The Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 agreement in 2006 with China's ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide optical fiber cable network.

The Afghan Ministry of Communications announced that they plan to send its own satellite into space.

According to the Afghan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology ( MCIT ), the geographical existence of Afghanistan is very valuable to connect all communications to this satellite.

It was said that this was in preparation for a tour of duty in Afghanistan, where Canadian and British forces were participating in the NATO led Afghan War ; rumours that were confirmed in February the following year, when the British Ministry of Defence revealed that Harry had secretly been deployed as a Forward Air Controller to Helmand Province in the Asian country.

The Afghan Ministry of Culture and Youth established a national committee which organized an international seminar to celebrate the birth and life of the great ethical philosopher and world-renowned poet.

Some of the targets were the Kabul International Airport, Serena Hotel, Kabul City Center, Inter-Continental Hotel, UN guest house, the Presidential palace, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Justice, Indian Embassy, Afghan National Police stations, supermarkets, residence of Burhanuddin Rabbani and other top Afghan officials.

The police belong to the Afghan Ministry of Interior and are arranged by city districts.

In November 2006, the Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 million US dollar deal with ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide fibre optical cable network to help improve telephone, internet, television and radio broadcast services not just in Kabul but throughout the country.

The Afghan Ministry of Education has plans to build more schools in the coming years so that education is provided to all citizens of the country.

The ANA and AAF became under control of the Afghan Ministry of Defense, which forms the basic military force.

In 2009, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan formed the Afghan Public Protection Force ( APPF ) as a " state owned enterprise " subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior.

TSI operates the Afghan Wireless Communication Company in a joint venture with the Afghan Ministry of Communications.

Outside the gate of Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul, the day after Saur revolution on April 28, 1978.

In addition, traditional Pashtun music ( especially in the southeast of the country ) has entered a period of " golden years ", according to a prominent spokesman for Afghan Ministry of Interior, Lutfullah Mashal.

On 24 November 2009, according to the Afghan Ministry of Interior, 6 people, including 5 children were killed when a remote control bomb attacked a water station in Khost which had been built by the Rural Rehabilitation Ministry to distribute water to the locals.

– Afghan Defense Ministry

– Afghan Ministry of Health

– Afghan Water and Power Ministry

Afghan Defense Minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, explained that the operation will " help eliminate the insurgents before they struck in areas along the troubled frontier ".

Ismail Khan, like Afghan Minister of Defense Rahim Wardak, was one of the high profile Afghans that those conducting the Tribunals ruled were " not reasonably available " to give a statement on a captive's behalf because they could not be located.

A new $ 200 million Afghan Defense University ( ADU ) is under construction outside Kabul.

Ali Ahmad Jalali ( born 1940 ) is an Afghan American and a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the United States ' National Defense University.

On September 9, agents working on behalf of the Taliban and believed to be associated with bin Laden's al Qaeda group assassinated Northern Alliance Defense Minister and chief military commander Ahmed Shah Massoud, a hero of the Afghan resistance against the Soviets and the Taliban's principal military opponent.

On one occasion when al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden visited an Afghan camp, the US Defense Department alleges Hicks questioned bin Laden about the lack of English in training material and subsequently " began to translate the training camp materials from Arabic to English ".

A US Department of Defense statement claimed that " viewing TV news coverage in Pakistan of the 11 September 2001 attacks against the United States " led Hicks to return to Afghanistan to " rejoin his al-Qaeda associates to fight against U. S., British, Canadian, Australian, Afghan, and other coalition forces.

The Afghan Ministry of Defense is an organ of the Central Government of Afghanistan, overseeing the entire military of Afghanistan.

One of the primary functions of the Defense Ministry today is disarming the militias and warlords not answering to the authority of the central government through programmes such as the Afghan New Beginnings Programme.

On June 9, 2003, the United Nations urged the Afghan government to take drastic steps to make both the Afghan National Army and Defense Ministry better reflect the nation's ethnic make-up.

When those attempts failed the Afghan Ministry of Defense ordered the ANA's Central Corps to assemble a team to attempt a rescue of victims presumed to be alive.

in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast. One week after this major explosion Defense Department officials say that they believe that the explosion was the work of agents of the Afghan intelligence service ( KHAD ) but recently begum kalsom saifullah, a seasoned politician and mother of salim saifullah accounted in his autobiography “ my solo flight ” the incident, in following words “ I can confidently say that some Stinger missiles were taken out of the Ojhri Camp on orders from General Zia so that they can be provided to Iran, and Gen Zia ordered that Ojhri Camp be blown up before the arrival of the US inspection team .”

Azzam issued a fatwa Defense of the Muslim lands, The First Obligation After Iman, and other work on behalf of jihad against Afghan Marxists and Russian invaders in Afghanistan.

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the prominent militant Islamist, Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, issued a fatwa, Defense of the Muslim Lands, the First Obligation after Faith, declaring that both the Afghan and Palestinian struggles were jihads in which military action against kuffar ( unbelievers ) was fard ayn ( a personal obligation ) for all Muslims.

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British and Afghan National Army | allied forces at Kandahar after the 1880 Battle of Kandahar.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf send more troops against the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan | United Front of Ahmad Shah Massoud than the Afghan Taliban.

President of Afghanistan | Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaking before United States Congress | U. S. Congress in June 2004

Young Afghan men and women at a rock music festival inside the Bagh-e Babur | gardens of Babur.

A lithography | lithograph by Emily Eden showing one of the favourite horses of Maharaja Ranjit Singh with the head officer of his stables and his collection of jewels, including the Koh-i-Noor that he extorted from list of monarchs of Afghanistan | Afghan Emir Shuja Shah Durrani.

Image: Afghan royal soldiers of the Durrani Empire. jpg | An example of a 19th-century lithograph depicting royal Afghan soldiers of the Durrani Empire in Afghanistan.

Hamid Karzai appointed as President of the List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel | Afghan Transitional Administration at the July 13, 2002 Loya Jirga in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Demography of Afghanistan | Afghan Muslims praying inside Bagh-e Babur | Gardens of Babur in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghan National Army | Afghan army soldiers in the 1950s.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 | MiG-15 fighters and Ilyushin Il-28 | Il-28 bombers of the Afghan Air Force in 1959.