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		A city is an urban area that is differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status.
		In most parts of the world, cities are generally substantial and nearly always have an urban core, but in the United States many incorporated areas which have a very modest population, or a suburban or even mostly rural character, are designated as cities.
		City can also be a synonym for "downtown" or a "city centre".
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	Afghanistan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Afghanistan (officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan); Persian (Dari): جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان, Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت; is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Asia.
		Afghanistan faces numerous problems, ranging from its devastated economy, the return of millions of refugees, continued warlordism, drug trafficking, and a new government that is struggling with the political forces trying to define the sort of country Afghanistan will become in the 21st century.
		Afghanistan is a land-locked mountainous country, with plains in the north and southwest.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Afghanistan (5472 words)

	Afghanistan (12/06)
		In 2004, Afghanistan’s GDP grew 17%, and in 2005 Afghanistan’s GDP grew approximately 10%.
		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 was terrorized by this group, which was dogmatically opposed to progress and democracy.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm (7039 words)

	USATODAY.com - Thousands of refugees flee Afghan cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Afghanistan's Taliban regime, meanwhile, welcomed word of the first U.S. special forces troops deploying in its territory, challenging Washington to launch a full-fledged ground campaign.
		U.S. ground forces are operating in northern and southern Afghanistan in a secretive phase of the war on terrorism, and additional troops are poised for commando raids in search of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qa'eda lieutenants, U.S. officials said Friday on the condition of anonymity.
		Afghanistan's neighbors have all closed their borders, fearing such an influx of refugees or militia.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2001/10/19/afghanistan-refugees.htm (762 words)

	Travel & Tours in Afghanistan - Afghanistan: General Information
		Throughout the history of Afghanistan, armies, empires and traders crisscrossed this country because of its geographical location, which gave rise to the great diversity of foods, arts, languages and traditions that are cultural heritage of this country.
		Under the rules of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 and Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan 1996 to 2001 the education structure was completely destroyed and none of these Government have tried to recover the loss in the field of education.
		Afghanistan has a total area of 652,000 sq km, slightly smaller than Texas, which is all land and no coastline.
	www.sitara.com /afghanistan/general.html (3238 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rugged landscape creates extreme Afghan weather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Afghanistan stretches from roughly from 30 to 38 degrees north Latitude, the distance between the Florida panhandle and central Virginia.
		Air pressure differences between Afghanistan's northern Plains and southern deserts force strong winds to blow between the central mountains of Afghanistan and the mountains of eastern Iran.
		Weather averages for cities around Afghanistan are scarce, but the few for which information is available include the capital of Kabul in east-central Afghanistan.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/world/2001/afghanistan-climate.htm (537 words)

	history of afghanistan
		Islam was brought to Afghanistan during the eight and ninth century by the Arabs.
		The British seized most of the major cities in Afghanistan with little resistance, but their heavy handed rule soon resulted in a popular uprising by the people which resulted in the massacre of the entire British army of 15,000, save one.
		Again the British were able to occupy all of the major cities, but unlike the last time, the British got wind of an impending rebellion against their occupation, and brutally crushed it in a pre-emptive move.
	www.geocities.com /youth4sa/s11-afghanistan.html (3115 words)

	Russia, Afghanistan, Taliban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The major cities are not a source of military strength, are not economic centers and do not produce wealth or armaments to run a war.
		The cities of Afghanistan are not a strategic asset, but rather a liability, as the Russians found out in the 1980s, and as the present anti-terrorist coalition will soon find out to their regret.
		The main problem faced by the Russian military in Afghanistan was that they never knew for sure who was their ally and who not.
	www.cdi.org /russia/181-4.cfm (731 words)

	Afghanistan Women Council - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Afghanistan is still under a climate of intimidation by various groups of warlords and others.
		Afghanistan is still besieged at the local level by the Taliban and remainders of Al Qaida.
		Human rights abuses in Afghanistan are being committed by warlords and gunmen who were propelled into power by the United States and their alliances after the toppling of the Taliban in 2001.
	www.afghanistanwomencouncil.org /latest_10_03.html (2042 words)

