Brief Introduction of Afghanistan

Brief Introduction
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Ahmad Shah DURRANI the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The country served as a buffer between the British and Russian empires until it won independence from notional British control in 1919. A brief experiment in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 Communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan Communist regime, touching off a long and destructive war. The USSR withdrew in 1989 under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-Communist mujahedin.

A series of subsequent civil wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban, a hard line Pakistani-sponsored movement that emerged in 1994 to end the country's civil war and anarchy. Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, a US, Allied, and anti-Taliban Northern Alliance military action toppled the Taliban for sheltering Osama BIN LADIN. The UN-sponsored Bonn Conference in 2001 established a process for political reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution, a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005.

In December 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan and the National Assembly was inaugurated the following December. Despite gains toward building a stable central government, a resurgent Taliban and continuing provincial instability-particularly in the south and the east - remain serious challenges for the Afghan Government. Afghanistan is a dry and mountainous country located in Southern Asia, north and west of Pakistan, east of Iran with the population of 32,738,376 people and two main languages Dari 50% and Pushtu 35%. Afghanistan has 32 provinces with different traditional cultures and ethnic groups such as Tajik, Pashtun, Hazara, Uzbec, Turkmen, Pashaye, Nooristani and other......Afghanistan is rich in culture and mines and famous with his traditional Sports such as Buzkashi, Kite Flying and many others. The main outdoor sport which every one loves it does it in the Capital Kabul is the kite flying which I am a real fun of that too, it's really fun.