Civil war in Afghanistan

Abstract

The ill -fated country has been at war for e ighteen long years , since the much trumpted Saur Revolution brought People's Democratic Party of Afgha ni stan (PDPA) regime headed by its legendary chief N ur Mohammad Taraka i to power in April 1978 . The abrupt failure of the newly insta ll ed reg ime in translati ng it's promises into concrete actions, greatly undermined their very exi stence among the masses at large, who had p inned high hopes from them in the wake of Sardar Daud 's tyrannical r ule. Secondly these Communists, who had been groomed and papered by their mentors at Moscow, gross ly fa il ed to understand and perceived the very psyche, traditions and leanings of the rural population, strongly entrenched in their traditional -cum- copservative system.