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FRONTLINE | The War Briefing | Sneak Peek: Bravo Company | PBS
FRONTLINE/World "Afghanistan: The Other War" | PBS

FRONTLINE | The War Briefing | PBS

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | The Rhetoric and the Reality | PBS

NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT 2008 | Preview | PBS
WIDE ANGLE | A Woman Among Warlords | PBS

WASHINGTON WEEK | August 17, 2007

FRONTLINE | Showdown With Iran | Oct 23 @ pbs.org/frontli ne
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Body of War | PBS

Independent Lens 'MOTHERLAND AFGHANISTAN' | Preview | PBS

WASHINGTON WEEK | July 20, 2007 Webcast Extra | PBS

WIDE ANGLE | Back to School | PBS

FRONTLINE | The War Briefing | Sneak Peek: Economy of Force | PBS
WASHINGTON WEEK | Sept. 26, 2008 Webcast Extra | PBS

FRONTLINE "Return of the Taliban" at pbs.org/frontli ne

WASHINGTON WEEK | Sept. 12, 2008 Webcast Extra | PBS

NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT | Gen. Colin Powell | PBS

NOW on the News | Cindy Sheehan

Food and drink in rural Afghanistan - BBC

Road check traffic lights - Afghan Ladies Driving School - BBC

Michael Palin discovers the origins of polo - BBC

Afghan food market - Cooking in the Danger Zone - BBC

Taking the test - Afghan Ladies Driving School - BBC

Easting testicles! World food and cooking - BBC

After the Taliban - Afghan Ladies Driving School - BBC

Meeting and eating food rations with US troops in Afghanistan - world food -BBC

Aspiring politician - Afghan Ladies Driving School - BBC

New student recruit - Afghan Ladies Driving School - BBC

Cycle mishap - Afghan Ladies Driving School - BBC

Election day - Afghan Ladies Driving School - BBC

Beating The Taliban By The Book - Afghanistan

Forward Base Afghanistan - 45 min

Afghan Lawlessness - Afghanistan

Khost - Afghanistan

Taliban Burning - Afghanistan

Afghanistan Taliban

Exporting the Taliban Revolution - Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Kabul Football Club

