Kabul's main products include fresh and dried fruit, nuts, Afghan rugs, leather and sheep skin products, furniture, antique replicas, and domestic clothes.

Afghan rugs, fur coats, embroidered jackets, waistcoats, sandals, and other traditional Pashtun items are also sold.

Afghan rugs are usually inexpensive.

Famous Afghan rugs include the Shindand or Adraskan ( named after local Afghan villages ), woven in the Herat area, in western Afghanistan.

In the 2010 comedy Marmaduke two Afghan hounds appear in the dog park and are shown to resemble high school girls watching the more athletic dogs as if they were " jocks " and are also shown to be " air heads ".

In the Afghan census, Aimaks are classified as Tajiks.

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.

There are over 50 Afghan television channels worldwide, many of which are based inside Afghanistan while others are broadcasted from North America and Europe.

Fish constitute a smaller part of the Afghan diet today because fish farmers are unable to produce enough fish to keep up with the demands of customers.

Plans are being made by the Afghan government to begin extracting these but with the Taliban insurgency and the corruption there is no telling what will happen.

Some believe, including Afghan President Hamid Karzai, that the untapped minerals are worth at least $ 3 trillion.

As a result of the new banks in the country, Afghan expats are sending more money back home to their family or relatives.

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 ".”"

Taliban are still very much alive and fighting a vigorous insurgency from bases in the frontier regions of Pakistan with suicide bombings and armed attacks being launched against NATO, Afghan government targets and civilians.

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

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

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.

GSM / GPRS mobile phone services in the city are provided by Afghan Wireless, Etisalat, Roshan and MTN.

The Afghan forces are composed of the Afghan National Army ( ANA ) and the Afghan Air Force ( AAF ), which includes the Afghan commandos and special forces.

But the crafty Afghan ruler clearly viewed the war as an opportunity to play one side off against the other, for he also offered the British to resist a Central Powers attack on India in exchange for an end to British control of Afghan foreign policy.

The fighting concluded in August 1919 and Britain virtually dictated the terms of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919, a temporary armistice that provided, on one somewhat ambiguous interpretation, for Afghan self-determination in foreign affairs.

In the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Soviets countered the U. S .– backed Mujahideen with a policy of scorched earth, driving over one third of the Afghan population into exile ( over 5 million people ), and carrying out widespread destruction of villages, granaries, crops, herds and irrigation systems, including the deadly and widespread mining of fields and pastures.

Most of the government's new policies clashed directly with the traditional Afghan understanding of Islam, making religion one of the only forces capable of unifying the tribally and ethnically divided population against the unpopular new government, and ushering in the advent of Islamist participation in Afghan politics.

Over 100, 000 Soviet troops took part in the invasion, which was backed by another one hundred thousand Afghan military men and supporters of the Parcham faction.

Others were kidnapped by the Taliban, touching off a hostage crisis that nearly escalated to a full scale war, with 150, 000 Iranian soldiers massed on the Afghan border at one time.

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.

In the book, Nasiri describes al-Libi as one of the leaders at the Afghan camp, and characterizes him as " brilliant in every way.

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.

Durrani Empire ( at its peak in 1761 ), the last Afghan empire that united all the Afghan tribes into one concentrated and unified nation.

The one woman he raped was Narreeman, an Afghan dancing girl ( Flashman ).

The supplying of billions of dollars in arms to the Afghan mujahideen militants was one of the CIA's longest and most expensive covert operations.

In it he promised " more Afghan War ," and said the over one hundred suicide bomb attacks in Afghanistan in the last year had been carried out by bombers acting on religious orders from the Taliban – “ the mujahedeen do not take any action without a fatwa .” In April 2007, Omar issued another statement through an intermediary encouraging more suicide attacks.

During a series of attacks by Afghan warriors, all Europeans but one, William Brydon, were killed on the march back to India ; a few Indian soldiers survived also and crossed into India later.

