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SHIGHNAN AND ROSHAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Shighnan and Roshan in the Nineteenth Century
Pashtun Female Fashion
The most elegant female fashion in Afghanistan belongs to the Pashtuns.. The Pashtuns use a variety of stitching techniques, which…
ATTOCK AND CREDIBILITY OF PATA KHAZANA
Preface:
After professor Habibi published a book (Pata Khazana) or (Hidden treasure), which contained veiled poems of old…
Afghanistan as seen through British eyes
Depictions by Lieutenant James Rattray (1818-1854)
James Rattray (1818 – 24 October 1854) was a soldier and artist, born in …
Ai-Khanoum: A Greek city in north-east Afghanistan
In 1961, King Mohammed Zaher shah of Afghanistan was on a hunting trip in Takhar province of north-east Afghanistan. It was…
ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY IN AFGHANISTAN
In May 1879 about seventy miles east of Kabul an Irish photographer by the name of John Burke was producing some of the first…
The Battle of Maiwand and the Sherlock Holmes detective stories
140 years ago today (July 27, 1880), during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), a British Expeditionary Force was overwhelmed…
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…
First Anglo-Afghan War
On November 2, 1841, in the closing phase of the First Anglo-Afghan War, Kabul was shaken early in the morning by the news of a…
today in History
On November 21, 1864 a circular issued by the Russian Foreign Minister, Prince Gorchakov justified his country’s conquests as a…