Mohammed Daoud Khan

summer of 1973, the former Afghan prime minister, Mohammed Daoud, launched a successful coup against the late king Mohammed Zahir Shah. The former king was more of a nationalist than a socialist; his coup was reliant on pro-Soviet military and civic sectors. Ever since 1955 the Soviet Union provided Afghanistan military training and materialistic goods. By 1973, one third of active soviet soldiers were on Afghan soil. Also, Daoud Khan liked having the aid of People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, which was established in 1965 upon the ideology of Karl Marx and loyalty to Russia. In the year 1967, the PDPA split in half. One of the groups of the PDPA were called the Parchamists and their leader was Babrak Karmal, who stood by Mohammad Daoud Khan. The second group of the PDPA was the Khalqis or Khalqists whose leader was Noor Mohammad Taraki. In the following five years Daoud tried to do an impossible task that no one had attempted to do. He tried to govern Afghan Islamic tribal sections while he was floundering to reunite the PDPA together. The Khalq sector never fully acknowledge the leadership of Daoud Khan. Babrak Karmal saw the coup primarily as a way to secure his power in the Afghan government. Daoud wanted to reduce the menaces by leading Afghanistan away from Soviet control and improving Afghan-U.S. alliance, while lowering the anarchist elements in…

Good evening everyone. If we look back for a century and according to the history, we no longer have to have a diploma from a major university in the United States of America, Afghanistan or any nation around the world to run a country. Vice President and later President Amin, was a Columbia graduated who sold his motherland to the Russians, and killed thousands and thousands of his own Afghan people in Afghanistan. And even the ones before and after him, who are responsible for the lives of…

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The reasons for the War in Afghanistan cannot be blamed on one specific event but rather multiple. For the first decade of the 21st century, the United States has been sending thousands of troops into the middle east to fight against the Al-Qaeda who were seen as terrorists. The US knew that the al-Qaeda were allowed to hide in Afghanistan by the Taliban but the US did not act. They did not want to wage another war against a foreign country at the time, yet the War in Afghanistan lasted over…

King Mohammad Zahir Shah was on the throne and the countries government was stable (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007). During this time women were treated as equals, they had the right to vote, work, and choose the men they could marry. They wore shirts and didn’t have to cover their faces. (Thornhill 2014). Although women were treated well during King Shah reign, it wasn’t until he was overthrown in 1973, by his brother-in-law Mohammed Daoud that women truly prospered in…

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