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PostSubject: The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan   The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Icon_minitimeTue Dec 14, 2010 1:47 pm

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, commonly known as Afghanistan, is a landlocked country in south-central Asia.[7] It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast. The territories now comprising Afghanistan have been an ancient focal point of the Silk Road and human migration. Archaeologists have found evidence of human habitation from as far back as 50,000 BCE.[8] Urban civilization may have begun in the area as early as 3,000 to 2,000 BC.[9]

The country sits at an important geostrategic location, connecting East, South, Western and Central Asia, and has been home to various peoples through the ages.[10] The land has witnessed many military conquests since antiquity, including by Alexander the Great, the Mauryans, Muslim Arabs, Genghis Khan, and others.[8][9] It has also served as a source from which many dynasties such as the Greco-Bactrians, Kushans, Hephthalites, Shahis, Samanids, Saffarids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Timurids and others have established empires of their own.[11]

The political history of modern Afghanistan begins in the 18th century with the rise of the Pashtun tribes (known as Afghans in Persian language), when in 1709 the Hotaki dynasty established its rule in Kandahar and, more specifically, when Ahmad Shah Durrani created the Durrani Empire in 1747 which became the forerunner of present Afghanistan.[12][13][14] Its capital was shifted in 1776 from Kandahar to Kabul and part of its territory was ceded to neighboring empires by 1893. In the late 19th century, Afghanistan became a buffer state in the "Great Game" between the British and Russian empires.[15] On August 19, 1919, following the third Anglo-Afghan war and the signing of the Treaty of Rawalpindi, the nation regained control over its foreign affairs from the British.

Since the late 1970s Afghanistan has experienced a continuous state of civil war punctuated by foreign occupations in the forms of the 1979 Soviet invasion and the October 2001 US-led invasion that overthrew the Taliban government. In December 2001, the United Nations Security Council authorized the creation of an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to help maintain security and assist the Karzai administration.[16] The country is being rebuilt slowly with support from the international community while dealing with the Taliban insurgency




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