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- A New Year For Afghanistan's Traditional Carpets
- Agreement signed to safeguard Bamiyan's archaeological site
- Afghanistan's 'Hidden' Art Treasures on Exhibit in Amsterdam
- Museum Director Applauds Return Of Historical Objects
- Archeologist Hunts For Third Bamiyan Buddha
- Musicians Struggling To Revive Classical Heritage After Taliban

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  - Bolaanee
  - Cilantro chutney
  - Salaata (Afghan salad)
  - Sabzi (Spinach)
  - Challow (White rice)
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  - Dogh (Yogurt drink)
  - Yogurt sauce
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  - Chapli Kabobs
  - Kofta Challow
  Desserts
  - Sheer yakh (Afghan ice cream)
  - Kishmish Panir (Cheese with Raisins)
  - Firnee
  -Rote (Afghan sweet bread)
• Afghan Music
  Traditional Instruments Used In Afghanistan
  Traditional Pashto Music
  Ahmad Zahir Songs
• Poetry
  Selection of Poems (Various Afghan Poets)
  List of Classical Afghan Poets
  Important Contemporary Afghan Poets
• Proverbs
• Short Wisdom Stories
• Traditional Clothing
• Mullah Nasruddin Jokes
• Traditional Holidays/Events
• Carpets and Rugs of Afghanistan
• Superstitions and popular myths in Afghanistan

Kabul Museum

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Economy

Recent News

• TAPI Pipeline Signed, Sealed -- Not Yet Delivered
• New northern international airport to boost Afghan economy
• New railroad increases trade in Afghanistan
• Karzai Calls Kabul Bank 'Safe' Amid Signs Of Panic
• Pakistan to allow goods from Afghanistan to India
• U.S. Discovers Stunning Mineral Reserves in Afghanistan
• Afghanistan calls for investments by Iranian firms
• Nine million Afghans living on less than a dollar a day - survey
• Aynak copper mine predicted to create 8,000 direct jobs once landmines are cleared
• Low almond prices hit farmers
• Drought, lack of investment hit lambskin trade
• Afghanistan Opens First Honey Processing Plant
• Afghan Hopes To Provide 'Land Bridge' Still Hampered
• Ugly truth about foreign aid in Afghanistan
• Agricultural development team working to boost Afghanistan’s crop yield
• Afghan Officials Hope Tea Farms Will Replace Poppy Fields
• Afghan President's Brother Denies Business Success Built On Family Ties
• Food still unaffordable for millions
• Afghanistan Importing Far More Than It Exports
• Pressured On Opium Crops, Many Afghan Farmers Switch To Cannabis
• ADB, Afghanistan agree on new, five-year strategic partnership
• PR: Roshan reaches 3 million subscribers
• Beekeeping in Kunar Province
• Afghanistan Promotes Crop More Profitable Than Poppy
• Afghanistan Relatively Unscathed by World Financial Crisis
• Can saffron replace poppy?
• Government’s first quarter revenue up
• Rebuilding programme calls for US$50 billion
• Afghan Investment Reveals Larger Strategy
• 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

Photo Gallery

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

Environment

• Afghanistan's Water Resources and Pollution
• Deforestation in Afghanistan
• Air Pollution in Afghanistan
• National Environmental Agency (NEPA)
• Afghanistan's Environmental Law
• Waste management slipping out of control in Kabul
• Groundwater overuse could cause severe water shortage
• Flood abatement efforts yield mixed results
• Dust storms cause health problems in west
• Drought in north hits animal husbandry, threatens livelihoods
• Traditional ecological sanitation system under pressure
• 'Green Energy' Wind Farm Helps to Move Afghanistan Forward
• More than 3000 People May Die In Kabul Because of Air Pollution Every year
• Deforestation marches on in Afghanistan
• First National Park in Afghanistan
• Protected Species List Released By NEPA
• Prospects For Environmental Protection In Afghanistan Improve, Despite Big Challenges
• Afghanistan: Toilet Tribulations
• USAID funds Kabul clean-up project
• Too early to press drought alarm - experts
• Afghanistan officially protects “world's least known bird” and 47 other threatened species
• Seasonal floods warning
• Afghanistan Signs Understanding With UN to Fight Illegal Chemical Trade
• Afghanistan’s Mustafa Zahir Wins Major Environmental Leadership Award
• Kabul air pollution prompts advice on use of masks

