The Kids of Khewa
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- Afghan life under Taliban: Don't clap at games. Zubrzycki, John // Christian Science Monitor;12/10/96, Vol. 89 Issue 11, p1
Focuses on life in Afghanistan under the rule of Taliban, which imposed a lifestyle on residents, which is based on a strict interpretation of the Koran, that may take the country back centuries. When the Taliban conquered the country; Comments from Mullah Hassan, one of the most powerful...
- The Buddha tragedy and beyond. Girardet, Edward // Christian Science Monitor;3/14/2001, Vol. 93 Issue 75, p11
Discusses the efforts of the Taliban to destroy pre-Islamic historical and cultural sites in Afghanistan.
- People. // Afghanistan Country Review;2009, p124
The article presents an overview on the social condition in Afghanistan, highlighting cultural and linguistic demography, religiosity and social life.
- People. // Afghanistan Country Review;2010, p144
The article offers an overview on the social condition of Afghanistan for 2009, as well as the country's population, religion, and culture.
- Notes on church-state affairs: Afghanistan. Hendon, David W.; Kennedy, James M. // Journal of Church & State;Winter97, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p181
Reports on the capture of the city of Kabul, Afghanistan by the Muslim militia known as Taliban on September 26, 1996. Torturing and hanging of former president Najibulah; Imposition of strict Islamic rule by a six-man provisional government.
- Afghan Taleban on defensive. // MEED: Middle East Economic Digest;10/25/96, Vol. 40 Issue 43, p20
Reports that Afghanistan's Islamic Taleban movement is militarily on the defensive after capturing Kabul, Afghanistan.
- Remains unearthed. // New Internationalist;Aug97, Issue 293, p6
Focuses on the scavenging for human bones in gutters, fields and graveyards by adults and children in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an effort to survive financially. Cost of a skeleton; Uses of the human bones.
- Full circle. Halliday, F. // New Statesman & Society;4/24/92, Vol. 5 Issue 199, p16
Studies two central problems that are plaguing modern Afghanistan. Difficulty of finding a balance between the dominant Pathans and the array of other ethnic groups who occupy the northern and western parts of the country; Tension between modernizing elites in Kabul and the largely tribal rural...
- `Faithful implementation' of Geneva Agreements asked. // United Nations Chronicle;Mar89, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p60
Reports on the reaffirmation of the UN General Assembly of the right of the Afghan people to determine their own form of economic, political and social system as stated in the Geneva Agreement on April 14, 1988. Concerns over continued fighting in Afghanistan.
- `Operation Salam': To build a future. Khan, S.A. // United Nations Chronicle;Jun90, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p22
Discusses the United Nations office set up in Afghanistan to co-ordinate humanitarian and economic assistance, known as `Operation Salam.' Main activities in 1990; UN response to emergency food needs; Food shortages; Continued hostilities and UN efforts.
