mujahedeen


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He could not afford to lose him during those critical years when the Mujahedeen had to fight armour and aircrafts with rifles and mortars.
Haqqani was among the Afghan mujahedeen, or holy warriors, the United States backed in the 1980s to fight the former Soviet Union's invading army, sent to Afghanistan in 1979 to prop up the pro-Moscow government.
He conceived the plans to defeat the Soviet Union through the Afghan Mujahedeen by uniting them and training them into a potent fighting machine.
In a fresh statement, the foreign ministry said it was the People's Mujahedeen itself that was behind the "scenario".
Members of Jamiat-e-Islami party's leadership and former Mujahedeen leaders also attended the event at a stadium in the province.
The letter has further emphasized over the unity by arguing as how much the division of Mujahedeen in the post-Afghan Jihad and pre-Taliban Afghanistan had hurt the cause of Jihad.
"Everybody saw what happened in Benghazi: disaster; institutions destroyed; houses demolished; mosques and universities burned by the criminal hands of Haftar's supporters," said the newly formed Mujahedeen Shura Council.
In the climate of the Cold War the western world Islamic countries and Pakistan reacted to this aggression by organizing equipping and assisting the Afghan Mujahedeen in many ways to fight their holy war efficiently.
The new group "is the fruit of a blessed effort of more than two years to gather the mujahedeen in the Indian subcontinent into a single entity," Al-Zawahri said in the video.
"The truth behind this attack will become clear after an investigation, but we clearly announce that it was not done by the Mujahedeen of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said in a statement.
"Either you continue with your mistake and remain stubborn, and the division and fighting among the mujahedeen will continue, or you confess to your mistake and correct it.
"Looking at April 27 and 28, (Haft Sawar and Hasht Sawar) through the same prism will be a big mistake..." He called the absence of a clear strategy after the triumphant of Mujahedeen the main reason for continuing war, alleging some countries, including Pakistan, were did not want to see a democratic government in Afghanistan.
after the mujahedeen (holy fighters) proved that it accommodates drone control rooms and American experts," it said on Twitter.
SUSPECTED Hizb- ul- Mujahedeen operative Syed Liyaqat Ali Shah, who was released by a Delhi court on bail, alleged the Delhi Police tried to kill him in a fake encounter.