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Article: REBUILDING AFGHANISTAN.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Editor's Note: Afghanistan has been much in the news in recent weeks because the Taliban government ordered the destruction of ancient statues of the Buddha on the ground that they offended Islam. In spite of protests from numerous other countries and the UN, the Taliban proceeded to blow up the massive carvings. In the following article an Afghanistani scholar reflects on ways that his native land could recover from its long civil war and bad governments.
AFGHANISTAN'S political landscape had long been dominated by periodic tribal conflict and domination of the country's politics by authoritarian and despotic rulers who held no regard for public welfare nor for ...
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