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The Afghan government shows increasing interest in the economic success of the Regional Cooperation for Development program (RCD), which is being vigorously pursued by Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey; a visit to Kabul by the Pakistan finance minister, Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash, leads to a scheme for technical aid in the fields of irrigation ...
The 1973 Afghan coup d'état, also called by Afghans as the Coup of 26 Saratan (Dari: کودتای ۲۶ سرطان) [4] and self-proclaimed as the Revolution of 26 Saratan 1352, [a] [5] was led by Army General and prince Mohammad Daoud Khan against his cousin, King Mohammad Zahir Shah, on 17 July 1973, which resulted in the establishment of the ...
The following details notable events from the year 1971 in Afghanistan.The Afghan Islamic Republic, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming part of Central Asia, South Asia, and the Greater Middle East.
A few days after the coup, the former Royal Afghan Army under Zahir Shah was now being referred to as the “Afghan Republican Army” under Daoud Khan in “The Kabul Times” newspaper. [5] The Ministry of Defense emblem of the Republic of Afghanistan [6] The emblem of the Afghan police force under the Republic of Afghanistan from 1974–1978
1970s in Afghan sport (2 C) T. Treaties of the Republic of Afghanistan (7 P) Pages in category "1970s in Afghanistan" The following 21 pages are in this category, out ...
Kabul Zoo inaugurated. Kabul Golf Club opens outside city. 1968 – Naghlu Dam begins generating hydroelectric power. 1969 – Hotel Inter-Continental in business. 1970 – Kabul Airport in operation (approximate date). 1973 – Population: 318,094 city; 534,350 urban agglomeration. [17] 1975 – Rock music festival held. [18] View towards ...
As with police training in the 1970s, former U.S. officials and members of Congress worried about what Gross' case—and the program that led to it—would mean for other American aid workers ...
Between April 1978 and the Soviet invasion of December 1979, Afghan communists executed 27,000 political prisoners at the sprawling Pul-i-Charki prison six miles east of Kabul. Many of the victims were village mullahs and headmen who were obstructing the modernization and secularization of the intensely religious Afghan countryside.