U.S. MISSILES FOR PAKISTAN INTENDED FOR AFGHAN REBELS

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• Publication Date: July 23, 1985
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29 August 1985
U.S. MISSILES FOR PAKISTAN INTENDED FOR AFGHAN REBELS
BK241209 Moscow In Urdu to Pakistan 1100 GMT 23 Jul 85
[Aleksandr Korolev Commentary]
[Text] Recently, the U.S. State Department announced that Washington has
decided to supply a large consignment of Sidewinder and 100 portable
Stinger antiaircraft missiles to Pakistan. These two kinds of missiles will
be supplied very expeditiously. But what is the reason for this haste?
The U.S. State Department representatives, especially the U.S. ambassador
to Pakistan, Deane Hinton, say Pakistan's defense capability needs to be
strengthened. At the same time, they also make provocative statements
that Afghanistan poses a threat to Pakistan. But certain reports
published in the American press make it clear that all these arguments
forwarded by the U.S. State Department are a mere game of words in a bid
to cover the reason for the supply of these military missiles.
There are also ample reasons to understand why the United States wants to
conceal who will receive these dangerous supplies. Who are they, actually?
It would not be out of place to mention in this regard the report published
by the American newspaper THE NEW YORK TIMES. The paper has clearly indicated
that the Stinger missiles will be provided to Pakistan for those enemy
groups that are waging a war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan,
and as far as Islamabad is concerned it will play the role of a mere agent
in this regard. The newspaper has noted in this context the concern expressed
by a number of American Congressmen over the sale of portable Stinger
missiles to Pakistan and other countries. The Stinger missiles are said
to have been made in a way that they can be fired from a man's shoulder.
THE NEW YORK TIMES says these portable missiles are considered to be the
best weapons for those terrorists who try to shoot down passenger planes.
As is already known, the hired terrorists in Afghanistan, who are regarded
by some people as the holy warriors of Islam, keep on indulging in such
criminal activities. It was only these holy warriors of Islam who fired
on an Afghan DC-10 passenger plane while it was on a return flight from
Saudi Arabia to Kabul carrying Afghan haj pilgrims after their pilgrimage
to Mecca and Medina last autumn. The enemy missiles, which caused
considerable damage to the plane and endangered the lives of a number of
Hajis, were supplied by the United States. Now the Washington administration,
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which has adopted the line of a terrorist-waged war against Afghanistan,
has decided to immediately supply one more consignment of Stinger missiles
to Pakistan. These are the missiles which, according to THE NEW YORK TIMES,
are considered to be exemplary weapons for terrorists.
Another feature of this new deal for the supply of Stinger missiles to
Pakistan is that the U.S. State Department has fixed their price at
$8.5 million so as to avoid the need for congressional approval of the
deal, keeping in view the concern expressed by a number of U.S. congressmen
over the supply of these exemplary weapons for terrorists in other countries.
According to law, the only deals required to be approved by the Congress
are those whose amount exceeds $14 million. In fact, when any question
of preparation for new terrorist activities against revolutionary Afghanistan
arises, the Washington administration becomes ready to play various kinds
of tricks.
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AFGHANISTAN 29 August 1985
MOSCOW TV REPORTS STEADY GROWTH OF AFGHAN PARTY
LD041654 Moscow Television Service in Russian 1430 GMT 4 Jul 85
[Video report from correspondent in Afghanistan Mikhail Leshchinskiy --
recorded: from the "Vremye" newscast]
[Text] [Video shows ruins of small building, other buildings with damaged
facades] This house was blown up by bandits in the very center of
Mazar-e-Sharif, one of the most ancient and beautiful towns of Central Asia.
Tens of peaceful citizens died or were seriously wounded as a result,
including old people, women, and children. This, however, is not all that
shook the town's residents. The explosion occurred very close to the famous
mosque. [Video shows building decorated with mosaic tiles]
Under the cover of religious slogans, hired killers are waging a struggle
against their own people and the religion they respect. Withstanding, and
being victorious in this undeclared war imposed on Afghanistan is the most
important task of the curreitstage of the national-democratic revolution.
