However, now that the archeological archives and research results of the former USSR are open to scientists, it has become quite clear that the primal sighthound type evolved between the Kyrgyzstan, the lower Kazakhstan part of Altai and the Afghan plains, and that the earliest actual sighthound breeds were the plains Afghan hounds and the Kyrgyz Taigan.

However, the Afghan government is planning to build storage facilities for pistachios since receiving bumper crops in 2010.

However, the Marxist-Leninist and secular nature of the government as well as its heavy dependence on the Soviet Union made it unpopular with a majority of the Afghan population.

However, his son Humayun was defeated by the Afghan warrior Sher Shah Suri in the year 1540, and Humayun was forced to retreat to Kabul.

However, during his tenure as Governor, Ismail Khan was accused of ruling his province like a private fiefdom, leading to increasing tensions with the Afghan Transitional Administration.

However, the conflict was stopped with the intervention of International Security Assistance Force forces and soldiers of the Afghan National Army, freezing the conflict in its tracks.

However, mosque bombings have not been exclusive to Iraq ; in June 2005, a suicide bomber killed at least 19 people at an Afghan Shia mosque near Jade Maivand.

However, the current Afghan military dates back to when the Pashtun Hotaki dynasty rose to power in Kandahar and decisively defeated the Persian Safavid Empire at the Battle of Gulnabad in 1722.

However, under his reign, the small Afghan Air Force was formed in 1924.

However the efforts failed and the Afghan Amir Habibullah Khan maintained Afghanistan's neutrality throughout World War I ( for more information see ).

However the Afghan campaign ultimately ended in disaster ( see Dost Mohammad and the British in Afghanistan for details of the first Anglo-Afghan war ).

However, as the Italian's Afghan driver was unhurt in the attack and no robbery was reported, Taliban dissidents remained the chief suspects.

However, the Soviets were close to King Zahir Shah and his cousin Daoud Khan-the first Afghan President-and it could have damaged their relations.

However Maratha Empire was assisted by Nawab of Oudh who was himself a Muslim but the grudge of Nawab of Oudh and Afghan Pathans arises from the fact that Pathans were Sunni whereas Nawab was a Shia.

However, Sherzai is an important political ally of Karzai, and looks to play a role in Afghan politics for some time to come.

However, in April 2012, India and Afghanistan have failed to agree on transit fee for gas passing through Afghan territory.

However another story, usually maintained by some Afghans, notes that his body was taken and buried in the Afghan city of Mazar-E-Sharif at the famous Blue Mosque or Rawze-e-Sharif.

However, there were a number of women who came forward and identified themselves erroneously as the famous Afghan Girl.

However, the Kuchis themselves see the northern minority groups as a non-Afghan race, and claims the Kochis were natives of northern Afghan region, and that during many years of invasion such as Genghis Khan and Timur, they escaped south.

However, the Hindko and the archaic Dardic, Kohistani dialects and Pothohari dialect, derived from the local Indo-Aryan Prakrits, are still spoken, though the Afghan Pashto language is the most dominant language of the region today.

However, Afghanistan's radical clerics began a campaign to crack down on " un-Islamic " segments of Afghan society.

However, on 3 September 1879 an uprising in Kabul led to the slaughter of Sir Pierre Cavagnari, his guards, and staff-provoking the next phase of the Second Afghan War.

However, the film mainly focuses on the hopes and dreams of the Afghan people on their first ever Presidential elections.

However the Bill of Rights of 1689 requires Parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a standing army in peacetime.

However, most Republicans did not make a distinction, and " Black and Tans " was often used as a catch-all term for all police and army groups.

However members of the government and army, who resented Sihanouk's ruling style as well as his tilt away from the United States, did have a motivation to overthrow him.

However, as early as March 12, 1970, the CIA Station Chief told Washington that based on communications from Sirik Matak, Lon Nol's cousin, that " the ( Cambodian ) army was ready for a coup ".

However, Pedro de Valdivia, captain of the army, realizing the potential for expanding the Spanish empire southward, asked Pizarro's permission to invade and conquer the southern lands.

However, fears of a conservative restoration in progressive sectors of the army led to another coup in January, which ended with the establishment of the January Junta as interim government while waiting for Alessandri's return.

However, an old Yugoslav People's Army barracks building on the Croatian part of the border is still occupied by a small number of Slovenian army personnel.

However, when Constantius requested reinforcements from Julian ’ s army for the eastern campaign, the Gallic legions revolted and proclaimed Julian Augustus.

However, this did not mean that the Polish army chose to attack tanks with horse cavalry.

However, a permanent race track was not constructed until after the war, using communications roads built by the occupying German army.

However in Katanga Belgian officers resisted the Africanisation of the army.

However, most of Hernándo Pizarro's army marched into the Andes in pursuit of Manco Inca, allowing Almagro's men to claim the city for themselves.

However Mansfeld, who had learned his profession in Hungary and the Netherlands, often used horses to make his foot troops more mobile, creating what was called an " armée volante " ( French for flying army ).

However, whilst camping near Nicea, the remnants of the German army, including a dazed and sick King Conrad, straggled past the French camp, bringing news of their disaster.

However, this may have been a mask, as Raymond through Eleanor tried to forcibly sway Louis to use his army to attack the actual Muslim encampment at nearby Aleppo, gateway to recovering Edessa, the objective of the Crusade by papal decree.

However, Henry showed up with an army of thirty thousand men.

However, the Ethiopian army also had its problems.

However, Presidents Álvaro Arzú and his successors Alfonso Portillo, Óscar Berger and Álvaro Colom, have used a constitutional clause to order the army on a temporary basis to support the police in response to a nationwide wave of violent crime product of the Mexican criminal organizations going across the north-west region.

However logistics and expense of equipping a town militia or army with large amounts of cotton-based garments is doubtful, when flax-based textiles ( linen ) was in widespread use.

However, the Dominican army, which distrusted Bosch's leftist leanings, expressed little support for an invasion, and the dispute was settled by OAS emissaries.

However, Edward's forces overran the country after defeating Bruce's small army at the Battle of Methven.

However, at this high point, his army was reduced in size, as MacColla and the Highlanders preferred to continue the war in the north against the Campbells.

However, some soldiers of the regular army units fraternized with the rebels and the revolt escalated.

However in 1737, the Marathas defeated a Mughal army in their capital, Delhi inteslf, and as a result, the Mughal emperor ceded Malwa to them.

However, Bornu's army became outdated by not importing new arms, and Kamembu had also begun its decline.