	Afghanistan information - Search.com
		Afghanistan (officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي دولت, Dari: دولت اسلامی افغانستان), is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Asia.
		Largely populated by Muslim Iranian and Turkic peoples, Afghanistan faces numerous problems ranging from its devastated economy, the return of millions of refugees, continued warlordism, drug trafficking, and a new government that is struggling with political forces that are trying to define what sort of country Afghanistan will become in the 21st century.
		Afghanistan also remains subject to occasionally violent political jockeying, and the nation's first elections were successfully held in 2004 as women parliamentarians were selected in record numbers.
	webshots.search.com /reference/Afghanistan (5073 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| February 3, 2003 - U.S. Department of State: RPCV helps Cities in Afghanistan and Nebraska Forge ...
		Read and comment on this story from the U.S. Department of State on the Nebraska state capital of Omaha that is establishing a sister city relationship with the Afghan capital of Kabul while the farming communities of Scottsbluff and Gering in western Nebraska are becoming sister cities with Bamiyan in central Afghanistan.
		The Nebraska state capital of Omaha is establishing a sister city relationship with the Afghan capital of Kabul while the farming communities of Scottsbluff and Gering in western Nebraska are becoming sister cities with Bamiyan in central Afghanistan.
		Lawrence Uebner, chairman of the Omaha Sister Cities Association, was quoted in December as saying that, given the continuing struggle in Afghanistan just to get a new, democratic society under way, the relationship with Kabul is likely to differ from those others.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/2629/1011712.html (1676 words)

	Afghanistan's Media Renaissance
		With a large chunk operating from Kabul, most Afghan cities and towns have their own modest publications often in the form of magazines.
		Afghanistan is still steeped in a radio culture as the majority of the population, particularly in the remote rural regions, depend on radio for news and information.
		Many in the ministry of culture and information now believe that privatisation might be the last resort for white elephants such as Afghan TV and the Bakhtar news agency, another subsidiary of the information ministry.
	www.newsline.com.pk /NewsJan2005/newsbeatjan2005.htm (961 words)

	Half a Million Afghan Refugees Left Homeless and Cold in Cities
		This is so even as the city and its environs have taken in a disproportionate number of returning refugees — some 650,000 people, a third of the total who returned to Afghanistan from neighboring countries last year, according to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees.
		All over the city, people have occupied ruined or half-built buildings, empty government buildings and cultural centers, and have squeezed into one-room shops that are no more than hovels, partitioned off with filthy pieces of sacking.
		United Nations Habitat, the agency responsible for shelter programs in the cities of Afghanistan, estimates that there are half a million people living in urban areas in inadequate shelter and with few resources to survive.
	ccmep.org /2002_articles/010103_half_a_million_afghan_refugees_l.htm (1192 words)

	Afghanistan's Web Site - Afghanistan Principal Cities
		Kabul, the capital and largest city, had an estimated 1,424,400 inhabitants in 1988, but possibly less than 1 million in 1995 because so much of it has been destroyed.
		The city was once distinguished in Afghanistan for its well-lighted streets and modern buildings, but virtually no electricity exists anymore, and many of Kabul's structures have been reduced to rubble.
		Other important cities are Kandahar or Qandahar (225,500) in the south, which is dominated by Pashtun tribes; Herat (177,300) in the west, with a dominant Tajik and Pashton population; and Mazar-e Sharif (130,600) in the north, also with a dominant Tajik and Pashton population.
	www.afghanistans.com /information/people/PrincipalCities.htm (197 words)

	:: Ministry Of Communication Afghanistan ::
		Afghanistan is a developing country with limited, although improving basic infrastructure such as roads and power capacity.
		The OFC (Optical Fibre Cable) Ring Project proposes that the key routes between the cities follow the major highway infrastructure plan which is at present being implemented with significant progress to date in Afghanistan.
		In addition to linking many of the key cities, this project also calls for the construction of access points along the route which will provide access to the backbone for the other cities and provinces not directly on the backbone route.
	www.moc.gov.af /Projects/nfob.asp (837 words)

	Sister Cities International \| Reconstructing Afghanistan's Classrooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Six NU faculty came to the U.S. and learned about new techniques and resources but returned to Afghanistan without the capital to incorporate these in their classrooms.
		Investing in the educational center of this city will empower students, faculty and citizens to make a difference in their own lives and in the world around them.
		GlobalGiving's policy is to post only projects that have undergone compliance checks to ensure that the projects are for a bona fide charitable purpose and that the projects meet applicable government laws relating to international philanthropy.
	www.supportsistercities.org /cb/sistercities/pr/1100/proj1074a.html (258 words)

	Rebuilding Agriculture in Afghanistan
		Afghanistan has large reserves of natural gas and coal, and these reserves should be immediately mobilized for use by the rural poor.
		The public institutions involved in agricultural research in Afghanistan include MOAL, The University of Kabul and its sister institutes in five cities across Afghanistan, the vocational colleges of Afghanistan, Afghanistan Polytechnic College, and the Agricultural High Schools of Afghanistan.
		AgBank, Afghanistan Chemical and Fertilizer Company, and the Afghan Seed Company are all potentially valuable partners in the restoration of agriculture in Afghanistan.
	www.icarda.cgiar.org /afghanistan/workshop/guid33.htm (1497 words)

