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Bamiyan themed postage stamp (1951) issued by Postes Afghanes (Afghan Post) Afghan Post is the national mail and courier organization of Afghanistan with its headquarters in Kabul. [1] [2] It has offices in all 34 provinces and 420 or so districts of Afghanistan. [3] Most homes in Afghanistan, particularly in older neighborhoods and in the ...
The only city in Afghanistan with over 1 million people is its capital, Kabul. The rest are smaller cities and towns. Afghanistan's population is estimated to be between 36–50 million. [a] Of this, 26% were reported to be living in urban areas and the rest in rural areas or the countryside. [2]
The first issue of a postage stamp after the hiatus was the May 2002 stamp showing Ahmad Shah Massoud, a military general and national hero who defended Afghanistan against the Soviet Union in the 1980s and later led a resistance movement against the Taliban. [9] Bamiyan themed postage stamp (1951) issued by Postes Afghanes (Afghan Post)
Afghanistan, [e] officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [f] is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, [g] Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.
Post Name Dates Supreme Leader: Hibatullah Akhundzada: 15 August 2021 – present (Acting Prime Minister: Hasan Akhund: 7 September 2021 – present (Chief Justice: Abdul Hakim Haqqani: 15 August 2021 – present
The post-coup Soviet government then attempted to develop political relations with the Afghan resistance. In mid-November it invited a delegation of the resistance's Afghanistan Interim Government (AIG) to Moscow where the Soviets agreed that a transitional government should prepare Afghanistan for national elections.
Following the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919, Afghanistan became free of foreign political hegemony, and emerged as the independent Kingdom of Afghanistan in June 1926 under Amanullah Khan. This monarchy lasted almost half a century, until Zahir Shah was overthrown in 1973 , following which the Republic of Afghanistan was established.
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, [a] later known as the Republic of Afghanistan, [b] was the Afghan state between 1978 and 1992. It was bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, by Iran to the west, by the Soviet Union to the north, and by China to the northeast.