41.   Critics note he was largely silent during the Soviet invasion, one of the darkest times for his homeland.

42.   During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when Pakistan was the conduit for massive U.S. military aid, these mountain paths were the lifeline of the Islamic resistance.

43.   Everything changed four years later when the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan made returning too dangerous.

44.   Haider is an ethnic Tajik from the Panjshir Valley who fought with Ahmed Shah Massood during the Soviet invasion.

45.   He moved to Afghanistan to join an old companion and guerrilla fighter during the Soviet invasion in eastern Nangarhar province.

46.   He shares it with Jalaluddin Haqqani, a former Islamic insurgent who received massive U.S. backing as part of a policy of countering the Soviet invasion.

47.   In Afghanistan, they helped the mujahedeen fight the Soviet invasion.

48.   In the past two decades, Afghanistan has endured Soviet invasion, civil war, the rise of the radical Taliban regime and widespread hunger and drought.

49.   It could stem either from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or from conflict between the hard-line Taliban and the Islamic resistance.

50.   Its leadership was trained in Afghanistan, fought during the Soviet invasion and has very close links to the Taliban.