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	Demographics of Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Afghans as a whole draw their modern national identity from the founding of the Durrani Empire in the mid 1700's.
		Because Afghan history is fraught with regional cleavages it is important to note that any notion of an Afghan nation-state is largely absent until the 18th century and the rise of the Durrani Empire.
		Afghans speak a variety of languages of which the largest are Pashto and Persian (Dari or Afghan Persian).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghan_people (1882 words)

	Afghan Scout Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Afghanistan was a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1932 until the Afghan government dissolved the Scout Association in 1947.
		Currently the Afghan Scout Association is for boys and girls, men and women, and offers Cubs (ages 8 to 12), Scouts (ages 12 to 18) and Rovers (ages 19 to 25).
		Girls wear either the pillbox hat or a chador.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghan_Scout_Association (728 words)

	Why War? Afghan Aftermath: The Future of Film in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Afghan film-makers such as Barmak – who headed the national film institute, Afghan Film, until the beginning of Taliban rule in 1996 – have returned to the country to encourage a new generation of film-makers to pick up a camera and foreign film-makers to invest.
		With her father and grandfather dead, the girl cuts her hair and pretends to be a boy so she can take a job in a local bakery; she is then pressurised by a Talib to attend a religious school for boys.
		Afghan cinema is still very much in its infancy and there are huge hurdles to jump in terms of the competition for audience attention with Indian and other foreign films and the scarcity of resources.
	www.why-war.com /news/2004/02/01/afghanaf.html (1736 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Afghan tribes and communities often hold smaller jirgas (councils) to decide matters of local importance.
		Afghanistan's military, aided by Afghan Communists, took control of the government and established the Republic of Afghanistan with Daoud as president and prime minister.
		The toll on Afghanistan was devastating: half of the population was displaced, killed, or wounded.
	www.operationhomerun.org /afghanistan.htm (3586 words)

	Of Afghan Girl Schools and American Allies
		And that reality is that, to this day, the only thing that stands between the Afghan people and a return to the murderous Taliban past are twenty thousand of the sort of American fighting men and women who Clover so blithely demeans.
		The Afghan transitional government is functioning as a free press watches it carefully, kids go to school, nobody appears to be starving and the country is preparing for its first democratic elections in October -- perhaps the best testimony of a return to normalcy.
		A terror campaign of bombing and burning down schools, especially those for girls, aims to intimidate students and parents and paralyze the educational system.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=14220 (1123 words)

	OSAMA
		A 12-year-old girl, her mother, and a local village boy narrowly survive the brutal end of a peaceful demonstration organized by women who are oppressed by the cruel Taliban regime.
		And it is the story of a little girl and the injustice and religious extremism she’s forced to carry on her small shoulders.
		Countless Afghan women – women who had been leading active lives prior to the arrival of the Taliban – committed suicide or were killed by the Taliban during the years of their rule, even for the most minor infractions against the rules laid out by the authorities.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/download.php?id=1259&q=notes.htm (3356 words)

	Freemuse: Afghanistan: Bittersweet success of secret girl band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Afghan girl group, ‘Burka Band,’ continues to receive media attention and draw new fans, even though they are no longer active.
		However, the success of the first Afghan girl band is bittersweet because it remains too dangerous for the musicians and composers to reveal their real identities.
		On film, the first and only Afghan girl band lives on, with their headphones over their burka-covered heads and the drumsticks swinging.
	www.freemuse.org /sw10902.asp (1154 words)

	Afghan Art in Exile
		That violence and looting laid waste to Afghan museum collections, which were further decimated when the Taliban systematically and intentionally destroyed most of Afghanistan's art, deeming it "un-Islamic." An estimated 92 percent of the National Gallery's collection has been destroyed and looted.
		He is one of a group of Bay Area Afghan painters who produce figurative work, preserving their memories of Afghan villages, scenery, monuments and people.
		Afghan Info has the latest news and provides background information about Afghanistan, including a section on art and music.
	www.acfnewsource.org /art/afghan_art.html (708 words)

	Coalition Medics Treat Injured Afghan Girl - DefendAmerica News Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, May 25, 2005 — A 3-year-old Afghan girl was treated for second-degree burns to her left arm from the wrist to the elbow after she was evacuated to Kandahar Airfield's U.S. medical facility May 23.
		The girl's condition was brought to the attention of Coalition forces when her mother brought her to a forward operating base north of Shinkay hoping for medical assistance.
		While Afghan medical facilities have improved since the fall of the Taliban, burn treatment is still a critical area U.S. forces are able to assist with.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/may2005/a052505la2.html (409 words)

	How They Found National Geographic's "Afghan Girl"
		The mysterious Afghan girl whose direct gaze has intrigued the West for so long is Sharbat Gula.
		The search for the mysterious "Afghan Girl," whose haunting, green-eyed gaze captivated the world in a National Geographic magazine cover photograph, takes EXPLORER on a world-wide journey in an attempt to solve the case of a missing person.
		Sharbat's life was the subject of the cover story in the April, 2002 issue of National Geographic, and the process of finding her and verifying her identity is detailed in a television documentary from National Geographic EXPLORER, aired in the United States on MSNBC and internationally on the National Geographic Channel.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html (818 words)

