Faiz Ahmad
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Dr. Faiz Ahmad (1946–1986) (داکتر فیض احمد) was the founding leader of the Afghanistan Liberation Organization (ALO), a Marxist-Leninist organization established in Kabul.
Ahmad was born in Qandahar, Afghanistan. He attended primary and secondary schools in Qandahar, before coming to Kabul to enter Naderia High School where he became involved in the revolutionary left movement after reading some works of Marx and Lenin.
Akram Yari, a leader of the Maoist movement in Afghanistan, was his teacher in Naderia High School and Ahmad was deeply influenced by Akram Yari. [1] Akram Yari was leader of Progressive Youth Organization (PYO), a Maoist organization which was formed in October 6, 1965. Though, later Ahmad broke with PYO, and formed Revolutionary Group of People of Afghanistan.
After graduation from high school, Ahmad entered the Medical Faculty of Kabul University. During these years, the leftist movement was so popular and he becomes one of its top supporters.
It was in those years that he established the Revolutionary Group of People of Afghanistan which was later named Afghanistan Liberation Organization (ALO). ALO followed the political line of the post-Mao Chinese leadership, famouslly known as capitalist roaders.
During the onset of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Faiz Ahmad set the slogan of "All resources at the service of liberation fronts!" as the interim objective of all revolutionary struggle and was instrumental in reorganizing the Afghanistan Liberation Organization. During this time and under Faiz's leadership the ALO decided to join the Islamist political forces in forming united fronts against the Soviet Union and the PDPA government.
He wrote Mash'al-i Rehayi [The Beacon of Emancipation, an ALO political-theoretical publication) where he analyzed the situation and established political and strategic lines for ALO activities.
Ahmad was assassinated along with 6 other ALO members by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-i-Islami on November 12, 1986 in Peshawar, Pakistan. ALO members have accused the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) with complicity in the killings.
