The King was overthrown in 1973. Muhammad Daoud took the power as President of the Afghanistan. He established an autocratic, one-party state, later had purged his government of leftists, and in the last years of his rule had sought financial support form Iran, ruled by the Shah, and Saudi Arabia in order to make Afghanistan less dependent on Soviet economic aid. On April 28, 1978, the regime of President Mohammad Daoud ended violently. Military units raided the Presidential …showed first 75 words of 1181 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1181 total…and hostility to the atheistic Soviet invader. The short story took place in a Pushton small community where the Pashun code- Pashtunwali was strongly guarded. Revenge. To one degree or another every mujahid has a grudge; loss of kin, loss of property, personal injury, eviction form the land of the lineage and its ancestors, torture, and related grievances not only justify acts of revenge but also make them a matter of family and personal honor.