Its local name is Tāžī Spay () or Sag e Tāzī (Dari Persian سگ تازی).

Snuppy (Korean 스너피 a portmanteau of SNU and puppy also known as doggy born April 24, 2005) is an Afghan hound, credited with being the world's first cloned dog.

The puppy was created using a cell from an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers, of which only three produced pups (Snuppy being the sole survivor).

Afghanistan's Cat Stevens

Afghan farmer in poppy field.

China s Afghan Game Plan

1930) 2001 Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and politician (b.

Irrigation systems, crucial to agriculture in Afghanistan's arid climate, were destroyed by aerial bombing and strafing by Soviet or government forces.

The Afghan government has accused the Iranian policy of violating international laws.

Art is largely centered at the National Museum of Afghanistan, the National Gallery of Afghanistan and the National Archives of Afghanistan in Kabul.

One simple fact you couldn't try to call an Afghan at 8 30 in the evening.

And the stated goal was to increase popular support for the Afghan government.

In the meantime, here are two reactions from Afghan bloggers who did write

Over half of the Afghan army would either desert or join the insurrection.

Peshawar remained under Afghan rule till the conquest by the Sikhs in 1818.

My name is Ahmed. I am an Afghan refugee from the Khyber agency.

They assassinated government officials and PDPA members, and laid siege to small rural outposts.

This was very important, because the family is central in Afghans' social system.

The Afghan leader expressed hope that Pakistan could help in this process.

Sardar Hussain Bakhtari, an Afghan Facebook user blasted the airstrikes in a post

Dari ( ) or Dari Persian ( ) is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.

The North Country Beagle, possibly a cross between an offshoot of the Talbot stock and a Greyhound, was bred chiefly in Yorkshire and was common in the northern counties.

Later that month the UN had installed the Afghan Transitional Administration chaired by Hamid Karzai.

On the contrary, it exacerbated a nationalistic feeling, causing the rebellion to spread further.

It's not simply corruption and waste that you create you essentially replace the priorities of the Afghan government, the elected Afghan government, with the micromanaging tendencies of foreigners on short tours with their own priorities.

And the Afghan soldier was so surprised to see me that he forgot to stamp my passport.

The king Prithviraj Chauhan was defeated in 1192 by Muhammad Ghori, a Tajik invader from Afghanistan, who made a concerted effort to conquer northern India.

Sun Leaf talks about the painful situation of Afghanistan's education system.

So everybody needs a sense for the future, and the Afghan sense of the future is shattered.

Other dogs featured on the list were Lassie (first), Eddie (fifth), Snoopy (sixth), Scooby Doo (13th), Rin Tin Tin (14th), Max (20th), Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog (24th), Buck (29th), Chipper (44th), and Tiger (50th).

The USSR continued to support President Mohammad Najibullah (former head of the Afghan secret service, KHAD ) until 1992.

For China, the Afghan contest will most likely turn out to be a very measured combination of chess and weiqi.

The U.K. also supported the U.S. decision to remove the Taliban, both politically and militarily.

The U.S. increased pressure on the Afghan government and the Soviet Union forcefully demanding for peaceful negotiations for the release of their ambassador.

The Afghan government responded by suspending talks with the Taliban, as well as the status of forces negotiations with the US.

Abdul Rahman () (born 1965) was an Afghan citizen who was arrested in February 2006 and threatened with the death penalty for converting to Christianity.

Afghan Lord is shocked to learn that he as an Afghan cannot order alcohol in a foreign restaurant in Kabul anymore.

In fact, the Taliban s confidence already drove them to disrupt plans for peace talks with the Afghan government.

After all, as the US extricates itself from its Afghan quagmire, its own national interests will continue to trump all other considerations.

Nasim Fekrat reports that Afghanistani journalist and novelist Razaq Mamoon was attacked by an unknown assailant who sprayed acid on his face.

In December 2001, after the Taliban government was toppled and the new Afghan government under Hamid Karzai was formed, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was established by the UN Security Council to help assist the Karzai administration and provide basic security to the Afghan people.

Two time Olympic medal winner Rohullah Nikpah is an ethnic Hazara, who resigned in protest against alleged corruption in the Afghan National Olympic Committee.

The USSR also sent contractors to build roads, hospitals and schools and to drill water wells they also trained and equipped the Afghan army.

In May 2002, she made a speech to the people of Afghanistan through Radio Liberty, a radio station in Prague, Czech Republic.

Soviet Afghan relations The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) had been a major power broker and influential mentor in Afghan politics, ranging from civil military infrastructure to Afghan society.