Kabul Beauty School - Afghanistan

Afghan Jihad - Afghanistan

Kandahar Air Base - Afghanistan
Tackling the Taliban - Afghanistan

Brothers of Kabul - Afghanistan

The Ugly Of War - Afghanistan

Survivor's Tale - Afghanistan

Kabul Dog Fighting - Afghanistan

Once Upon a Time - Afghanistan

Karzai's War - Afghanistan

The New Great Game - Afghanistan

Yalda's Kabul - Afghanistan

Endless Jihad - Afghanistan

A Tale of Two Women - Afghanistan

Revolutionary TV - Afghanistan

Swat Valley - Afghanistan

Back to the Warlords - Afghanistan

Beauty in Devastation - Afghanistan

Going Nowhere - Afghanistan

A New Lease of Life - Afghanistan

Afghan TV - Afghanistan
Starving to Death - Afghanistan

Two Tales Of Kabul - Afghanistan

War Casualties - Afghanistan

Between The Fronts - Afghanistan

Dostum the Kingmaker - Afghanistan

Unfinished Business - Afghanistan

The Taliban's Dirty Poppies - Afghanistan

Taliban Terror - Afghanistan

Tribal Trickery - Afghanistan
Lost in Translation - Afghanistan

Occupation Lite - Afghanistan

Taliban I - Afghanistan

What Hope for the Future - Afghanistan

Return to Lashkagar - Afghanistan

Fear Behind the Veil - Afghanistan

Drug Baron - Afghanistan

Confined to the Shadows - Afghanistan

Suicide Boys - Afghanistan

Burning Hearts - Afghanistan

Kam Air - Afghanistan

Taliban Trafficking - Afghanistan

Getting Liberated - Afghanistan

Opium Wars - Afghanistan

Mariam's Song - Afghanistan

Taliban - Afghanistan
America's Blind Eye - Afghanistan

You Have the Watches, We Have the Time - Afghanistan

Baptism Of Fire - Afghanistan

Massoud's Last Stand - Afghanistan

The Coldest Winter - Afghanistan

Warlord of Kayan - 40 min documentary

Taliban Country - 45min. documentary

Drugs Blight - Tajikistan

Legacy of the Bombs - Afghanistan

Al Qaeda's Safe Haven - Pakistan

Lashkar e-Toiba - Pakistan

Afghanistan's Opium Trail - 43-min

JIHAD: Afghanistan's Holy War - 52 min

Operation Thunder Road - Afghanistan

Islam Reborn - Tajikstan

Miraculous Recovery - Afghanistan

State of the Talib - 50min documentary

Slaughter House - Afghanistan

Weakened Opposition - Afghanistan

Talking to the Taliban - Afghanistan

The New Great Game - 55 min documentary
Dust Off Two Seven -USA

Jihad Junior High - Pakistan

Fog and Friction - 55min. documentary

Stone Silence - 51min Documentary

The Extraordinary Rendition of Mamdouh

The Global Addiction - 40 min documentary

Secret Government - Pakistan

Journeyman Weekly 10/3/2008

Malalai - 42min. documentary

Bin Laden? - 52 min documentary

Afghan Olympic Runner
Double Standards - 31-min documentary

Road to Martyrdom - 52min. documentary

Warship - USA
Kites - 52/79min Documentary

Female Peacekeepers - World

War and Truth - 59 min documentary

Shadows - 51min Documentary

The child workers of Afghanistan - 02 Jun 08

Inside Story - The War in Afghanistan - Oct 5 - Part 1

Afghanistan - The Toughest Battle - Opium - 17 May 07

Riz Khan - Obama and Afghanistan - 12 Nov 08

Afghanistan's spreading violence - 05 DEC 07

Afghanistan - The Toughest Battle - Jailed women - 14 May 07

Rape case in Afghanistan sparks controversy - 29 Sept 2008

US Iraq and Afghanistan vets given focus - 11 Nov 08

Schoolgirls attacked with acid in Afghanistan - 12 Nov 08

Afghanistan - The Toughest Battle - Kite Running - 14 May 07

Everywoman - Women of Afghanistan

Ground reality for Canadian troops in Afghanistan -3 Apr 08

Veterans - Soviets in Afghanistan - March 31 - Pt 1

Inside Story - The War in Afghanistan - Oct 5 - Part 2

Afghan women cry for help - 29-May-07

Veterans - Soviets in Afghanistan - March 31 - Pt 2

Cholera plagues Afghanistan - 21 Oct 08

Exclusive video of Korean hostages in Afghanistan 30 Jul 07

Obama visits Afghanistan

Estonians fortify position in southern Afghanistan - 1 Aug 2008

US presence in Afghanistan enters eighth year - 07 Oct 08

US pays Afghanistan's tribal groups to fight Taliban - 02 Nov 08

The divisive road through Afghanistan - 30 May 08

Afghanistan - The Toughest Battle - Opium - 17 May 07

Afghanistan - The Toughest Battle - Health - 15 May 07

Calls for Nato support in Afghanistan intensify - 7 Feb 08

Afghanistan Taliban stronghold - 08 Nov 07

Afghanistan - The Toughest Battle - Education - 15 May 07

US soldier unites ethnic groups in Afghanistan - 31May08

NWFP governor blames Afghanistan for troubles - 06 Jul 08

India and Pakistan vie for trade in Afghanistan - 09 Oct 08

Afghanistan cannabis production - 3 December 2007

Afghanistan - The Toughest Battle - Street Kids - 15 May 07

Children of Conflict - Afghanistan - Part 2

Afghanistan - The Toughest Battle - Osama - 15 May 07

Children of Conflict - Afghanistan - Part 1

US influence in Afghanistan - 28 Jan 08

Nato's 'Taliban problem' in Afghanistan - 31 Jul 08

The next US president's Afghan challenge - 1 Nov 08

Inside Story - Rebuilding Afghanistan - 05 Dec 07 -Part 2

Suicide blast targets US convoy in Kabul, Afghan - 06 Oct 07

Inside Story - Aid for Afghanistan - 12 June 08 - Part 2

Afghanistan - Nato & the Taliban - 14 May 07

US forces face daily perils east of Afghanistan - 30 Sep 07

Foreigners face increasing danger in Afghanistan - 27 Jan 08

Afghanistan bomb blast aftermath

First Person: Mohammed Hamid, 13, Afghanistan - 18 Nov 07

Inside Story - Rebuilding Afghanistan - 05 Dec 07 -Part 1
Afghanistan debates Indian soap operas - 30 April 08

