Tolo News: Prominent politicians, former Jihadi leaders and government officials on Monday commemorated Martyrs Week and the 18th anniversary of National Hero Ahmad Shah Massoud’s assassination by laying a wreath at the Minaret of Resistance in Massoud Square in Kabul. Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, Acting Defense Minister Asadullah Khalid, head of Massoud Foundation and presidential candidate Ahmad Wali Massoud, former Vice President Mohammad Yunus Qanooni and a number of former Jihadi leaders and politicians attended the ceremony at the Loya Jirga tent in Kabul. Click here to read more (external link).

ON
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“Sacred Mission”
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GREAT
AHMAD SHAH MASSOOD
OF
Afghanistan
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THE
HIGH RIVER VALLEY :
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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 down bellow, along
the Punj-Shayr river banks and streams- on its winding pathways, from
“Gul-Bahahr” rapids and falls, all the way south
to
“Tug-Aub” hamlets,
of
“Kapisa” Province.
((next to eastern high-peaked flanks
of
the
“Shamali’s big valley”)).
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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.
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Those deeply-held ancient symbolic expressions and religious devotions
((early 70’s)) were always acting as a sort of
counterbalance
to
whimsical
shifting cultural moods and trends
of
“Kabul City”
((roughly 60 miles southeast from the entrance to the Punj-Shayr valley))
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Kabul City was rapidly modernizing
and
slowly turning into a major international political hub right in the midst
of
Central
and
Southwest Asia.
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A case in point, was the presence
of
more than thirty embassies that were representing many countries across the world.
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FOR
A
SACRED CAUSE :
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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.
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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
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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 ((late December of 1979)) turned as a solid model,
for
most other parts of the country.
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The mottos of his movement were closely resonated with the traditional cultural
and
religious aspirations
of
the majority
of
the people of Afghanistan
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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.
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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.
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Ahmad Shah Massood was
keenly aware
of
his unique position and the required urgency
and
devotion to help counter the imposing agendas which were mainly serving the exclusive geopolitical interests
of
the imposing powers.
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ON
A
STRAIGHT PATH :
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Soon, after the Soviet departure from Afghanistan, ((1989)), all hopeful signs
of
a peaceful Afghanistan dashed; and detracted -unquestionably, due to executions
of
new rounds
of well-calculated plots that were obviously meant to perpetuate
anarchies; destabilize the local economy derail peaceful process among the regular Islamic political parties inside Afghanistan.
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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.
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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.
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In spite of extreme 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 for distraction and making sure
to
deprive
the regular folks
of
Afghanistan from restoration
of
civilized
law and order
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