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	Afghanistan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Under the terms of this constitution, the president, who was elected for a seven-year term by the loya jirgah, appointed the prime minister and was empowered to approve the laws and resolutions of the elected two-chamber national assembly (Meli Shura).
		During Afghanistan's control by Mujahedin forces April 1992–September 1996, an interim administration was set up, and in January 1993 a 250-member interim parliament, the Council of Resolution and Settlement (Shura-e Ahl-e Hal wa Aqd), was appointed pending the drafting of a permanent constitution.
		The mountainous province of Takhar in northern Afghanistan was struck by a massive earthquake (6.1 on the Richter scale) in early February 1998.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Afghanistan (3182 words)

	Afghanistan timeline December 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Shehroba, Afghanistan, at least five Afghan soldiers were killed and commander Naik Mohammad was wounded in an attack by Taliban forces.
		Citing the delay in the arrival of some delegates, the start of the constitutional loya jirga in Kabul, Afghanistan (re-scheduled for December 12) was delayed until December 13.
		In Jalalabad, Afghanistan, at least three bodyguards of commander Esmatullah Muabat and two soldiers of the Jalalabad militia force were in a clash against U.S. soldiers at a maternity hospital as the soldiers tried to arrest Muabat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_December_2003 (2696 words)

	Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Until 1985 it was governed by a provisional constitution, "The Fundamental Principles of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan." Supreme sovereignty was vested in a Revolutionary Council, originally a body of fifty-eight members whose number later varied.
		Formed from loose ties among ulama in Afghanistan, the traditionalist leaders were not concerned, unlike fundamentalists, with redefining Islam in Afghan society but instead focused on the use of the sharia as the source of law (interpreting the sharia is a principal role of the ulama).
		Until demoralized by the defections of its senior officers, the army had achieved a level of performance it had never reached under direct Soviet tutelage.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/d/de/democratic_republic_of_afghanistan.html (8009 words)

	Afghanistan
		Islam as a measure of national identity is challenging a century of inroads by secular institutions.
		Afghanistan resembles an irregularly shaped hanging leaf with the Wakhan Corridor and the Pamir Knot as its stem in the northeast.
		Afghanistan is completely landlocked, bordered by Iran to the west (925 kilometers), by the Central Asian States of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north and northeast (2,380 kilometers), by China at the easternmost top of the Wakhan Corridor (96 kilometers), and by Pakistan to the east and south (2,432 kilometers).
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/afghanistan/all.html (20137 words)

	Afghanistan peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Afghanistan (officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; Pashto language : د افغانستان اسلامي دولت, Dari (Afghanistan) : دولت اسلامی افغانستان), is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Asia.
		Afghanistan is a mosaic of ethnic groups and cultures and a crossroads between East and West.
		Afghanistan is a land-locked mountain ous country, with plains in the north and southwest.
	www.peee.org /en/Afghanistan (4681 words)

	Afghanistan (05/06)
		Afghanistan is endowed with natural resources, including extensive deposits of natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, and precious and semiprecious stones.
		Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world; mine-related injuries number up to 100 per month, and an estimated 200,000 Afghans have been disabled by landmine/unexploded ordinances (UXO) accidents.
		Afghanistan's relations with Tajikistan have been complicated by political upheaval and civil war in Tajikistan, which spurred some 100,000 Tajiks to seek refuge in Afghanistan in late 1992 and early 1993.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm (6913 words)

	Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to the arrival of Islam, many Punjabis and Sindhis were Hindu and Buddhist but this changed during the expansion of Islam by the Ummayad General Muhammad bin Qasim, Mahmud of Ghazni and others.
		The arrival of Afghan refugees in the western provinces has rekindled Pashto and Persian music and established Peshawar as a hub for Afghan musicians and a distribution centre for Afghan music abroad.
		Until the 1990s, the state-owned Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) and Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation were the dominant media outlets, but there are now numerous private television channels such as Geo TV, Indus TV, Hum and ARY with a strong focus on plays or soap operas - some of them critically acclaimed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pakistan (4864 words)

	Afghanistan country information and culture with links to recipes
		As of April 2002, the Afghanistan Interim Authority was attempting to bring effective governance to the country although its reach beyond the capital, Kabul, remained tenuous and its ability to deliver necessary social services dependent on funds from the international donor community.
		Afghanistan is endowed with a wealth of natural resources, including extensive deposits of natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, and precious and semiprecious stones.
		Afghanistan's relations with newly independent Tajikistan have been complicated by political upheaval and civil war in Tajikistan, which spurred some 100,000 Tajiks to seek refuge in Afghanistan in late 1992 and early 1993.
	asiarecipe.com /afginfo.html (7277 words)

	Mythology's Myth*ing Links = Eurasia / Central Asia: Afghanistan
		Afghanistan poses an enormous challenge to an international community distracted by other priorities and lacking effective policy options for containing the dangerous spillover of Afghanistan's political, military, and social upheaval into neighboring states....
		Afghanistan a few times has been at the edge of war with Pakistan (former province of Afghanistan) because of this agreement.
		Afghanistan's only remaining walled town, it is dominated by a 45 metre high citadel built in the 13th century.
	www.mythinglinks.org /eurasia~Afghanistan.html (6911 words)

	History of Afghanistan - The History Beat
		Until 1946 Zahir Shah ruled with the assistance of his uncle Mohammed Hashim, who held the post of Prime Minister and continued the policies of Nadir Shah.
		It is estimated that in Afghanistan there are 1.5 million suffering from immediate starvation, as well as 7.5 million suffering as a result of the country's dire situation - the combination of civil war, drought-related famine, and, to a large extent, the Taliban's oppressive regime.
		Afghanistan is a mountainous country, although there are plains in the north and southwest.
	history.searchbeat.com /afghanistan.htm (4392 words)

	Part One: History of Afghanistan
		Afghanistan responded by casting the sole negative vote against Pakistan's admission to the United Nations, and continued funding the rebel Pashtun warlords on the Pakistani side of the Durand Line.
		February 14, 1979 US Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs is kidnapped by several armed members of a Maoist group and held hostage for the release of several of their imprisoned colleagues.
		Their simple belief in messianic, puritan Islam which had been drummed into them by simple village mullahs was the only prop they could hold on to and which gave their lives some meaning.
	www.janrainwater.com /htdocs/1.htm (13697 words)

	Bacha Khan in Afghanistan - Asian Reflection
		Written by a former member of the Pakistani Intelligence Services in Afghanistan, this memoir recounts details of Khan's life in Afghanistan after the partition of India.
		Yusuf was made the first Prime Minister of Afghanistan out of the Royal Family in accordance with the Constitution promulgated in October 1964.
		Until the fall of the regime of Dr. Najib in Afghanistan, the money awarded by the Indian government was in the National Bank of Afghanistan.
	www.asianreflection.com /khanafghanistan.shtml (4437 words)

	Nancy Hatch Dupree. An Historical Guide To Afghanistan. Kabul
		KABUL, capital of Afghanistan since 1776, is a fast-growing city where tall modern buildings nuzzle against bustling bazaars and wide avenues fill with brilliant flowing turbans, gaily striped chapans, mini-skirted school girls, a multitude of handsome faces and streams of whizzing traffic.
		Timur Shah, son of Ahmad Shah Durrani, moved the capital of Afghanistan from Kandahar to Kabul in 1776.
		Born perhaps in the Kunar Valley in eastern Afghanistan, he is known to have been in Herat, Kandahar and Kabul from October 1866 to December 1868 while Amir Dost Mohammad’s sons fought for the throne of Kabul.
	www.zharov.com /dupree/chapter04.html (4861 words)

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