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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 …
Shahzada Kamran Durrani
In the 18th century during the internal war when wazir Fateh Khan, brother of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan Barakzai, was…
Abdul Rahman Baba 1651-1710
At the dawn of seventeenth century, at the age of invasions from the West by Persians and East by Moghols, a the time when Afghans…
THE VICTOR OF MAIWAND
Maiwand is a small village town in Afghanistan, about 45 miles from Kandahar that gained fame during the second Anglo-Afghan War…
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…
Ariana, Khorasan and Afghanistan
The territory of today’s Afghanistan straddles the geographic boundaries of three main regions. It encompasses the converging…
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 Sawr Revolution” in Afghanistan
The April 27, 1978, bloody coup, staged by a bunch of Afghan army and air force officers affiliated with the Khalq faction of…