	UNHCR - New beginning and identity for Afghan girl forced to live as a boy
		Finally able to earn a living without disguising herself as a boy, Anita is using her drawing skills, developed at a women's shelter in Herat, to illustrate materials for deaf children.
		Despite their caution, the sisters were identified as Afghans by Iranian law enforcement officials, and, since they did not have the required documents, were returned to Afghanistan.
		At the border, where staff of the UN refugee agency and the Afghan Ministry of Refugees monitor arrivals with a view to assisting vulnerable returnees, the two unaccompanied minors were singled out as in need of support.
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/news/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=4337eda54 (809 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Afghan girl, given as bride at 9, fights for divorce
		Pekay is 13 now, one of thousands of girls and women who are trapped in forced marriages, caught between the rural, tribal and Islamic customs that ruled the country for centuries and the promise of a new Afghanistan ruled by laws that apply equally to everyone.
		That poor girl, she will be scarred for the rest of her life.....where is lorena bobbit when you need her, if anyone deserves the 'lorena treatment' it is this aleged excuse for a human.
		Of course they do not consider that he 'raped' this little girl as he was married to her.....
	www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/003957.php (2487 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'National Geographic' tracks down Afghan girl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The beautiful and previously anonymous Afghan girl featured in one of the last century's most enduring portrait photographs — and what became National Geographic magazine's most famous cover image — has been found living in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan.
		Her life over the years has been marred by the death of a child, the loss of her parents during the Afghan war with the Soviet Union and poverty.
		The National Geographic Society is creating "Afghan Girls Fund" in response to the discovery, raising money for the education of Afghan girls.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/03/12/afghan-girl.htm (799 words)

	Medics Unite to Save Young Afghan Girl’s Life
		A 10-year-old Afghan girl who had lost a leg when she stepped on a landmine, and her other leg was so badly damaged that it had to be amputated, was brought to the U.S. Army Hospital on Bagram Air Base August 16.
		Zahida, a young girl from the Konar province, was handed from a medical evacuation team aboard a helicopter into the capable hands of Bagram’s Front Line Ambulance drivers, and then sped to the hospital.
		The medical team had to think fast because the young girl was still rapidly losing blood, so while the surgeons were initially stabilizing her, and while the plasma thawed out, the laboratory team set up a makeshift donor center and sought out volunteers to donate blood.
	nyjtimes.com /Government/2003/0803MedicsUnite.htm (893 words)

	Who is the Afghan girl? in The AnswerBank: People & Places
		But after her picture was published in 1985, the girl disappeared - until January this year, when a National Geographic team returned to the refugee camp in Pakistan.
		Through a series of contacts, the real green-eyed girl was identified as Sharbat Gula, married and living in a remote region of Afghanistan with her family.
		As an Afghan woman who had lived beneath the burqa, speaking to men strangers was not only unusual, it was also sinful.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article3113.html (458 words)

	Afghan Girl's Story Sparks School-Fund Donations
		Inspired by Sharbat Gula, the "Afghan Girl" who was found years after her photograph was taken in a refugee camp, thousands of readers donated to the fund.
		Afghan Girls Fund since it was created five weeks ago.
		The Afghan Girls Fund was established to help provide educational opportunities for young women and girls in Afghanistan.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/04/0425_020426_sharbatupdate1.html (738 words)

	An evening with a young Afghan girl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Everyone wanted to feed her and treat her as an honored guest in the Afghan fashion, smothering her with attention, whereas she was now very much an American girl who wanted to get around and see old friends and old places.
		A teenage girl forced to be an adult.
		I could do well in school.” This is a girl who had no formal education during the 6 years their family had been in India.
	artsci.wustl.edu /~canfrobt/Mariam (1169 words)

	IRC \| Building a Future for Afghan Refugee Children
		Since the early 1980s, the IRC has been working to remedy this situation for Afghan refugee children in Pakistan— the only place during the time of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, that many Afghan girls were able to attend school.
		As of May 2002, the IRC’s education program enrolls nearly 25,000 Afghan children (71% are girls) in 5 schools in Peshawar and 36 schools in outlying villages.
		Many of the Afghan teachers have expressed their desire to ‘take their schools home’ to Afghanistan as soon as possible.
	www.theirc.org /whatwedo/display.cfm?wwwID=401&locationID=29 (571 words)

	Afghan Girl's Schools Struck by Attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The former Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime, which was ousted last year in a U.S.-led bombing campaign, banned girls from going to school for most of the five years they were in power.
		Carwardine said three of the four schools attacked Thursday night and Friday morning were girls schools and a fourth was coed.
		A similar incident took place at a girls school in Jalrez, when unidentified assailants poured gas on the roof, setting it on fire along with mats inside, Carwardine said.
	www.rawa.org /school2.htm (519 words)

