmas of the presence
    of
    arrogantly-poised
    foreign military and diplomatic corps, on one hand, and the critically-importance
    of
    a peaceful resolution as a final aspiration
    of
    the regular folks, on the other hand, kept
    Ahmad Shah Massood
    and
    other honorable resistance leaders vigilant,
    as
    well as,
    suspiciously-puzzled- all due to greedy and savage natures of the foreign-conceived
    dirty schemes and their
    direct
    and/or
    indirect
    military interventions.
    *
    *****************************************
    **************************
    ***************
    **********
    *****
    Obviously, the main purpose
    of
    the foreign perpetrators was to maintain the powerful mass movements of Afghanistan at bay- by keeping the internal infernos
    aflame under the intense fires
    of
    imposed anarchies
    and
    disunity.

    *
    *
    In spite of maximum efforts,
    ((by
    Ahmad Shah Massood; his associates
    and
    other honorable Islamic leaders
    of
    Afghanistan)), for a peaceful resolution, the leaderships
    of
    the bullying international powers were
    always opting
    to
    deprive
    the great people
    of
    Afghanistan from restoration
    of
    civilized
    law and order
    *
    *****************************
    *****************************

  2. Samarqandi says:
    September 20, 2020 at 4:25 pm

    *AN
    IMPARTIAL
    INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE
    ON
    AFGHANISTAN
    IS
    THE
    ONLY
    LOGICAL
    ROUTE !!!!!
    *

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