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- Carpets and Rugs of Afghanistan
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- Archeologist Hunts For Third Bamiyan Buddha
- Musicians Struggling To Revive Classical Heritage After Taliban

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Kabul Museum

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Economy

Recent News

• Donors Fail to Keep Promises to Afghanistan
• MCIT Launches the Privatization of Afghan Telecom
• IMF Gives Afghanistan Mixed Economic Review
• Abdul Qadeer Fitrat Named new head of Central Bank of Afghanistan
• Chinese company (Jiangxi Copper Corporation) to develop Afghan copper mine
• Afghanistan rich with mineral resources: report
• Afghan Wireless Again Creates History in Afghanistan
• Russia Writes Off Nearly $10 Billion In Afghan Debt
• Banking agreement strengthens Afghan economy
• Gov't questions effectiveness of foreign aid billions
• World Bank: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Added to the List of Countries Eligible for Assistance Under the HIPC Initiative
• Afghanistan Joins World's Largest Regional Grouping
• Economic future of Afghanistan
  grounded in Copper
• Afghanistan to impose income tax
• Afghanistan: NGOs baking aid cake, eating it
• Donor meeting reaffirms commitment
• Mixed reaction to calls for opium legalization
• Local efforts to reduce opium cultivation

Information & Resources

• Minister of Economy: Dr. M. Jalil Shams
• Minister of Finance: Dr. Anwar-ul Haq Ahadi
• Minster of Commerce: Dr. M. Amin Farhang
• Founder of the Afghan Banking System
• Law of Banking in Afghanistan (.pdf file)
• Law on Private and Domestic Investment in Afghanistan (.pdf file)
• Income Tax Law (.pdf file)
• The State of the Afghan Economy - 1999
• Afghanistan Online's Currency Converter

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Geography

• General Map
• List of provinces with capitals
• Map (Provincial Divisions)
• Topography
• Land & Resources
• Hydrocarbons found in Afghanistan
• Metallic Minerals found in Afghanistan
• Condition of Afghanistan's Environment

Languages

• The Dari Alphabet
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• Article: Pahlawi/Farsi/Dari
• English to Farsi /  Farsi to English Dictionary

Gov/Politics

• Branches of Government
• Members of President Hamid Karzai's Cabinet
• Afghan Embassies / Ambassadors
• Current Constitution (In English)
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• Constitution of 1923

• Constitution of 1964

• Constitution of 1976

• Constitution of 1987

• Constitution of 1990

• Provincial Governors
• Political Parties Law
• List of Parties/ Groups and their Leaders
• JEMB -  Political Parties' List (from April 18, 2005)

• Electoral Law

• Regulation on the Political Campaign

• Regulation on Political Campaign Finances

• Citizenship law

• Law on Mass Media

• Cartoons
• Text of Bonn Agreement (2001)
• US-Afghan Strategic Partnership
• Photos: Taliban
• Photos: The United Front (Alliance)

Military

• Army Reaches 70,000 Mark, As Taliban Vows New Offensive
• Senior Officers in the Afghan Army
• Military Equipment

History

• Part I (50,000 BCE - 652)
• Part II (652 - 1747)
• Part III (1747 - 1978)
• Part IV (1978 - Present)
• Contemporary Afghanistan - The Last Sixty Years (1919-1979)
• Medieval Jewish community of Afghanistan
• Image: Mahmud Ghazni's Empire
• Image: The Afghan Empire of 1767
• Russian Political Maneuvers & Hypocrisies in Afghanistan
• The Role of Afghanistan in the fall of the USSR
• Quotes from Afghan Personalities of Yesterday and Today

Education

• Ten schools torched in past three weeks
• Students play truant to work in Helmand’s poppy fields

Flags

Anthem

• Previous National Anthem

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Afghan Woman

Recent News

• Sharp rise in reported cases of violence against women
• New Party To Focus On Women's Rights
• Help Empower the Women of Afghanistan
• Women's Well-being Key to Afghanistan's Future, UNFPA Leader Stresses
• New contract to curb child marriages
• Women’s hopes for equality fade
• Girls miss out on full education
• Amnesty International Report Says Afghan
  Women Facing Violence, Abuse
• Domestic violence intolerable, say battered women and girls
• First-ever female governor appointed
• Law on forced marriages still widely flouted
• New campaign to encourage girls into school
• Getting more women into politics

General Information and More

• Women's Position, Role, And Rights In Islam
• Afghan Women's Health And The Taleban
• Photographs of Afghan Women by A. R. Ciriello
• A poem dedicated to Afghan women

Travel

Health

• Can condoms fulfill multiple expectations?
• Over half the population at risk of malaria
• Toxic wheat flour kills 10 in Herat
• Afghanistan launches the International Year of Sanitation
• Kabul's air pollution putting people's health at risk
• Poor sanitation, bad toilets cause deaths, misery
• TB deaths halve but challenges remain - WHO
• Afghanistan: Health Minister Calls AIDS Epidemic 'Serious And Alarming' Challenge
• Afghanistan Sees Fourfold Rise In HIV Infection Rate
• World Bank supports efforts to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Malaria cases set to rise in 2007
• Launch Of Afghanistan's First Telemedicine Project
• Over 300,000 immunised against tetanus, measles
• New study finds marked improvements in Afghanistan's health sector
• Number of Afghan patients treated for TB doubled since 2001: UN WHO
• Bird flu cases surge in new areas
• Afghanistan-Pakistan: Polio knows no borders
• Taliban blocks polio vaccination
• Fact Sheet on HIV/AIDS (.pdf format)