Afghanistan faces country-wide bread shortages - 06 Jan 08

Mehsud vows to continue fight in Afghanistan - 26 May 08

Disarming Afghanistan - 06 Mar 08

Inside Story - Aid for Afghanistan - 12 June 08 - Part1

The struggle for woman journalists in Afghanistan- 25 May 08

The last Jew in Afghanistan - 12 Sep 07

Taliban's propaganda war in Afghanistan - 16 Oct 07

Riz Khan Show - Aid to Afghanistan - 20 Dec 07
Afghanistan's view on the US election - 25 Sept 08

Fortune-tellers raise controversy in Afghanistan - 11 Feb 08

Afghan camels at the desert's mercy - 18 June 07

Lapis Lazuli mining in Sari-i-Sang in northern Afghanistan

Inside Story - Afghanistan's backbone - 17 May 07 - Part 1

Afghanistan's misdirected security-led aid - 12 Jun 08

Afghan forces capture 'would-be suicide bomber' - 11 Sept 08

Afghan suicide attacks blamed on Pakistan - 26 May 08

Patrolling Afghanistan's volatile borders - 23 Nov 07

Afghan army struggles to cope - 24 Oct 07

Rising violence risks Afghan 2009 vote - 26 Jul 08

Afghans react to news of US "surge"

Afghanistan's road of contention - 05 Aprl 08

Pakistanis face hardship in Afghanistan - 25 Jan 08

Afghans fear shortage in humanitarian aid - 25 Nov 2008

Inside Story - Afghanistan's expectations of Obama - Nov 5 - Part 2

Iran accused of arming the Taliban - 1 Dec 08

Taliban targets Afghan-Nato 'lifeline' - 24 Apr 2008

Afghanistan's struggle to tap wind energy - 21 Nov 08

Inside Story - Afghanistan's expectations of Obama - Nov 5 - 1Part

Portraits of Kandahar - Kandahar Cemetery - 7 Feb 08

Inside Story - Afghanistan's backbone - 17 May 07 - Part 2

Inside Story - Afghan youth - 06 Nov 08 - Part 1

Fight for justice for Afghan rape victim- 22 Nov 08

Taliban fighters regrouping after winter snow - 02 April 08

Frost Over The World - Rangin Dadfar Spanta - Nov 14 -Part 2

Inside Story - Reaching out to the tribes - Nov 2008 9 part 1

Frost Over The World - 24 Nov 06

Afghanistan's high maternal mortality rate -27 June 08

Koreans beg for hostages' release - 23 Aug 07

Talk to Jazeera - Amrullah Saleh - 30 Sep 08 - Part 2

Taliban claim 'stronger than ever' in Ghazni - 04 Sep 08

Afghan forces raid US security firms - 25 Dec 07

Frost over the world - Hamid Karzai - 13 June 08

Talk to Jazeera - Amrullah Saleh - 30 Sep 08 - Part 1

Kabul after the war faces traffic chaos - 24 Jun 08

Message from a would-be Afghan suicide bomber - 01 Mar 08

Life after the fall of the Afghan Taliban - 1 April 2008

Afghan farmers growing poppies to survive - 27 Aug 07

Afghanistan's new anti-government groups - 01 Aug 08

Inside Story - Reaching out to the tribes - Nov 9 2008 part 2
Witness - The war comes home- Part 2

