According to this video clip
from a Pakistani news channel, General Zia-Ul-Haq, Pakistan's military ruler
from 1977 to 1988, chose a group of 100-200 mercenaries from group of prisoners
in Saudi Arabia who had been given death sentence by beheading to start its offensive against Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
Now Saudi Arabia follows the
concept of Islam where blood money can rid you of gallows. Someone who has been
awarded death sentence, if he pays monetary compensation as agreed by the
victim(s), his life is spared. This practice is widely misused, especially
by the wealthy.
General Zia chose such
prisoners making it clear to them that General Zia now owned them and they had been
given a lease of life to work it in the service of Allah. And the task was to wage war against
the USSR's invasion and rule in Afghanistan. That was the beginning of era of Mujahideens in Afghanistan that still haunt the world.
After the Afghan war ended in
1988, these mujahideens organized themselves in different groups giving rise to
terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda in 1988 and Taliban in 1994, the beginning of the modern terrorism warfare in the world that has spread across the continents
now. And according to history, something that this video clip also talks about, its seeds
were sown by General Zia-Ul-Haq.
HOW GENERAL ZIA-UL-HAQ CREATED AL-QAEDA
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