This book A wounded Afghanistan: Communism Fundamentalism and Democracy, examines the impact of Foreign intervention since 1979 on the socio political developments of Afghanistan and the circumstance, whcih made it the epicentre of terrorism. About Author : The author is Research Associate in the Centre for Russian, Central Asian and East European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Contents : Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Afghan Crisis and its Roots Soviet policy on world communist movement The soviet afghan relations and the emergence of communsit mvoement in afghanistan Soiet policy towards peoples democratic party of afghanistan Soviet union and april revolution Soviet intervention and the communsit regimes Gorbachev tropps Withdrawal and Nabibullah regime Mukahideens and Taliban 1992-2001 Challenges in National Bulding etc.