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Afghanistan signed The Treaty of Rawalpindi which ended the Third Anglo-Afghan War and marks Afghanistan's official date of Independence.
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Amanullah's nephew Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan,began a 40 year-old reign.
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A new constitution, ratified in 1964, liberalized somewhat the constitutional monarchy. This caused the economic and political conditions to worsen.
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King Zahir Shah was overthrown in a coup by his cousin and a former Prime Minister, Mohammad Daud. He declared Afghanistan as a republic, with himself as president , and the King went to exile in Italy
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Women in Afghanistan were fighting for human rights and social justice in Afghanistan.That was when the Revolutionary Association of the women in Afghanistan was established in Kabul
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This was conflict between anti- communist Muslim and Afghanistan government and Soviet forces.
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In May 1986, Karmal was replaced by PDPA leader Mohammad Najibullah,who subsequently became President in November 1987
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The Soviet occupation, which lasted until the final withdrawal of the Red Army in 1989, was a disaster for Afghanistan.
This was basically about the red army trying to take over peoples lives. -
Afghanistan was curved up among the various factions, with many mujahidin commanders establishing themselves as virtual warlords.
This happen because the city was divided among different forces,and civilians had little security from murder, rape,looting, or extortion. -
In the early 1994 the Taliban attacked headquarters of a local commander who had been responsible for numerous rapes, murders, and looting.
They attacked the commander because of all the numerous horrible things he had done. -
The Taliban went on the control of 90% of the country.
The Taliban had basically captured Kabul and took over, and alot of the outside world was in dismay of the they were treating the women. -
The Taliban troops attacked west towards Mazar-i-Shariff after bein reinforced with men and munition.
The Taliban were attacking Mazar-i-shariff because they wanted control of everything -
The Taliban attacked the predominantly Uzbek Junbish forces commanded by General Dostum.
There was a war going on at this time, in the west. The fighting had resumed from the east to the west -
The Taliban opened the third assault on Mazar-i-Shariff, and this time took the city decisively.
They killed at leats 2,000 people and most of the people were Hazaras -
The Taliban took control of the predominantly Hazara town of Baiman , west of Kabul.
The Taliban ended killing al kinds of civilians but mainly Hazaras. -
The Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan in defeat and disgrace.
The soviets were thought the country was too traumitized by violence. -
The Taliban dynamited the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which are the giant staues,great works of religion and art.
They did this because the Statues were not Islamic, and plus the statues were idols to other people. -
The Taliban remained loyal to Bin Laden and al-Qaeda after the atrocites. The result was that American led invasion of Afghanistan and the toppling of the Taliban regime.
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Afghanistan has passed a law stating that Shia men should deny their wives food, and the wives should obey their husbands sexual demands.