Panjshir looked promising on the map - that Afghanistan is grappling with a 15-year insurgency was not going to deter them. ''It's extreme geography that attracts extreme sportsmen, not the fact ...

Panjshir looked promising on the map - that Afghanistan is grappling with a 15-year insurgency was not going to deter them. "It's extreme geography that attracts extreme sportsmen, not the fact ...

For example, consider that lapis lazuli, a mineral excavated in present-day Afghanistan, found its way into Egyptian tombs. A common root language in the region (indeed, the root language for English) ...

Panjshir looked promising on the map — that Afghanistan is grappling with a 15-year insurgency was not going to deter them. "It's extreme geography that attracts extreme sportsmen, not the fact ...

PANJSHIR: On a recent sunny morning in northern Afghanistan, excited children and bemused policemen lined the banks of a fast-flowing river to watch a group of Europeans in multicolored kayaks ...

In my mind, Afghanistan was the country that had fought off the Soviet Union in the 1980s, so therefore, they must be our ally. I may have known the physical geography of Afghanistan, but I was ...

“They think that they have captured Afghanistan and so ... Despite those disadvantages, resistance leaders say they have geography on their side. Panjshir is a vast mountainous region whose ...

BANGKOK (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - In a good number of places around the globe, however, we have reached a kind of bottleneck, not only in regard to girls' access to education, but in regard ...

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