Languages

• The Dari Alphabet
• The Pashto Alphabet
• 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)
• Current Constitution (In Dari/Pashto)

• 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

• Afghan Air Force Helicopter Fleet Grows To 31
• New Female Lieutenants Commissioned into Afghan Army
• Afghan Army Grows by More Than 900 Commandos
• Afghan Army reaches targeted strength early
• Afghan National Army opens infantry school
• President Hamid Karzai creates an Air Force
• President Karzai Congratulates Future Leaders
• Flight School From Scratch
• Afghanistan Considers Conscript Army, To Mixed Reviews
• Training Afghan Forces Poses Challenges for US Military
• Difficult Prospects For Building A Viable Afghan Army
• Afghan pilots closer to providing own air support
• Afghan Military Pilots To Get U.S. Training
• Transition Command Helps to Build Afghan Air Corps
• A More Effective Afghan Army
• US Defense Secretary Robert Gates Endorses Big Expansion of Afghan Army
• Army Reaches 70,000 Mark, As Taliban Vows New Offensive
• Senior Officers in the Afghan Army
• Military Equipment

Videos:

• Afghan National Army Receives Computer Training

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

• Education aid - an apparent success story in Faryab Province
• Schools to reopen for exams after H1N1 shutdown
• Private Afghan University Graduates First Female Business Students
• Afghan Private Schools Seen As Sign Of Hope, Optimism
• Five million children not in school
• Dozens of schools reopen in volatile south
• Elite Egyptian University To Build Islamic Institute In Afghanistan
• Afghan University Teachers Get Pay Raise
• Education for girls: The key to Afghanistan's development
• Taliban forces students out of schools into madrasas
• Government of Japan provides US$24 million for constructions of education facilities in Kabul city
• Drought, poverty lead children to abandon school
• Disability deprives children of education
• Germany promotes private initiative
  to build girls' school in Northern Afghanistan
• Attacks deprive 300,000 students of education
• Six Varsities to be Built in Kabul
• Attacks on schools threaten development in Afghanistan
• Ten schools torched in past three weeks
• Students play truant to work in Helmand’s poppy fields

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Afghan Woman

Recent News

• UN Report: Harmful Traditional Practices and Implementation of the Law on Elimination of Violence against Women in Afghanistan
• Afghanistan Graduates Another Class Of Policewomen
• Attempted suicide by women, girls on the rise?
• For Afghan Women, Some Hard-Won Successes And An Ongoing Struggle
• Women’s rights trampled despite new law
• Afghan Bill Aims To Criminalize Discrimination Against Women
• Call for tougher laws on rape
• Silence is violence: End the abuse of women in Afghanistan
• Afghan Women Protest Against Discriminatory Law
• UN human rights chief says Afghan law restricting women's rights is reminiscent of Taliban era
• Women in Bamiyan build a road with their bare hands
• Laura Bush Meets With US-Afghan Women's Council
• Acid Attack On Afghan Schoolgirls Causes Fear, Anxiety Among Parents
• Activist Rangina Hamidi Works to Improve Lives of Afghan Women
• Self-immolation on the rise among Afghan women
• 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

