Afghanistan Essay

Mullah Akhtar Mansour and the Rising Threat of Islamic Insurgency in Afghanistan War and conflict have raged in Southeast and Central Asia for centuries due to civil unrest and political instability. The rise of the Taliban and other militant insurgencies have escalated the dangers and unpredictability of an already unstable government in Afghanistan. The appointment of the new Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour could result in a dangerous liaison with ISIS. The agenda of these jihadist extremists

The country of Afghanistan was one of the main settings of the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Throughout history Afghanistan has gone through several civil wars and invasions that has left the country scarred and damaged either physically or through its people. In a seminar with the class, we discussed the ways that the country could heal and protect the vulnerable population such as women and children. During the seminar, many inquiries about Afghanistan’s state of being were made. One

Assignment 1: Insurgency in Afghanistan (Post-Soviet), 1992–1996 By Mukesh Kesharwani 27-Dec-14 Mujahideen’s Afganistan 1992-1996 Afganistan is a terrotity which was a battleground between the great powers for centuries. Afganistan history is a war history since the 3rd Century when it was a part of Ashoka’s Maurayan Empire and becomes a buffer state between British and Russian empire by the end of the 19th Century. War culture produced a great warriors of history like Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni

Afghanistan, is located in Southern Asia. It borders the countries of Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan,Uzbekistan, China and Pakistan. It’s capital is Kabul. Afghanistan contains a very mountainous terrain. The Hindu Kush Mountains cut across the country. Due to these mountains, the area is divided into three major regions. The biggest region, the Central Highlands take up ⅔ of Afghanistan’s area and are part of the himalayan mountains. The second largest, is the Southwestern Plateau, which is ¼ of

I do not agree at all with how women are being treated in Afghanistan. They are being put in jail for getting out of bad situations and the government is calling it “moral crimes.” I don’t know about you, but I don’t think that reporting if someone’s husband raped me is a crime against his wife. In the article, it says, “A woman named Gulnaz was jailed and sentenced to 12 years in prison after reporting she was raped by her cousin's husband. Her daughter was the product of the rape.” That is absolutely

Women in Afghanistan Brief Outline of Afghanistan History: 1910’s-1920’s : Reform movements in Afghanistan 1933-1973 : Some reform, country remains fairly static 1978-1992 : Democratic Republic of Afghanistan 1979-1989 : Soviet Intervention 1992-1996: Islamist Mujanidin 1996-2001 : Taliban 2001-Present : U.S. Occupation, new government The reason I chose to study Islamic Feminism and Afghanistan, is that for many people, these words do not belong in the same sentence. Afghanistan

Towards End of Crisis in Afghanistan After massive fraud during the 2014 presidential elections in Afghanistan, in September 2014 against the constitution a deal to form a national unity government (NUG) has been signed by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdulah. Absence of a functioning security and economic strategy, reckless foreign policy and weakened diplomacy has resulted to increased foreign interference, massive corruption, poverty, unemployment, aid reduction

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and Political Ties to the Third World The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan had dire effects on the international relations between Russia and the majority of western countries as well as relations between developing countries in both the Middle East and Africa. More importantly, the developing world suffered an extraordinary change in opinion with regards to partnership with communist Russia. The focus of this analysis will be the change in perspective that the

ANALYTICAL PAPER AFGHANISTAN POST 2014; By: Waqas Sulehri AFGHANISTAN POST 2014; IMPERATIVES, DRIVERS AND SCENARIOS Introduction 1. Afghanistan has remained under challenging conditions since 1979 with major transitional periods almost every decade that badly affected the lives of its people. Firstly, war against former USSR, then an internal war, and lately a war along as well as against the US-led NATO forces, which has had its effects inside Afghanistan as well as neighbourhood

as I might, I could not find an end to the convoy of trucks. Huddled along with my father, mother, and infant brother and sister, we peered anxiously as the Russian Spetsnaz scouts rolled past us in jeeps ahead of the convoy heading toward the Afghanistan-Pakistan border-the very place our destination lay.   My brother began to whimper. My mother began to pray. It seemed as if the line of tanks would never end. Finally, as the last of them rolled