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The beginning of modern Aghanistan
army return home after his death. -
Ahmad Shah Durrani
founded the monarchy that ruled the country until 1973 -
Kabul is taken
Afghan tribe, the Barakzai, led on this occasion by Dost Mohammed - the twentieth but the most forceful of the twenty-one sons of the tribal chieftain. -
Two Anglo-Afghan Wars
British army is assembled in India for an Afghan campaign -
Afghan Women's History
A woman from the small village of Khig, named Malalai, played a major role in the battle of Maiwand during the second Anglo-Afghan war. -
Abdurrahman Khan and his successors
Abdurrahman is followed on the throne by three generations of his family. Read more: http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad09#ixzz10xnEAzSQ -
Zahir Shar and Daud Khan
In a reign of forty years Zahir Shah skilfully promotes Afghan interests. Once again neutrality is successfully maintained during a World War. -
slow and gradual change occurred for women
First secondary female school was established in Kabul. -
King Zahir Shah
overthrown in a coup by his cousin and former Prime Minister, Muhammad Daud. Daud declared Afghanistan a republic, with himself as president, and the King went into exile in Italy. -
Effects of the War
curtailed the output of manufacturing, as it did for coal mining. Some production facilities, such as the Kabul bakeries, were damaged. Shortages of agricultural raw materials plagued certain industries, and there were also serious shortages of skilled labor -
The Soviet Invasion
Moscow signed a new bilateral treaty of friendship and cooperation with Afghanistan, and the Soviet military assistance program increased significantly -
Soviet intervention
precious and semiprecious stones were a major industry in Afghanistan. Eighty percent of the world's lapis lazuli had come from the country. -
Manufacturing
the manufacturing sector was still at an early stage of development. Other than handicrafts, the importance of manufacturing to the economy was relatively slight compared with mining. -
Security Council
Security Council met to consider a response to the Soviet intervention, but a draft resolution condemning it was not passed, due to the negative vote of the USSR. -
chief engineer
report was published by the chief engineer of the Afghan Geological Survey Department of Soviet uranium mining in Afghanistan. It revealed that uranium production was begun in the mountains of Khawaja Rawash north of Kabul after the discovery of deposits in 1983 -
Mining
Afghanistan produced large amounts of natural gas and was preparing to exploit further other natural resource deposits. -
Mining
Afghanistan produced large amounts of natural gas and was preparing to exploit further other natural resource deposits. -
hydrocarbon resource
Afghanistan's second major hydrocarbon resource. It was the oldest fuel industry, dating back to shortly after World War I -
General Assembly
began a separate consideration of the human rights
situation in Afghanistan -
Karmal was replaced
Karmal was replaced as PDPA leader by Mohammad Najibullah, who subsequently became President in November 1987. -
The Geneva Accords and Their Aftermath
the tenacious Afghan resistance movement was exacting a high price from the Soviets, both militarily within Afghanistan and by souring the U.S.S.R.'s relations with much of the Western and Islamic world. -
Rise and Fall Of The Taliban
Afghanistan was carved up among the various factions -
Cliford D. May, National Post
NATO forces and their local allies have been battling Taliban militia and terrorists -
Islamic traditionalists and ethnic leaders began an armed revolt,
they controlled much of Afghanistan's rural areas.