Questions tagged [afghanistan]
Questions related to the territory of Afghanistan, today represented by a country located within south-central Asia, bordered by Pakistan in the south and east; Iran in the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the north; and in the far northeast, China.
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Was there communist opposition to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
I was told to come here from Politics SE so this is a repost.
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to support the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government. This obviously led to much ...
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Did Arab nations send prisoners to fight in the Soviet-Afghan war?
The documentary "The Power of Nightmares (2004)" by Adam Curtis claims that various Arab nations like Egypt emptied prisons and sent prisoners to fight in Afghanistan against the Soviets. Is ...
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How were Soviet-Afghanistan War casualties distributed between the Soviet Republics? Were they disproportionately non-Russian?
It's frequently asserted that the impact of the Soviet-Afghanistan War disproportionately fell on Soviet Republics outside Russia, as non-Russians were overrepresented in the Red Army. The resultant ...
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Why did Pakistan get involved in Soviet-Afghan war from 1979 to 1989?
Soviet-Afghan War
Afghan-Pakistan Relations >> Contemporary Era
I was reading this Wikipedia article and couldn't understand why Pakistan got itself involved in Soviet-Afghan War from 1979 to ...
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How did the Soviet press talk about the opposing forces (mujahideens) during the Soviet-Afghan war?
I've watched and read a fair bit of material on the Soviet war in Afghanistan, but this [in my humble experience] is a topic that's not touched upon much if at all in Western coverage of that war. For ...
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How did MILAN ATGMs make their way to Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion?
Various sources mentions rather briefly that the mujaheddin used MILAN ATGMs against the Soviets.
Who supplied these exactly? Were they e.g. from French or UK stocks? And were the US intermediaries ...
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Did Zolmy Khalilzad lobby for the Taliban in the 1990s?
Only Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recognized the legitimacy of the Taliban government in 1996-2001.
Many Afghans on Twitter and Facebook claim that Zolmy ...
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Did all the the -stan sovereign state names appear synchronously?
-stan is a Persian suffix that seems functionally equivalent to the Germanic -land.
Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan are the sovereign -stan states.
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How did Muhammed of Ghouri die?
Indians believe that Prithviraj Chauhan killed The Muhammed of Ghouri, but according to history Muhammed of Ghouri died after the death of Prithviraj Chauhan. Prithviraj's tomb is disrespected in ...
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Was the U.S. planning an invasion of Afghanistan before 9/11? [closed]
Some sources seem to indicate that the U.S. was planning a military attack against Afghanistan before September 11.
Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American ...
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Could British India have realistically allied with both Afghanistan and the Punjab?
In his book The Return of a King, historian William Dalrymple is strongly critical of British policy toward Afghanistan prior to the disastrous invasion of 1839. He implies, quoting the British envoy ...
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Do Pashtuns belong to Greek heritage? [closed]
From some of local Pashtuns people, I have heard that they belong to Greek Origin. There explanation was, When Alexander conquered Persia (Achaemenid Empire). he left some of the soldiers here.
But I ...
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Why is Afghan Independence Day celebrated on August 19th and not August 8th?
The Treaty of Rawalpindi (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) was signed on August 8, 1919. The Annexure (same date) states very clearly:
You asked me for some further assurance that the Peace Treaty which the British ...
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Border crossings between USSR and Afghanistan in the 1960s
For a (fictional, but set in the real world) story set in 1962, I need to get my protagonists from the USSR into Afghanistan. I've done some research and found no reliable information about the ...
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Is there any evidence for American atrocities during the Soviet-Afghan War? [closed]
I just spoke to someone that was convinced that US soldiers committed rapes against Afghan women during the Cold War.
Is there any truth to this?
Were there any US soldiers deployed to Afghanistan ...
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Why didn't Afghanistan accede to Pakistan in 1947?
The A in Pakistan stands for Afghanistan and dates to at least 1933. When the British were quitting India in 1947 and Pakistan was forming, why didn't the Afghani's join with Pakistan. Afghani's ...
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Are there any details available on 1954 Afghan proposal for a merger with Pakistan?
I found a shocking declassified CIA NSC briefing on the alleged proposal here.
It claims:
Afghanistan Foreign Minister requests U.S. aid to bring about
Afghanistan-Pakistan merger. He claims ...
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Stand of Yemen in the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979? [closed]
Just wanted to know the role of Democratic Yemen in the Soviet-Afghan war. Like: "What did it do? Who were its allies and enemies?"
Yemen was actually really disturbed by the Yemenite war. The ...
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What was the role of Egypt in Soviet-Afghan war?
Just wanted to know the role of Egypt in the Soviet-Afghan war..like what did it do,who were it’s allies and enemies...I have researched on Wikipedia but didn’t find anything useful except that it had ...
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What was the role of Nigeria in Soviet invasion of Afghanistan [closed]
I'm required to present a report on the role and position of Nigeria on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But as far as I know , Nigeria had a civil war raging inside the country.
I've scanned ...
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Inter-ethnic conflicts in Switzerland in the 16th century
I have come across this description in Paddy Ashdown's (excellent) autobiography A Fortunate Life:
I have often been struck by the similarities between those countries
whose fortune (or ...
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Did the Bush administration or their successors ever comment on the alleged Taliban warning about 9/11?
I was going through some old news reports and I was shocked to find a BBC report from 2002 that the Afghan Taliban warned the Americans and the UN of an impending attack on US by Al-Qaeda however ...
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Was Kandhar/Gandhar renamed Afghanistan?
In ancient Hindi literature, Gandhar or Kandhar was used many times like Mahabharata, etc.
Is it Afghanistan which was called Kandhar in ancient (like Iran was called Persia)? Also, is there any ...
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Did Iran host anti Soviet Afghan factions during the 1980's?
It is well known that Pakistan hosted many anti-Soviet Sunni fundamentalist groups, who continue to generate problems for Pakistan (and the world) to this day.
If Iran did provide sanctuary to anti-...
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Is the Afghan hat related to the Macedonian hat?
This is a Greek king of Bactria (Afghanistan):
The fashion was followed after Alexander the Great. It is based on Macedonian berets ("kausia"):
This is an Afghan hat ("Pakol"):
Worn here by a ...
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Did Afghanistan make war with Alexander the Great? [closed]
Afghani'd claim that Alexander the Great did not defeat Afghanistan or the Patans (Pukhtoon) people. Is this true or is it only a myth?
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Why did the Soviets refuse to help Nur Mohammed Taraki?
In 1970s Afghanistan was a communist state. The leader Nur Mohammed Taraki was much like a puppet of the Soviets. When the policies (education, land distribution etc.) initiated by the Soviets proved ...
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Operation Enduring Freedom, early results
i'm writing a text about Afghanistan from 1992-2001. And i want to finish of with how "Operation Enduring Freedom" resulted in great losses for the Taliban in a short period of time, but i'm having ...
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Why are the Mamluk Sultans of Delhi termed as being of Turkish origin?
They should have instead be termed as being of Afghan origin and not Turkish origin since their founder Qutb-Ud-Din Aibek was the slave of Muhammad Ghori who was the Sultan of Ghur in Afghanistan.
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Was coat of arms of Afghanistan of 1928 influenced by Soviet symbols?
This is the flag of Afghanistan with a coat of arms as of 1928:
As you can see, it includes a wheat wreath, red star and the sun, all elements typical for Soviet-style coats of arms. Yet the state ...
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