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Fearing takeover by the fundamentalists, 40thSoviet Armyintervened and occupied Afghanistan on December 27, 1979, killed Hafiz Amin and installed a communist regime under BabrakKarmal. Pakistan could not remain unconcerned with this intervention because of Moscow’s age-old quest for warm waters, its strategic partnership with archrival India and 7 million Afghan refugees having barged into Pakista
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