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army return home after his death.
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founded the monarchy that ruled the country until 1973
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Afghan tribe, the Barakzai, led on this occasion by Dost Mohammed - the twentieth but the most forceful of the twenty-one sons of the tribal chieftain.
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British army is assembled in India for an Afghan campaign
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A woman from the small village of Khig, named Malalai, played a major role in the battle of Maiwand during the second Anglo-Afghan war.
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Abdurrahman is followed on the throne by three generations of his family. Read more: http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad09#ixzz10xnEAzSQ
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In a reign of forty years Zahir Shah skilfully promotes Afghan interests. Once again neutrality is successfully maintained during a World War.
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First secondary female school was established in Kabul.
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overthrown in a coup by his cousin and former Prime Minister, Muhammad Daud. Daud declared Afghanistan a republic, with himself as president, and the King went into exile in Italy.
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curtailed the output of manufacturing, as it did for coal mining. Some production facilities, such as the Kabul bakeries, were damaged. Shortages of agricultural raw materials plagued certain industries, and there were also serious shortages of skilled labor
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Moscow signed a new bilateral treaty of friendship and cooperation with Afghanistan, and the Soviet military assistance program increased significantly
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precious and semiprecious stones were a major industry in Afghanistan. Eighty percent of the world's lapis lazuli had come from the country.
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the manufacturing sector was still at an early stage of development. Other than handicrafts, the importance of manufacturing to the economy was relatively slight compared with mining.
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Security Council met to consider a response to the Soviet intervention, but a draft resolution condemning it was not passed, due to the negative vote of the USSR.
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report was published by the chief engineer of the Afghan Geological Survey Department of Soviet uranium mining in Afghanistan. It revealed that uranium production was begun in the mountains of Khawaja Rawash north of Kabul after the discovery of deposits in 1983
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Afghanistan produced large amounts of natural gas and was preparing to exploit further other natural resource deposits.
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Afghanistan produced large amounts of natural gas and was preparing to exploit further other natural resource deposits.
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Afghanistan's second major hydrocarbon resource. It was the oldest fuel industry, dating back to shortly after World War I
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began a separate consideration of the human rights
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Karmal was replaced as PDPA leader by Mohammad Najibullah, who subsequently became President in November 1987.
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the tenacious Afghan resistance movement was exacting a high price from the Soviets, both militarily within Afghanistan and by souring the U.S.S.R.'s relations with much of the Western and Islamic world.
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Afghanistan was carved up among the various factions
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NATO forces and their local allies have been battling Taliban militia and terrorists
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they controlled much of Afghanistan's rural areas.