If you had to pick the most important reason for why Afghanistan Went From “Modernising” to “War-Torn”, what would it be? Modern History Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLiPhmAD3I2Jz6goEJlQ1zh6KkbeBWZ2pP
As a historian, I’m stoked to find a well produced, intelligent, and entertaining history channel focused on the Middle East. It’s a subject that I’m extremely lacking unfortunately.
Thank you for making this documentary about my country. Its so hard to get through the things that happened to the afghan people. An amazing video from beginning to the end. Continue the great work brother.
This was an amazing documentary experience. So glad I stumbled onto this channel. Thank you, as a westerner that is a humble student of history I really appreciate you taking the time to educate.
I found this to be one of the most informative and helpful gods on Afghanistan and it’s slow rise and fall. This video was truly 10 out of 10. Thank you so much for producing such free and open information. Great content, man.❤
This gives the illusion that Afganistán was some paradise, those “modernizing” pictures were only a small fragment of the population. Most lived in the same poverty of today.
I was fortunate to meet both the King and Masud on their last day a live in Kabul. I was taken by the King and also meet Sardar Waly I was very impressed by him wow, what an honor
Is it? People are just dying to get in and immigrate there for it’s freedoms, opportunities, and desirable climate? Get real. Few people wanna live there who’ve seen better. Which is running water, free speech and worship, and electricity
Great vlog! A few notes: A) Abdul Khaleq was the offspring of a servant of the Charkhi family & his actions were solely for revenge on his master. B) Nadir Shah's - known as Shah e Shahid - full name Mohammad Nadir Khan. Brothers Mohammad Hashem Khan and Shah Mahmoud Khan. C) W/Zallmian was a thought child of Doud Khan - being present at its inception. One major issue not covered was that during the ten years of Doud Khans' prime ministership - for the first time in Afghan History, students were sent to the USSR & Eastern Europe - the birth of the communist movement. D) The Pashtonistan Issue was solely a Doud Khan issue; King M. Zahir Shah was not at all a proponent of this issue. E) The US also spent Millions in various programs not just in Helmand - Khandahar Airport, the Kabul Khandahar Heart Road...etc F) All the upheaval during the Decade of Democracy was led by the Doud Khan-backed Communists - due to the 7th Article of the New Constitution: No member of the Royal family may stand for public office. G) You mentioned Dupree and showed a clip of a British documentary in (1972-3) It states Doud Khan's republic is so close to Moscow that it is hard to tell where the policies were coming from. I) Women were given the right to vote and work in Doud Khans' decade as prime minister - not the communist era. Two add numbers to his vote if the constitution had not been changed in 1964.
You should had written overlaying text on the video so that one would remember what you are talking about and could keep trace of the long story in a much chronological order. Further, putting photos from the exact same meeting/truce/situation could make the video more understandable. BTW its one of the good history vodeos about Afghanistan. 😊
I have to say brother that I really enjoy your blogs, as a Christian I find both Christian and Muslim bloggers very biased regarding their understanding of history through a rather low resolution Lense and world views but I actually found you to be very balanced and centerist. I loved your story of the history of Lebanon and actually telling the truth that quite a few Muslims even emirs converted to Christianity, something that most Muslims find it discusting lies, also Christians converting to Islam such as Seljuk and his Turk followers. Keep telling the truth. Godbless
No I think if the USA wouldn't have given all the weapons to some idiots and stayed out of the Afghanistan business, Afghanistan would have been much better
I'm pashtun it's shame for me living in quetta and calling myself a Pakistani actually we are afghans but what the Pakistani media shown us one side to us washing our minds to be Pakistani.. Live long our brave leaders amanullah khan, habibullah khan Zahir shah all of them sepcailly the brave leaders we have now manzoor pashtun, ali wazir and mohsin dawar in eastern pashtunistan still fighting with our enemies
@@selen7515 that's because part of pashtunistan is occupied by Pakistan! The Durrand line cuts pashtunistan, and now part of it occupied by Pakistan. From Peshawar to Quetta it's part of pashtunistan but occupied by Pakistan.. majority of people speak Pashto, not Urdu or Punjabi.
@Kaleb J the british empire continues in pakistan and parts of afghanistan. this region has no freedom movement, so continues as a colony. the british are free, and laughing in their graves.
@@akhil999in the British drew their lines and left ruining the lives of millions of people who live there right now.. India-Pakistan partition line, Afghanistan-Pakistan, Kurdistan in Iraq & Syria (Sykes Picot line), the Israel-Palestine problem, etc
This is a good account of Afghan history, but one from the perspective of the westernized urban elite. It is the story of their attempt to "modernize" Afghanistan by centralizing power in their hands at the expense of the traditional culture of the culture and its largely rural population. The leaders you see in these photos don't even look Afghan.
Obviously to your lot (English and American) Islamists Terrorist backward lot are true looks of Mid East people ! The pro dominantly Aryan Real Afghans looklike as you don't like. Tahrika Taliban from cave depth of the earth is your Idealooks ! So much hatered for advancement and progress by educated people of None AngloAmerican World in particular born ones in Muslim countries !
That’s not entirely true. The documentary mentions HOW the hastened modernization alienated people so it was slowed down. The entire thing is very accurate because the biggest struggle after independence from Britain for MOST countries was to establish themselves as sovereign nation that could not be overtaken by another country, mainly USA and Russia at that time. It led to coups and destabilization in many countries not just Afghanistan. It is not a westernized perspective but in fact a VERY good documentary from a GLOBAL perspective. Exact same thing happened in India when Nehru invited MIT among other institutions to establish IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) to propel India into modern sovereign country. This is by far the most accurate description that takes into account exactly why the decisions that were made were made from a GLOBAL perspective of how other countries were also seeking to stabilize themselves after independence from Britain but did not always account for changes that people far alienated from global society did not understand.
There is no such a thing as modern it's all about culture. Progress has nothing to do with clothing. Real progress comes with industry and business and promotion of ones own knowledge and education. Kabul was a very small city with one hundred thousand residents with one University with a few schools.
a social process based on modern education is likely also to be based on freedom of the individual. afghanistan will not become free as long as it stays away from freedom of the individual.
Rampant population growth in all those decades covered by the video is a main reason for all the problems. During all the war years the population grew, not only in Kabul but throughout the country. Kabul now has more than four million inhabitants. Also the ecological problems mentioned (bad harvest, drought, etc.) only could trigger political turmoil because of the huge population growth.
3:34 Prince Amanullah Kahn (1919 - 1929). 4:35 Nadir Shah (1929 - 1933) assassinated by high school student in 1933. 5:09 Zahir Shah (1933 - ) succeeded his father at age of 19.
The darkest period was the 40 years of zaher “kale”because he and his uncles were British agents. Davod khan was the only independent and countryman lover president of Afghanistan🇦🇫. But Khalq was the worst party.
