The World - News from Oct. 30, 1985
An Afghan guerrilla leader charged that India has provided more than 100 military advisers to assist the Soviet-backed Afghan army and has also supplied anti-personnel mines. Gulbudin Hekmatyar, of the Afghan Islamic Party, said at a press conference at the United Nations that the Soviet-installed government is also aided by “some Cuban commandos,” units from South Yemen and Bulgaria and advisers from the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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