True mettle of a leader, political or military, is gauged when he faces adversarial situation(s), when a disaster seems imminent. When commoners lose hope and stumble to blunders, worsening the state of affairs, real leaders, showing grace under pressure, display true headship and come up with extra ordinary plans and strategies: which turn the table on the opponents or dull the defeat. Great leaders do not put their hands up, ...
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Jalalabad Operation was launched in 5 March 1989, by Mujahedeen comprising eight groups against Najibullah Regime. The operation in question remained (largely) shrouded in mystery. Many military and sometimes political analysts (ironically) on hold General Hameed Gul, then ISI Chief (unfairly) squarely responsible for the unsuccessfulness of the operation and its fallouts later on. The fact of the matter is that most of discussions and analyses in our mainstream media are ...
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