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Afghanistan (pronounced /æfˈgænɪstæn/), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان, Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت ), is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia. It is variously designated as geographically located within... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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Afghanistan In 2005, the United States and Afghanistan signed a strategic partnership agreement committing both nations to a long-term relationship.

Timeline of Afghanistan (March 2003) In Brussels, Afghanistan signed a tripartite agreement with Pakistan and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) calling assistance in the voluntary return of Afghan refugees.

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Timeline of Afghanistan (January 2003) Iran and Afghanistan signed a contract regarding a two-phase project meant to transfer electricity from Iran to Herat.

Economy of Afghanistan In May 2008, Afghanistan signed a contract with China for a project that deals with extracting copper.

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Timeline of Afghanistan (January 2004) In Teheran, India, Iran and Afghanistan signed an agreement to give Indian goods heading for central Asia and Afghanistan similar preferential treatment and tariff reductions at Chabahar.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk On 8 July 1937 Saadabad Pact was signed at Tehran by Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.

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Timeline of Afghanistan (September 2003) Iran and Afghanistan signed a memorandum of understanding on customs cooperation.

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Timeline of Afghanistan (March 2003) In Brussels, Afghanistan signed a tripartite agreement with Pakistan and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) calling assistance in the voluntary return of Afghan refugees.

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Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the Accords of 14 April 1988, signed three instruments-on principles of mutual relations, in particular noninterference and non-intervention, on the voluntary return of Afghan refugees, and on interrelationships for the settlement, which provided for phased withdrawal of foreign troops to begin on 15 May.

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The Great Game In May 1921, Afghanistan and the Russian Soviet Republic signed a Treaty of Friendship.

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Foreign policy of the United States Afghanistan is, as of March, 2008, the greatest illicit (in Western World standards) opium producer in the world, before Burma (Myanmar), part of the so-called "Golden Crescent".

Opium After regularly producing 70% of the world's opium, Afghanistan decreased production to 74 tons per year under a ban by the Taliban in 2000, although the ban may have been intended primarily to boost prices after the country accumulated a stockpile with over two years' supply.

Taliban In 2000, Afghanistan's opium production still accounted for 75% of the world's supply.

Economy of Afghanistan Afghanistan has been the world's largest producer of opium for most of the past decade.

Economy of Afghanistan Afghanistan's opium production is refined into heroin and is consumed by a growing regional addict population in Asia, however, most of it is exported world-wide, primarily to Europe and North America.

War in Afghanistan (2001–present) By 2005, Afghanistan had regained its position as the world’s #1 opium producer and was producing 90% of the world’s opium, most of which is processed into heroin and sold in Europe and Russia.

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Opium Following documented trends of increasing availability mirroring increased American military and geo-political regional involvement, Afghanistan is currently the primary producer of the drug.

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Timeline of Afghanistan (February 2003) The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime reported that Afghanistan remained the world's largest producer of opium poppy despite efforts to stop trade and cultivation.

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Colin Powell The Powell Doctrine, as the views became known, was a central component of US policy in the Gulf War (the first U.S. war in Iraq) and U.S. invasion of Afghanistan (the overthrow of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan following the events of 9/11).

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The Great Game The British curbed their ambitions in Afghanistan following the humiliating retreat from Kabul.

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Opium Following documented trends of increasing availability mirroring increased American military and geo-political regional involvement, Afghanistan is currently the primary producer of the drug.

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Ahmad Zahir After returning to Afghanistan following his well received Iran tour, Zahir was conferred the national Singer of the Year award.

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Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–present On May 16, 2003, U.S. officials abandoned the plan to cede authority to a democratically chosen interim civilian Iraqi government (similar to what had happened in Afghanistan following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan) and presented a resolution to the UN to give the United States and the United Kingdom broad power and to lift economic sanctions on Iraq, allowing the occupying countries authority to use oil resources to pay for rebuilding the country.

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Hamid Gul But, he became passionately anti-American after the United States turned its back on Afghanistan following the 1989 Soviet withdrawal, as the United States had promised to help build a prosperous Afghanistan.

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    Afghanistan

    Afghanistan /æfˈgænɪstæn/, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, Persian: جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان), is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia.
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    Category:Afghanistan

    Due to the scope of this category, it should contain only subcategories and possibly a limited number of directly-related pages. Afghanistan is a country in Asia.
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    History of Afghanistan

    ↑ Nancy Hatch Dupree - An Historical Guide To Afghanistan - The South (Chapter 16)...Link ... First Anglo-Afghan War
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    2001 in Afghanistan

    The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan asked that CNN leave Afghanistan.
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    War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

    See also: October 2001, November 2001, December 2001, January 2002, 2001 in Afghanistan ... Former Afghan warlords
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    Timeline of Afghanistan (March 2003)

    Germany pulled out its elite KSK anti-terror forces from Afghanistan.
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    Soviet war in Afghanistan

    Neither had been favored in ideology of the former Afghan state. ... Islam and resistance in Afghanistan, p. 191.
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    2006Afghan exports

    Economy of Afghanistan

    Afghan exports in 2006 ... ↑ Pajhwok Afghan News, Afghanistan has huge mineral resources: survey, Nov. 14, 2007.
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    Politics of Afghanistan

    For more info: Afghan parliamentary election, 2005. ... The Constitution of Afghanistan mandates a Supreme Court.
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    2000 in Afghanistan

    April 18 - The afghani lost over 25% of its value, increasing food prices in Afghanistan.

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