King Amanullah Khan The Great Man Of The East
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Kabul (BNA) Over the course of history, our beloved country Afghanistan has been epee center of sacrifices, battles, revolts, movements and braveries against domination of imperialistic powers, suppressive regimes and most importantly against rule of foreign invaders and our great nation formulated the philosophy of bravery and courage against the authoritarian regimes and their foreign bosses to protect from its national sovereignty and unification.
The page of history reveals evidence that the people had rendered heavy sacrifices over the epoch of time against foreign invaders mainly occupation of Alexander, Changez, British and soviet occupation and still the country is encountering with the threats emerging from international terrorism and Al-Qaeda network, so our people by rendering great sacrifices engraved the theory of bravery, patriotism and determination on the minaret of the history and conveyed the message of sacrifice and solidarity to the upcoming generations.
Following events of 19th century, our country had been bounded by bloody waves of violence, instabilities and suppressions, revolutions and uprisings against invasion of the British forces and the people of Afghanistan offered great sacrifices of their lives and properties on way of defending the country from the aliens as a result of which the occupation forces had faced devastative material and human tragedies from Kabul to British India.
So, our people’s limitation of patience had come to an end against the foreign invasions, because they believed that invasion of the country by foreigners were aimed plundering the country and after passing each day, zeal and enthusiasm of our youth for freedom and rid from slavery were promoting which finally forced them to initiate armed revolts against the invaders.
Following association of Amir Habiubllah Khan and takeover of power by the Aminudawla Amanullah Khan further heated the incident and totally changed the ongoing scenario on that time.
Thirst for freedom from suppressions were getting more heat in the nations heart and movements mainly known as constitutional uprising freedom and intellectual, constitutional front, and circle named as Sirajul Akhbar had further intensified the feeling of freedom from the invaders.
However, some internal slaves had struggled to provide legitimacy to their regime and invasion of Afghanistan after the British had recognized their rule, but his majesty king Amanullah Khan never relied to these things and further accelerated freedom struggle from British occupation beside opening new ways of development to the country, because Amanullah Khan was obtaining adequate awareness from world socio economic scenario in that epoch of time.
Despite destruction of social, economic and cultural foundations of the country, his majesty Amanullah Khan succeeded to bring the country out of the crisis and international isolation in that era.
Unfortunately, all these endeavors were highly affected as a result of ignorant plots and conspiracies, but the current generation extremely require to pursue intellectual policies of the great profile of Afghanistan’s history and the new generation of Afghanistan would pursue objectives of Amanullah Khan to lead the country towards development and social prosperity and real democracy shoulder to shoulder with rest of the civilized nations of the world.
The Afghan new generation would honor freedom loving approach of their former king who by pursuing firm determination and national deliberation succeeded to remove the necklace of slavery from the neck of our nation.
There are different stories with respect to King Amanullah patriotism, according to some European broadcastings and publications, whenever, king Amanullah was visiting European countries, the leaders of Europe were welcoming him warmly while the French authorities and provided him the rest mat of Napoleon Bonaparte after Amanullah Khan visited Paris.
The French leadership was titling him as Fred Rick while the Russians had written his name alongside Pert’s the great name.
But his majesty king Amanullah Khan said that Paris relaxed me, Berlin astonished me and London surprised me, but love for my motherland burnt me.
In short, King Amanullah Khan was trying to forge a democratic society with values of intellectualism, literacy, bright minded people and enlightened nation, these great thoughts helped him to get independence of Afghanistan alongside cooperation of our people and the history will remember his name for ever.