The social base of the new power is steadfastly expanding. The ranks of
the party's members are growing, with more than half the increase being
craftsmen, small traders, the intelligentsia, and religious figures. The
role of these strata of the population is also increasing in the organs
of local self-government. [Video shows people in street, market stall]
I would like to introduce (Abdol Jamil Zarifi). [Video shows Leshchinskiy
and Zarifi on broad path leading to mosque in distance] He is well-known
in Afghanistan as a religious figure, and, at the same time, he is a
member of the PDPA. Quite recently he was appointed governor of Balkh
Province, one of the biggest provinces of the country, in the north.
[Zaf iri speaking in Dari with superimposed Russian translation] At the
current stage of the April Revolution, the party is doing all it can for
the prosperity of Muslim working people and for the progress of the people.
People's power respects religious feelings, and the fact that I am a
governor confirms this. Our task now is to tell the people, who support the
revolution and must do everything it can for its victory, about all this.
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29 August.1985
KRASNAYA ZVEZDA CLAIMS DUSHMAN ATROCITIES IN DRA
PM091447 Moscow KRASNAYA ZVEZDA in Russian 9 Aug 85 Second Edition p 3
[Lieutenant Colonel V. Skrizhalin "Dispatch from Afghanistan": "Dushmans'
New Victims"--First two paragraphs are editorial instruction]
[Text] Recently our press reported a provocative falsehood concocted by
the West German ARD television channel. In one of its programs it
"informed" FRG viewers of "atrocities" allegedly perpetrated by Soviet
and Afghan troops on DRA territory. Without bothering to find out the
real facts about the situation in the republic, the program's organizers
fabricated"photographic evidence" of "victims" among Afghanistan's
population, for which they say the "Russians" are responsible.
Indeed, the true facts mean nothing to the provocateurs. These facts
graphically show who is bringing death and sufferings to the Afghan
people and at whose bidding. There are numerous such pieces of evidence
and here is one of them. Our correspondent in the DRA describes the
dushmans' latest bloody crime against the people of Afghanistan.
Panjsher. A mountainous region of Afghanistan. Until recently, the
counterrevolution regarded it as its own domain. The rebel leader
(Akhmad Shakh) formed his gangs there. The dushmans carried out combat
training there and rested there following bloody raids. The peasants of
the Panjsher, extortionately taxed and under pain of death, were forced
to feed the bandits. Stocks of precious and semiprecious stones--emeralds
and lazurite--seized by (Akhmad Shakh) and sent to Pakistan, ensured him
"most-favored status" in the provision of modern weapons.
However, the rebels' "prosperity" has come to an end. Under the attacks
of the Afghan forces, the counterrevolutionaries were forced to retreat
into almost inaccessible gorges. (Ahmad Shakh) was counting on sitting
it out there until better times. In one such gorge, near the village of
(Dekhmikini), the dushmans established a base.
The attack was unexpected. The dushmans, who at first resisted stubbornly,
preferred to escape and flee under threat of being surrounded. They
abandoned weapons, ammunition, powerful communications apparatus (apparently
it was intended to establish a radio center there), equipment, and food.
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The trophies were impressive, but they were of secondary interest when
the servicemen saw the base's main "sight"--an underground prison.
On examining this sinister structure, somebody remarked: "a tiger pit."
And indeed it was an enlarged copy of those same "tiger pits" in which
Vietnamese patriots languished during the U.S. aggression in Indochina.
Well, the resemblance is only natural: The aggression against Afghanistan
is being directed from the same "command center"--Washington.
The Panjsher prison was a huge cellar divided into three compartments.
There were traces of caked blood everywhere. On the floor there were
numerous instruments of torture: wire lashes with lead tips, sharp
sticks, chains, shackles, blocks, hooks, and pincers. In addition to
home-made pincers, there were nickel-plated ones of Italian manufacture.
The inquisitors had found a more "fitting" use, in their opinion, for
this medical instrument.
It is difficult to imagine how these underground bunkers could accommodate
127 prisoners, whose bodies were later thrown by the dushmans into the
rapid mountain river (Mikini). Three captured dushmans testified that
(Akhmad Shah) had come to the base 2 weeks before the villainous massacre.
And he had ordered the prisoners to be killed in the event of attack.
His subordinates started to execute the ringleader's order immediately.
