TNAG-1311-FCO40-1673-Future-of-Hong-Kong-1984 — Page 51

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5 Dec 84

Insurgents' battle reports (Text) Our mojahedin brothers ambushed a military convoy consisting of 70 tanks and armoured vehicles as it crossed the villages of (?Salar) and Yusefkhel in the last half of last month, inflicting heavy casualties on the mercenary enemy. Fifteen tanks and an army vehicle were destroyed. The Soviet occupationist foices and Karmal hirelings, angered by the enemy-destroying fire of the Muslim mojahedin, bombed the village of Yusefkhel with their combat aircraft. Some residential areas were damaged and innocent persons were injured. Some time ago, our mojahedin brothers attacked the puppet government's security forces in the (?Esaleh) area, capturing 19 enemy soldiers as well their commander, Nasreddin. Nasreddin, who was an educated lackey trained in the Soviet Union, was executed by our brother mojahedin following a trial on charges of treachery and being a lackey. (Voice of the Islamic Revolution of Afghanistan in Dari 1715 gmt 1 Dec 84)

Comment on US military aid to "counter-revolutionaries”

Kabul home service carried (in Dari 1600 gmt 1 Dec 84) a statement by the Bakhtar Information Agency dated 1st December 1984 which commented on a 'New York Times' article of 28th November 1984 which quoted US official sources as saying that the US government had decided to provide 280,000,000 dollars in military aid to Afghan "counter-revolutionaries" in the current financial year. According to the paper, under an agreement between the CIA and Pakistan, the weapons purchased with this money would be sent to Pakistani ports from where they would be delivered to Afghan rebel groups stationed in Peshawar and other parts of Pakistan. Bakhtar commented that this was further proof that the reactionary rulers of Pakistan had accepted the role US imperialism had given Pakistan some years ago; that of acting as a "spring board and main base of aggression against revolutionary Afghanistan". At a time when preparations were being made for another round of talks in Geneva, the increase in US military aid to Afghan "counter-revolutionary bands" and the collusion of the Pakistani authorities exposed their approach to the talks as insincere.

Pakistani and Iranian “spies" at Kabul press conference A Pakistani spy and an Iranian intelligence agent were produced in Kabul at a press conference attended by the delegates of the Kabul conference of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation on a new international information order. The Pakistani spy, Zulfiqar Haider, who was caught red-handed by the security forces of the DRA in Nangarhar Province while carrying out an intelligence mission said that he was an employee of Pakistan's Central Intelligence Agency. The spy also talked about the miserable living conditions in the Afghan refugees camps in Pakistan. The Iranian intelligence agent, Sharif, answering a question posed by a delegate, said that he was assigned to wage subversive activities against the DRA and help the Afghan counter-revolutionaries in their treacherous and criminal activities against the people of Afghanistan. (Bakhtar in English 0506 gmt 3 Dec 84)

Other Reports

Babrak Karmal attends KHAD Meeting Babrak Karmal, General Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee and President of the DRA Revolutionary Council, on 2nd December attended a meeting of the leadership and political workers of the State Information Services [KHAD], which was held at the KHAD conference hall. Babrak Karmal was welcomed on arrival by Najibollah, member of the PDPA Central Committee Politburo and KHAD leader. Babrak Karmal said: [read by announcer] The KHAD has a duty to be accountable to the people and the masses every minute of the day for the responsibilities entrusted to it by the Party and the results of its work will be judged by the people.

After Babrak Karmal's statement, Najibollah, on behalf of the KHAD staff, assured and promised Babrak Karmal that, under the wise leadership of the PDPA, the KHAD would carry out its tasks for the further consolidation of the pillars of the revolution in the interest of all the toilers, nationalities, tribes and clans of Afghanistan and would accomplish its tasks in the service of the people in accordance with the demands of the Party and state. Babrak Karmal also distributed badges of the DRA to several members of the KHAD staff. (Kabul home service in Pashto 1530 gmt 2 Dec 84)

Commendation of electricity workers A number of workers and staff, who took part in repairing the electric pylons of Naghlu, Sarobi and Kabul, were commended at a gathering at the hall of Kabul Nandari on 2nd December. Present at the gathering were