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Period: to
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Afghanistan is the only country to vote against the admission of Pakistan to the UN
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The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the UN.
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Mariam is born in Herat
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Marmiam asks to see her fathers cinemas for her birthday
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Nana hangs herself
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The CN tower in Toronto is built.
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Tariq is born.
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Mariam turned nineteen. A man was murdered in Kabul.
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Vietnam attacks Cambodia.
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Laila is born to Hakim and Fariba
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Afghanistan signed a treaty in Geneva. The Soviets should be out of Afghanistan within nine months.
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Laila and her family watched one of the last Soviet convoys exit the city.
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Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending 9 years of military occupation.
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Mullah Faizulla dies of natural causes
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Heavy fghting in West Kabul
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Mariam and Laila are both married to Rasheed now.
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Aziza is born.
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The first corrected images from the Hubble Telescope are taken.
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Mariam and Laila have gone from enemies to friends.
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Rasheed is starting to assume that Aziza isn't his.
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The Taliban start to invade Afghanistan more.
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NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance for 1999.
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Zalami is born, Laila and Rasheed's spoiled son.
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Tariq comes to Kabul to find Laila.
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Mariam murders Rasheed.
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Mariam gets put in jail, and eventually given the death penalty.
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Laila, Tariq, Aziza and Zalami all go to Pakistan together to start a new life.
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Aziza gets put into an orphanage.
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Hamid Karzai is sworn in as head of the interim government in Afghanistan.