 The Settam-e-Melli was a part of the insurgency against the PDPA regime.In 1979 a Settam-e-Melli group killed Adolph Dubs, the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan.Ideologically Settam-e-Melli was very close to the Khalqist faction, but Settam-e-Melli opposed what they saw as the Khalq faction's "Pashtun chauvinism."