I am from Pakistan and I always felt that afghans and Pakistanis are historic brothers. The British came and drew divisions but I think the border is artificial … imagine having the fighting spirit of afghans combined with the discipline and sophistication as well as nukes of Pakistan army and airforce and navy. Also gives afghans free access to warm waters and ports so their trading capacity goes up and for Pakistan this opens direct access to Central Asia. In the long run this is where things have to go .. Recreate the historic khorasan
@@HikmaHistory For your shorts I think not just the narration but the pacing itself should be faster aswell and you should put some subtitles on the screen. For shorts you have to cater to the short attention spans of the viewer, which is what these "tiktok" genre is for. I really hope your channel grows and I would like to see how it develops in the future
@@HikmaHistory it is not slow for those not already schooled in the political history between ww2 & the Soviet invasion. I thought I had a general awareness, I was wrong. I actually think the depth & scope of this subject, with such important analysis and overall flow of information you’ve already crystallized, might do well to break up into a series of videos. Make it slower 🙂 really tho, excellent work. I even took some notes! 🙏
@@Narrator_of_Tarikh07Afghanistan pre Durand line maybe a bit. But todays Afghanistan is Central Asia. Unesco defined it as Central Asia 1978. But I assume you know better then Unesco 😜
Someday, and I hope to be alive long enough to see that day, Afghanistan will be a free, fair and prosperous place to live. With a strong democracy, and the right for all her people, no matter their race, religion or creed, to stand under the light of a land so full of culture and history. I have to believe that. I have to believe there's a light at the end of this tunnel.
Probably after Pakistan falls. I BELIEVE that maybe Afghanistan will restore the monarchy but with a different Shah to lead Afghanistan 🇦🇫 out of this rut.
@@patrickmunneke8348 The same was said about so many countries that today are democratic. Every country can have a democratic system, afghanistan did during the constitutional decade
Modernity is not neccessarily a good thing and change is not always for the better. Things like investment in modern science and technology are good things but things like promoting western clothing are silly. Traditional clothing, languages customs and religion are symbols of a nations history and culture and they should be preserved. Saudi Arabia is a perfect example of how to preserve culture and develop at the same time. It is highly developed economy yet everyone wears traditional clothing and follows religious laws. It is good to see that the Taliban is also promoting traditional clothing. The Shalwar Khameez looks way better than Western suits. Also, it is Important to note that there was a dark side to the "modernity" in Afghanistan. For example, during the King Amanullah period, anyone who opposed westernisation was punished harshly and reforms were forced down peoples throats. It was similar to what happened in Iran with Reza shah. That is was why Amanullah faced fierce rebellions from Afghan tribes and religious leaders like Habibullah Kalakani who eventually overthrew him. That being said, Ofcourse there are 2 extremes. I think it is best to follow the middle path. I believe the way forward for Muslim countries is to gradually promote relevant reforms which do not go against religion and traditions which are deeply rooted in these societies.
Spot on, everyone shouldn’t be forced to fit into the same shoe, because it doesn’t work. As long as we can cooperate and there is no animosity and fighting everyone should move at their own pace and do what works for them.
Saudi Arabia is a perfect counterexample for preserving culture while modernizing. The monarchy is only hanging on due to the immense wealth they distribute among the society: everyone has cushy oil jobs with no pressure. Everything menial is done by foreign workers. Young Saudis are extremely americanized in leisure, music, language, food, and even fashion. Architecture, transportation and urban planning is literally a carbon copy of the US. The only thing resembling cultural preservation is superficial dresscodes and draconian religious laws and punishments. All of Saudi's wealth is paid for by the west and will collapse once the need for hydrocarbons runs out.
Haha, Saudi..development. Give the amount of oil Saudi has to any nation. You can't develop with conservatism if you don't have oil, or you are extremely talented like the Iranians. Those who have accepted reforms, are in prosper. Turkey, Azerbaijan, Albania. Was never gonna work in Afghanistan anyway, for it's tribal mentality. Saudi is a poor poor example. Wish youtube had haha reaction.
@@jamieammar6131 “Give that amount of oil to any nation” Oh is that so? Tell that to all the corrupt and poverty stricken oil rich countries around the world. If you don’t like Saudi at least you have to commend them for some things, rather than making ridiculous claims and belittling people who are extremely successful, your jealousy can be felt from a mile away.
Correct. Thats always has been their history. Back then it was Moguls and Savavids, Afghanistan between them, then western colonialists, UDSSR etc It won’t change. There is a lotta Afghan poetry about this topic. They love their land but its cursed geographically. Thats the sad truth
The problem was that they decided to modernize their civil society along Western lines and modernize their military along Soviet lines. They sent their officers to be trained in Moscow at the Suverov Academy, apparently not knowing that part of their military education was heavy on communist ideology which created fanatics that would find conflict with both their traditional religious heritage as well as the westernized aspects of life that all of the students brought back with them from the West. The older, more religious parts of society could've handled the moderately westernized part of life easier than communism because it was strictly atheistic in a way that the west wasn't. Conflict sadly was inevitable.
24:1732:54 Noor Taraki & Hafizulah Amin must have looked to H.P. Lovecraft's Chthulu universe for inspiration in the design of their hyper-scary Khalq flag.
Yeah it went from having women with nicely trimmed legs on one corner of Kabul from the elite class of society; oh sorry "modernised". To getting taken over by a group of autocrats and war lords and was invaded by world superpowers. That's the abstract for their modern history
Rambo could have straightened the situation out SINGLEHANDEDLY. The Soviets, the Mujahadeen, the Taliban...fill in the blank. Don't Ever mess with Rambo. You're digging your own grave.😢😮
salamualikum brother can you make a video regarding the(Pashtun GHILZAI tribe ) coz i have seen peaple getting confuse between the khalaj turkic tribe with Ghilazi/khilji pashtun tribe and also were the ruler of delhi sultanate Jalaluaddin and Alauaddin khilji pashtun s. i have seen people say that they were turk afghans how true is that
I met Ahmad Shah Massoud in 1991 in Takhar Province while photographing the anti-Communist jihad. In my observation he was an amazing and honorable man. I was also in Loghar Province in 1983; during that time, the mujahideen there also stopped fighting in order to harvest their crops. The idea that a temporary, tactical cessation of fighting is unusual or somehow wrong is of course ridiculous. The Soviets had targeted and invaded Massoud's Panjshir Valley several times in the early 1980s (eventually a total of 9 full-scale incursions), Massoud used the cessation to reorganize and came back fighting again just as hard as ever. Unfortunately Massoud's tribal and factional rivals feel the need to distort his actions. If you want to read reminiscences of those who knew him best, Massoud: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Afghan Leader, by Marcela Grad is excellent. If you want to read a book by an impartial observer, To the Mountains, by Abdallah Anas, an Arab mujahed who knw many of the top Afghan leaders, is absolutely fascinating. The petty and false claims that Massoud was somehow corrupt ultimately just helps to prop up the narrative of anti-Islamic elements around the globe.
It wasn't just Western journalists who praised Massoud. The great Abdullah Azzam also praised him, after actually spending time with him, and realizing that the factionally-based lies about him were rubbish. Please read Azzam's son in law Abdullah Anas's book.
Great video overall one thing though the child's toy mines is simply not true what refers to is these air scatterable mines, the actual purpose of them is to be difficult to detect as most minds are and were painted dark green to blend in with foliage the problem is in Afghanistan they were very visible and were mistaken for toys by children. The Soviets probably should not have been deploying these air scatterable mines at all, but they were not trying to specifically Target children.
Thanks for the correction John. I would say, however, that at some point the Soviet military command must've understood the mines' were viewed by the children as toys and were continued to be deployed regardless. I know that doesn't make child toy mines per say but if the consequence is the same, you can understand the confusion.
