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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…
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…
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…
today in History
On November 21, 1864 a circular issued by the Russian Foreign Minister, Prince Gorchakov justified his country’s conquests as a…
A Footnote to the Afghan War of Independence or the Third Anglo-Afghan War
Afghanistan marked the signing of the Rawalpindi Treaty of August 8, 1919 as its official Day of Independence (celebrated in…
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…
Hindu Pashtuns: How One Granddaughter Uncovered India’s Forgotten Links to…
Partition remains a painful memory for many communities across both sides of the border. Many families had their entire lives…
Elephants in Afghanistan: Surveying the history of a pachyderm cultural…
Elephants (pil in Pashto and fil in Dari) are not indigenous to Afghanistan. However, they have had a significant presence in and…