Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. It is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks. The country has high levels of terrorism, poverty and child malnutrition.

About Afghanistan in brief

Summary AfghanistanAfghanistan is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Occupying 652,000 square kilometers, it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks. The country has high levels of terrorism, poverty, child malnutrition and corruption. It is a member of the United Nations, the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation, the Economic Cooperation Group of 77, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Afghanistan is a unitary state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which was established in 2001. It has been ruled as a totalitarian regime by the Islamic Taliban for over five years. The Taliban has contributed to the perpetuation of Afghanistan’s problematic human rights record, with numerous abuses committed by both sides, such as the killing of civilians by the Afghan government and the Afghan National Army. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 has led to a significant portion of the country still being controlled by the Taliban, who were removed from power after the US invasion in 2001, but still hold significant control of a significant part of Afghanistan. Afghanistan has a population of around 32 million, with most of the population living in the capital city of Kabul. The current president of Afghanistan is Ashraf Ghani, who was sworn in on December 1, 2009.

He is the first Afghan president to take office since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, and is the third man to hold the post. The president is the son of former President Hamid Karzai, who served as president from 1989 to 2001. The first president to be elected to a full term was Hamid Kadhim, who took office on January 1, 2001, and served until December 31, 2001. Afghanistan’s first prime minister, Hamid Gul, was elected in November 2001. He was the first to be re-elected to a second term in November 2008, and was re- elected in December 2010, after a series of coups and coups. The last president was Ashraf Karzai was assassinated in December 2011, leaving the country in the hands of the Taliban. The new president, Ashraf Gul, took office in January 2012, and has been in power since March 2012. Afghanistan was ruled by the U.N. Security Council since January 2013. The United Nations Security Council has a mission in Afghanistan to promote peace and security in the country. It also has an embassy in Kabul, which is based in the city of Jalalabad, the capital of the province of Nangarhar. The mission’s mission is to promote international peace and stability in the region, and to promote the development of Afghanistan as a regional hub for the region. The Afghan National Security Council also has a mandate to protect the rights of the Afghan people, including the right to seek asylum in the United States and other countries.