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Babrak Karmal
Babrak Karmal was an Afghan communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Afghanistan, serving in the post of general secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986.
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politics · Afghan communist politician (1929–1996) · politician · diplomat · lawyer · also Babrak Karmal, Karmal
Born 6 January 1929 · Died 3 December 1996 · Q63827
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1996· 1 entry
Died 1996-12-03.
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1992· 1 entry
Karmal became the most powerful politician in Kabul through leadership of the Parcham
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1991· 1 entry
Where Kārmal became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum and possibly helped remove the Najibullah government from power in 1992
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1986· 2 entries
Abdul Rahim Hatef, a non-PDPA member, was elected to the NFF chairmanship
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And replaced him with Mohammad Najibullah
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1985· 1 entry
That it would support the Baloch separatist movement in Pakistan if the Pakistani government continued to aid the Afghan mujahideen
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1983· 2 entries
Two members of the Afghan Mellat party were arrested and their leader dissolved the organisation and agreed to support the government, leading Karmal to order KhAD to release them without trial
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That Karmal should resign
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1982· 2 entries
It was reported that the government spent around 22 percent of total expenditure
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And employed 10 percent of the labor force
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1981· 1 entry
And employed an estimated one-third of the labour force
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1980· 1 entry
The commander of the 444th Commando Battalion, who committed the Kerala massacre while Afghanistan was still under the leadership of the Khalq
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1979· 3 entries
Career landmark: Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Afghanistan (1979–1986).
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Accused Amin of ordering the assassination of Khyber
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1979–1981).
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1977· 1 entry
And Kārmal played a role in the 1978 Saur Revolution when the PDPA took power
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1967· 2 entries
The PDPA unofficially split into two formal parties, one Khalqist and one Parchamist
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With their ideological nemesis being the Khalq faction
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1966· 1 entry
Inside parliament, Karmal was physically assaulted by an Islamist MP, Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi
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1960· 1 entry
And in 1961, he found work as an employee in the Compilation and Translation Department of the Ministry of Education
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1957· 1 entry
Karmal found work as an English and German translator, before quitting and leaving for military training
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1953· 1 entry
Karmal was arrested because of his student union activities, but was released three years later in 1956 in an amnesty by Muhammad Daoud Khan
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1948· 1 entry
And applied to enter the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Kabul University
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-01-06.
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