One thought on “Martyrs Week, Massoud’s Death Anniversary Commemorated”

1. 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 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”)).

   *****
   ***
   *
   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 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))
   *
   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 ((late 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 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.
   *
   ==========
   =====
   ===
   =
   ON
   A
   STRAIGHT PATH :
   ••••••••••••••••••••
   *
   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.
   *
   *
   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 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
   *
   *****************************
   *****************************

Comments are closed.