Plight of Afghan recycling children - 06 Sep 07

Afghan amputees helping themselves - 22 Sep 07

UN envoy urges Afghans to take security lead 30-04-2008

Witness - Looking Good - Part 2

Witness - Across the Border - Part 3

Inside Story - Rebuilding Kabul - 27 May 07 - Part 2

Afghan families' loss in suicide attacks - 13 Oct 07

Bombed Afghans seek justice - 13 Sept 2008

Witness - The war comes home- Part 1

Inside Story - Rebuilding Kabul - 27 May 07 - Part 1

Afghan army sees soaring recruitment - 08 Jan 07

Witness - Across the Border - Part 2

Peace and poverty in Bamiyan - 12 Nov 07

Afghanistan's kite runners paint the skies - 30 Oct 07

Pakistan raids turns focus on women's rights - 1 July 2008

Bush reshuffles US forces - 9 Sep 08

Frost over the World - The Kite-Runner - 14 Dec 07

Riz Khan - People Power - 22 Sep 08 - Part 2

Thousands protest against US war in Iraq - 25 Aug 2008

Deadly Kabul bombing kills dozens - 7 Jul 08

Guantanamo Bay interrogation video released - 15 July 08

Afghan lives at risk due to winter drought - 8 Nov 08

Afghan support for raid in Pakistan - 20 Jun 08

America and its wars on terror - 17 Sep 08 - Part 1

Pashtun tribes help secure Afghan border region - 26 Jan 08

No majority for any party in NWFP, Pakistan - 29 Feb 08

Rebuilding Afghanistan's airforce - July 14 2007

Mourning for Kabul blast victims - 08 Jul 08

Money-changing Kabul-style - 31 Dec 07

Afghan defectors turn to the Taliban - 15 Oct 08

Kabul's 'Bush Bazaar' - 16 Sep 07

Talk to Jazeera - Hamid Karzai - 18 Feb 08 - Pt 2

Listening Post-US elections and media blunders -13 Jun 08-P1

Inside Story - Pakistan's Taliban - 28 Apr 08 - Part 1

Rebuilding Bamiyan - 23 Jul 07 - Part 1

The case against Aafia Siddiqui - 6 Aug 08

Rebuilding Bamiyan - 23 Jul 07 - Part 2

America and its wars on terror - 17 Sep 08 - Part 4

Taliban displays combat weapons - 29 Sep 07

America and its wars on terror - 17 Sep 08 - Part 3

Talk to Jazeera - Hamid Karzai - 18 Feb 08 - Pt 1

Sportsworld - Euro 2008 Preview - 02 Jun 08 - Part 1

America and its wars on terror - 17 Sep 08 - Part 2

Frost over the World - David Cameron - 10 Oct 08

Kidnapped- 02 September 07- Part 2

The Fabulous Picture Show-Postcards from ToraBora-5Apr08 -Pt2

Taliban targets Nato and US supply convoys - 23 Nov 08

Kabul weddings best gig in town - 15 Sep 07

US veterans face increased suicide risk - 23 May 08

Latinos become focus for US army recruitment - 10 Oct 07

The Fabulous Picture Show-Postcards from ToraBora-5Apr08 -Pt1

Families call for Taliban to release hostages - 26-July-2007

Obama and McCain on US foreign policy - 21 Jul 08

Inside Story- South Korean Missionaries home- 02Sep07- Pt1

Taliban commander says Bin Laden still alive - 5 June 07

Riz Khan - Robert Fisk - 1 Oct 08 - Part 2

Karadzic's arrest sparks clashes - 23 Jul 08

Seeking signs of change in Helmand province - 23 Oct 07

Sportsworld - Euro 2008 Preview - 02 Jun 08 - Part 2

Talk to Al Jazeera - Asif Ali Zardari - 02 Nov 08 - Part 2

Dr Abdullah - Against all odds - 28 May 07 - Part 1

Afghan refugees face bleak future - 30 Dec 07

Key role for Afghan elders in Khost - 23 Jan 08

Afghanistan's most neglected minority - 06-Nov-07

Herat's residents regret city's hardship - 30 Nov 08

The Listening Post - Gentlemen's agreement - 07 Mar 08 - Pt2

Listening Post - 11 May 07 - Part 1

