 The AIG aimed to base themselves in the city of Jalalabad and attack the administration in Kabul.However the mujahideen failed to win the 1989 Battle of Jalalabad.Although Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen alliance took its formal shape in the mid-1980s, it had "de facto" existed as a political bloc since May 1979, when the Pakistani government decided to limit the flow of foreign financial aid, mainly from the United States (under the Reagan Doctrine) and Saudi Arabia, to the said seven organizations, thus cutting off monetary supply to nationalist and leftwing resistance groups.