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Konduz lies at the heart of the north-south axis of the country connecting the capital Kabul to the former republic of Tajikistan - a significant route for trade.
Worse, the insurgents appear to be operating closer to Kabul.
Afghanistan in March 2003, 'af' was established as Afghanistan's domain name; Internet access is growing through Internet cafes as well as public "telekiosks" in Kabul (2002) The 2007 CIA World Factbook
Zuhra Bahman, a consultant from Kabul, said that urging Taliban fighters to give up arms and join the government will not amount to the democratization of Afghanistan. Experts: Mideast Turmoil Underscores Need for Afghan Political Reform
Sevan, who was in Kabul when Najibullah bolted, spent the week frantically trying to coax the new leaders to stick with the peace plan. The End Of A Superpower Proxy War

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That includes a recent visit to Kabul by representatives of the most "buyable" Taliban leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. LJWorld.com stories: News
KABUL -- A new report that shows civilian casualties have soared in Afghanistan largely because of increased insurgent violence was thrown into relief Tuesday when a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up and killed two other Afghans outside a foreign guesthouse in central Kabul. U.N. report links spike in Afghan civilian casualties to insurgent attacks
The situation in Kabul was extremely confusing in the immediate aftermath of Najibullah's removal.
The fear is of a repetition of the 1992 events when groups which now make up the Northern Alliance captured Kabul from Afghanistan's last pro-Moscow government but then wrecked it with internecine warfare.
Associated Press Writers = KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote. The Guardian World News
In Kabul, they usually have low-paying, menial jobs such as janitorial work.
KABUL -- On the 18th of May, as Hamid Karzai prepared to report on his notably successful visit to the United States, a suicide bomber in Kabul detonated his explosive-laden van, killing 6 coalition soldiers and 12 Afghan civilians, wounding nearly 50 others. Lt. Col. Ed Ledford: What Effect Did the Taliban Attacks Have? None. Really, None.
In mid-March, as a White House assessment of the war in Afghanistan was nearing completion, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met in a secure Pentagon room for their fortnightly video conference with Gen. David D. McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Kabul. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: August 17, 2009
At the strategic Bagram airbase, 20 miles north of Kabul, hundreds of soldiers trucked in late over the last few days were dispersed among the derelict airport buildings.
From Bactria Alexander moved into India at the invitation of the local dynasts of the Kabul valley and Punjab.
Every now and then we would slip away to fish for sprats and cockabullies.
He urged people to ignore the violence when he voted at a Kabul high school, dipping his index finger in the supposedly indelible ink and holding it up for the cameras.
KABUL — The bombing in February of a guest house favored by Indians in Kabul has forced India to temporarily suspend its medical aid and teaching missions in the Afghan capital because most the staff were either killed or wounded, officials said. Indian Efforts in Kabul Suspended After February Bombing
Opposition leaders are denying any contact with the government in Kabul.
Opposition leaders are denying any contact with the government in Kabul.
The situation in Kabul was extremely confusing in the immediate aftermath of Najibullah's removal.
Stanbic Bank Zambia has embarked on an expansion programme that will see the opening of new outlets in Matero township and Kabulonga residential areas before going to other parts of the country.
Fightings have raged over the last one week or so around Badris (ph) and Fariab (ph), as well as north of Kabul. CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2001
Of these seventy-seven, eight resided in Kabul, seventeen in Tashkurgan, thirty-nine in Bukhara, three in Katta Kurgan, two in Karshi, three in Kolab, one in Charjui, one in Yarkand, and four in Ourganj or Khiva. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Acceptable Afghan-American voices such as Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner) and Awista Ayub (Kabul Girls Soccer Club) reiterate the notion that suburban America can "infuse" Afghans with freedom. Burkas and bikinis
KABUL -- The arrival of Sen. John F. Kerry has come to signify a crisis in Kabul. In Afghanistan, Kerry says Karzai must lead 'tangible' effort against corruption
He said he assumed Pakistan would be represented at Saturday's ceremony installing the new government in Kabul.
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As his aircraft reached Kabul on May 30 it was hit by a rocket, but landed safely.
