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I'm not an expert on Afghanistan, nor do I want to look through all the various pages on the history of Afghanistan to be sure that the info at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm has been incorporated into the article. But obviously there is someone around who doesn't mind working extensively on the history of Afghanistan, so just let me point out that the link above is in the public domain. So you can copy and paste at will, if need be. --KQ 04:08 Sep 12, 2002 (UTC)

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Are the Islamic State of Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan the same thing? --Jiang 10:22, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)

There never was an "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan." --Wik 11:57, Aug 8, 2003 (UTC)

Apparently, we have an entire article on the History of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. --Jiang 02:06, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Contents 1 CIA aid to the Mujahideen 2 Buddhism and Hinduism in Afghanistan 3 US support to MAK 4 Citation bragging? 5 The Mirwas Khan Hotaki section needs to be shortened.

[edit] CIA aid to the Mujahideen

The CIA aid to the Islamic resistance during the Soviet intervention is well established and is documented in George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002, hardcover, 550 pages, ISBN 0871138549

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Just noting this for possible future review.. The line "The puppet government of Afghanistan responded to attacks with heavy handed intervention from the army." is probably not entirely NPOV. At that time the government was only seeking Soviet help, and had not really been replaced with one fully controlled by the soviets.

this article makes it sound like the soviet's created the government there.....and "Many groups were formed in an attempt to reverse the dependence on the Soviet Union, some resorting to violent means and sabotage of the country's industry and infrastructure. The government responded with a heavy handed military intervention and arrested, exiled and executed many mujahideen 'holy Muslim warriors'"....the mujadhideen are the one's who attacked the trade center.. theyre religious extremists and terrorists and werent fighting for the people's will, they just want the whole world to live in the 7th century and believe in their universally renounced extremist interpretation of Islam. The "dependence on the soviet union"... thats a non-NPOV way of saying they were recieving voluntary economic aide to build basic infrastructure that was up till then lacking....IF the US did it its selfless idealism....if the USSR did it then its the encroaching tentacles of an evil empire...PSH!

[edit] Buddhism and Hinduism in Afghanistan

Something must be written about the presence of Buddhism and the Hindu Shahi rulers of Afghanistan.[1] Muwaffaq 2 July 2005 04:54 (UTC)

[edit] US support to MAK

I want to point out here (as I already did in the discussion on Al-Qaeda) that this page is inconsistent with Al-Qaeda page on whether US supported MAK, or not. Although a minor issue, I believe that this should be resolved (and I do not know yet the most plausible statement here).

[edit] Citation bragging?

What's with the citations in the intro? Do you really need names and information about people who studied Afghanistan included directly in the beginning intro text (where space is limited)? It makes the article seem like it's about academics rather than about Afghanistan. falsedef 13:20, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

The first paragraph in the intro is perfect, explaining that major people and institutions are involved in putting together the history of Afghanistan.--NisarKand 11:20, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but it's bloated and needs to be trimmed down considerably. falsedef 21:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Mirwas Khan Hotaki section needs to be shortened.

That section really is too long. For a short period of Afghanistan's history, it is for some reason the longest section of this article. Also, the content on the Mirwais Khan Hotaki article, is the same as here. The content here should be a shorter version. So all this section needs to be summarized and shortened because its kind of silly having about 30 years of Afghanistan's history being longer than the rest. --Behnam 06:13, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I disagree, the rest of the sections need to be extended and made longer so that the entire history be explained in much more details. This kind of detailed history of Afghanistan is not found anywhere else. By the way...check History of Pakistan or History of India and see how long they are.--NisarKand 11:17, 18 January 2007 (UTC)