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The National Unity and Anti-Foreign Military Base Front, a coalition of former Afghan jihadi leaders who fought against the USSR during the 1980s, has called upon the Afghan people to resist the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, saying that the recently signed Afghan-U.S. Strategic Partnership Agreement would prolong the war in Afghanistan, according to an Afghan media report.
The Front is led by Engineer Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, who is the leader of Iqtidar-e-Islami party in Afghanistan. Ahmadzai previously worked with former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani and Ustad Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf. Formed about a year ago, the Front has organized conferences and seminars in Afghanistan.
On May 18, 2012 in Kabul, the National Unity and Anti-Foreign Military Base Front held a public meeting against foreign military bases in Afghanistan. The rally was addressed by Engineer Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, leader of the National Unity and Anti-Foreign Military Base Front; Muhammad Zaman Muzamel, the deputy chief of the Front; Haji Muhammad Farid, the former member of Wolesi Jirga (the Afghan parliament), and others. The speakers strongly rejected the Afghan-U.S. Strategic Partnership Agreement, saying that the presence of foreign forces would provide the neighboring countries with an opportunity to interfere in Afghanistan's affairs. A resolution was later read aloud at the meeting.
Following is the full text of the resolution, as released by the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), an Afghan news agency that has been operating from Pakistan since the 1980s:
"Countries Stronger Than Afghanistan, Such as Japan, South Korea, Germany and Others, Have Witnessed That the [Long-Term] Presence of American Troops in Their Countries Was Not Demanded and Allowed By Their Nations"
"The history of Afghanistan has shown that puppet regimes, in different periods, have signed treaties with foreign countries without paying attention to the profits of our nation. For the Afghan people, such treaties have brought nothing but adversity and disaster. In fact, such agreements have been signed by the occupiers and their puppets without consulting the nation, and then the treaties have been imposed on the nation.
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