Sportsworld - Indy racing revolution - 02 Jun 08 - Part 2

Listening Post-US elections and media blunders-13 Jun Part 2

Riz Khan - US Foreign Policy - 16 July 08 - Part 2

Afghan refugees trapped in Greek camps - 09 Mar 08

Sportsworld - Indy racing revolution - 02 Jun 08 - Part 1

Dr Abdullah - Against all odds - 28 May 07 - Part 2

Riz Khan - US Foreign Policy - 16 July 08 - Part 1

Riz Khan Extra - Jaap de Hoop Scheffer - 25 Sept 08

Inside Story - Battled Out - 20 Aug 07 - Part 1

Kidnapped- 02 September 07- Part 1

Afghan women's rights - 9 Feb 08

Nato move to drive out Kandahar's Taliban - 18 Jun 08

Talk to Jazeera - Robert Holmes - 21 Apr 07 - Part 2

Afghanistan's cultural heritage plundered - 15 Jul 07

Security hampers Afghan reconstruction - 26 Nov 07

Growing concern over Afghanistan's madrassas - 24 Jan 08

The Listening Post - Gentlemen's agreement - 07 Mar 08 -Pt 1

Talk to Jazeera - Robert Holmes - 21 Apr 07 - Part 1

Playing the bunkers at Kabul's golf course - 25 Aug 07

Afghan refugees set to leave Pakistan - 13 Apr 08

Lack of ammunition plagues Afganistan's police - 05 May 08

Inside Story - Battled Out - 20 Aug 07 - Part 2

Listening Post - 11 May 07 - Part 2

Afghan women policing for rights - 10 Feb 08

Taliban Trafficking - Afghanistan

Drug Baron - Afghanistan

Khomeini's Children - 58min. documentary

Getting Liberated - Afghanistan

Inside the Green Berets: Ambush

Taliban Uprising
Inside al Qaeda
Inside the Green Berets: Under Attack

Bin Laden's Beginnings

Government and organizations

Provinces of Afghanistan and Districts of Afghanistan

 
  1. Badakhshan

  2. Badghis

  3. Baghlan

  4. Balkh

  5. Bamyan

  6. Daykundi

  7. Farah

  8. Faryab

  9. Ghazni

  10. Ghor

  11. Helmand

  12. Herat

  13. Jowzjan

  14. Kabul

  15. Kandahar

  16. Kapisa

  17. Khost

  18. Konar

  19. Kunduz

  20. Laghman

  21. Lowgar

  22. Nangarhar

  23. Nimruz

  24. Nurestan

  25. Oruzgan

  26. Paktia

  27. Paktika

  28. Panjshir

  29. Parvan

  30. Samangan

  31. Sare Pol

  32. Takhar

  33. Wardak

  34. Zabol

Ethnic groups of Afghanistan              42% Pashtun              27% Tajik            9% Hazara        9% Uzbek       4% Aimak       3% Turkmen            2% Baloch       4% other (Pashai, Nuristani, Brahui, Hindkowans, Hindustani, etc.)

The various ethnic groups of Afghanistan

     42% Pashtun      27% Tajik      9% Hazara      9% Uzbek       4% Aimak      3% Turkmen      2% Baloch       4% other (Pashai, Nuristani, Brahui, Hindkowans, Hindustani, etc.)

The Encyclopædia Britannica gives a slightly different list for various ethnolinguistic groups in Afghanistan:[53]

Based on official census numbers from the 1960s to the 1980s, as well as information found in mainly scholarly sources,[54] the Encyclopædia Iranica gives the following list:[54]

Languages of Afghanistan              50% Persian (usually of the Dari dialect but also including Hazaragi)              35% Pashto        8% Uzbek       3% Turkmen            2% Balochi       2% other (Nuristani, Pashai, Brahui, Pamiri languages, Hindko, Urdu, Hindi, etc.)

Languages of Afghanistan

 50% Persian (usually of the Dari dialect but also including Hazaragi)      35% Pashto      8% Uzbek      3% Turkmen      2% Balochi       2% other (Nuristani, Pashai, Brahui, Pamiri languages, Hindko, Urdu, Hindi, etc.)