Rs. 284.6 toward a 2.5 percent exaction on all goods at Kabul35 Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Reza, today the head of the "Aina" media center in Kabul, shares his memories in an interview with RFE / RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
In June 1880, the governor of Herat, Ayub Khan, left Herat with a small army, intent on seizing the throne of Kabul left vacant by the British deposition of his elder brother, Yakub Khan.
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I never thought that anything could make Alma or the Kabul retreat seem like a charabanc picnic, but that day did, and I was through it, dawn to dusk, as no other man was. The Sky Writer
The "gallant failure" had been the biggest botch since the Kabul Retreat, thanks to the idiot Maximilian, who was damned if he'd be rescued, so there, and I'd come off by the skin of my chattering teeth and the good offices of that gorgeous little fire-eater, Princess Aggie Salm-Salm, and Jesus Montero's gang of unwashed bandits who were on hand only because Jesus thought I knew where Montezuma's treasure was cached, more fool he. Watershed
And with all attention directed towards the death-struggle just up the road, no one was paying the least heed to the big Kabuli badmash scratching himself furtively outside the Commander-in-Chief's funkhole. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
It is that indefinable something that is drawing another Afghan refugee, 70-year-old Taj Bara back to Kabul.
Ahmad Jamshid/Associated Press A man was comforted by relatives outside a hospital in Kabul on Tuesday. Asia in Pictures
Thousands of Afghan troop reinforcements were despatched from Kabul this week and the battle is still going on. Times, Sunday Times
There's always the chance that Broown getting hit by the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/badly bungled ingrowing toe nail op. Another Day Another Poll
I think this is the prestrike picture of the radio station in Kabul. CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2001
In Kabul, while initial food distributions have been conducted among its 1.1 million inhabitants, the long-term situation is bleak.
The State Department terminated a nonclassified MVM contract guarding the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2005, citing inadequate personnel in that case as well. Iraq Case Sheds Light
The family fled, returning to Kabul in early 1996 when fighting died down.
Amid the atmosphere of fear and loathing in Kabul, almost all the leading actors are engaged in the blame game. Times, Sunday Times
The work of clearing and disposing of the mines, shells and unexploded bombs around Kabul Airport never ends.
With a portfolio valued between 10 and 20 lakhs of rupees, Mullah Badr al-Din was considered the "richest" merchant in Kabul, was honorifically referred to as baba or father by Dost Muhammad, and figured prominently in the trade between Russia and Bukhara. 50 Mullah Badr al-Din's son Khair al-Din also enjoyed a glowing mercantile reputation in Central Asia. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul.
The first article to appear, datelined July 22, was by Dusan Stojanovic of the Associated Press, filed from Kabul.
The Pact would provide for the withdrawal of Soviet forces following the formation of a coalition government in Kabul.
On a main road leading north of Kabul, another refugee pushed a cart piled high with pots and pans, a metal trunk and a few tattered carpets.
Note 35: The countersigned receipts associated with the monopoly drew the fruit carrying kuchis to the attention of the Durrani state official responsible for the transmission of state property, especially that purchased with subsidy money, from Peshawar to Kabul, the qafilabashi (see Chapter 5). Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
In Kabul he might sell a couple of gallons of petrol, for money to buy himself a ring, silver with lapis lazuli set in it. KARA KUSH
If any move is made by the army in the tribal areas, the result could be an alarm call to Kabul.
Laven, like many Afghans, goes by one name, is young but responsible for a household of 10 in his native Kabul. Creating the Afghan Army
It was a Green River, which is the best knife in the world, and just the article to practise the trick that Ilderim Khan had taught me, with infinite patience, on the Kabul Road almost ten years before. Isabelle
KABUL -- A suicide bomber blew himself up in downtown Kabul on Sunday killing, three Afghans and raising fears about the prospect of further attacks in the capital as senior diplomats from dozens of nations are scheduled to arrive for an international conference on Tuesday. Bombing in Kabul raises fears as diplomats gather for international conference in Afghanistan
He has been a fisherman for as long as he can remember, starting with eels and cockabullies to the current day, where anything that swims is in potential danger.
KABUL — Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault Monday on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings and gunbattles near the ... Democrats Look At Bypassing Senate Health Care Vote
+ Broon could still fall under the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/unfortunate complications from an ingrowing toe nail operation. Bookies Close Betting on Another Defection
Kabul resounded to the crack of Kalashnikov fire and a flood of artillery.
