Massoud was posthumously named " National Hero " by the order of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

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

Also incorporated in the design is a new complex for a new Afghan National Museum.

According to Judith Nagata, a professor of Asia Research Institute in the National University of Singapore, The Afghan mujahiddin, locked in combat with the Soviet enemy in the 1980s, could be praised as " freedom fighters " by their American backers at the time, while the present Taliban, viewed, among other things, as protectors of American enemy Osama bin Laden, are unequivocally " fundamentalist ".”"

Soldiers of the Afghan National Army in 2010, including the ANA Commando Battalion standing in the front.

*-4, 150 M1152 and M1151 versions used by the Afghan National Army.

In early 1979 Ismail Khan was a Captain in the Afghan National Army based in the western city of Herat.

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.

Ismail Khan's forces even fought skirmishes with the Afghan National Army, in which his son, Mirwais Sadiq was killed.

Because Ismail Khan was contained by the Afghan National Army, the warlords who opposed him were quickly able to occupy strategic locations unopposed.

The Afghan National Police is in control of security while the International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF ) also has a heavy presence in and around the city.

Since 2008 the Afghan National Security Forces ( ANSF ) are in charge of security in the city.

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.

Kabul Airport also has a military terminal and a section of airport is used by the United States armed forces and the Afghan National Air Force.

The Afghan Border Police and the Afghan National Police are in charge of the airport security.

There are approximately 16 licensed banks in Kabul: including Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan International Bank, Kabul Bank, Azizi Bank, Pashtany Bank, Afghan United Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Punjab National Bank, Habib Bank and others.

Cultural sites include: the National Museum of Afghanistan, notably displaying an impressive statue of Surya excavated at Khair Khana, the ruined Darul Aman Palace, the tomb of Mughal Emperor Babur at Bagh-e Babur, and Chehlstoon Park, the Minar-i-Istiqlal ( Column of Independence ) built in 1919 after the Third Afghan War, the mausoleum of Timur Shah Durrani, and the imposing Id Gah Mosque ( founded 1893 ).

Other places of interest include Kabul City Center, which is Kabul's first shopping mall, the shops around Flower Street and Chicken Street, Wazir Akbar Khan district, Kabul Golf Club, Kabul Zoo, Abdul Rahman Mosque, Shah-Do Shamshira and other famous mosques, the National Gallery of Afghanistan, the National Archives of Afghanistan, Afghan Royal Family Mausoleum, the OMAR Mine Museum, Bibi Mahro Hill, Kabul Cemetery, and Paghman Gardens.

The military of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان پوځ, Dari: ارتش افغانستان ) is composed of the Afghan National Army and the Afghan Air Force.

The National Military Command Center in Kabul serves as the headquarters of the Afghan armed forces.

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

The deputy chairman of the commission responsible for the disarmament program is Afghan Urban Development Minister Yousuf Pushtun.

ACSP holds information about different Afghan National Development Strategy sectors such as Education, Good Governance, Health, Agriculture and Rural Development, Infrastructure and Natural Resources, Private Sector Development, Security, and Social Protection.

The Afghan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation & Development estimate that Pashtuns are approximately 60 % of the population and make up the majority in the province.

In 2003 he was commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme to prepare a report on the computer locale requirements for the major languages of Afghanistan ( Pashto, Dari, and Uzbek ), co-authored by Roozbeh Pournader, which was endorsed by the Ministry of Communications of the Afghan Transitional Islamic Administration.

* Aga Khan Development Network: Wakhan and the Afghan Pamir ( 2010 )

Implemented by the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development ( MRRD ) and funded by the World Bank, the UK Department for International Development ( DFID ), the Danish International Development and Assistance Agency ( DANIDA ), the Canadian International Development Agency ( CIDA ) and the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ), the NSP is the Afghan government ‘ s flagship programme.

On 17 June 2003 the Asian Development Bank agreed to give a loan of $ 50 million ( USD ) to the Afghan Water and Power Ministry.

