In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Salaam to all the Muslims,
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Prelude
I came across this by accident while I was searching for something else in regards to the Soviet-Pakistan skirmishes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border during the 1980s.
While I searched, all the sources pointed to Afghanistan launching SCUD-B ballistic missile attacks on Pakistan in 1988. It appeared to me that the generalisation of these attacks were misreported in the 1990s, which were then re-reported inaccurately in various news articles, books, magazines and on the internet for the past two decades.
After searching in various American news archives, I have found only two of the Afghan attacks as having been reported. However, the total number of actual attacks on Pakistan tallied up to 16 with at least 17 SCUD-B missiles landing in Pakistani territory.
Lack of reporting of these daring attacks by the Soviet-backed Afghan Government was due to the fact that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan came to an end on February 15, 1989. At the very same time, war between Iran and Iraq also came to a close while the build up to the First Gulf War began in 1990. As a result of these factors Pakistan and Afghanistan were forgotten to most of the world and the Civil War in Afghanistan was never fully reported.
Alhamdu'lillah, after searching through the archives of the United Nations' documents section for many man hours, I have finally found all the reported incidents of these attacks.
This is the actual recorded evidence of this forgotten history and the fact that at one point, Afghanistan was armed with over 2,000 SCUD-B ballistic missiles while Pakistan desperately tried to launch its own ballistic missile program. This forced Pakistan's then Chief of the Army Staff General (retired) Mirza Aslam Beg to announce on Sunday February 5, 1989 that Pakistan had successfully carried out its own first two ballistic missile tests in the country.
The indiscriminate attacks by Afghans further forced the then Democratically Elected Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto to visit North Korea in December 1993 to seek missile technology. Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is then reported to have said in an interview in China that Pakistan was forced to approach the North Koreans in order to protect her country against the ballistic missile attacks coming from Afghanistan.
All thanks is to Allah Aza'Wa-Jall for helping me collate this information. Any further input in regards to this would be most welcome.
Salaam to all the Muslims.