Mohamed Rafik

Most of us think that the period of suffering the people of Afghanistan have been going through due to violence, occupation, in-fighting, and terrorism is the past 20 years. But the truth is far from our assumption. It's not just 20 years, but it has been for the past 43 years, continuous since 1978! Let's look at the history of presumingly the longest violence-suffering country on earth! A totally destroyed section of Kabul in 1993, Src: Wiki 1978 - Saur Revolution / April coup :   A military coup led by a communist party in Afghanistan (hereafter AF), called PDPA , backed by the Soviet Union, assassinated the then president of AF, Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan , and most of his family members and took the power of the country. (But Daud Khan himself, the prime minister and royal prince in the previous his cousin's monarch king rule, came to power by overthrowing his cousin's king rule in a bloodless military coup and established the first republic, and became president i...

Image credit: Twitter B egan at the night of 26/11 of 2008, 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, by a 10 member team of terrorists, who went on a killing spree over innocent civilians in public places of  Mumbai, in places including a busiest railway station, a restaurant, 2 taxis and 2 five star hotels, which left 165 innocents including 18 police bravehearts killed and more than 300 innocents wounded. Ten years have passed as of now. Nobody has been punished so far, for that heinous and merciless killings and no justice have been provided to those innocent victims even after ten years..!! After the attacks, India alleged that terrorists came from Pakistan soil. Pak initially denied, then agreed that some of them are Pakistanis. India provided some evidence about perpetrators and a mastermind. Pak arrested few including alleged mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. The trial in Pak started in 2009. BJP and Modi criticized former PM Singh for ...