DACAAR has worked closely with the Agency Co-ordinating Body for Afghan Relief ( ACBAR ), the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation & Livestock ( MAIL ), the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation & Development ( MRRD ) and the Ministry of Women Affairs.

* Aga Khan Development Network: Wakhan and the Afghan Pamir Map at p. 5

* THE MILITARY: Scarcity of Afghan Targets Leads U. S. to Revise Strategy, New York Times, 19 September 2001

Afghanistan has signed a copper deal with China ( Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd .) in 2008, which is to a large scale project that involves the investment of $ 2. 8 billion dollars by China and an annual income of about $ 400 million dollars to the Afghan government.

Many other similar attacks took place after the 2008 ISAF hand-over of security to Afghan security forces.

In 2008 Afghan president Hamid Karzai urged his government to provide assistance to a rape victim after listening to her story on Radio Azadi, RFE / RL's Afghan service.

* As possible Afghan war-crimes evidence removed, U. S. silent, by Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapersb, December 11, 2008

He had a prominent role in protests in Kabul Jan about Afghanistan-and Islam-related issues, including an anti-American protest in 2003, a hunger strike to protest over beatings of journalists by Afghan security officers in 2006, and another one to protest the 2008 Danish Muhammad cartoons.

* October 2008: Two DHL Express Middle East senior executives, David Giles and Jason Bresler, were assassinated in Kabul, by one of their own Afghan employees ; they received military honors by the U. S. military, the first of such kind in Afghanistan.

Donaldson was awarded the medal for exposing himself to enemy fire to protect injured Australian troops and then rescuing an Afghan interpreter under heavy enemy fire during a contact on 2 September 2008.

In 2008, the scope of the fund was broadened to include boys and the name was changed to Afghan Children's Fund.

Since 2008 the newly trained Afghan National Police ( ANP ) and the Afghan National Army ( ANA ) are in charge of security in the area, while NATO also has a heavy presence but are not patrolling the streets anymore.

The collection was later shown at Museo di Antichità in Turin, Italy, and then at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam before being moved to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D. C., where it was displayed alongside other ancient Afghan treasures in 2008.

In April 2008, Rehman appeared on the United States based Afghan satellite television network Noor TV and Bangladesh-based Islamic TV discussing being a Muslim footballer and how it is possible to pursue a career in football while sticking to Islamic roots.

In March 2008 the U. K. Ministry of Defence claimed that that they and the Afghan army had uncovered a Taliban torture chamber where two individuals were believed to have been beaten.

Recent humanitarian crises include the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ( Asian tsunami ), the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, Rwanda genocide, Sri Lankan civil war, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Afghan Civil War, Kivu Conflict, Darfur Conflict, Iraq War, May 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Cyclone Nargis and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

These include the Delaram-Zaranj Highway in Afghanistan, completed and handed over to the Afghan government during 2008,

* Hidden jewel of Afghan culture BBC News 3 May 2008

In April 2008, Pamir Airways was taken over by a group of Afghan businessmen under the leadership of Sherkhan Farnood, the president of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce & Industries and former chairman of Kabul Bank, who subsequently became chairman of the airline.

He was an Afghanistan veteran who was subsequently killed in action on his second tour on 05 Dec, 2008 by an improvised explosive device on his armoured vehicle during a joint patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers in the Arghandab District, west of Kandahar City, in Afghanistan.

* More Troops Are Nice, but More Intelligence Needed to Save Afghan War – Jeff Stein writing for CQ Politics ( October 31, 2008 )

In 2008 approximately 300 soldiers from the 69th deployed to Afghanistan as part of Task Force Phoenix, attached to the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, where it assisted in stability operations in the Hindu Kush and in training the Afghan Security Forces.

In early September 2008 Gilley and Jude Law travelled to Afghanistan to screen The Day After Peace there, Hamid Karzai, and document preparations for the polio vaccination on 21 September 2008 of 1. 85 million children under 5 years old, in seven Afghan provinces where conflict has previously prevented access.