	The Anniston Star - Ailing Afghan girl gets chance for healthy life
		The frail girl arrived at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan weighing scarcely 35 pounds, sluggish and prone to alarming episodes of bluish skin if she so much as walked briskly.
		INDIANAPOLIS — The frail girl arrived at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan weighing scarcely 35 pounds, sluggish and prone to alarming episodes of bluish skin if she so much as walked briskly.
		Basira is one of about a dozen Afghan and Iraqi children in the past two years to travel to American cities such as Tampa, Fla., Albuquerque, N.M., and Indianapolis for medical treatment unavailable in their homelands, said Lt. Col.
	www.dailyhome.com /news/2005/as-nation-1124-0-5k23t4609.htm (715 words)

	CBS News \| Afghan Girl Gets Chance for Healthy Life
		Basira Jan, born with a malformed heart that left her body starved of oxygen, faced a bleak future amid the country's poverty _ until Indiana National Guardsmen heard about her plight and vowed to help.
		Basira is one of about a dozen Afghan and Iraqi children in the past two years to travel to American cities such as Tampa, Albuquerque and Indianapolis for medical treatment unavailable in their homelands, said Lt. Col.
		Earlier this year, a 14-month-old Afghan boy also brought to Riley thanks to Indiana Guardsmen underwent surgery to correct a heart condition similar to Basira's.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/11/23/ap/national/mainD8E25RC81.shtml (839 words)

	CTV.ca - Afghan bomber kills American woman, Afghan girl- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		The 11-year-old Afghan girl died late Saturday in a Kabul hospital, said NATO spokesman Sqn.
		Police sealed off the street as Afghan investigators examined the attacker's remains, which lay twisted on the sidewalk amid discarded shoes and broken glass.
		"This man was an Afghan, and he had a bomb strapped to his body," Latifi told AP by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1098621745090_187?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory (766 words)

	Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan
		A 39 year old, Afghan refugee in a Quetta hospital, Rukia, who lost her family of five children on December 3rd when a U.S bomb was dropped upon her neighborhood in Kandahar, tells a typical story.
		Afghan civilians in proximity to alleged military installations will die, and must die, as 'collateral damage' of U.S air attacks aiming to destroy these installations in order to make future military operations in the sky or on the ground less likely to result in U.S military casualties.
		The sacrificed Afghan civilians are not 'white' whereas the overwhelming number of U.S. pilots and elite ground troups are white.
	www.cursor.org /stories/civilian_deaths.htm (12427 words)

	Afghanland.com Afghanistan Sharbat Gula the Afghan Girl
		The little girl who was lost to the world but had always lived in Afghanistan, a land and people long forgotten by the world.
		According to Afghanland.com sources, Steve McCurry ventured into the refugee camps near the Afghan border and snapped a shot of an orphan girl who was haunted by years of was and lost of her parents, her face showed horror and her eyes has a story to tell.
		When the 1985 issue of National Geographic hit the stands, the world was fascinated with the image of girl and her beautiful eyes.
	www.afghanland.com /entertainment/sharbat.html (244 words)

	Afghan girl with LTC McDonnell
		Both McDonnell and the grey-haired, grey-bearded Afghan colonel seated next to him had slipped away from a busy Afghan army training schedule to attend a Children's Day recital at a local Kabul kindergarten.
		The Afghan colonel, Col. Najibullah Sadiqi, is commander of the Afghan army's only recruit battalion, to date, with another battalion ready to begin training next week.
		One young girl named Zuhra, draped in a light-blue burqa, stood on the stage and told a story about a woman, who also wore a burqa, carrying a child in her arms.
	www.groups.sfahq.com /3rd/mc_donnell_afgan_31_05_03.htm (1162 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Afghan girl found after 17 years
		Seventeen years ago, a young Afghan girl gained international attention when her face appeared on the cover of the National Geographic magazine.
		The girl - now a wife and mother living in a remote part of Afghanistan - will once again feature in the magazine, for an issue focusing on the plight of refugees.
		Ever since the picture was published, he has received constant inquiries about the girl, and has returned to the region more than 10 times to look for her.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1870382.stm (470 words)

	NPR : 'Afghan Girl' Mystery Solved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		There were several false leads: one man said it was his wife, a girl with an "uncanny" likeness insisted she was the famous girl in the photo.
		After negotiations, the husband of the "girl" -- she's now a woman around 30 years old -- agreed to let her meet with McCurry's team.
		She's the married mother of three girls and living in a remote ethnic Pushtun region of Afghanistan with her family.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2002/mar/girl (693 words)

	National Geographic Magazine 100 Best Pictures-Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		On this cold November night she is busily preparing food for the six mujahidin, Afghan freedom fighters, who have escorted me across the Pakistani border to Afghanistan’s embattled Paktia Province and into this small village in the Jaji region.
		One of the best places to see the variety of Afghans is Peshawar’s famous Qissa Khawani Bazaar, the “storytellers bazaar.” Here the tales were once of caravans and trade, of wandering saints, poets, and holy men, but now all the stories, among Afghans at least, are of war and survival.
		Unable to satisfy the Afghan urge to build, they have satisfied the twin urge to beautify by planting gardens; tall reeds create an illusion of privacy, and marigolds and sweet basil color and scent the refugees’ small plot.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/100best/storyA_story.html (5235 words)

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