Editing KHAD (section)

=== State-Sponsored Terrorism ===
According to a report by the US Defense Department, approximately 90% of the estimated 777 acts of international terrorism committed worldwide in 1987 took place in Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite news |first= |date=December 1987 |title=International Herald Tribune |pages=3 }}</ref> By 1988, [[KGB]] and KhAD agents were able to penetrate deep inside Pakistan and carry out attacks on mujahideen sanctuaries and guerrilla bases.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 February 1987 |title=Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo warned today Pakistan would... |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/02/28/Prime-Minister-Mohammad-Khan-Junejo-warned-today-Pakistan-would/9072541486800/}}</ref> There was strong circumstantial evidence implicating Moscow-Kabul in the August 1988 assassination of [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia ul-Haq]], as the Soviets perceived that Zia wanted to adversely affect the [[Geneva Accords (1988)|Geneva process]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hilali |first=A Z |date= |title=Costs & Benefits of Afghan War for Pakistan |url=https://www.khyber.org/publications/pdf/afghanwarcosts.pdf |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417202859/https://www.khyber.org/publications/pdf/afghanwarcosts.pdf|archive-date=17 April 2021 }}</ref> WAD/KhAD has also been suspected behind the assassination of [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] jihadist [[Abdullah Yusuf Azzam]] alongside his son in 1989.<ref>Peter L. Bergen, ''The Osama bin Laden I Know,'' New York: Free Press, 2006, p.97</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Coll |first=Steve |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52814066 |title=Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 |date=2004 |publisher=Penguin Press |isbn=1-59420-007-6 |location=New York |oclc=52814066 |access-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811181909/https://www.worldcat.org/title/ghost-wars-the-secret-history-of-the-cia-afghanistan-and-bin-laden-from-the-soviet-invasion-to-september-10-2001/oclc/52814066 |archive-date=August 11, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Afghanistan's KHAD was one of four secret service agencies accused of perpetrating terrorist bombings in multiple Pakistani cities including [[Islamabad]], [[Lahore]], [[Karachi]], and [[Rawalpindi]] during the early 1980s resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brumley |first=Bryan |date=2 April 1988 |title=Afghan Spy Agency Wages Terror Campaign in Pakistan |website=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://apnews.com/article/737418c9004f2725d3963060d3373c9e}}</ref> By the late 1980s, the US State Department blamed WAD for the perpetration of terrorist bombings in Pakistani cities.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaplan |first1=Robert D. |date=23 August 1989 |title=How Zia's Death Helped the U.S |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/23/opinion/how-zia-s-death-helped-the-us.html?pagewanted=1 |url-status=live |access-date=24 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110109155701/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/23/opinion/how-zia-s-death-helped-the-us.html?pagewanted=1 |archive-date=9 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Pear |first=Robert |date=25 June 1989 |title=F.B.I. Allowed to Investigate Crash That Killed Zia |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/25/world/fbi-allowed-to-investigate-crash-that-killed-zia.html |url-status=live |access-date=24 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315192030/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/25/world/fbi-allowed-to-investigate-crash-that-killed-zia.html |archive-date=15 March 2010}}</ref> Between the late 1970s and the early 1990s, Afghanistan security agencies supported the terrorist organization called [[Al-Zulfikar|al-Zulfiqar]], the group that [[1981 Pakistan International Airlines hijacking|hijacked a Pakistan International Airlines plane]] from Karachi to Kabul in 1981.<ref>{{cite web |date=2008-03-01 |title=START &#124; Terrorist Organization Profile |url=http://www.start.umd.edu/start/data/tops/terrorist_organization_profile.asp?id=195 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606104509/http://www.start.umd.edu/start/data/tops/terrorist_organization_profile.asp?id=195 |archive-date=6 June 2010 |access-date=2010-06-21 |publisher=Start.umd.edu}}</ref> Notable attacks include the [[1987 Karachi car bombing|Karachi Car bombing]] and an attempted car bombing on the [[US consulate|US Consulate]] in [[Peshawar]] which ended up killing over 30 people in 1987.<ref name=":1" />