From: endevour@next01epsl.wam.umd.edu (Afghan)
Subject: Re: Afghan News <-- Gulbudin's version
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:37:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.172422.24687@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>  
lhermi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Lotfi Hermi) writes:
> Aside from slandering and without going too much into the details - for  
I hate
> reading long message.  Bradaram H. Abid, can you draw for us from your  
angle
> the perspective of a future of afghanistan.  Please indicate whether  
such a
> view is your own or that such and such thesis is supported by Afghans.
> 
> Here is a helping kit.
> (1) Social structure of Afghanistan,
> Elements of this structure, premisses (things taken for granted in the  
society)
> prospect of change of such a structure, past and future trends. The  
question of
> afghan identity vs islamic allegiance and how much these and other  
elements 
> interact.
> 
> (2) Major parties, organizations that shape the social and power  
structure of 
> afghan society.
> 
> (3) Personalities that shape the afghan political scene.
> 
> Rabbani, Gulbadin, Sayyaf, Pir Gailani, etc.   give a brief profile of  
each
> personality and how much support they have in the Afghan population or
> -dissatisfaction-   can expand here but short porfiles are easy to  
follow up.
> 
> (4) Major hurdles and future challenges that face afghan society and how  
to 
> tackle such a structure.  An insite into the envisoned society and the  
ways to
> bring about such an organization.
> 
> These are just a few elements to start a constructive debate without the  
usual 
> rethorics we are accustomed to from all sides.   I know they are so  
afghans out
> there that can give us some insite into these issues.
> 
> Lotfi

Thanks for the helping kit but as you know Afghanistan is no Gulf state  
that needs to establish a new identity and therefore require thesis on  
socio-economic, cultural and political evaluation.

*** MY *** country is at least five thousand years old and through the  
ages have survived and have developed a system of regenerating after  
disastrous invasions and occupations.

I welcome any discussion on the part of Afghan brothers and sisters and  
any outsiders about the future of Afghanistan. But no matter what, their  
are a few constants about our society that can not and will not be  
changed. That is what you call " things taken for granted". Now it is  
taken for granted that our basic identity is the fact that we are Afghans.
That can not change. It is taken for granted that we are Muslims, the kind  
of Muslims that the Prophet Mohammad taught us not the kind that was  
cooked up and infused in us by the west in order to counter the tide of  
Communism. I think you know exactly what I am talking about.

Also in traditional Afghan society the concept of parties is an alien  
product. Afghanistan is a tribal society and it will as it has in the past  
function quite well under that system.

The party system ( in its current form ) was cooked up by ISI generals,  
especially General Hasan Akhtar who was luckily pulverized with Zia. They  
were the ones who introduced the Peshawar seven and thus divided us into  
groups that only they could handle. 

We had a functioning tribal  system with a contingency plan for  
everything. But it was systematically phased out of the Afghan politics by  
Pakistanis and their allies due to an idiotic doctrine that they could  
mobilize more Afghans through the party system and through that system  
they could get more results i.e kill one soviet soldier for the cost of  
ten Afghan lives. If the time honoured Afghan tribal system ( and its  
refinement into Loya Girga ) was ever used the course of Jihad and its  
after math would have been quite different.

Agreed that Pir Peguot-e-Gilani (since he was Peguot car dealer before he  
became a full time Pir ) attempted to simulate a few loya girgas but it  
was a hoax like Rabanies Shura-e-Na-Ahal. Imagine what a loya girga would  
be like in which Pir Gilanaies nephew is the head of it. So that was  
basically a joke and also, probably an effort by ISI to see if they could  
afftectively manipulate it. They were testing the grounds. Guess it did  
not work.

Parties like Hezb-e-Islami, and the rest of Peshawar seven are not the  
product of Afghan system but are an alien set up imposed upon us for a  
particular purpose. The moment the generous supply of ammo and money is  
cut off from these parties they would automatically seize to exist since  
they do not enjoy any kind of popular support. In Kabul they are nicknamed  
the seven donkeys.

Now we come to personalities. They are are a lot un-molested, honest and   
capable people in the west and also inside Afghanistan who can influence  
and direct our country towards peace and prosperity. Again I can not name  
names but they are very well known and Gulbudin has every one of them in  
his assassination list and Pakistan has every one of them in their black  
list of **  no visa ** status either into Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Cowboys like Rabani and Gulbudin, Gangsters like Mojadidi and Gilani, and  
of course Mr.Nobodies like Sayaf and Mohammadi can only influence and make  
a difference in our society as long as the the financial and military  
supply from Pakistan, Saudi and Iran keep pouring. Just as we did not  
consider Noor Mohammad Taraki as our leader nor are they.

And last let us talk about the "envisioned society" that Afghanistan  
should become.

Well here go.

I have a dream :-) I dream of an Afghanistan in which there is peace and
prosperity, democracy and justice. Where no single group or families rule  
( like the Mohammadzai's ). Where there is a parliament in which Afghan's  
elected officials can work for the country and not against it. Where Islam  
as we know it ( and not as the Ikhwani and Wahabies would have us know it)  
is our religion and fanaticism and fundamentalism ( this alien product )  
is uprooted. Where women have equal rights and can work shoulder to  
shoulder with their Afghan brothers. Where Afghan tradition and culture is  
upheld. Where education is free and everyone right. Where health care is  
free and every one's right. Where we are able to protect our borders, our  
country, our homes from all kind of outside influence. The list is long  
but I think this is a good start and everybody is welcome to debate and  
refine and oppose this. 


H.Abed
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