We made it safely to the low wall built by the mujahidin - Basyir and I exhaled windily - and hiked on to the peak, hopping across the ditch once or twice to the ancient boundary wall to look down into West Kabul.
Two soldiers from 2 Para were flown home during the investigation and the other four remained in Kabul but were removed from the theatre of operation.
There have been contacts between the U.S. government and the Taliban, there have been contacts between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and there have been some contacts that we have made, all of us together, including the Taliban," Mr. Karzai said in the interview Wednesday in his office at the Arg Palace in Kabul. U.S., Afghans in Taliban Talks
At the gate of Kabul airport the first thing that catches the eye are the big colorful advertising banners with images of men and women laughing.
The consortium then sent experts to the region south of Kabul to explore for copper and other mineral deposits.
4Written nearly five hundred years ago, Babur's description of Kabul and its dependencies is peppered with references to heavy wine-drinking bouts set in lush and bountiful venues. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
KABUL, Afghanistan — America's top diplomat in Kabul jokingly handed NATO's new commander Gen. David Petraeus an access badge to the U.S. Petraeus Takes Over Afghan Command: 'Cooperation Is Not Optional'
The Kabul government no longer faces a movement capable of taking over the country; rather, it faces regional insurgencies, capable of making the country ungovernable.
There is media speculation in Washington that Obama may divert from his Asian trip to Kabul to confront Karzai.
With the ceasefire in operation, government troops attempted to restore order in Kabul by disarming mujaheddin fighters roaming the city.
In the capital, clubbers drink Kabul slings and canned Russian beer.
At Kabul's police training center, a team of 35 Italian carabinieri recently arrived to supplement DynCorp's efforts. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
It was a bright April day in Kabul in 1978, but the field right next to the American embassy could have been in Iowa: kids in baseball caps and bright yellow T shirts swinging and missing at baseballs, with proud parents cheering overenthusiastically from the stands. An Afghan Childhood
And to the van of them, high upon a pure-bred white Arab stallion, the Wolf of Kabul.
It all began with the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan in 1979, when the United States, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia supported Islamist rebels fighting the Moscow-backed Marxist stratocracy in Kabul.
Obama, she said, now is looking at "how we can have a different and more effective relationship with the Afghanistan government, whoever is the final victor, but not only with the government in Kabul, but with governors throughout the country, with what they call subnational, regional, local leaders. CNN.com
Gen. Khan Aqa, deputy head of state security, was killed by a car bomb in Kabul on Nov. 3.
Afghanistan in March 2003 'af' was established as Afghanistan's domain name; Internet access is growing through Internet cafes as well as public "telekiosks" in Kabul that are part of a nationwide network proposed by the Transitional Authority for Internet access The 2004 CIA World Factbook
From the border take the rutted and cratered road and keep the Kabul river on your right.
It should be noted the Khan of Kabul and his soldiers were no slouches either, giving the British several hidings in the late 19th Century.
It has survived despite the efforts of successive rulers and bureaucracies in Kabul to bring it within the strait-jacket of a modern nation-state, on the questionable assumption that the European construct of the nation-state was a summum bonum, a kind of political form of organization that is self-evident, a 'natural' culmination of all societies. Michael Hughes: Obama's Vietnam
11According to this first British account, the prices of fruit and nuts harvested locally appear quite accessible for everyday consumers in precolonial Kabul. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Two servicemen fatally injured when their vehicle was caught in a blast south of Kabul last Thursday were named yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of even entertaining the "insane" concept of withdrawing post-haste, U.S. officials are still under the delusion that military progress is being made and that, by some unforeseen act of science or nature, Kabul under Karzai will suddenly start becoming less corrupt. Michael Hughes: Afghanistan's Plea to the U.S.: 'Don't Do Us Any Favors'
And to the van of them, high upon a pure-bred white Arab stallion, the Wolf of Kabul.