	Afghanistan - Country Information
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		Afghanistan was once well known on the urban circuit as the place to stop for unmatched hospitality, fantastic food, sadly, have changed.
		More than 20 years of war and Taliban rule left the dramatic countryside peppered with landmines and reduced many of the finest monuments and minarets to rubble.
	www.go4travel.com /Country/Afghanistan.htm (185 words)

	AFGHANISTAN: Massive Demining Follows Decades of Warfare
		The verges of important roads in and out of the cities were mined, and mines were used to protect strategic supply routes, such as the road from Pakistan to Kabul, and other major arterial roads.
		Afghanistan, which joined the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, or Ottawa Convention, on Sep. 11, 2002, has begun destroying its stockpiles of mines.
		Landmine Monitor's 2005 Afghanistan report --the 2006 report is scheduled to be released on Sep 13 --has stated that in the previous year, over 33 sq km of mined areas and nearly 70 sq.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=33326 (999 words)

	History of Pushto language
		There are two major dialects of Pashto: Western Pashto spoken in Afghanistan and in the capital, Kabul, and Eastern Pashto spoken in northeastern Pakistan.
		In Afghanistan, Pashto is second in prestige to Dari, the Persian dialect spoken natively in the north and west.
		In the seventeenth century, Khushal Khan Khattak, considered the national poet of Afghanistan, was writing in Pashto.
	www.afghan-network.net /Ethnic-Groups/pashtu-history.html (976 words)

	The incredible shrinking Taliban. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
		A week ago, critics of the U.S.-led military campaign were insisting that the Taliban wouldn't budge, that American bombs were only killing civilians, that Ramadan and winter would lock in place the Taliban's advantage on the ground, and that the coalition supporting the war was disintegrating.
		Afghanistan, not until you raise your hands from the Jews in Palestine, not until you lift the embargo on the Iraqi people." He even alluded to the stock market plunge triggered by the Sept. 11 attacks.
		What traveled from city to city in minutes wasn't the armies of the Northern Alliance, but the news of the Taliban's defeat.
	www.slate.com /?id=2058705&device= (1296 words)

	Khorsheed.com - Afghanistan
		The city is also known for the beautiful Afghan sheepskin coats made there.
		Thousands of missles have fallen on the city over the last four years and street fighting with rockets and grenades has become a permanent part of daily life.
		Virtually all of this 200-year-old city was destroyed during the war.
	www.khorsheed.com /pages/021_e_misc_afghan.html (721 words)

	Situation Reports: Afghanistan, Urban livelihoods in Afghanistan
		In addition, short-term city case studies were conducted in Mazar-i-Sharif and Pul-i-Khumri over a two to three-week period in each location.
		In the Mazar-i-Sharif and Puli- Khumri cases, research focused on specific livelihood situations in poor urban settlements in northern Afghanistan, capturing the dynamics in intermediate-sized cities.
		Their right to the city is neglected by a malfunctioning planning system that fails to recognize the urgency in releasing sufficient land for legal occupation.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/TKAE-6V63LH?OpenDocument (732 words)

	Taliban to launch war in the cities \| The World \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		TALIBAN fighters are preparing for a campaign of urban warfare, say Afghan and Western intelligence, and have established cells in the cities of Afghanistan from which to launch a campaign of explosions and suicide bombings.
		Suicide bombs were almost unheard of in Afghanistan until last year, with only five since the fall of the Taliban in December 2001.
		One report from Afghan intelligence warns that 35 suicide bombers have infiltrated the cities and are planning to launch simultaneous strikes during this week's Eid holiday, which marks the end of Ramadan.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20626209-2703,00.html (621 words)

	Press Releases: Afghanistan, Security on the cheap: PRTs in Afghanistan
		The comparative advantage the PRTs have is their capability as armed soldiers to enhance security for Afghans, the Afghan government, and international aid organizations, plus their potential ability to operate in insecure regions in which unarmed civilian aid agencies cannot.
		RI agrees that this highway is important to connect Kandahar, where Taliban and anti-government sentiment continues to be a problem, with the capital city of Kabul.
		To enhance security in Afghanistan and give Afghan reconstruction a good chance for success, the U.S. and its allies must agree to expand the small international security forces (ISAF) in the country by several magnitudes and to several regions and cities.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/1ea67e0645c1816f49256d5d000016f3?OpenDocument (958 words)

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	Afghanistan
		A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the encounter between the military superpower and the poorly armed Afghans.
		This is both a personal document and a historical one--Kakar lived through the events he describes, and his concern for human rights rather than party politics infuses his writing.
		As Afghans and the rest of the world try to make sense of Afghanistan's recent past, Kakar's voice will be one of those most listened to.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/6413.html (646 words)

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