@@HikmaHistory if nothing else the story has been repeated so many times I don't even blame you for making a mistake, regardless of what the degree or another the Soviet command knew about the danger of mines, and frankly antipersonnel mines are a pretty despicable weapon in general and every country that employs them deserves to be condemned.
@@ninjadolphin01 yeah killing 3million people in a country of 17million is fine for you? May Ukraine destroy Russia and make it 20 countries. That's the only thing we can hope for.
Personally I think Afghanistan was never set to succeed. From geographical barriers that prevent a centralized control, numerous minority groups with closer ties with neighbors, added by religious tension and foreign interventions. It’s kind of like Lebanon but maybe worse.
The power craziness of Afghanistanians has ruined the civilisation of Afghanistan. Put Afghanistan in disaster zone for decades, just wanted to overthrow the Shah family government, who provide modern society’s standards of living with dignity. The king was overthrown, Afghanistanians lived in disgrace and inhumane conditions.
Was not the country already in a civil war before, and at the time when, the soviets invaded? Intro makes it sound like life was all peace & harmony before 1978.
Afghan Communists took over in April 1978; over the next 18 months, the Mujahideen resistance slowly gained momentum. Then the Soviets invaded and full-blown war ensued.
in May 1974, in the wake of the East-Pakistan loss for Islamabad, the media blared with headlines : "Another Bangla-Desh brewing up" referring to the secessionists of Pashtunistan.
You gotta look at it from my POV - if I design a thumbnail I need people to get what I'm saying within milliseconds. As Western-centric as the idea of equating suits to progress is, people nevertheless still equate the two.
@@HikmaHistory I understand what you mean but the problem is doing something like that reinforces a wrong idea inside a western-centric audience. It’s also a bit offensive to non-western audience that simply dress this way because they are proud of their local customs not because they have backward way of thinking.
@@mhmdrifaie1049 I get your point. My hope is that I bring in viewership with these "low" tactics knowing that my content is not "low". That way I achieve both aims - numbers and spreading well-researched knowledge.
What's wrong with suits ? Do you see the Japanese posing in kimono and samurai outfits ? Do you think a progressive Afghan govt would wear what the Taliban wears ?
@@jamieammar6131 Maybe they would. There's nothing that's automatically more "advanced" about a suit and tie. We just assume that's how it is because that's how the west has forced things to be.
@@wyattmcgee1 you can't force people to accept your idea of freedom and still hold to it. In the west we have the freedom to denounce Christianity and destroy our society. Over there they have the freedom to live their traditional way of life
Genocide is the Russian people’s strategy of choice when it comes to warfare: Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Ukraine are but three examples. I wanted to say it was limited to the Russian government, but these attempts at genocide existed during the Tsar, the USSR, and the Russian Federation. In other words, the government may change, but the Russian people still fight the same way…which is to say, via war crimes and crimes against humanity. For some reason, Russian culture doesn’t value human life - and it’s been that way for at least a century 🤷🏽♀️
Actually, they got the typical asymmetric warfare of communists stoking revolution by poisoning politics and intentionally creating conflict and chaos to gain power… then it’s hell followed by deeper layers of hell and on and on in new iterations and facades.
a question is whether afghanistan, considering all realities, has a likelyhood of acheiving civilised systems of government. apparently not. it is meat to geopolitical wild predators. meat has no possibility of being safe in a forest.
You don’t need a hour long video to explain the reason for why Afghanistan continues to live as a medieval society. The reason is the ideology Islam. How much bloody lessons or examples do we need to see or experience to be vigilant and protect ourselves from this pest?
@@DenseAzamat Oh yes because Islam dictates a “modern, western (remember it was invented by the Greeks) form of goverments” Instead of a repressive theocracy. They book clearly forbids any kind of deviation from the savage practices espoused in it. It is so amusing when apologist like yourself try to frame Islam as being modern. While it is clearly for all to see that every country where Islam is dominant still is a patriarchal, backwards and repressive society. There is a reason they take advantage of our dangerous tolerance and flee to the west instead of their rich “brethren” on the Arabian peninsula or even further east.
@@HikmaHistory It’s the traditional strict Sunni Islam which is used by the Pashtuns as a form of social control. They only want men to be educated and be part of the economy. This is flawed way of thinking because you are excluding the 50% of the population from working and making the economy stronger. Religion is used by the tribal Pashtun elites in Afghanistan to remain in power. It’s just like how the Chinese elites use Communism to oppress and control their country whilst at the same time living like capitalists.
@@toyotasupra174 Don't even comment on Islam in societies, when girls in non-Islamic, western countries want to open an only fans (as soon as they're 18) and married people go to night clubs lol.
You mean the ISI. Why blame Islam instead of the COMMUNIST AGITATORS TAKING ORDERS FROM THE KRELIM IN PRECEDING *DECADES* WITH THE GOAL OF FURTHERING INSTABILITY AND DECREASING THE VIABILITY OF A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY AND ELECTIONS TO ACHIEVE cOmMuNisT ReVoLuTiOn
The only improvement on all levels including Education and equality of emmen was during Socialist era and Soviet occoupation .Before and after times speaks for itself as it does now .Poverty,Discrimination Oppression and Injustic
The British establishment of Pakistan 1947 in occupied Southern Khorasan Afghan Land is on its 14th economic bailout. No one helped Afghanistan modernization or infrastructures like they did to Pakistan. Not even war reparation owed to Afghanistan was given to Afghans or it’s very federal savings in Western bank accounts. They only oppressed Afghanistan throughout history till present time
@@HikmaHistory From the monarchy to the communists to the taliban, its the pashtuns vying for control over the other ethnic groups without major representations from them.
@@nissarghori5364 first of all im not tajik, secondly, tajiks have been in afghanistan far longer than pathans. you need to study history first and learn that pathans come from sulaiman range in Pakistan. you guys are all genocidal settlers just like ur j+wish cousins in Palestine.
Can you please make a video on how the Pashtuns led Taliban is being friendly with the Chinese Communist Party despite what is happening in East Turkistan to the Uighurs. The Chinese Communists are committing and ethnic and cultural genocide against the Uighurs whilst the Pashtun led Taliban are more than happy to ignore this but complain about Kashmir. Is it because the Uighurs are not brown?
@@MS-hx5sj Exactly 😂 He was a cat and France held his leash but he also obeyed anyone that threw him cat food (money) They say goats 🐐 walk on his grave now
Afghanistan, like most other Muslim nations, both Sunni and Shia operate, under a different set of rules, different codes of conduct. Family tribe, Clan. Their values are different much different. You can lose your life because you looked at a man’s daughter twice and they will do or say anything to save face.. any wise, European, or American, for that matter must stay the hell out of that place
Thanks for for the video 23 years ago I digging for reading this now I wish this video came by before and now my nation has a lot stupid people and conducts are well because thinking funds will last has ever has they wish details wish this came by Sooner
Afghanistan was always poor, majority of the country is Barren. Even during this time 90% of the population was dirt poor, these pictures are of elite that had the privilege of studying in Pakistan, india or the west
No one studied in Pakistan for sure, you people prior to Afghan jihad were eating dirt out of poverty, even Dawn news paper in 2019 said Afghanistan had superior education curriculum than Pakistan and it says that Daud Khan, Karzai and Ashraf Ghani has left Afghanistan with better education system.
