Please answer the following question: What type of details about babrak karmal can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: babrak karmal -lrb- , born sultan hussein ; 6 january 1929 -- 1 or 3 december 1996 -rrb- was an afghan politician and statesman during the cold war . karmal was born in kamari and educated at kabul university . when the people 's democratic party of afghanistan -lrb- pdpa -rrb- was formed , karmal became one of its leading members , having been introduced to marxism by mir akbar khyber during his imprisonment for activities deemed too radical by the government . he eventually became the leader of the parcham faction . when the pdpa split in 1967 , the parcham-faction established a parcham pdpa , while their ideological nemeses , the khalqs , established a khalqist pdpa . under karmal 's leadership , the parchamite pdpa participated in mohammad daoud khan 's rise to power , and his subsequent regime . while relations were good at the beginning , daoud began a major purge of leftist influence in the mid-1970s . this in turn led to the reformation of the pdpa in 1977 . the pdpa took power in the 1978 saur revolution . karmal was appointed deputy chairman of the revolutionary council , synonymous with vice head of state , in the communist government . the parchamite faction found itself under significant pressure by the khalqists soon after taking power . in june 1978 , a pdpa central committee meeting voted in favor of giving the khalqist faction exclusive control over pdpa policy . this decision was followed by a failed parchamite coup , after which hafizullah amin , a khalqist , initiated a purge against the parchamites . karmal survived this purge but was exiled to prague . karmal remained in exile until december 1979 , when the soviet union intervened in afghanistan -lrb- with the consent of the afghan government -rrb- to stabilize the country . karmal was promoted to chairman of the revolutionary council and chairman of the council of ministers on 27 december 1979 . he remained in office until 1981 , when he was succeeded by sultan ali keshtmand . throughout his term , karmal worked to establish a support...
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