Jamshid Totakhil, chief of staff at the Crime and Investigation Department of the Kabul Police, said five suicide bombers had been killed or had detonated themselves in the attack at the square. Afghan Insurgents Strike Across Kabul
The cantonment was a poor place for a garrison to be, without proper defences, with its principal stores outside its walls, and some of the principal officers - Burnes himself, for example - quartered two miles away in Kabul City. Flashman
The work started as a monologue, a rather sesquipedalian, somewhat dithering Englishwoman's reverie about Kabul based on a 1965 guidebook to that city.
The Peshawar brokers and weighmen depended on their relationships to kuchi carriers in order to distribute their capital investments in those localities. 45 During the first season of the monopoly the British recognized the likelihood of ongoing exclusion of Indian merchants from the fruit revenue structure of the Kabul-centered Durrani state. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Already, colourful posters conveying party messages can be seen in public places in the capital Kabul, and in some provincial towns.
They also did say that some strikes on Kabul had been mishits, and that about 30 civilians, according to their estimates, had been killed. CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2001
No matter where they paid their fees, the nomads received a pass for their expenditure from the Peshawar qafilabashi that was necessary for them to be formally received by the darogha or British official stationed at Jamrud, the eastern "gate" of the Khaibar Pass. 57 The nomads 'textual, fiscal, and physical engagement of the Peshawar qafilabashi was ostensibly confined to the animals used to convey Durrani state property to Kabul. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
At Delhi, the gates of the city walls are called ostentatiously after distant places -- the _Kashmîr_, the _Kâbul_, the _Constantinople_ gates. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
While jetting around the world to meet foreign leaders, he has rarely ventured outside Kabul to meet local ones.
The explosion echoed across Kabul but caused relatively little damage to the multistory glass tower, which in addition to the hotel houses clothing, electronics and jewelry shops. Bomb kills 2 at upscale Kabul hotel complex
U.S. warplanes would operate from a base in another Central Asian country, from where they could support Afghanistan military operations, when necessary, as would a fleet of predator drones under the control of the CIA station in Kabul. O: A Presidential Novel
The resulting intensification of economic relations between Kabul and Peshawar was colonially inspired and the new dyadic link was achieved through the textual and territorial reconfiguration of kuchi commercial activities and movements in relation to and in between both markets. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Afghanistan has also conducted its first games for disabled athletes, in Kabul.
The ex-Unocal man is now special US envoy to his native country - in effect, the US proconsul in Kabul, who supervises the political affairs of the Afghan puppet regime from day to day.
The President tapped him last year be the Afghan ambassador, and he's shuttled between Kabul and Washington ever since.
Along with the afghani, Kabulis use U.S. dollars and Pakistani rupees to buy groceries.
In late autumn Kabul was besieged by rebel forces, and Amanullah was eventually forced to abdicate.
Then he went in forthright to his daughter and her mother and his kinsfolk, and acquainting them with the King of Kabul’s demand sought counsel of them, and they said, ‘Do what seemeth good to thee.’ — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Samples received by the Central Laboratory in Kabul confirm C . diphtheriae.
Kabul , Afghanistan: Newly graduated Afghan army soldiers march during a graduation ceremony.
But I also think that the decision that the president has to make is looking at how we can have a different and more effective relationship with the Afghan government, whoever is the final victor, but not only with the government in Kabul, but with governors throughout the country, with what they call subnational, regional, local leaders. CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2009
For American civilians serving in Afghanistan, the last stop before they ship out to Kabul or Kandahar is a dilapidated, vaguely foreboding institution that once served as a farm colony for “feeble-minded” boys, and later was a state mental hospital. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 21, 2009
In Kabul, aid money, private investment and a relatively secure environment have sparked a boom.
This odd claim may result from his unconscious resort to exchange rate evaluation, in other words, Gray may have considered 12 annas as the value of a Kabuli rupee in relation to a British Indian rupee, but not have informed his readers of such. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
We drove south along the main Kabul highway until we reached the turn-off. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, in the capital, Kabul, police arrested three men they say were planning a suicide bombing.
When he recently tried to enrol at university in Kabul, he claims the security agencies ransacked his room. Times, Sunday Times
It was a dusty and incredibly bumpy journey to Kabul, along roads whose tarmac had been destroyed by tank treads and missile attacks.