May God help the Afghans, they have suffered way too much. Women in Afghanistan are allowed to work and study. Secondary schools are closed because of management issues not because of an issue of ideology. It is a war-torn country, after all, it will take some time. Please also take a look at the human rights abuses of non-Muslims: -Pornography is deviant, it makes people see women as sex objects and stops them from being loving and caring. But the west is the largest producer of it. -Incest is disgusting but it is already legal in Russia and is being promoted in the West through entertainment media. -In the US alone more than 50% of the population is born out of wedlock, what about the child's rights who will go through a lot of bully and mockery because of it? Meanwhile, in Muslim countries, this figure is not even 1%, a clear miracle of Islam. -Western teachers make children vulgar by telling them things they should not know at such a young age, with some teachers openly suggesting the most inhumane things that they should show pornography to children. -Teenage pregnancy out of wedlock is a big issue in the West which can be reduced with gender segregation, but they don't believe in that. -In India, abortion clinics write in their advertisements 'pay few thousand now and save millions later. Tens of millions of unborn baby girls have lost their lives because of abortion. -The latter is also true for China. The list goes on. Islam's restrictions are nothing in comparison. However, no one is perfect and to be overly strict about these restrictions is indeed abusive and I condemn it.
@Pedro Ortega Cousin marriage is not considered incest in Islam. Here is a video about it. ruclips.net/video/JV0S07EakCs/видео.html Not just in Islam, many other religions and nations allow cousin marriage and do not take it as incest.
@Pedro Ortega I have posted proof in the above reply that cousin marriage is not incest, biologically and scientifically. Jesus (PBUH) never forbade cousin marriage but the latter priests. How can you tell that my reply is shadow-banned? I have been experiencing some replies not showing myself for quite some time now.
You’re delusional. There is NO major religion out there with the level of restrictions as Islam, regardless of whether it’s Sunni or Shia or any other sect. I’m so grateful I grew up in a secular Iranian family, otherwise I would’ve probably left after I graduated high school. No matter how much propaganda you proselytizers bring my way, I always see through it. Women in Afghanistan are allowed to work and study?? What century are you living in, because here in 2022: Afghan women and girls aren’t allowed to do anything. You’re not fooling anyone.
If you had to pick the most important reason for why Afghanistan Went From “Modernising” to “War-Torn”, what would it be?
Modern History Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLiPhmAD3I2Jz6goEJlQ1zh6KkbeBWZ2pP
government-funded drug production, from both sides during the cold war (CIA and ISIS)
USSR invasion
Islam.
America funding radical Islamist factions and the USSR invasion that followed.
Not a difficult question... which countries went to war with them? What were their military budgets?
As a historian, I’m stoked to find a well produced, intelligent, and entertaining history channel focused on the Middle East. It’s a subject that I’m extremely lacking unfortunately.
We are actually central Asian , but nevertheless I’m glad you are interested to know the history of Afghanistan
@@KahramanEafghanistan I was meaning the channel as a whole, not just Afghanistan. I get what you’re saying though. Apologies for the confusion.
Thank you for making this documentary about my country. Its so hard to get through the things that happened to the afghan people. An amazing video from beginning to the end. Continue the great work brother.
Appreciate the kind words Bilal, plenty of Afghan history content coming up!
Wouldnt things have been better ifnl the afghan royal family remained in power....I mean there would have been to soviet invasion....
This was an amazing documentary experience. So glad I stumbled onto this channel. Thank you, as a westerner that is a humble student of history I really appreciate you taking the time to educate.
Took me a while to find a good video that wasn't just an over simplified American history of Afghanistan. Great vid 👍
More Afghan content coming soon!
I'm a Proud Afghan Alhamdullilah praise too Allah ❣️❣️❣️🙏🙏🙏🙏☝️☝️☝️🕌🕌🕋🕋
I found this to be one of the most informative and helpful gods on Afghanistan and it’s slow rise and fall. This video was truly 10 out of 10. Thank you so much for producing such free and open information. Great content, man.❤
This gives the illusion that Afganistán was some paradise, those “modernizing” pictures were only a small fragment of the population. Most lived in the same poverty of today.
NICE NAME
the country was on the right track until the late 70s.
@@zainmudassir2964 the people have to be on the same page as the government and that wasn’t happening in Afghanistan
Not that small, they were really like that back then
If communists hadn't decided to usurp power in that country, it would had have been much better than what it is.
I was fortunate to meet both the King and Masud on their last day a live in Kabul. I was taken by the King and also meet Sardar Waly I was very impressed by him wow, what an honor
This channel deserves way more subscribers. Hikma History is awesome!
Appreciate you!
@Hikma History It's me who appreciates you, sir! Thank you for all the hard work you put into your videos.
Afganistan was a great country ,, sad story today ,,, but i still pray that it prosper and modernize to make life easy for all Afgans
Is it? People are just dying to get in and immigrate there for it’s freedoms, opportunities, and desirable climate?
Get real. Few people wanna live there who’ve seen better. Which is running water, free speech and worship, and electricity
Excellent content, thank you for your efforts.
Much appreciated!
Thanks for making this
Excellent stuff you got going, love from the Lowlands🇳🇱
Now on my third hour of watching this channel after a mention on Casual Historian's Caliph series. Awesome channel man.
Thanks! Plenty of great content coming this year
Most Informative Historical Coverage Video about Afghanistan
Oh thanks Mohammed!
Brilliantly told. Thank you so much 🙏
Great vlog!
A few notes:
A) Abdul Khaleq was the offspring of a servant of the Charkhi family & his actions were solely for revenge on his master.
B) Nadir Shah's - known as Shah e Shahid - full name Mohammad Nadir Khan. Brothers Mohammad Hashem Khan and Shah Mahmoud Khan.
C) W/Zallmian was a thought child of Doud Khan - being present at its inception. One major issue not covered was that during the ten years of Doud Khans' prime ministership - for the first time in Afghan History, students were sent to the USSR & Eastern Europe - the birth of the communist movement.
D) The Pashtonistan Issue was solely a Doud Khan issue; King M. Zahir Shah was not at all a proponent of this issue.
E) The US also spent Millions in various programs not just in Helmand - Khandahar Airport, the Kabul Khandahar Heart Road...etc
F) All the upheaval during the Decade of Democracy was led by the Doud Khan-backed Communists - due to the 7th Article of the New Constitution: No member of the Royal family may stand for public office.
G) You mentioned Dupree and showed a clip of a British documentary in (1972-3) It states Doud Khan's republic is so close to Moscow that it is hard to tell where the policies were coming from.
I) Women were given the right to vote and work in Doud Khans' decade as prime minister - not the communist era. Two add numbers to his vote if the constitution had not been changed in 1964.
Abdul Khaleeq
Impressive you know all that in such detail.
@@Garbeaux. Thank you. I am very kean on history.
This is amazing. Thanks for the history
You are somehow full of it.
This content is mind blowing! Great job
Thank you, that's very nice of you to say!
Great documentary
You should had written overlaying text on the video so that one would remember what you are talking about and could keep trace of the long story in a much chronological order.
Further, putting photos from the exact same meeting/truce/situation could make the video more understandable.
BTW its one of the good history vodeos about Afghanistan. 😊
I have to say brother that I really enjoy your blogs, as a Christian I find both Christian and Muslim bloggers very biased regarding their understanding of history through a rather low resolution Lense and world views but I actually found you to be very balanced and centerist. I loved your story of the history of Lebanon and actually telling the truth that quite a few Muslims even emirs converted to Christianity, something that most Muslims find it discusting lies, also Christians converting to Islam such as Seljuk and his Turk followers. Keep telling the truth. Godbless
I think that if the USSR had not invaded Afghanistan. Afghanistan would’ve been better off today.
