Interview by Harry Ellis, with reporter from Geneva joining via telephone. Guests are U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. They discuss the 20mm Anti Aircraft guns purchased by the United States that should be handed over to Afghan resistance. Arnold L Raphel states that the Afghanistan situation is an issue between the Soviet Union and the rest of the world.
Interview at Woldnet studio hosted by Harry Ellis, with reporter from The Hague joining via telephone. Guest Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern an South Asian Affairs. He states that Soviet Union is committed to negotiating an agreement on the Afghanistan situation. He further says that there has been gradual ability of Mujahideen (Muslim Fundamentalists) to stand up to Soviet Union.
Interview in Washigton DC, with reporter from The Hague joining via telephone. Guest U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. They discuss the similarity between the United States action in Grenada and the Soviets occupying Afghanistan.
Interview by Harry Ellis in Washington DC, with reporter from London joining via telephone. Guest U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. They discuss the insurgency among religious groups in Afghanistan. Senator Jim Sasser states that the Congress of the United States is of the opinion to provide more aid and weapons to the Afghan fighters and funds going to them will not violate the United States law. Correspondent and host Harry Ellis thanks the guests and other reporters at the end of the Interview.
Iskander Mirza visits Kabul, Afghanistan during his tenure as the President of Pakistan. Pakistani President Iskander Mirza steps from an airplane. He is greeted by an Afghan military leader who introduces Mirza to King Mohammed Zahir Shah and other officials. President Mirza and the King shake hands. A military band plays as President Mirza reviews an Honor Guard. He shakes hands with dignitaries. Two children present flowers to the President. People milling about on the streets of Kabul. Exteriors of a mosque surrounded by trees. President Mirza visits the mosque with other officials and views a raised tomb there.
Afghan Army units parade in Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan army jeep passes on a road during the parade of the Afghan Army units at Kabul. Several people on the side of the road. Flags along the side of the road. Few army jeeps moving with army personnel. Flags on each jeep. A number of Afghan officials, guests, diplomatic corps and military attaches seated on the reviewing stand. Two SA-2 Guidelines, the Soviet designed surface-to-air missiles on transporters move along the road during the parade. A few missile containers on transporters moving on the road. A few BTR-40 armored personnel carriers with soldiers pass in the parade. BRDM-2s, armored patrol cars follow the BTR-40s. A few BTR-60s, eight-wheeled armored personnel carriers with soldiers moving on the road. A few BTR-152s, non-amphibious armored personnel carriers passing along the road with soldiers on it during the parade. Soldiers on T-54 tanks pass during the parade. A vehicle parked in front of a building. A few men outside the building. King Mohammed Zahir Shah emerges out of the building. The King and his wife Humaira Begum gets into the vehicle and the vehicle moves with other vehicles escorting. The King salutes to the officials standing along the road.