Republic of Afghanistan: Selected Issues This Selected Issues paper for Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with the member country. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed on January 30‚ 2008. The views expressed in this document are those of the staff team and do not necessarily reflect the views of the government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan or the
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General James Mattis once said‚ “You go into Afghanistan‚ you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know‚ guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.” In 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to protect the communist regime. The United States and other nations responded by organizing an armed revolt. The United States‚ Saudi Arabia‚ and Pakistan gave money and trained the Mujahideen‚ the leading anti-communist faction. When Soviet forces withdrew
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Talibanning Women’s Rights: The Eternal Struggle Before the Taliban‚ a militant group that governed according to a strict sharia law‚ ruled Afghanistan in 1996‚ women were gaining rights and access to things they had never before hoped or imagined for. Once the Taliban came to power‚ all of the progress that they had made in the years past spiraled backwards and women had no rights throughout the entire country. The Taliban stood by a strict form of the Sharia‚ or Islamic‚ law. The Taliban
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Border Disputes between Pakistan and Afghanistan: Historical‚ political and Strategic Perspective Introduction: Pakistan came in to being on Islamic ideology revolving around the concept of Muslim Ummah and destined to be a symbol of universal Islamic solidarity across the globe. According to the first Prime Minister of Pakistan‚ Liaqat Ali Khan‚ ‘A cardinal feature of this ideology (of Pakistan) is to make Muslim brotherhood a living reality. It is therefore‚ part of the mission which Pakistan has
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The idea of a caste system originated in India and has become popular in regions around the world over the course of history. Two of these areas include the Mesoamerican/Andes cultures in present day South America and Europe during the middle ages. The actual classes‚ or estates‚ differed for these two regions‚ but religion played a role in both social structures‚ and the system affected Mesoamerican as well as European women. Most cultures of the Mesoamerican region held four different classes
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insurgent groups‚ the Taliban & Co. The security situation is relatively stable‚ and the war is finished. The institution building and democratization process picks up pace and President Hamed Karzai hands over to a democratically elected successor. Afghanistan still ranks among the least developed countries in the world. Scenario “Forced Marriage”: After long-standing political negotiations strongly supported by the international community‚ especially the United States and Great Britain‚ Islamist insurgents
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America‚ but in other counties as well. The countries Afghanistan and Nepal provide many statistics showing that even women on the other side of the world are not treated equally in their country. The situation is a bit more serious than first world countries due to the fact that they are unable to stand up for themselves because they could be punished for going against the normal moral. These women are struggling in their own country
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Afghanistan is one of the poorest nations due to years of war and political instability and is largely dependent on foreign aid. Afghanistan’s debt as of 2004‚ was $8 million in bilateral debt‚ mostly to Russia‚ with $500 million in debt to Multilateral Development Banks. The gross domestic product‚ per capita is $1‚000‚ with a real growth rate of 7.5%. The composition per sector is agriculture (38%)‚ industry (24%)‚ and services (38%). The labor force is approx. 15 million‚ with an unemployment
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Nightmare of Afghanistan A geostrategic outlook does not depend on one single topic or attribute of a country. It encompasses concepts from geography‚ politics‚ demography‚ and topography to characterize a region. When we look into the country of Afghanistan we look into the concepts of Afghanistan being land-locked‚ their vast mountainous region‚ their relatively large population of extremists as well as the country being over all less developed than many other nations in the world. Afghanistan ’s overall
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Pakistan Afghanistan issue Afghanistan and Pakistan share multiple strands of culture‚ history‚ religion‚ and civilization‚ but the two countries have never succeeded in establishing bilateral relations free of tensions. Rather‚ passive antagonism and mistrust have marked bilateral ties for the larger part of more than half a century following the creation of Pakistan. The intensity of hostility has varied under different regimes in Afghanistan‚ however‚ and though brief periods of cordiality have
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