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Shulay-i Jawaid [ID 706]

Shulay-i Jawaid in fact Progressive Youth Organization [PYO known but under the party organ’s name: Shulay-i Jawaid [Eternal Flame] [Alternative spelling: Shula-i Jamid, Shulay-i Jawaid, Sho'la-e Javed] Founded 1967 or 1968 by a group of dissatisfied students in Kabul, led by a professor of the Kabul University Members: “Shulayis” [flamists]: radical Hazara-youth; (the tribal Mongolians, Shiitic Hazara – pronounced hu-Zar-hu – were later mostly members of the Hizb-i Wahdat-i Islami-i Afghanistan) Sympathisers: urban Intellectuals and workers Ideology: struggle against the “revisionism” of the Moscow party organisation

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