PS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Extrajudicial Punishment, Nur Muhammad Taraki, Central Intelligence Agency

• School: App State
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 1200
• Professor: Curtis Ryan

Document Summary

Afghani society from modernizing and being united under a single government. When the united states" central intelligence agency (cia) trained the mujahedin and the. Taliban to battle the ussr, the u. s. prevented the spread of communism at the cost of creating a new enemy: an enemy that would-in the future- turn against the united states and wage a war on terror" against it. Soviet union was able to convince afghani political analysts and citizens to create their own political party. This new communist political party was known as the pdpa (people"s democratic party of afghanistan). The party"s goal was to unite afghanistan under a communism-based bureaucracy where the afghani government would have control over all commerce and public utilities. Afghanistan had no official legislation for creating a political faction at the time, pro-soviet afghanis were able to start the people"s democratic party only two weeks after the state cluster was conceived.