Afghanistan is a landlocked country‚ filled with many distinct‚ natural features. It is located in Central Asia. Some landforms are resourceful‚ but some are harmful. Afghanistan highly depend on livestock and farming for survival. It is divided into three regions: The Central Highlands‚ Northern Plains‚ and Southwestern Plateaus. Each with their own geography and climate. The Central Highlands has some very deep valleys and elevated mountains‚ which helps the people defend their land. It is apart
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While much of current international attention is focussed on the time from now to 2014‚ with the enteqal (handover) process moving into the focus – President Karzai just had defined the first seven areas of security responsibility affair‚ namely three full provinces and four other provincial capitals – in particular many Afghans look at the post-2014 period with fear. Our guest blogger Almut Wieland-Karimi(*) has thought about some scenarios – interestingly one which features a negotiated settlement
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Human rights in Afghanistan The situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan is a topic of some controversy and conflict. While the Taliban were well known for numerous human rights abuses‚ several human rights violations continue to take place in the post-Taliban government era.[citation needed] Post Taliban The Bonn Agreement of 2001 established the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) as a national human rights institution to protect and promote human rights and to investigate human
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Oooo. Mr. Prime minister‚ allow us to summarize what the President of our country Afghanistan was meant to say: our neighboring Islamic country Pakistan not only have been selling us for fraction of what we’re worth to other countries around the world for decades‚ but also have been killing us for centuries now. Hopefully it didn’t surprise any one‚ because this is nothing new to Afghans in Afghanistan‚ our neighboring Islamic and non Islamic countries in the region‚ United States of America‚ United
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Agricultural Technology in Afghanistan Advances in agricultural technology have brought Afghanistan into the modern era. They have allowed the country the opportunity to succeed in the global market while at the same time turning it into the war ravaged nation seen on television every night. Its history has been filled with stories of both prosperity and defeat. Agriculture has been impacted heavily by war and lack of modern tools‚ equipment and common know how. Although many have come to the
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What role did personalities play in the War in Iraq? The “players” in Iraq decision making‚ the neo cons of this administration including Bush‚ Cheney‚ Rumsfeld‚ and Wolfowitz all share certain personal characteristics that can be described by the individual levels of analysis. They all lived through Vietnam; it was their generation who “suffered” the defeat of the US. They draw a distinction between Iraq and Vietnam and are unwilling to allow the US forces to be driven out to suffer another defeat
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The 2003 invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq by the United States will be viewed as failure by future generations. The United States absolutely had to take action to secure the unstable nation of Iraq‚ however the invasion was poorly planned and had tragic effects that would haunt the area for decades to come. After the invasion the United States made the unfortunate decisions to disband the Iraqi Army and remove all Baathist-party affiliates from their positions. The very critical successes that came
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Talibanning Women’s Rights: The Eternal Struggle Before the Taliban‚ a militant group that governed according to a strict sharia law‚ ruled Afghanistan in 1996‚ women were gaining rights and access to things they had never before hoped or imagined for. Once the Taliban came to power‚ all of the progress that they had made in the years past spiraled backwards and women had no rights throughout the entire country. The Taliban stood by a strict form of the Sharia‚ or Islamic‚ law. The Taliban
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United Nations General Assembly session were claimed to have injected greater clarity to the US ‘endgame’ plans for Afghanistan. If so‚ there is little evidence of this. Conscious of the need not to draw the electorate’s attention to the “good war turned bad”‚ President Barack Obama made only a passing reference to Afghanistan in his nomination speech‚ mentioning that “in 2014‚ our longest war will be over”. Mitt Romney ignored this issue. Senior US Administration officials‚ however‚ insist that they remain
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pain and tribulation of living in a country ruined by political oppression and war. The role of women in Afghanistan is an unjust and unreasonable position in which they are continuously denied many freedoms and rights. Afghanistan than‚ did not believe in equality between men and women; men were superior whereas women were inferior. Hosseini identifies these inequalities and empathizes with the women of Afghanistan by narrating their struggles through the stories of Mariam and Laila. Afghan women
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