Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fisher also observed that social restrictions on woman students were gradually breaking down and the situation was improving even in Afghanistan, where formerly less than ten percent of the women received formal education...
...itinerary included Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Fisher spoke no foreign tongue but said, "It's a lot easier to travel in Asia with English than in Europe...
...born of Greek parents in Alexandropol, Russia in 1872. But Alexandropol was too confining. Young Gurdjieff ranged into Persia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Tibet. On these journeys, Gurdjieff sat at the feet of fakirs, dervishes, "holy men" and temple dancers, sopping up unwritten lore. By 1915 he was creating a minor stir in Moscow with an oriental ballet troupe and proclaiming himself master of a "system" of "esoteric knowledge...
...hundred thousand people had come to Rawalpindi's broad green Company Gardens to hear Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan. Liaquat was in troubled territory: the Northwest frontier is full of tribal jealousies; on one side Afghanistan disputes its borders, on the other lies rich Kashmir, held by India and coveted by Pakistan...
...assassin's Afghan origin might explain his motive-but Afghanistan hastily pointed out that he had been driven out of Afghanistan in 1944 for conspiring against the government. The other possibility was that he belonged to a sect advocating war with India over Kashmir...