But a senior U.S. diplomat in Kabul said "there is some thinking going on in Washington" now about being more open to reconciliation, even to Karzai's proposed outreach to Taliban leaders that the Pentagon has described as unreconcilable, including hard-line chief Mullah Mohammad Omar. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
ArmorGroup North America (AGNA), which is contracted to secure the US embassy in Kabul, hires many Nepalese (known as Gurkhas) whose English is not proficient. John W. Whitehead: Privatizing the War on Terror: America's Military Contractors
And also this Kabul situation, when they get near there, is going to be also very dicey.
In Kabul he might sell a couple of gallons of petrol, for money to buy himself a ring, silver with lapis lazuli set in it. KARA KUSH
Two soldiers from 2 Para were flown home during the investigation and the other four remained in Kabul but were removed from the theatre of operation.
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KABUL -- At the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul these days, a visitor is likely to be handed a booklet about the two countries by Ambassador Mohammad Sadiq titled "The Conjoined Twins. Afghanistan builds up strategic partnership with Pakistan
Jamshid Totakhil, chief of staff at the Crime and Investigation Department of the Kabul Police, said a total of five suicide bombers had been killed or had detonated themselves in the attack at the square. Attacks Rock Kabul
Mambabatas sa Maine ay isinasaalang-alang ng isang sapilitan cell phone kanser babala, sa kabila ng kakulangan ng mga makabuluhang pang-agham na katibayan na sanhi ng cell phone utak tumors. Ideonexus.com »2,009» Disyembre
In fact my stepson is fighting for it in Kabul rite now. Update: McCain in 'excellent health,' doctor says
There are four major strains of malaria and the Kabul area is known for harbouring the worst of them, plasmodium falciparum, a rapid, potentially fatal strain that is mercifully more easily treatable than the others.
A second inquiry found that a suicide bombing that killed another Canadian in Kabul in January was equally unpreventable.
The barrage was the most devastating in a series of recent rocket attacks on Kabul by the Western-backed mujahedin.
Still, he managed to get a sat-phone call to the U.S. embassy in Kabul, informing them of three errant Americans.
Britain has been keen for Kabul to begin arresting top drug smugglers in its ranks. Times, Sunday Times
Afghanistan eventually triumphs over Kabul and Qandahar, with the former favored and viewed as central, and the latter marginalized in cartographic and, as the narrative of this book demonstrates, economic terms. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
The single biggest mistake that the Soviets made, according to Ambassador Kabulov, was letting the Soviet military footprint become too large: "The more foreign troops you have roaming the country, the more the irritative allergy toward them is going to be provoked. Tom Andrews: White House Ducks Afghanistan Exit
First he banned booze in his Kabul headquarters. Times, Sunday Times
Much of the aid was consumed by the various international organizations whose four-wheel drives clogged the streets of Kabul. The Longest War
I could image the sea reefs and gold fish swimming all set to the tone of the music of "A tonga da mironga do kabuletê" translation: "Anywhere Faraway". Mary Hall: New York Fashion Week: Carlos Miele's Immersive Landscape for Spring/Summer 2012
The liberation of Kabul led to a decision to re-open the UK diplomatic mission.
Fish such as giant kokopu and smelt sometimes turn up in nets along with the young of other fish including eels, trout and cockabullies.
In addition, a number of German zoologic institutions may support Kabul Zoo on a long-term basis, Dr. Jones said.
Kabul resounded to the crack of Kalashnikov fire and a flood of artillery.
First he banned booze in his Kabul headquarters. Times, Sunday Times
In the labyrinthine back alleys of Kabul, a rusted iron gate and a hand-painted sign mark the entrance to Alam Faizad School, where 4,000 children are enrolled for the first week of classes.
The barrage was the most devastating in a series of recent rocket attacks on Kabul by the Western-backed mujahedin.
The Wolf of Kabul bore down upon him.
Mr Karzai is stopping in the UK on the way back from a week of talks with the Obama administration in the US, ahead of a peace gathering - or "jirga" - to be held in his country at the end of this month and the Kabul Conference on July 20. Evening Standard - Home
Gin-aghat daman han mga negosyante nga tagan hin importansya an kanan goberno paningkamot nga nakakabulig hiton aton pag-ato hiton kakurean yana nga gin-aabat han bug-os nga kalibutan. Undefined
His friend Ershad says the guy selling them is a district field coordinator - in other words, a Kabul-appointed election official. Afghan Voters Head To Polls Amid Threats, Fraud
The ski centre will have 14 alpine skiing runs with a capacity for 4600 skiers, and will be located between the village of Panichishte, the Rila Lakes, and Peak Kabul.
