Stegenga Con NATO presence improves the lives of Afghan citizens. “Victory is impossible in Afghanistan.” These are the words of former Soviet Union president Mikhail Borbachev who from personal experience knows that it is difficult to help Afghanistan maintain a stable government after his failed attempt to protect the socialist government SET UP THERE by former Soviet leaders.NATO’s main goal in Afghanistan is to assist the government in extending its authority across the country making way for effective
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REMARKS BY LARRY SAMPLER‚ ASSISTANT TO THE ADMINISTRATOR FOR AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN‚ AT THE NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Monday‚ February 10‚ 2014 Afghanistan Development Goals 2014 and Beyond [As Delivered] Good afternoon and thank you for allowing me to speak today here at the New America Foundation. I would again like to thank Anne-Marie Slaughter and Peter Bergen for having us here today. I am thrilled that Ambassador Samad was chosen to moderate what I hope will be an interesting and lively
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Bacha Bazi or “boy play” is a common practice that promotes child prostitution and sexual slavery in the various parts of Afghanistan. Najibullah Quraishi‚ an Afghan journalist and the director of the documentary The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan‚ has captured and documented the events that occur behind the illegal practice of Bacha Bazi. As shown in his documentary‚ young boys are sold off to powerful‚ wealthy men and are trained to become skilled dancers. Additionally‚ they are often sexually abused
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Drug Abuse and Treatment Centers in Afghanistan Feb 5‚ 2013 Drug Abuse and Treatment Centers in Afghanistan The issue of narcotic drugs production and consumption is worsening in Afghanistan which threatens the security and hinders the development. Afghanistan as the largest opium-producing country in the world produces 94% of the world’s opiates and thus has 920‚000 illicit drug users. Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and many other major organizations such as International Narcotics and
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Pakistan and Afghanistan: Neighbors in War and Peace Majyd Aziz (Former President Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry) Presentation at the Panel Discussion on “Pakistan’s Relations with Regional Countries (Afghanistan‚ Iran‚ and CARs)” At National Institute of Management‚ Karachi‚ July 02-2012 Preamble: PAKISTAN and Afghanistan are two neighbors that have a lot in common. Although a 2600 km border separates the two nations‚ they have common cultural values‚ traditions‚ religion
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Minister‚ primary architect of the Indian Constitution‚ champion of the lower castes and the underprivileged. Relatively little-known‚ his struggles get no interest whatsoever‚ and his immense writings‚ most published posthumously because of poverty and therefore inability to pay the fee for publication‚ have been available till recently only in ancient editions gathering dust in long forgotten corners until
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Afghanistan Afghanistan is a country that is in the Middle East. In this essay‚ the reader will learn about the differences of Afghanistan and the U.S. Some contrasts are clothing‚ families‚ courtesies‚ and food‚ etc. “Women aren’t allowed to dine alone without a man‚”(pg.4) In my essay you will find men have a lot more rights than women do. First‚ the People. People in Afghanistan are known as Afghans. The official language is Dari and Persian. “The primary loyalty in their family(kin group‚ clan
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I remember the annual summer vacation trips my family had to Afghanistan when I was a child. I could recall holding my mom’s hand while I walked around the bazaars wondering why so many women had thrown blue bed sheets on themselves in this humid weather. I asked my mom and she just laughed and told me it was a fashion statement. When I was older‚ I learned it was a burka and these women wore it in order to prevent the arousal of men. They oppressed themselves in fear of a distortion of Islam. I
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United States Interventions Issue #1 United States Troops in afghanistan Source: Greg Bruno‚ The War in Afghanistan Just after the September 11th‚ 2001‚ attacks on American soil that took down the World Trade Center‚ America was already planning how to take down the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden‚ the one who planned the attacks. We discovered his location in Afghanistan only months later‚ and the thought of an invasion was on everyone’s minds. The United States led multiple offensives
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and 7B. Today I will be talking about how gender can change your identity in a male dominated country such as Afghanistan and how education‚ or the rather‚ the lack of it can affect your identity. Identity means how you think of yourself‚ who you are‚ your personality and what others think of you. It is also how you act based on your identity. In the text Parvana‚ which is set in Afghanistan‚ the women are discriminated against. The taliban think of them as weak‚useless and not worthy to be seen‚ as
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