 
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  1. Old Photos of Afghanistan

  2. Afghanaid

  3. Return to Afghanistan - Short films by the Washington Post on the New Afghanistan

  4. British Royal College for Defense Studies analyses and proposes a war in August 2001

  5. Darul-Aman Palace

  6. Library Fundraising in Afghanistan

  7. General Afghan Information and Entertainment Portal

  8. Hinduism Today: Hindus Abandon Afghanistan

    BBC South Asia: Sikhs struggle in Afghanistan

    Washingtonpost.com - Afghan Jew Becomes Country's One and Only - N.C. Aizenman

    Heathcote, Tony (1980, 2003) "The Afghan Wars 1839 - 1919", Sellmount Staplehurst

    "Modern literature of Afghanistan" by R. Farhādī, Encyclopaedia Iranica, xii, Online Edition. Afghanmagazine.com - Ustad Khalilullah Khalili - 1997

    Afghanmagazine.com - Kharaabat - by Yousef Kohzad - 2000

    Ministry signs contract with Chinese company, Pajhwok Afghan News.

    Pakistan grants $10m for Balkh University, Pajhwok Afghan News.

    Afghanistan Profile, National Geographic (accessed 20 January 2006).

    Afghanistan, CIA Factbook (accessed 20 January 2006).

    Afghanistan, Middle East Institute (accessed 20 January 2006).

    Part of the region bordering Pakistan falls in the disputed Kashmir region which is claimed by India

    Ahmad Shah Durrani, Britannica Concise.

    "Afghan" (with ref. to "Afghanistan: iv. Ethnography") by Ch. M. Kieffer, Encyclopaedia Iranica

    Online Edition 2006.  extract from "Passion of the Afghan" by Khushal Khan Khattak; translated by C. Biddulph in "Afghan Poetry Of The 17th Century: Selections from the Poems of Khushal Khan Khattak", London, 1890

    "Transactions of the year 908" by Zāhir ud-Dīn Mohammad Bābur in Bāburnāma, translated by John Leyden, Oxford University Press: 1921.

    M. Longworth Dames/G. Morgenstierne/R. Ghirshman, "Afghānistān", Encyclopaedia of Islam Online Edition

    Elphinstone, M., "Account of the Kingdom of Cabul and its Dependencies in Persia and India", London 1815; published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown

    E. Bowen, "A New & Accurate Map of Persia" in A Complete System Of Geography, Printed for W. Innys, R. Ware [etc.], London 1747

    E. Huntington, "The Anglo-Russian Agreement as to Tibet, Afghanistan, and Persia", Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Vol. 39, No. 11 (1907)

    MECW Volume 18, p. 40; The New American Cyclopaedia - Vol. I, 1858

    M. Ali, "Afghanistan: The War of Independence, 1919", Kabul [s.n.], 1960

    Afghanistan's Constitution of 1923 under King Amanullah Khan (English translation).

    Afghanistan, CIA World Factbook.

    Gold and copper discovered in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan’s Energy Future and its Potential Implications, Eurasianet.org.

    Govt plans to lease out Ainak copper mine, Pajhwok Afghan News.

    16 detained for smuggling chromites, Pajhwok Afghan News.

    Sites in Perspective, chapter 3 of Nancy Hatch Dupree, An Historical Guide To Afghanistan.

    Afghanistan, Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006 (specifically John Ford Shroder, B.S., M.S., Ph.D. Regents Professor of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska. Editor, Himalaya to the Sea: Geology, Geomorphology, and the Quaternary and other books)

    Dani, A. H. and B. A. Litvinsky. "The Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom." In: History of civilizations of Central Asia, Volume III. The crossroads of civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750. Litvinsky, B. A., ed.

