Word: kabul
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...shining specimen of both piety and military felicity was the Amir Abdur Rahman, colorful and vainglorious ruler of the late 19th century. Abdur Rahman, who abolished slavery in 1895, helped consolidate the nation, spreading his influence from Kabul outwards to cover what is magnanimously called modern Afghanistan. An anecdote related by the British observer Frank A. Martin in Under the Absolute Amir will demarcate his strictness and his faith...
...AGREE ON THE repressiveness of the current Kabul cabal. Not everyone apprehends the degree of democracy under the pre-Marxist regimes. During the '60s King Zahir Shah retained ultimate authority, yes, but he allowed a parliament to be chosen in elections quite free of political parties. Press freedom prevailed for newspapers that could pass the government censors. After his military coup in 1973, Mohammed Daud let dynastic rule continue, but he proclaimed a republic. He relaxed his dictatorial grip so much that his top ministers were authorized to spend up to 70 pounds without his personal approval. So popular...
...have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by law school. Go up there, you'll find any number of wrong-way Faustuses who have given up magic and art for a strange thing called security. And what's security, anyway? They never heard of it in Kabul...
...stunning turnabout at the United Nations, meanwhile, a Kabul official sent to defend his government before a special meeting of the nonaligned countries defected instead and denounced the Soviet "occupation." The 33-year-old career diplomat, Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, dramatically declared his support for his "compatriots in the liberation struggle...
...Begmatova, Foreign Minister of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic,* began by stating, "We wanted to make sure that no one strangles the Afghans' people's revolution." As the conversation went on, she recalled an incident-before the April 1978 revolution that brought the Marxists to power in Kabul-when the Soviets helped the Afghans fight a plague of locusts near the border. "That could have spread to us," noted Begmatova, "the locusts threatened crops on both sides of the border...