Of course
I think if starving people were given food, they would not be hungry.
@@mpforeverunlimited lol
No I think if the USA wouldn't have given all the weapons to some idiots and stayed out of the Afghanistan business, Afghanistan would have been much better
No brother. Maybe ALLAH wants to make them strong internally. After everything Afghanistan is the place on earth where real Shariah is implemented.
I'm pashtun it's shame for me living in quetta and calling myself a Pakistani actually we are afghans but what the Pakistani media shown us one side to us washing our minds to be Pakistani.. Live long our brave leaders amanullah khan, habibullah khan Zahir shah all of them sepcailly the brave leaders we have now manzoor pashtun, ali wazir and mohsin dawar in eastern pashtunistan still fighting with our enemies
You are a troll.stop fooling the world
@@selen7515 that's because part of pashtunistan is occupied by Pakistan! The Durrand line cuts pashtunistan, and now part of it occupied by Pakistan. From Peshawar to Quetta it's part of pashtunistan but occupied by Pakistan.. majority of people speak Pashto, not Urdu or Punjabi.
@Kaleb J the british empire continues in pakistan and parts of afghanistan. this region has no freedom movement, so continues as a colony. the british are free, and laughing in their graves.
@@akhil999in the British drew their lines and left ruining the lives of millions of people who live there right now.. India-Pakistan partition line, Afghanistan-Pakistan, Kurdistan in Iraq & Syria (Sykes Picot line), the Israel-Palestine problem, etc
My pashtoon brother salute to you
We Afghans from the heart
This is a good account of Afghan history, but one from the perspective of the westernized urban elite. It is the story of their attempt to "modernize" Afghanistan by centralizing power in their hands at the expense of the traditional culture of the culture and its largely rural population. The leaders you see in these photos don't even look Afghan.
They were Afghans spoke in pashto
Obviously to your lot (English and American) Islamists Terrorist backward lot are true looks of Mid East people ! The pro dominantly Aryan Real Afghans looklike as you don't like. Tahrika Taliban from cave depth of the earth is your Idealooks ! So much hatered for advancement and progress by educated people of None AngloAmerican World in particular born ones in Muslim countries !
@@rossib6974 islam is peace why blame the action of humanity to pure Islam of Deen
That’s not entirely true. The documentary mentions HOW the hastened modernization alienated people so it was slowed down.
The entire thing is very accurate because the biggest struggle after independence from Britain for MOST countries was to establish themselves as sovereign nation that could not be overtaken by another country, mainly USA and Russia at that time. It led to coups and destabilization in many countries not just Afghanistan. It is not a westernized perspective but in fact a VERY good documentary from a GLOBAL perspective. Exact same thing happened in India when Nehru invited MIT among other institutions to establish IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) to propel India into modern sovereign country. This is by far the most accurate description that takes into account exactly why the decisions that were made were made from a GLOBAL perspective of how other countries were also seeking to stabilize themselves after independence from Britain but did not always account for changes that people far alienated from global society did not understand.
There is no such a thing as modern it's all about culture.
Progress has nothing to do with clothing.
Real progress comes with industry and business and promotion of ones own knowledge and education.
Kabul was a very small city with one hundred thousand residents with one University with a few schools.
Agreed!
a social process based on modern education is likely also to be based on freedom of the individual. afghanistan will not become free as long as it stays away from freedom of the individual.
Rampant population growth in all those decades covered by the video is a main reason for all the problems. During all the war years the population grew, not only in Kabul but throughout the country. Kabul now has more than four million inhabitants.
Also the ecological problems mentioned (bad harvest, drought, etc.) only could trigger political turmoil because of the huge population growth.
The word culture is a lie born of a racist ideology of separation/segregation !!
very good interesting doc. hopefully Afghanistan recovers and become great nation again
Thanks Zain!
3:34 Prince Amanullah Kahn (1919 - 1929).
4:35 Nadir Shah (1929 - 1933) assassinated by high school student in 1933.
5:09 Zahir Shah (1933 - ) succeeded his father at age of 19.
Thank you for this very illuminating discussion of modern Afghan history!
Can you give me the sources you used in this video, I’m doing A research about the history of Afghanistan and I would like to use the sources
Email me and I'll hook you up!
@@HikmaHistory which email tho?
@@okeh5045 Go to my channel About page
@@HikmaHistoryI’ve send you an email.
The darkest period was the 40 years of zaher “kale”because he and his uncles were British agents. Davod khan was the only independent and countryman lover president of Afghanistan🇦🇫. But Khalq was the worst party.
I am from Pakistan and I always felt that afghans and Pakistanis are historic brothers. The British came and drew divisions but I think the border is artificial … imagine having the fighting spirit of afghans combined with the discipline and sophistication as well as nukes of Pakistan army and airforce and navy. Also gives afghans free access to warm waters and ports so their trading capacity goes up and for Pakistan this opens direct access to Central Asia. In the long run this is where things have to go ..
Recreate the historic khorasan
Pakistan army is neither disciplined or sophisticated
Pakistan is 51st state of USA😂
Analysis shows how disconnected the elite were from the common people aspirations it is sad to see how the elite tried to ignore the people
The narration is a bit slow, but it's not bad
Thanks for the feedback and I agree it is a bit slow.
@@HikmaHistory For your shorts I think not just the narration but the pacing itself should be faster aswell and you should put some subtitles on the screen. For shorts you have to cater to the short attention spans of the viewer, which is what these "tiktok" genre is for. I really hope your channel grows and I would like to see how it develops in the future
@@HikmaHistory it is not slow for those not already schooled in the political history between ww2 & the Soviet invasion. I thought I had a general awareness, I was wrong. I actually think the depth & scope of this subject, with such important analysis and overall flow of information you’ve already crystallized, might do well to break up into a series of videos. Make it slower 🙂 really tho, excellent work. I even took some notes! 🙏
Hope and pray that this country gets better leaders and others stay out of their business. All the best from America.
the wars are likely to continue, as china, pakistan, iran, india, will now be fighting it out in afghanistan even if the western countries stayed out.
Well I hope America stays out of Asia
@@alijamal9000 and Muslims and Europeans stay out of the world
From germany too.
For record, Afghanistan is not Middle East. It’s Central Asia entirely.
It's in South Asia, not Central Asia...
@@Narrator_of_Tarikh07 debatable. Geographically split down the middle. Culturally split down the middle.
@@Narrator_of_Tarikh07Afghanistan pre Durand line maybe a bit. But todays Afghanistan is Central Asia. Unesco defined it as Central Asia 1978.
But I assume you know better then Unesco 😜
Someday, and I hope to be alive long enough to see that day, Afghanistan will be a free, fair and prosperous place to live. With a strong democracy, and the right for all her people, no matter their race, religion or creed, to stand under the light of a land so full of culture and history.
I have to believe that. I have to believe there's a light at the end of this tunnel.
Probably after Pakistan falls. I BELIEVE that maybe Afghanistan will restore the monarchy but with a different Shah to lead Afghanistan 🇦🇫 out of this rut.