    1996. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, pp. 103-118. ISBN 92-3-103211-9

    Zeimal, E. V. "The Kidarite Kingdom in Central Asia." In: History of civilizations of Central Asia, Volume III. The crossroads of civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750. Litvinsky, B. A., ed., 1996, Paris: UNESCO Publishing, pp. 119-133. ISBN 92-3-103211-9

    Litvinsky, B. A. "The Hephthalite Empire." In: History of civilizations of Central Asia, Volume III. The crossroads of civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750. Litvinsky, B. A., ed., 1996, Paris: UNESCO Publishing, pp. 135-162. ISBN 92-3-103211-9

    http://www.asia.msu.edu/centralasia/Afghanistan/religion.html http://www.asia.msu.edu/centralasia/Afghanistan/religion.html

    Ghubar, Mir Ghulam Mohammad, Khorasan, 1937 Kabul Printing House, Kabul)

    "Tajikistan Development Gateway" from History of Afghanistan by the Development Gateway Foundation

    "Ghaznavid Dynasty", Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Edition.

    "Timurid Dynasty", Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Edition.

    "Ašraf Ghilzai" by Prof. D. Balland, Encyclopaedia Iranica Online Edition 2006.

    "The Hotakis" in "Afghanistan", Encyclopaedia Britannica.

    "The Durranti dynasty" in "Afghanistan", Encyclopaedia Britannica.

    "Ahmad Shah Durrani", Encyclopaedia Britannica.

    The South, chapter 16 of Nancy Hatch Dupree, An Historical Guide To Afghanistan.

    "Afghanistan: History", Columbia Encyclopedia.

    Afghanistan, Opium and the Taliban [1]

    - New Supreme Court Could Mark Genuine Departure - August 13, 2006

    Text used in this cited section originally came from: Afghanistan (Feb 2005) profile from the Library of Congress Country Studies project.

    Morales, Victor (2005-03-28). Poor Afghanistan. Voice of America. Retrieved on 2006-09-10.

    North, Andrew (2004-03-30). Why Afghanistan wants $27.6bn. BBC News. Retrieved on 2006-09-10.

    Fujimura, Manabu (2004) "Afghan Economy After the Election", Asian Development Bank Institute

    Macroeconomics & Economic Growth in South Asia, The World Bank.

    Government to have greater control over aid pledged in London, irinnews.org.

    "Midday Business Report: Black & Veatch unit gains piece of Afghan contract", The Kansas City Star.

    "Coca-Cola opens plant in Afghanistan", Contra Costa Times.

    Kabul - City of Light Project

    The Economist magazine, UK, October 2005

    BBC News - Afghan poll's ethnic battleground - October 6, 2004

    "The ghost of Greater Afghanistan" by J. Feiser, Asia Times, July 23, 2003.

    "Afghānistān: (v.) languages" by L. Dupree, Encyclopædia Iranica Online Edition 2006.

    Encyclopædia Britannica - Afghanistan...Link (PDF)

    L. Dupree, "Afghānistān: (iv.) ethnocgraphy", in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition 2006, (LINK)

     

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BBC South Asia: Sikhs struggle in Afghanistan

Washingtonpost.com - Afghan Jew Becomes Country's One and Only - N.C. Aizenman

Heathcote, Tony (1980, 2003) "The Afghan Wars 1839 - 1919", Sellmount Staplehurst

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Afghanmagazine.com - Kharaabat - by Yousef Kohzad - 2000

Ministry signs contract with Chinese company, Pajhwok Afghan News.

Pakistan grants $10m for Balkh University, Pajhwok Afghan News.

Afghanistan Profile, National Geographic (accessed 20 January 2006).

Afghanistan, CIA Factbook (accessed 20 January 2006).

Afghanistan, Middle East Institute (accessed 20 January 2006).

Part of the region bordering Pakistan falls in the disputed Kashmir region which is claimed by India

Ahmad Shah Durrani, Britannica Concise.

"Afghan" (with ref. to "Afghanistan: iv. Ethnography") by Ch. M. Kieffer, Encyclopaedia Iranica

Online Edition 2006.  extract from "Passion of the Afghan" by Khushal Khan Khattak; translated by C. Biddulph in "Afghan Poetry Of The 17th Century: Selections from the Poems of Khushal Khan Khattak", London, 1890

"Transactions of the year 908" by Zāhir ud-Dīn Mohammad Bābur in Bāburnāma, translated by John Leyden, Oxford University Press: 1921.

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