It was a real bloodbath. They carved the prisoners' backs with straps,
put out their eyes, and cut off noses and ears. Delighting in the
prisoners' tortures, the dushmans dragged the broken people to the steep
bank of the (Mikini). They shot those who could still stand up. They
simply pushed the others over the precipice. The river swept the
disfigured bodies 3 km downstream with the current. When, after the
liberation, people tried to identify the victims, they were totally unable
to do so: The faces and bodies of the wretched people were so mutilated.
The West writes a great deal about the "lofty aims" for which the Afghan
"mujahidin" are allegedly fighting. It is possible that some people
believe this. After all, the dushmans are presented to Western readers,
radio audiences, and television viewers in the most decent guise possible.
And if there are also reports about schools and hospitals burned down
by the bandits and murdered peasants, they try to din into ordinary
people's heads that this is "red propaganda."
Nobody will succeed in vindicating the crimes of the Afghan counterrevolution.
Nothing can conceal its brutal face, however, it is disguised and whatever
banners it appears under.
At a meeting in memory of the Panjsher victims, one of the leaders of the
operation to capture the prison--Colonel Zalmay--said:
"We will never forget what we have seen here. The blood spilled by our
comrades calls for vengeance."
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29 August 1985
MOSCOW TV: DRA ECONOMY "BECOMING STABLE, DEVELOPING"
LD262009 Moscow Television Service in Russian 1430 GMT 26 Jul 85
(From the Vremya newscast; presented by correspondent M. Neshchinskiyj
(Text] Despite continuing subversive acts by counterrevolutionary bands the
economy of Afghanistan is becoming stable and developing.
[video shows women displaying fabrics] These smart fabrics were produced at
one of the republic's largest textile combines at Golbahar. Capturing all
the hues of this land, the variegated nature of the blossoming valleys and
the snowy whiteness of the summits about the clouds, the linen fabrics
delight the eye and embellish the life of the Afghan people. The combine
provides work for 12,000 inhabitants of the surrounding villages and an
opportunity to sell their cotton to the combine for the land workers.
[video shows aerial view of combine and surrounding area]
However, gloomier events are linked precisely with the life of this combine.
The territory of Kapisa Province, which is situated in the direct vicinity
of the border with Pakistan is most frequently subjected to the bandit
forays of the mercenaries of international imperialism. During one of these
forays, pylons-on the Naghlu-Golbahar power line, high in the mountains,
were blown up. This power line was the lifeblood of the combine. The
machinery came to a halt and people were left without work. But like all
such acts, this too was doomed to failure. In a very short space of time
temporary power generators were delivered here, and then the construction
got underway of a diesel power station of 7,000 kw capacity. [video shows
pictures of construction work and a power facility, then of an armored
vehicle on guard in mountainous terrain] (Video shows the correspondent
interviewing Aslam Wazir, who is named as an engineer]
The former feudal chiefs and the large landowners who have fled abroad are
fighting against us, Aslam Wazir says. Afghan workers and peasants and
the entire people are now uniting in the struggle against their enemies.
We workers are restoring everything that has been destroyed by the dushmans
so that our enterprise is able once again to turn out products to improve
the people's lives. We have a loyal friend in the Soviet Union, and our
enemies will not be able to intimidate us.
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Once again the eye is being delighted by the fabrics of Golbahar. [video
shows women displaying fabrics]
Positions manned by Afghan servicemen and a subunit of the people's militia
are on permanent duty right alongside the combine and the station that is
being built. (video shows a group of servicemen and an armored vehicle]
The heights of folk skill and the majesty of ther serviceman's duty--such a
combination represents the present day of the Golbahar Combine and the whole
republic.
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29 August 1985
MOSCOW REPORTS DRA PROTEST ABOUT PAKISTAN'S INTERFERENCE
LD251132 Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 0230 GMT 25 Jul 85
[From the "International Diary" program presented by Vladimir Beloshapko]
[Text] Afghanistan's Armed Forces are carrying out successful operations in
eliminating bands of counterrevolutionaries. As the BAKHTAR agency reports,
one such major band has been wiped out in Parwan Province. A large amount
of weapons and ammunition was seized from the dushmans.
A press conference has been held in Kabul at which new facts were revealed
about the wide involvement of the Pakistani special services in anti-Afghan
subversive activity. Journalists" questions were answered by (Nasir Khan)
and (Wahid Shah), Pakistani intelligence employees arrested by security
organs, who had been operating under the cover of the Pakistani Embassy.
