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Who's Afraid of the Taliban? with Ahmed-Waleed Kakar

The Thinking Muslim

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The Amir Dost Muhammad's Royal Chronicle

Afghanistan's preeminent historical documents is a royal chronicle that was commissioned in the early 20th. century by the Amir Habi Bula called Sirajat Tawariq. The state history of Afghanistan at the time referred to Dost Muhammad solely as the Amir of Kabul. That within that sort of historical paradigm, if you are the George Bush or Barack Obama, you're largely held prisoner to the confines of Afghan national and political history.

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