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Kings of Afghanistan
Coup and the end of Afghanistan Constitutional Monarchy
On July 17, 1973, Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan returned to power after leading a bloodless military coup against his cousin King…
The End of Soviet Occupation
Today (February 15) marks the 29th anniversary of the withdrawal of the last Soviet soldier from Afghanistan following a period of…
Anecdotes from an Unequal Battle
178 years ago today (July 23, 1839), during the First Anglo Afghan War (1839-1842) a nearly 21,000 strong British expeditionary…
The Founding Father of the Modern Afghanistan State
This month (October 2017) marks the 270th anniversary of the coronation of Ahmad Shah Durrani the founder of modern Afghanistan…
visit to Kabul of Nikita Khrushchev
61 years ago today (December 16, 1955) Soviet top leaders, Party Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister Nikolai…
Cease Fire or a Time-out for Socialization
Usually in ceasefires the antagonists stay put in their combat positions, the guns fall silent, humanitarian services are given a…
Graveyard of Durrani princes receding into oblivion
Although archaeology department has taken over the ancestral graveyard and the palace of Durrani princes, who ruled Kohat from the…
The Dreaded Devil’s Spiral: Treaties & Events leading to the 1979…
From the October - December 1999 of Afghan Magazine | Lemar-Aftaab
“I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarette…
Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 1
While sorting through family papers, I discovered that my grandmother Gertrude Dimmock had written a book about Mermanjan, an…
ZAMAN SHAH – THE LAST GREAT DURRANI RULER
After Timur’s death in 1793 there followed a period of badshahgardi or palace revolutions, as his sons fought each other in a…