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Karmal
[ kahr-mahl ]
noun
- Ba·brak [bah-, brahk], 1929–1996, Afghan political leader: president 1979–86.
Example Sentences
While the Soviet Union installed a government in Kabul led by Babrak Karmal, the US, Pakistan, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia supplied money and arms to the mujahideen, who fought the Soviet troops and their Afghan allies.
But he did it in the context of justifying the Soviet military presence there because, he said, Soviet troops were “invited by the Karmal regime,” a reference to the Soviet-installed government of President Babrak Karmal.
Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters # Syrian snipers by Javier ManzanoThis was taken in the Karmal Jabl neighbourhood in central Aleppo – which locals are now calling little Stalingrad.
A rebel fighter aims at an enemy position as he watches over a street where Syrian Army troops attempted to enter during clashes in the Karmal Jabl battlefield on Nov. 1 in Aleppo.
The country's last king, Zahir Shah, and former presidents Daud, Taraki, Amin, Babrak Karmal and Najibullah were all introduced to Char Gul when they came to inspect the military - he played an important role in keeping the soldiers' hair neat and trim.
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