Afghanistan

Afghanistan landlocked multiethnic country located in the heart of south-central Asia. Background Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747.

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The country fares much worse in terms of per-capita GDP PPP ranking 169th out of 186 countries as of 2018.

. A brief experiment in increased democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 communist countercoup. The War in Afghanistan was a conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021 in the South-Central Asian country of Afghanistan. They have known generations of war and hardship.

It began when the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban -ruled Islamic Emirate. Afghanistan US restricts import of Afghan cultural items to prevent pillage Hundreds of priceless artefacts have been stolen or destroyed following the. Afghanistans economy is the worlds 96th-largest with a gross domestic product GDP of 729 billion by purchasing power parity.

The written recorded history of the land presently constituting Afghanistan can be traced back to around 500 BCE when the area was under the. The country served as a buffer between the British and Russian Empires until it won independence from notional British control in 1919. The history of Afghanistan as a state began in 1823 as the Emirate of Afghanistan after the fall of the predecessor the Afghan Durrani Empire considered the founding state of modern Afghanistan.

They deserve our full support. Afghans are a proud people with a rich cultural heritage.

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