• Afghan Women's History
• 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

• Afghans Prepare For Tourism Development

Health

• Volatile Kandahar - the polio capital
• Unpaid volunteers prop up health system
• 13 million Afghans at risk of contracting Leishmaniasis, says WHO
• Polio risk from two directions
• Polio Immunization Campaign Begins in Afghanistan
• UNODC Reports Major Drug Abuse in Afghanistan
• Private hospitals to the rescue of TB patients
• Afghanistan: Drug addiction - a growing burden
• Around 9000 Afghans die of TB every year
• Update on Pandemic AH1N1 Influenza-Afghanistan: 10 February 2010 (pdf document)
• Thirteen southern districts critical for polio eradication - WHO
• H1N1 vaccines to arrive just as caseload falls
• A new step in fighting polio virus
• Afghan government seeks more funds as H1N1 cases proliferate
• Afghanistan Closes Schools Due to Increasing H1N1 Cases
• Afghanistan: WHO official supports H1N1 emergency measures
• HIV-positive cases jump to 556 in Afghanistan
• First death due to Influenza AH1N1 among Afghan citizens
• Health Ministry reports cholera deaths
• Kabul drug addicts running out of hope
• MoPH to enhance treatment, reintegration of drug addicts in Afghanistan
• Jumhuriat Hospital Inaugurated
• Midwives defy tradition and save lives
• New subtype of influenza A H1N1
• Tele-service attracts patients to Bamiyan hospital
• 14 confirmed, mild cases of Influenza among US citizens detected, treated at Bagram Airbase
• Fighting a stubborn poliovirus
• Move to boost food hygiene
• Swine flu “getting closer”
• Polio in Afghanistan in 2008-09
• Sanitation woes in makeshift IDP camps
• Afghanistan Moves Fast in Control of Malaria
• First ever Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) center in Afghanistan
• MoPH to construct 75 bed Hospital for Kuchis (Nomads) in Kabul suburb
• 3 day Sub-National Immunization Days for Polio Eradication
• Growing number of Afghans lack health care - Ministry
• “We’re not against polio immunisation” - Taliban spokesman
• Battle lines drawn over contraception
• MoPH Celebrates World TB Day
• Afghanistan: Planning a child? Then avoid the winter months
• Respiratory diseases kill 2-4 people daily - Health Ministry
• Program builds better health care system in Afghanistan
• USAID donates biomedical equipment to Afghan hospital
• Little health care for women in Paktika Province
• Snow, insecurity hamper polio immunisation
• Little awareness of HIV among migrants in Iran
• Imams to the rescue in curbing maternal mortality
• HIV-positive patients to get ARV therapy for first time
• Afghan government has intensified efforts in auditing health services...
• Children at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS in Afghanistan
• Medical waste poses health risk in urban areas
• El-Tor cholera leaves 17 dead
• Polio virus eradicated in north, virulent in south
• Afghan child mortality linked to uneducated mothers
• Soya beans to stave off malnutrition?
• VHF outbreak in Herat Province kills three
• Far fewer people seeking malaria treatment
• Nine new polio cases in south
• High birth rate killing mothers, infants
• 435 HIV cases reported to Health Ministry
• No medicine for leishmaniasis in Badakhshan Province
• WHO confirms 'charmak' disease in Herat Province
• 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 (Wazir)
• Mohammad Akbar 
• 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
• Ashraf Ghani
• Hosn Bano Ghazanfar
• Mahmud Ghazni (Sultan)
• Mir Ghulam Mohammad Ghobar
• Marina Golbahari
• Habibullah (Amir)
• Abu Hanifa
• Abdul Haq
• Jalaluddin Haqqani
• 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
• Malalai Joya
• Habibullah Kalakani (Amir)
• Babrak Karmal
• Hamid Karzai
  - Biography of Hamid Karzai Distributed by the Afghan Government
• Ahmad Wali Karzai
• Abdul Qayum Karzai
• Karim Khalili
• Khalilullah Khalili
• Masood Khalili  
• Yunis Khalis
• Zalmay Khalilzad
• Allauddin Khan
• Bismillah Khan
• Khushal Khan Khattak
• General Khodaidad
• 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
• Rohullah Nikpai
• Mohammmad Omar
• Abdul Malik Pahlawan
• Mohammad Panah
• Mohammad Yusof Pashtun
• Abdul Latif Pedram
• Habibullah Qaderi
• Hamidullah Qaderi
• Haji Abdul Qadir
• Mohammad Yunis Qanuni
• Noor Mohammad Qarqeen
• Enayatullah Qasimi 
• Burhanuddin Rabbani
• Mohammad Rabbani
• Sayed Makhdoom Raheen
• Muhammad Asif Rahimi
• 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
• Ghulam Farooq Wardak 
• Abdul Majid Zabuli
• Noorullah Zadran
• Mohammad Zahir (Shah)
• Ahmad Zahir
• Ehsan Zia

Sports

• Afghan Sports News
• A New Sport Comes to Afghanistan
• The National Sport of Afghanistan (Buzkashi)
• Other Popular Sports Played in Afghanistan
• Golf in Afghanistan
• Photos: Body Building Clubs in war torn Kabul

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

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

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