The spyers admitted that they had many years of service in the Pakistani
intelligence. They were instructed to recruit agents and collect
information about the Afghan Armed Forces.
A note from the Afghan Foreign Affairs Ministry points out that the
Republic's government protests decisively against Pakistan's violation of
generally accepted norms of international law, and demands a halt to
interference in the internal affairs of Afghanistan.
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29 August 1985
PM231348 [Editorial Report] Moscow KRASNAYA ZVEZDA in Russian 20 July 1985
Second Edition carries on page 3 a 2,500-word report by special correspondent
Lieutenant Colonel V. Filatov under the headline "highest yardstick for
battle," profiling a Lieutenant Colonel Danelyan of the Belorussian military
district whose training methods are seen through the eyes of officers
returning from Afghanistan.
Senior Lieutenant A. Yarkovyy, a senior battery officer in Afghanistan, states:
"'the dushmans once carried out a pincer movement attack. They used the
mountain terrain well. We had to resort to weapons,' Yarkovyy said.
'Of course, this was no shooting gallery (Strelba V Babushkino Kono). You
try to hit the target, but they're trying to hit you. Since then I've put
everything into training and I see the commander's demandingness as a boon.
For it really is just that."'
Captain N. Lavrenchuk, a former senior battery officer in Afghanistan, says:
'11We carried out various tasks over there but the main task was to guard
a pipeline and the road running alongside it,' Lavrenchuk said. 'The pipeline
carried fuel and the road carried trucks with various goods. In Afghanistan
the dushmans hit the republic's main nerve -- its roads and pipelines.'"
He goes on to speak of the role of Junior commanders: "'in the regiment
this category of commanders are given the most serious attention. After all,
it is the junior commander who is closest to the soldiers in real combat.'"
He even says that "'to a certain extent working with soldiers is easier
in Afghanistan... When I left Afghanistan to join this regiment, quite
honestly I felt no special enthusiasm: there were the same old firing
ranges, the same old exercise locations -- you could shoot and attack with
your eyes shut... But, starting from last winter our entire setup changed
sharply. There were surprise alerts, and all at night. Our ammunition load
was as it would be in a real situation. We were shown a spot on the map
and then set off. There were road blocks. And ambushes alongside.
We rapidly took up positions, fired three or four shots at the target, broke
away and moved rapidly to the next position marked on the map... Everything
as it would be in a real battle. That is what demandingness bascially means.
Does it really offend people? Is it really a bind?"'
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Major D. Akhmadeyev, deputy commander of a battalion political unit in
Afghanistan, recalls: "'we had to accompany convoys and sweep for mines.
We once guarded a section of an important main road. We did a bit of
everything,' Akhmadeyev said pensively. 'What did I learn from those
events? The most important thing -- the plain truth. And the truth is
that each officer in a raging battle, when absolutely everthing can change
from minute to minute, must be able to lead his subunit and not let go
of the reins of battle.'"
PM021500 [Editorial Report] Moscow IZVESTIYA in Russian 27 Jul 85 p 5
The "Tour of Duty--DRA" Rubric, a 1,600-word Kabul-datelined dispatch
entitled "Brave Men" by own correspondent G. Ustinov.
The article describes the role played in the lifting of the rebel siege
of the border settlement of Barikowt, Konar Province, by a Soviet
engineer-sapper subunit commanded by Georgiy Gil. The sappers' help was
requested by the Afghan army command because the approaches to the
settlement were "crammed with explosives."
It is reported how the subunit covered 28 kilometers to reach Barikowt,
continuing to clear a way even at night, "literally groping their way
forward with their probe" as any light would have given them away. The
subunit "detected and neutralized more than 100 cunningly disguised
charges" and suffered no losses.
Various kinds of mines are described and the difficulties in detecting
them recounted. The subunit commander remarks that: "The counterrevolution
clearly has some experienced instructors. The dushmans place the mines
precisely and try not leave any trace." The presence of metal deposits
in the rock also creates problems with the detection equipment. The value
of dogs is pointed out, although the intense heat in the region can cause
them to tire quickly, a dog handler remarks.
