illegal opium trade. The United States’ globalized war on illegal opium and heroin production targets several foreign countries including Burma‚ Colombia‚ and Afghanistan. In this paper‚ I will look more into the production of opium used for the drug trade in Afghanistan‚ and its direct relationship to the war on narcotics. This paper will also delve deeper into the production practices of opium production in the middle east specifically Afghanistan‚ the Afghani Government’s responses to opium production
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Post-war Afghan Economy How National is the National Development Framework By SIBA SANKAR MOHANTY Afghanistan occupies a central significance in South Asia owing to its geo-strategic location and natural resources-but is considered as one among the poorest countries in the world. Being a small‚ land locked and poor country with around 85 percent of its population depending on agriculture‚ and its socio-economic structure being influenced in every respect by external forces for more than twenty
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Abstract Corruption in Afghanistan is so prevalent that nearly every part of the population is affected by the damage that it causes. Bribery and nepotism is such a common theme throughout the Afghan culture‚ that is has essentially become a way of life; corruption is accepted there. Throughout the education system‚ bribery is effecting the thought process of up and coming generations. With the Afghan National Security Force‚ citizens of the country are used to paying fabricated “taxes” and “levies”
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Rights: Women’s Rights in Afghanistan have been an issue for many decades. After the Soviet occupied government diminished and the Taliban came into power‚ women’s rights also diminished. Women in Afghanistan are looked at as nothing but homemakers and a means of reproduction. The horrific beatings of women have become a very common thing within Afghanistan and the Taliban. Even after the Taliban was removed Women’s rights became insignificant. The women of Afghanistan have had to endure decades
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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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AFGHANISTAN-TALIBAN AND THEIR DOWNFALL 5. Geo-Strategic Importance of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is Central Asia’s land locked country‚ spread over an area of 253‚ 861 miles. Bordered on the North by the Republics of Tajikistan‚ Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan‚ North-East by the Chinese province of Sinkiang‚ on the South-East by Pakistan‚ and on the West by Iran. Afghanistan’s geopolitical importance has been that of a buffer state first between the Tsarist Russian and the British Indian Empires and
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POVERTY PROFILE AFGHANISTAN IDENTIFY COUNTRY I choose Afghanistan to write about because we have had so much going on with that country and my boyfriend is reading a book on the crisis in Islam so I thought it would give us something interesting to talk about! Afghanistan is located in the middle east of the world. There exact spot is 35°north and 65° east. It is surrounded by Pakistan‚ India‚ Nepal‚ Bangladesh‚ and Bhutan. Afghanistan is slightly smaller than the size of Texas and has an
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Agricultural Technology in Afghanistan Advances in agricultural technology have brought Afghanistan into the modern era. They have allowed the country the opportunity to succeed in the global market while at the same time turning it into the war ravaged nation seen on television every night. Its history has been filled with stories of both prosperity and defeat. Agriculture has been impacted heavily by war and lack of modern tools‚ equipment and common know how. Although many have come to the
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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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