Someday, but, right now, it seems that the day in which Afganistán becames a prosperous country is far far away
@@itsblitz4437 Yes return the Shah.
Democracy doesn't fit Afghani culture. Nor does it fit many non western countries.
@@patrickmunneke8348 The same was said about so many countries that today are democratic. Every country can have a democratic system, afghanistan did during the constitutional decade
When I heard 'support of freedom fighters is self defense' set off a bunch of dominos
The British were never good people. My family left the island back in the 1780. I can't thank them enough.
God Save The King
Dawood didn't take the slow pace for modernization and it blew up in his face. Perfect example of easy come easy go.
Modernity is not neccessarily a good thing and change is not always for the better. Things like investment in modern science and technology are good things but things like promoting western clothing are silly. Traditional clothing, languages customs and religion are symbols of a nations history and culture and they should be preserved.
Saudi Arabia is a perfect example of how to preserve culture and develop at the same time. It is highly developed economy yet everyone wears traditional clothing and follows religious laws. It is good to see that the Taliban is also promoting traditional clothing. The Shalwar Khameez looks way better than Western suits.
Also, it is Important to note that there was a dark side to the "modernity" in Afghanistan. For example, during the King Amanullah period, anyone who opposed westernisation was punished harshly and reforms were forced down peoples throats. It was similar to what happened in Iran with Reza shah.
That is was why Amanullah faced fierce rebellions from Afghan tribes and religious leaders like Habibullah Kalakani who eventually overthrew him.
That being said, Ofcourse there are 2 extremes. I think it is best to follow the middle path. I believe the way forward for Muslim countries is to gradually promote relevant reforms which do not go against religion and traditions which are deeply rooted in these societies.
Spot on, everyone shouldn’t be forced to fit into the same shoe, because it doesn’t work. As long as we can cooperate and there is no animosity and fighting everyone should move at their own pace and do what works for them.
Saudi Arabia is a perfect counterexample for preserving culture while modernizing. The monarchy is only hanging on due to the immense wealth they distribute among the society: everyone has cushy oil jobs with no pressure. Everything menial is done by foreign workers. Young Saudis are extremely americanized in leisure, music, language, food, and even fashion. Architecture, transportation and urban planning is literally a carbon copy of the US. The only thing resembling cultural preservation is superficial dresscodes and draconian religious laws and punishments.
All of Saudi's wealth is paid for by the west and will collapse once the need for hydrocarbons runs out.
Haha, Saudi..development. Give the amount of oil Saudi has to any nation. You can't develop with conservatism if you don't have oil, or you are extremely talented like the Iranians. Those who have accepted reforms, are in prosper. Turkey, Azerbaijan, Albania. Was never gonna work in Afghanistan anyway, for it's tribal mentality.
Saudi is a poor poor example. Wish youtube had haha reaction.
@@Handle0108 Lol tell that to the Saudis who are having fun in Yemen.
@@jamieammar6131 “Give that amount of oil to any nation” Oh is that so? Tell that to all the corrupt and poverty stricken oil rich countries around the world. If you don’t like Saudi at least you have to commend them for some things, rather than making ridiculous claims and belittling people who are extremely successful, your jealousy can be felt from a mile away.
Was monarchy better here or worst?
Afghanistan has been war torn throughout it's history and will continue for it's entire existence. Simply because of location.
Correct. Thats always has been their history. Back then it was Moguls and Savavids, Afghanistan between them, then western colonialists, UDSSR etc
It won’t change. There is a lotta Afghan poetry about this topic. They love their land but its cursed geographically. Thats the sad truth
The problem was that they decided to modernize their civil society along Western lines and modernize their military along Soviet lines. They sent their officers to be trained in Moscow at the Suverov Academy, apparently not knowing that part of their military education was heavy on communist ideology which created fanatics that would find conflict with both their traditional religious heritage as well as the westernized aspects of life that all of the students brought back with them from the West. The older, more religious parts of society could've handled the moderately westernized part of life easier than communism because it was strictly atheistic in a way that the west wasn't. Conflict sadly was inevitable.
24:17 32:54
Noor Taraki & Hafizulah Amin must have looked to
H.P. Lovecraft's Chthulu universe for inspiration in the design of their hyper-scary Khalq flag.
Is Ali G the narrator?
Yeah it went from having women with nicely trimmed legs on one corner of Kabul from the elite class of society; oh sorry "modernised". To getting taken over by a group of autocrats and war lords and was invaded by world superpowers.
That's the abstract for their modern history
Wow I’m impressed. Awesome video
Never forget the heroic actions of John Rambo
How can we forget!
Rambo could have straightened the situation out SINGLEHANDEDLY. The Soviets, the Mujahadeen, the Taliban...fill in the blank. Don't Ever mess with Rambo. You're digging your own grave.😢😮
Afghanistan is a prime example on why
"Polices and Islam never should be mixed"
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Who cares about what a cryptojew says
Afghanistan was built on Hazarajat & Turkistan after Hazara uprising of 1890s
Men I love it, how you spell all those places name or subjects name.
salamualikum brother can you make a video regarding the(Pashtun GHILZAI tribe )
coz i have seen peaple getting confuse between the khalaj turkic tribe with Ghilazi/khilji pashtun tribe
and also were the ruler of delhi sultanate Jalaluaddin and Alauaddin khilji pashtun s. i have seen people say that they were turk afghans
how true is that
Definitely a topic for the future!
Alauddin Khalji was from Khalaj tribe not ghilzai :)
@@zyT175 Ghilzais are not same people with Khalajis but if you think they are that means Ghilzais are also Turkic just like Khalajis :)
@@zyT175 but the word Ghilji/Ghilzai is definitely Turkic origin
Turk, afghan, iranian, its all muslim to us. So dont bothwr fighting. Its all dusty people in robes to us, sorry!
I met Ahmad Shah Massoud in 1991 in Takhar Province while photographing the anti-Communist jihad. In my observation he was an amazing and honorable man.
I was also in Loghar Province in 1983; during that time, the mujahideen there also stopped fighting in order to harvest their crops. The idea that a temporary, tactical cessation of fighting is unusual or somehow wrong is of course ridiculous. The Soviets had targeted and invaded Massoud's Panjshir Valley several times in the early 1980s (eventually a total of 9 full-scale incursions), Massoud used the cessation to reorganize and came back fighting again just as hard as ever. Unfortunately Massoud's tribal and factional rivals feel the need to distort his actions.
If you want to read reminiscences of those who knew him best, Massoud: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Afghan Leader, by Marcela Grad is excellent. If you want to read a book by an impartial observer, To the Mountains, by Abdallah Anas, an Arab mujahed who knw many of the top Afghan leaders, is absolutely fascinating.
The petty and false claims that Massoud was somehow corrupt ultimately just helps to prop up the narrative of anti-Islamic elements around the globe.
It wasn't just Western journalists who praised Massoud. The great Abdullah Azzam also praised him, after actually spending time with him, and realizing that the factionally-based lies about him were rubbish. Please read Azzam's son in law Abdullah Anas's book.
Great video overall one thing though the child's toy mines is simply not true what refers to is these air scatterable mines, the actual purpose of them is to be difficult to detect as most minds are and were painted dark green to blend in with foliage the problem is in Afghanistan they were very visible and were mistaken for toys by children. The Soviets probably should not have been deploying these air scatterable mines at all, but they were not trying to specifically Target children.