On the other side, you can see and hear the whole old city of Kabul, with the laughter of children, the clangor of metalsmiths, and the chanting from the Shi'ite mosque reverberating up through the clear, dry air.
It was a photocopy of a telex message, before encoding, from Kabul KGB Residency to Moscow Centre. KARA KUSH
Michener gets everything right, from the pronunciation of Kabul -- "cobble" -- to the archaeology. Five Best
It has spread like a virus from Kabul and Kandahar and established itself in every part of the globe.
There's no hope of finding a geologist and a set of plans of the two dams, either here or even in Kabul. KARA KUSH
These included the distribution of huge amounts of various sweets at durbar or court during "public" holidays such as naw ruz or New Year's and other celebrations including the Islamic calendar holidays or eids, its nearly unlimited availability to accompany the tea that was continually consumed by those attending regular court sessions, its use during life course rituals for local notables such as weddings and births when Abd al-Rahman distributed bountiful helpings of sweetmeats to the family/families in question, and the huge supplies of sugar-laden drinks and edibles presented directly to domestic and foreign state guests during their stays in Kabul. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
He will be returning to his home town, Kabul, along with a group of engineers, planners and architects, to play a vital role in rebuilding the city's culture.
Some of the diary reads much like a tourist guidebook, describing wedding ceremonies and funeral rites, Afghan customs and consumer prices in Kabul.
I've heard 'em at Kabul before the Retreat, at Cawnpore, on the heights above the North Valley at Balaclava, and I won't swear someone wasn't croaking them as we laboured up the Greasy Grass slope. behind G.A. Custer, God rest his fat-headed soul. Watershed
More than 30 people were reported killed and hundreds injured in Kabul on Aug. 13 following rocket attacks by mujaheddin forces.
Ahmad Jamshid/Associated Press Displaced Afghan refugee children looked out of the window of a house in Kabul on Monday. Asia in Pictures
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On the other side, you can see and hear the whole old city of Kabul, with the laughter of children, the clangor of metalsmiths, and the chanting from the Shi'ite mosque reverberating up through the clear, dry air.
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Note 34: The security deposit rates charged the kuchis were Kabuli Rs. 12 per camel load of seedless pomegranates, pistachio nuts and buz ganj or pistachio tree flowers, Rs. 11 per camel load of boxed grapes (sometimes equated with grape baskets known as khuttis), and Rs. 6 per camel load on all other recently monopolized commodities. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
KABUL -- A suicide bomber struck in downtown Kabul on Sunday, killing three Afghans and raising fears of further attacks in the capital as senior diplomats from dozens of nations are scheduled to arrive for an international conference on Tuesday. Suicide bomber kills 3 as Kabul prepares to host diplomats
A multipronged attack by Taliban militants held Kabul to siege on Tuesday and raised fresh doubts over the Afghan security forces' ability to take over security operations in the country. Militants attack government and Nato buildings in Kabul
They can reasonably expect that the United States will be unable to bolster a counterpower in the Afghan tribal belt or strengthen the Kabul government. Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
When he recently tried to enrol at university in Kabul, he claims the security agencies ransacked his room. Times, Sunday Times
Update: An American BoingBoing reader who's a military man in Afghanistan (requesting anonymity) writes, Every other week here in Kabul, a bazaar is held on our base where local products are sold. Boing Boing: July 4, 2004 - July 10, 2004 Archives
Either clean up the Kabul pigpen or bring the troops home. Afghan Hospital Horror Is a Sign of Terrible Failure
On the Shomali plains north of Kabul, the families of two commanders have been pursuing a vendetta for years.
But the CIA and its cigar-chomping, back-slapping director Tenet did have a plan, because from the time that the Taliban had first seized Kabul five years earlier, the Agency had remained in touch with the Northern Alliance. The Longest War
In Kabul, the Afghan administration and Britain initialled an agreement on deployment of about 4,500 foreign peacekeeping troops.