Biographies

• Dr. A. Abdullah
• Ibrahim Adel
• Ahmad Shah Abdali (Durrani)
• Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani
• Amanullah (Shah)
• Amena Afzali
• Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady
• Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai
• Dr. Najibullah Ahmadzai
  - Gruesome Photos: The Hanging of Dr. Najibullah
• Mohammad Akbar
• Mohammad Akbar (cabinet) 
• Sayed Muhammad Akbari
• Shir Ali (Amir)
• Hazrat Ali
• Hafizullah Amin
• Haroon Amin
• Sayed Husain Anwari
• Hedayat Amin Arsala
• Mohammad Hanif Atmar
• Mohammad Ayub
• Rahman Baba
• Tahir Badakhshi
• Sediqa Balkhi
• Abdul Karim Barahawi
• Siddiq Barmak
• Mohammad Azam Dadfar
• Mohammad Daoud (Sardar)
• Sarwar Danish
• Farhad Darya
• Abdul Rashid Dostum
• Mohammad Qasim Fahim
• A. Rawan Farhadi
• Mir Mohammad Amin Farhang
• Mir Mohammad Sidiq Farhang
• Mohammad Amin Fatemi
• Sayed Ahmad Gailani
• Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai
  - A detailed biography of A. R. Ghafoorzai written by his sons
• Sharif Ghalib
• Hosn Bano Ghazanfar
• Mahmud Ghazni (Sultan)
• Mir Ghulam Mohammad Ghobar
• Marina Golbahari
• Habibullah (Amir)
• Abu Hanifa
• Abdul Haq
• Ameer Shah Hasanyaar
• Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
• Mir Mahmud Hotaki
• Mir Wais Hotaki
• Mohammad Ismael (Khan)
  - Herat, the Mecca of Afghan Culture
• Masooda Jalal
• Ali Ahmad Jalali
• Nehmatullah Ehsan Jawid
• Habibullah Kalakani (Amir)
• Babrak Karmal
• Hamid Karzai
  - Biography of Hamid Karzai Distributed by the Afghan Government
• Karim Khalili
• Khalilullah Khalili
• Masood Khalili  
• Yunis Khalis
• Zalmay Khalilzad
• Allauddin Khan
• Bismillah Khan
• Khushal Khan Khattak
• Abdul Karim Khoram
• Haji Latif
• Malalai
• Abdul Hafiz Mansoor
• Ahmad Shah Masood
  - Interview with Commander Ahmad Shah Masood (August 2000)

- Masood's Letter To The American People

• Ahmad Zia Masood
• Sayed Ikramuddin Masoomi
• Abdul Ali Mazari
• Meena
• Atta Mohammad
• Dost Mohammad (Amir)
• Mohammad Mohaqiq
• Mohammad Asif Mohsini
• Sibghatullah Mojaddedi
  - A Concise Biography of Prof. Sibghatullah Al-Mojaddedi by Rahimullah Mojaddedi
• Zarar Ahmad Moqbel
• Abdul Hakim Mujahid
• Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil
• Amir Khan Muttaqi
• Mohammad Nadir (Shah)
• Ghulam Muhammad Niazi
• Mohammmad Omar
• Abdul Malik Pahlawan
• Mohammad Panah
• Mohammad Yusof Pashtun
• Abdul Latif Pedram
• Habibullah Qaderi
• Haji Abdul Qadir
• Mohammad Yunis Qanuni
• Noor Mohammad Qarqeen
• Enayatullah Qasimi 
• Burhanuddin Rabbani
• Mohammad Rabbani
• Sayed Makhdoom Raheen
• Abdur Rahman (Amir)
• Obaidullah Rameen
• Zalmai Rasool
• Anahita Ratebzad
• Sayed Qasim Reshtya
• Jalaluddin Rumi (Balkhi) 
• Suhrab Ali Safari
• Suraya Sadeed
• Nahid Sahed
• Omar Samad
• Vida Samadzai
• Sima Samar
• Abdul Rasul Sayaf
• Amir Zai Sangeen
• Habiba Sarobi
• Nematullah Shahrani
• Zieba Shorish-Shamley
• Mohammad Jalil Shams
• Shuja (Shah)
• Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
• Abdul Satar Sirat
• Rangin Dadfar Spanta
• Sher Shah Suri
• Shahnawaz Tanai
• Noor Mohammad Taraki
• Timur (Shah)
• Mahmud Tarzi
• Abdul Wali
• Sima Wali
• Abdul Raheem Wardak 
• Abdul Majid Zabuli
• Noorullah Zadran
• Mohammad Zahir (Shah)
• Ahmad Zahir
• Ehsan Zia

Sports

• The National Sport of Afghanistan (Buzkashi)
• Other Popular Sports Played in Afghanistan
• Photos: Body Building Clubs in war torn Kabul

Publications

• List of Books dealing with Afghanistan (Comprehensive list)
• Other Publications (Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, etc..)

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Plants/Animals

• Afghan Hound (Sagi-Tazi)
• Animals in Afghanistan
• Domestic Plants in Afghanistan
• Medicinal Plants in Afghanistan

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