Thanks for the correction John. I would say, however, that at some point the Soviet military command must've understood the mines' were viewed by the children as toys and were continued to be deployed regardless. I know that doesn't make child toy mines per say but if the consequence is the same, you can understand the confusion.
@@HikmaHistory if nothing else the story has been repeated so many times I don't even blame you for making a mistake, regardless of what the degree or another the Soviet command knew about the danger of mines, and frankly antipersonnel mines are a pretty despicable weapon in general and every country that employs them deserves to be condemned.
Russia should be tried in the Hague for war crimes for using toys as mines
@@MS-hx5sj they didn't tho
@@ninjadolphin01 yeah killing 3million people in a country of 17million is fine for you? May Ukraine destroy Russia and make it 20 countries. That's the only thing we can hope for.
Personally I think Afghanistan was never set to succeed. From geographical barriers that prevent a centralized control, numerous minority groups with closer ties with neighbors, added by religious tension and foreign interventions. It’s kind of like Lebanon but maybe worse.
The people their have a mentality incompatible with any but their own kind
so did the swiss
This only happened after USSR withdrawal, prior to that, there was no group above the central government
@@AdmiralSpaceballs The Swiss are neighbours to major powers, historically and geographically they're nothing alike to the mess AF is...
The power craziness of Afghanistanians has ruined the civilisation of Afghanistan. Put Afghanistan in disaster zone for decades, just wanted to overthrow the Shah family government, who provide modern society’s standards of living with dignity. The king was overthrown, Afghanistanians lived in disgrace and inhumane conditions.
Was not the country already in a civil war before, and at the time when, the soviets invaded? Intro makes it sound like life was all peace & harmony before 1978.
Afghan Communists took over in April 1978; over the next 18 months, the Mujahideen resistance slowly gained momentum. Then the Soviets invaded and full-blown war ensued.
Russia never learns.
Veri complicated History, Big errors by political leaders drove the Afghan people to catastrophe....after .... catastrophe ...to nightmares....
in May 1974, in the wake of the East-Pakistan loss for Islamabad, the media blared with headlines :
"Another Bangla-Desh brewing up" referring to the secessionists of Pashtunistan.
A country like afghanistan would maybe have a good development with a strong non corrupt honorable leader respecting the traditions.
I gotta say choosing suits as a sign of progress in the thumbnail is a poor choice.
You gotta look at it from my POV - if I design a thumbnail I need people to get what I'm saying within milliseconds. As Western-centric as the idea of equating suits to progress is, people nevertheless still equate the two.
@@HikmaHistory I understand what you mean but the problem is doing something like that reinforces a wrong idea inside a western-centric audience. It’s also a bit offensive to non-western audience that simply dress this way because they are proud of their local customs not because they have backward way of thinking.
@@mhmdrifaie1049 I get your point. My hope is that I bring in viewership with these "low" tactics knowing that my content is not "low". That way I achieve both aims - numbers and spreading well-researched knowledge.
What's wrong with suits ? Do you see the Japanese posing in kimono and samurai outfits ? Do you think a progressive Afghan govt would wear what the Taliban wears ?
@@jamieammar6131 Maybe they would. There's nothing that's automatically more "advanced" about a suit and tie. We just assume that's how it is because that's how the west has forced things to be.
It happened the same way as Vietnam was war torn.
Afghans were too cowardly to fight for their Freedom, unlike the Ukrainians who are fighting and dying for theirs right now.
Your idea of freedom and their idea of freedom is different. VERY DIFFERENT.
Russia will defeat the Neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
@@hiseverest9074
Ours is better.
Well,95% are in favour of Shari'a according to pew there.
@@wyattmcgee1 you can't force people to accept your idea of freedom and still hold to it. In the west we have the freedom to denounce Christianity and destroy our society. Over there they have the freedom to live their traditional way of life
Afghanistan could have been another Turkey. Modern and interesting.
Genocide is the Russian people’s strategy of choice when it comes to warfare: Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Ukraine are but three examples.
I wanted to say it was limited to the Russian government, but these attempts at genocide existed during the Tsar, the USSR, and the Russian Federation. In other words, the government may change, but the Russian people still fight the same way…which is to say, via war crimes and crimes against humanity.
For some reason, Russian culture doesn’t value human life - and it’s been that way for at least a century 🤷🏽♀️
Lol shut up meg
Don’t say it to loud. Putin fanboys are very sensitive.
Wait till you hear about Nazis collaboraters in Ukraine. You'll love it
correction....it was this and the american encouragement...
MY UNCLES WERE IN KHAD AND THE AFGHAN ARMY DURING THE 1980S
Shame ON you and your family.
@@saracen638 eat sh1t meg
So you might be in USA now, I mean American Afghan.
@@fahadullahkhan6967 UK !
@@fahadullahkhan6967 LANAT ba massoud LANAT ba gulbuddin 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
Manana Granqadar Hikma❤
You're welcome
TB is bad but , is this Hikmah ??? not having enough cloth is modernization?
I don't need to watch this too figure out the answer, they got a fresh shipment of democracy!!
Afganistan was a shithole waaay before the US invasion.
Actually, they got the typical asymmetric warfare of communists stoking revolution by poisoning politics and intentionally creating conflict and chaos to gain power… then it’s hell followed by deeper layers of hell and on and on in new iterations and facades.
Ahmad Shah Massoud❤️
33:32
according to Afghan sources there were 2,000 dead across the country due to the coup fighting.
a question is whether afghanistan, considering all realities, has a likelyhood of acheiving civilised systems of government. apparently not. it is meat to geopolitical wild predators. meat has no possibility of being safe in a forest.
With that being said: no predator has come searching for meat in Afghanistan and succeeded 🤷🏽♀️
You don’t need a hour long video to explain the reason for why Afghanistan continues to live as a medieval society. The reason is the ideology Islam. How much bloody lessons or examples do we need to see or experience to be vigilant and protect ourselves from this pest?
Oh I think you meant radical Islam. There is a way to be a modern democratic Islamic country.
@@DenseAzamat Oh yes because Islam dictates a “modern, western (remember it was invented by the Greeks) form of goverments” Instead of a repressive theocracy. They book clearly forbids any kind of deviation from the savage practices espoused in it. It is so amusing when apologist like yourself try to frame Islam as being modern. While it is clearly for all to see that every country where Islam is dominant still is a patriarchal, backwards and repressive society. There is a reason they take advantage of our dangerous tolerance and flee to the west instead of their rich “brethren” on the Arabian peninsula or even further east.
Why is it Islam?
@@HikmaHistory It’s the traditional strict Sunni Islam which is used by the Pashtuns as a form of social control. They only want men to be educated and be part of the economy. This is flawed way of thinking because you are excluding the 50% of the population from working and making the economy stronger. Religion is used by the tribal Pashtun elites in Afghanistan to remain in power. It’s just like how the Chinese elites use Communism to oppress and control their country whilst at the same time living like capitalists.
@@HikmaHistory because he doesn't want to study Islam and just goes off what the news and some certain people say.
Just saying it's link to their religion or rather how they interpret it. That's an over simplification but it really boils down to that
People are blaming Islam, but the US gave the bulk of its assistance to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who invited Osama BIn Laden.
US newspaper called him hero back in 80's.
So that's doesn't means islam is any better
@@toyotasupra174 Don't even comment on Islam in societies, when girls in non-Islamic, western countries want to open an only fans (as soon as they're 18) and married people go to night clubs lol.
