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Pages in category "1970s in Afghanistan" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The Afghan government shows increasing interest in the economic success of the Regional Cooperation for Development program (RCD), which is being vigorously pursued by Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey; a visit to Kabul by the Pakistan finance minister, Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash, leads to a scheme for technical aid in the fields of irrigation ...
Since the late 1970s, Afghanistan's history has been dominated by extensive warfare, including coups, invasions, insurgencies, and civil wars. The conflict began in 1978 when a communist revolution established a socialist state, and subsequent infighting prompted the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan in 1979.
The Fateful Pebble: Afghanistan's Role in the Fall of the Soviet Empire (1993) Bradsher, Henry. Afghan Communism and Soviet Intervention (2nd ed 2001) Cordovez, Diego, and Selig S. Harrison. Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal (1995) excerpt; Cordsman, A. H., and A. R. Wagner.
The 1973 Afghan coup d'état, also called by Afghans as the Coup of 26 Saratan (Dari: کودتای ۲۶ سرطان) [4] and self-proclaimed as the Revolution of 26 Saratan 1352, [a] [5] was led by Army General and prince Mohammad Daoud Khan against his cousin, King Mohammad Zahir Shah, on 17 July 1973, which resulted in the establishment of the ...
From Afghanistan to climate change, ... and at times succumbed to, in the late 1970s. ... Jimmy Carter's life in pictures . In the Middle East, Carter's Camp David triumph has proven to be an ...
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, [a] later known as the Republic of Afghanistan, [b] was the Afghan state between 1978 and 1992.It was bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, by Iran to the west, by the Soviet Union to the north, and by China to the northeast.
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