The Helmand valley region is mentioned by name in the Avesta ( Fargard 1: 13 ) as the Aryan land of Haetumant, one of the early centers of the Zoroastrian faith in pre-Islamic Afghan history.

" The Spin Alternative Record Guide ( 1995 ) noted " a creative musical blend " on the album, but concluded that " the results feel like dress rehearsals for Gentlemen, with one partial exception, ' Conjure Me ,' and one absolute triumph: a surging final track ... that might be the Afghan Whigs ' strongest recorded performance.

Lloyd Webber has one son, David ( born 1992, Hammersmith, London ) from his marriage to Zohra Mahmoud Ghazi, a great niece of the Afghan King Zahir Shah.

In the early 20th century, under the governance of Sher Khan Nasher, Kunduz became one of the wealthiest Afghan provinces.

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.

The June 1985 cover portrait of 13-year-old Afghan girl Sharbat Gula became one of the magazine's most recognizable images.

After the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, India strengthened ties with the Islamic republic of Afghanistan by establishing consulates in most major Afghan cities.

Approximately 2, 000 such groups have been identified and most of them have surrendered to the Afghan government or joined the nation's military.

Primary advocates for supporting Massoud included two Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts, Michael Johns and James A. Phillips, both of whom championed Massoud as the Afghan resistance leader most worthy of US support under the Reagan Doctrine.

Some international criticism has centered around the government of Karzai in early 2009 for failing to secure the country from Taliban attacks, systemic governmental corruption, and most recently, widespread claims of electoral fraud in the 2009 Afghan presidential election.

It also was used in operations in other countries, the most known being the Operation Storm-333, during which detachments from Alpha and Zenith supported the " Muslim battalion " of the Spetsnaz GRU on a mission to overthrow and kill the Afghan President Hafizullah Amin.

According to REF / RL in 2009, Radio Azadi was the most popular radio station in Afghanistan, and Afghan listeners mailed hundreds of hand-written letters to the station each month.

While most Afghan principalities were styled emirate, there was a khanate of ethnic Uzbeks in Badakhshan since 1697

While most of the time the Taliban cross the Durand Line from Pakistan into Afghanistan and carry out attacks inside Afghan cities, sometimes they cross from the Afghan side of the border and attack Pakistani security forces.

He continues, " It is worthy of note that extreme deference is paid to the Naqeeb of Baghdad and his family by many of the most influential and wealthy as well as the humble and poorest, of Indian and Afghan Muslims ".

The vast majority of Afghan families were never exposed to this system, and most of those who were never fully accepted it because it diminished the central role of the family and inculcated children with Soviet values.

A mix of religious and tribal customs and beliefs permeates Afghan society, with kinship substituting for government in most areas.

Because of the internal strife within the party, the party lost most of its incumbent seats in the Afghan parliamentary election in 1969.

With the help of the Afghan air force led by Colonel Abdul Qadir Dagarwal, the insurgent troops overcame the stubborn resistance of the Presidential Guard and killed Daoud and most members of his family.

* April 24-The UN declares the Afghan people the most displaced in the world.

The most violent protests in Pakistan are in Quetta ( 60 miles from Afghan border ), where one person is shot and killed, the central police station, United Nations buildings, and several shops and movie theaters are set on fire and looted, and a police subinspector is kidnapped.

The Afghan economy is moving further and further into the orbit of the Soviet bloc, which takes most of its exports in return for food grains and consumer goods.

Though some sub-groups such as the Kom paid tribute to Chitral, most of Kafiristan was left on the Afghan side of the frontier in 1893, when large areas of tribal lands between Afghanistan and British India were divided into zones of control by the Durand Line.

By 2010, the French had stopped liaising with their Afghan Army counterparts, and the Provincial Reconstruction Team had ceased most of its operations.

Like most Afghan cities, there is little municipal planning or services.

The provincial capital, Gardez, is among the most secure in the southeastern part of the country, owing in part to a large presence by coalition and Afghan security forces.

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.