You mean the ISI. Why blame Islam instead of the COMMUNIST AGITATORS TAKING ORDERS FROM THE KRELIM IN PRECEDING *DECADES* WITH THE GOAL OF FURTHERING INSTABILITY AND DECREASING THE VIABILITY OF A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY AND ELECTIONS TO ACHIEVE cOmMuNisT ReVoLuTiOn
The only improvement on all levels including Education and equality of emmen was during Socialist era and Soviet occoupation .Before and after times speaks for itself as it does now .Poverty,Discrimination Oppression and Injustic
RIP Ahmed Shah massoud.
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President Dawd Khan once said that he like American cigarettes lit with soviet matches.
Çok yaşa necibullah.
Taky ako je Gaddafi na druhý na tretí štvrtý a podobne hamas Taliban sa noví na druhý deň ráno
The British establishment of Pakistan 1947 in occupied Southern Khorasan Afghan Land is on its 14th economic bailout. No one helped Afghanistan modernization or infrastructures like they did to Pakistan. Not even war reparation owed to Afghanistan was given to Afghans or it’s very federal savings in Western bank accounts. They only oppressed Afghanistan throughout history till present time
afghanistan got democracy from usa in 2001 and communism in 1970s😅
afgans were probably oppressed because theyre corrupt troglodytes
this is what happens when one ethnic group tries to unilaterally control other ethnic groups with no representation
What you mean?
@@HikmaHistory From the monarchy to the communists to the taliban, its the pashtuns vying for control over the other ethnic groups without major representations from them.
It's a pashtun country, you refugees have your own countries. Tazikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, monglistan
@@nissarghori5364 You pathans better move to pakistan. why dont you understand nothing good comes out of your people, youre all watan forosh.
@@nissarghori5364 first of all im not tajik, secondly, tajiks have been in afghanistan far longer than pathans. you need to study history first and learn that pathans come from sulaiman range in Pakistan. you guys are all genocidal settlers just like ur j+wish cousins in Palestine.
Can you please make a video on how the Pashtuns led Taliban is being friendly with the Chinese Communist Party despite what is happening in East Turkistan to the Uighurs. The Chinese Communists are committing and ethnic and cultural genocide against the Uighurs whilst the Pashtun led Taliban are more than happy to ignore this but complain about Kashmir. Is it because the Uighurs are not brown?
I have to be honest, I have zero intention of making a video about that.
@@HikmaHistory Why is that?
@@grimgoreironhide9985 I don't really have much interest in the subject matter and it's barely history (too contemporary).
@@HikmaHistory Maybe because it’s an uncomfortable subject and displays the hypocrisy of the Taliban
@علئ ياسر I guess Islam is only for Arabs, Afghans and brown people. That's why the Muslim doesn't do nothing against China
Let them defend their freedom. Better than under Satan's control.
'Institooootion', 'Stooodent', 'Sovrenetty', 'noootral' 🤦Who did the narrator learn his English from? A lecturer from wish? 😅
The whole countries, one big cat box
Eu queria esse lenço dos afegãos.
Wartorn because of afghan/pashtun tribe stupidly
Bless the lion of Pansheer!
More like the cowards. They aligned with ISIS and are bombing all around Afghanistan killing innocent souls 🤦♂️
He was a cat. Signing cease fire with Russians is not the work of a lion.
@@MS-hx5sj Exactly 😂 He was a cat and France held his leash but he also obeyed anyone that threw him cat food (money) They say goats 🐐 walk on his grave now
@@DistantTravels exactly, the goats 🐐 walk on it and do other things as well.
Mujahid Click Soldier's lives on
mmmmmm just in time I binge watched the wars vs GB and the USSR invasion
Afghanistan, like most other Muslim nations, both Sunni and Shia operate, under a different set of rules, different codes of conduct. Family tribe, Clan. Their values are different much different. You can lose your life because you looked at a man’s daughter twice and they will do or say anything to save face.. any wise, European, or American, for that matter
must stay the hell out of that place
Thanks for for the video 23 years ago I digging for reading this now I wish this video came by before and now my nation has a lot stupid people and conducts are well because thinking funds will last has ever has they wish details wish this came by Sooner
Are all Afghans in the Taliban now? Prove they aren’t.
Cope piggy piggy oink oink
🇦🇫 🇦🇫 🇦🇫 🇦🇫 🇦🇫 🇦🇫 🇦🇫 🇦🇫 🇦🇫
Afghanistan was always poor, majority of the country is Barren. Even during this time 90% of the population was dirt poor, these pictures are of elite that had the privilege of studying in Pakistan, india or the west
Pakistan and India are worst in poverty my friend.
No one studied in Pakistan for sure, you people prior to Afghan jihad were eating dirt out of poverty, even Dawn news paper in 2019 said Afghanistan had superior education curriculum than Pakistan and it says that Daud Khan, Karzai and Ashraf Ghani has left Afghanistan with better education system.
And... islamic conservative from indo want to be like that
May God help the Afghans, they have suffered way too much. Women in Afghanistan are allowed to work and study. Secondary schools are closed because of management issues not because of an issue of ideology. It is a war-torn country, after all, it will take some time. Please also take a look at the human rights abuses of non-Muslims:
-Pornography is deviant, it makes people see women as sex objects and stops them from being loving and caring. But the west is the largest producer of it.
-Incest is disgusting but it is already legal in Russia and is being promoted in the West through entertainment media.
-In the US alone more than 50% of the population is born out of wedlock, what about the child's rights who will go through a lot of bully and mockery because of it? Meanwhile, in Muslim countries, this figure is not even 1%, a clear miracle of Islam.
-Western teachers make children vulgar by telling them things they should not know at such a young age, with some teachers openly suggesting the most inhumane things that they should show pornography to children.
-Teenage pregnancy out of wedlock is a big issue in the West which can be reduced with gender segregation, but they don't believe in that.
-In India, abortion clinics write in their advertisements 'pay few thousand now and save millions later. Tens of millions of unborn baby girls have lost their lives because of abortion.
-The latter is also true for China.
The list goes on. Islam's restrictions are nothing in comparison. However, no one is perfect and to be overly strict about these restrictions is indeed abusive and I condemn it.
Absolutly based.
Nobody likes incest except Christians
@Pedro Ortega Cousin marriage is not considered incest in Islam. Here is a video about it. ruclips.net/video/JV0S07EakCs/видео.html
Not just in Islam, many other religions and nations allow cousin marriage and do not take it as incest.
@Pedro Ortega I have posted proof in the above reply that cousin marriage is not incest, biologically and scientifically.
Jesus (PBUH) never forbade cousin marriage but the latter priests.
How can you tell that my reply is shadow-banned? I have been experiencing some replies not showing myself for quite some time now.
You’re delusional. There is NO major religion out there with the level of restrictions as Islam, regardless of whether it’s Sunni or Shia or any other sect.
I’m so grateful I grew up in a secular Iranian family, otherwise I would’ve probably left after I graduated high school. No matter how much propaganda you proselytizers bring my way, I always see through it.
Women in Afghanistan are allowed to work and study?? What century are you living in, because here in 2022: Afghan women and girls aren’t allowed to do anything. You’re not fooling anyone.
Abdul khalig Hazara ❤️❤️❤️
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Degenerated not modern