Nov 2001As the future of Afghanistan hangs in the balance, we look back on the country's past and ask where its future lies?The rugged terrain of Afghanistan has often found itself at the centre of some of the world's major conflicts. The pictures on our television screens show a country virtually destroyed by war. Yet it wasn't always so: film footage from the 1970s paints a very different picture, of an open and modern society. The capital Kabul buzzes with life, its streets filled with cars, bicycles and pedestrians. At this time, Kabul was famed as an exotic stop-off point on the hippy trail between Europe and India. "That was a golden period for the Afghans," reminisces Dr Ahmed Abdul Javid, former Chancellor of Kabul University. Until the Taliban enforced an Islamic year zero in 1996, Afghanistan was a relatively liberal Place. Farah Hawad, a female journalist who left Kabul for Britain in 1994, describes the country's progressive attitude towards women back then: "Afghanistan was the first Asian country that had women in parliament." But even during this so-called golden era, tensions existed between the country's different ethnic factions, which finally ignited after the Soviet defeat. The task of establishing a lasting peace between these various ethnic groups is likely to be a long and complex one. If Afghanistan is finally freed from the foreign intervention that has dogged it for so long, perhaps new kind of society will finally be able to flourish in this ruined land.
asshole gay talib .. who r u kidding read your barbaric history ... u will learn .. n this najeb guy wasnt anything near good! he used 1 ethnic to wipe anotherFUK THE KING! king of barbarics ... slave of ... = ) n cheers to rebbelious ppl!
he fought against muslimes! why ... he was a slave ... and he loved his power ...
wtf he predicted ... lool even a blind man can tell u that the country will be ruined when u have a civil war that is that is prepared
lifestyle801(November 17, 2008 at 4:37 pm)
LIKE MANY OTHER!! ahahhaha asshole!!! you know what i think u need to be raped by your gay talibs ; )you previous asshole kings killed eachother!!! even najib got killed so mullah omar can come with ur real faces ( gay assholes)
the only president handed his power to teh next one with peace was Rabbani ... and ....!
lool! the only pashton that didnt end up dead and didnt kill his father or his family member to get power was ... ! and that is caus eh ran away!!! haahhahaa to ..
lifestyle801(November 17, 2008 at 4:29 pm)
fuck u breechi fuck and ur FACTS SIDEWAYS! okaY = )wash your mouth before you talk about Massoud!
hahahaha!!! he even beated you Dr.najeebak! back in his young teenage ... they use to be in the same area in afg... n once they picked on each other Dr najeeb got fucked! b HAHAHAahaha he was born as a winner
Massoud was power ! he didnt need anything of this world ... haramzadaz like u wont undrestand
he had the power from the day he was born! cause God was on his side!
barrechi(November 17, 2008 at 4:26 pm)
how can u call him Dr.najeeb was the enemy of afghanistan? u are just uneducated rather turning ur eyes from fects...tell me sincere leader which u belive om compare to Dr.najeeb offcourse u can not find anyone..the people like u who just beat about the bushes to call Dr.najeeb as the enemy of afghanistan are themselves the enemy of afghanistan.Dr,najeeb predicted things and events in fast which turn out to be true in afghanistan today.
barrechi(November 17, 2008 at 4:20 pm)
well i think u are one morron with no idea wht u are talking about rather then focusing on fects..yes Dr.najib left power to call all afghan factions to make a coalitions govt in 1992 becosue he was sincere and petroitic not a trioter like many other he was not power hungry person like masood,hakmatyar and rabbani etc...He didnt left kabul and stay there becouse of his love and sincerity to his land even many leader made escape way for him to leave but he didnt..get educate urself...
icare4it(November 13, 2008 at 3:22 pm)
agree with u
icare4it(November 13, 2008 at 3:22 pm)
Bcaz Najib was the enemy of afghanistann i dont like too that they heng Masod's pic around. i dont no why ppl of afghanistan worship that leader
iburale(November 9, 2008 at 4:15 am)
Its no secret why everyone is invading Afghanistan. God Bless the beautiful land of Afghanistan.
iburale(November 9, 2008 at 4:12 am)
from a Somali brother to the ppl of Afghanistan, put ur differences aside and unite for the good of Afghanistan. I know it sounds easy to say specially someone from Somalia. My country is in dispair because of too much foreign political involvment. Everyone will try to help your ppl but they trick you. First you tough USSR is ur friend, then the US. Whats next? Never trust any foreign ppl.
lifestyle801(October 27, 2008 at 1:54 am)
The Mujahedin fucked you and your CIA!THE ONLY ASSHOLE YOUR CIA HELPED WHERE gulbudin hekmatyar s men ... and the taliban .. which u created in camps ( in pakistan)
lifestyle801(October 27, 2008 at 1:42 am)
barrechi .. fuck you!YOUR Dr. najeeb had his plane ready to ...!he didnt left kabul because he left the power to hekmatyar s men!Dr.najeed wasnt killed by the mujahiden ... it was his own animal tribe the pashtuns ( talibs) who killed him !
AhmadMashallah(October 20, 2008 at 7:41 am)
wow so beautiful images of past and beautiful afghanistan that I had not seen before
he fought against muslimes! why ... he was a slave ... and he loved his power ...
wtf he predicted ... lool even a blind man can tell u that the country will be ruined when u have a civil war that is that is prepared