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They've kind of cordoned off Kandahar at this point, and of course, as Brent was mentioning, there are Taliban fighters still holed up in some of the areas around the major cities from Jalalabad to Kabul to Kandahar, but they must feel that it's now clear enough to do that. CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2001
I could image the sea reefs and gold fish swimming all set to the tone of the music of "A tonga da mironga do kabuletÃª" translation: "Anywhere Faraway". Mary Hall: New York Fashion Week: Carlos Miele's Immersive Landscape for Spring/Summer 2012
Indian financiers generally and subgroups therein, such as the ubiquitous Shikarpuri Hindus, stood to gain considerably from the British reorganization of the Kabul accounts, and this was arguably the most basic and consequential aspect of the colonial construction of Afghanistan. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
There is media speculation in Washington that Obama may divert from his Asian trip to Kabul to confront Karzai.
I will take off my chadri [burqa] when the other women do," said 35-year-old Mina, as she walked down a Kabul street on her way home from the hospital. First Person Global
The Mughals, who also ruled in Kabul, needed the pass and under Akbar ‘the Great’ a road was built.
The enterprise faltered against Afghan resistance, and the main garrison at Kabul -- about 4,500 troops and 12,000 family members and camp followers -- decided to retreat back to India in January 1842. In Bob Woodward's 'Obama's Wars,' Neil Sheehan sees parallels to Vietnam
The aircraft on the Kabul-Kunduz route appeared to lack heating or air conditioning, said Cristina Hernandez, a consultant in Kunduz with the German nonprofit group GTZ, who often took Pamir flights between the two cities. Plane Crashes in Afghanistan
It was like looking down at a rock pool: the cockabullies squirting away from under a rock, the crabs, the minuscule life.
For example, in July 1840 Sarwar Khan wrote to Macnaughten in lengthy detail about fifty camels that a Sikh official detained at Ataree. 98 The incident originated in February when Sarwar left his home in the daman with twelve hundred camels destined for Ludiana to transport Shuja's family and much of his entourage and material possessions to Kabul. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
One of our ablest diplomats, Ryan Crocker, then ambassador to Baghdad, now our envoy in Kabul, once pronounced the definitive judgment on these contested Iraqi matters: "In the end, what we leave behind and how we leave will be more important than how we came. What Obama Left Behind in Iraq
This opposition came to be known as the mujaheddin, and so began a campaign of murder and terror which, six months later, resulted in the Afghan government in Kabul requesting the help of the Soviet Union, resulting in an ill-fated military intervention which ended ten years later in an ignominious retreat of AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
A mujaheddin rocket attack on Kabul on Feb. 29 killed at least 21 people.
Reuters reported that all water supplies in Kabul have been bombed out and electricity is only being supplied to select parts of the city for 15 minutes per day.
Capturing Kabul through proxy war in 1997 while a ragtag freemasonry of Mujahideen was defending Kabul was one thing. Bloggers.Pakistan
Now, border police, highway patrol police, and municipal police, all trained in Kabul, are incrementally introduced to professionalize and systematize the application of law at the local level.
The Afghan insurgency feeds off frustration with the ineptitude and rapaciousness of Kabul. The General Who Would Try KSM
In the original Persian text, the citadel is rendered as the Arg-i Kabul. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Other fish - cockabullies and an occasional eel - are returned to the river.
RICKS: Even back in Kabul back then, you'd see a lot of people -- actually, what we called it a chadri. CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2009
Gregorian, p. 402, divides the Kabuli rupee as follows for the nineteenth century: 10 dinars to 1 paisa; 5 paisas to 1 copper shahi; 2 shahis to 1 silver sannar or sadinar or misqali; 2 sannar to 1 abbasi or tanga; 1.5 abbasi to 1 kran (qiran); 2 krans to 1 rupee; 2/5 rupees to 1 nim sanad; 5 rupees to one sanad; 20 rupees to 1 toman. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
In Kabul, they were handed over to village chiefs and tribal elders who pledged to support the new administration.
On a main road leading north of Kabul, another refugee pushed a cart piled high with pots and pans, a metal trunk and a few tattered carpets.

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