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29 August 1985
PM251506 [Editorial Report] Moscow IZVESTIYA in Russian 17 July 1985 morning
edition carries on page 5 under the headline "Vanquished Death" a 1,400-word
"Afghan Reportage" by correspondent G. Ustinov in Kabul, on the heroism of a
wounded Afghan pilot. The pilot in question, (Shirzamin Shirzoy), shot down
in a successful bombing raid on a bandits' camp near Khowst, managed to escape
across mountainous desert terrain covered in many places with thorn bushes,
despite an injury to his arm, the loss of his boots during ejection from the
plane, and lack of water and heat which made him lose consciousness several
times, Ustinov recounts. The pilot eventually crawled into an army outpost
near Khowst at midnight, Ustinov goes on, and was awarded the Order of the Red
Banner for his feat. A year later, (Shirzoy) is serving in air transport and
Ustinov concludes by quoting him as saying "Until the revolution is victorious
I cannot imagine any other life for myself."
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29 August 1985
PRAVDA ON PLIGHT OF AFGHAN REFUGEES IN PAKISTAN
PM241543 [Editorial Report] Moscow PRAVDA in Russian 22 July 1985 first
edition publishes on page 5 a 1,000-word dispatch by special correspondents
V. Baykov and V. Okulov datelined Kabul, July, and entitled "In a Foreign
Land." It is largely covered by the referent item and contains little
additional information. It claims that the Pakistani authorities induce
hungry Afghan refugees to commit acts of terrorism by offering them money--
5,000-7,000 Afghanis for killing an Afghan soldier, and 10,000-15,000 Afghanis
for killing a party activist. The dispatch also claims that Pakistan uses
foreign humanitarian aid for the refugees to train and equip mercenaries to
fight against the Afghan people, and it cites a report that Afghan refugees
living under appalling conditions in a camp protested against the Pakistani
authorities but were merely dispersed and arrested by soldiers.
AFGHAN CIVILIANS PROTECTED BY SOVIET ARMY
[Editorial Report] Ashkhabad SOVET TURINISTANY in Turkmen 29 May 1985 carries
a 700 word report on page 4 by V. Vladilov, a TASS correspondent attached to a
"border contingent of Soviet forces in the Afghanistan Democratic Republic, de-
scribing a number of situations in which the Soviet army comes to the aid of the
civilian population. Pointing out that when the army receives the signal to
"muster", "in many cases they go to the aid of the local population, protect
peaceful motorized columns, struggle against the effects of natural disasters
and expedite food shipments to villages which have suffered such disasters."
It is added that they also provide immediate support when "bandits" attack mo-
torized columns because "Afghan military should provide help. But, a number of
days are needed for this."
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29 August 1985
COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES CAPTURED BY DRA--Kabul July 30 TASS--Units of the
Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), vigorously
supported by the population, have taken prisoner 26 counterrevolutionaries
infiltrated from abroad in Kapisa Province. According to BAKHTAR, eighteen
bandits were arrested in Nangarhar Province. As a result of successful
operations to render harmless gangs of counterrevolutionaries, weapons
which were manufactured abroad and also documents and subversive literature
testifying to counterrevolutionaries' links with Anti-Afghan centers set
up in the territory of some neighboring states, were seized. [Text] [Moscow
TASS in English 0953 GMT 30 Jul 85 LD]
REBELS DEFEATED IN BALKH PROVINCE--The Afghan Armed Forces are inflicting
crushing blows against mercenary bands sent onto the republic's territory
from abroad. A large quantity of weapons produced in the west was seized
during an operation carried out in Balkh Province. Here armed forces of
the republic have wiped out more than 100 bandits and counterrevolutionary
groupings which were entrenched on Pakistan's territory. During the opera-
tion subversive literature printed in Pakistan was also seized. [video shows
captured materials] [Text] [Moscow Television Service in Russian 1700 GMT
17 Jul 85]
ACTION IN BALKH, LONGAR PROVINCES--Kabul July 7 TASS--The Afghan people and
their Armed Forces are resolutely fighting the mercenaries of imperialism and
reaction, who cross inside Afghan territory from abroad. According to
BAKHTAR NEWS AGENCY, powerful strikes were made lately against bandit units
in Balkh and Longar Provinces. Many bandits were destroyed. Heavy and light
weapons, American- and Pakistani-made munitions were seized. [Text] [Moscow
TASS in English 1025 GMT 7 Jul 851
CSO: 1812/287 END
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