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Article: Economic reconstruction of Afghanistan.
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- Economic Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 1990
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The present travails of Afghanistan may really be ascribed what is claimed by the Russians and Communist elements in Afghanistan, as the 'Revolution' of April 1978. In actual fact Soviet Russia had been spreading its tentacles in Afghanistan much before 1978 and indeed American foreign policy had accepted the fact that Afghanistan fell within the Russian sphere of influence without, of course, conceding the right of take-over of Afghanistan or virtual Soviet domination.
Afghanistan is a land locked country and transportation is thus of vital importance. Despite the war and Russian occupation Pakistan has continued to provide transit facilities as in the past. ...