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Babrak Karmal (Dari/Pashto: ببرک کارمل; born
Sultan Hussein; 6
January 1929 – 1 or 3
December 1996) was an
Afghan communist revolutionary and politician...
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Palace in
Kabul and ********inating Amin, who was then
replaced by
Karmal. The
Karmal era,
which lasted from 1979 to 1986, was
marked by the
height of the...
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toppled Amin's rule and
placed Babrak Karmal as head of the state, the
party and the government.
During Karmal's rule,
Najibullah became head of the KHAD...
- turn
tried to
neutralize Karmal by
appointing new
members to the
committee who were his own supporters.
After this incident,
Karmal offered his resignation...
- new far-left
organization co-founded by Nur
Muhammad Taraki and
Babrak Karmal. He ran as a
candidate in the 1965
parliamentary election but
failed to...
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invade Afghanistan on
December 24, 1979,
execute Amin, and
install Babrak Karmal as president. In the West, the
Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan was considered...
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Kabul and
killing Amin. A Soviet-organized regime, led by Parcham's
Babrak Karmal but
inclusive of both
factions (Parcham and Khalq),
filled the vacuum. Soviet...
- key priority. In
October 1985, he met with
Afghan Marxist leader Babrak Karmal,
urging him to
acknowledge the lack of
widespread public support for his...
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realism style.
Forming the PDPA at his
residence in
Kabul along with
Babrak Karmal, he was
elected as the party's
General Secretary at its
first congress....
- them to deal with a more
competent agent,
which at the time was
Babrak Karmal, who
later accused Taraki of
taking bribes and even of
having secretly contacted...
