Afghan Persian/Farsi From: shannanchurch@hotmail.com To: shannanchurch@hotmail.com Subject: Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:17:55 -0600 The common Islamic food prohibitions are respected in Afghanistan. For example, meat is only eaten from animals that are slaughtered according to Islamic law; alcohol, pork, and wild boar are not consumed, although some people secretly make wine for consumption at home. The Shiites avoid rabbit and hare In Afghanistan, people work as long as they are fit.
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Judges apply a tribal-based conception of Islam. Those who commit adultery and consume drugs and alcohol are severely punished. Beatings, amputations, and public executions (beheading, stoning, and shooting) are commonly practiced. Read more: Culture of Afghanistan - history, people, clothing, women, beliefs, food, customs, family, social http://www.everyculture.com/A-Bo/Afghanistan.html#ixzz1bU0F3iWv Women now must be completely covered by a long veil and accompanied by a male relative when
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situations of exile can shape cultural practices at home. His paper is largely based on his own fieldwork conducted in the two sites of Afghan settlement in exile: Peshawar, Pakistan and Freemont, California in the United States. As his article largely focuses on Afghan music culture after the communist coup of 1978, Baily first offers a description of Afghan music as it was before the 23 years’ war, and describes trends between music and migration. He describes three categories of music in Afghanistan
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1- Pak-Afghan Trade Relation: Pakistan and Afghanistan have a history of bilateral trade relations and economic interactions. A distinguishing feature of relationship in both countries is the shared border spanning about 2500 kilometers which is crossed by some 50,000 people everyday. This reflects the strength of socio economic interaction between two countries. Pakistan is currently the largest trading partner of Afghanistan, while Afghanistan is Pakistan’s third largest trading partner. Pakistan's
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Op-ed: US Policy on Afghanistan The role of the U.S. in the security and stability of Afghanistan, and what it means to the rest of the region and the world is a relevant topic today. A nation that has been surrounded by invasion, external pressure and internal upheaval since before the time of Alexander the Great, Afghanistan has endured more than most people can ever imagine. Going back to the beginning, the country has been ruled by Persian, Greek, Sassasian and Central Asian empires. In
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Afghan Girl, one of the most iconic photographs ever, was taken in 1984 by Steve McCurry. McCurry was visiting refugee camps along the Afghan-Pakistan border, and he chose a student in the camp of Nasir Bagh.i In his words, “I saw this . . . girl who had this really kind of haunted look in her eye. So I got permission to photograph her.”ii The girl had moved from Afghanistan because of the Soviet invasion of December 1979. To McCurry, “her look . . . summed up the horror, because her village had
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Assignment Of: Budget of Union Aid for Afghan Refugees (UAAR) For 1st Jan, 2011 – 31st Dec 2011 Presented To: Mam Aysha Sami Latif Presented By: Amjad ur Rehman (15) (Group leader) Aamir Khan (21) Zeeshan Arshad (55) Union Aid for Afghan Refugees By means of limited sources but with the objective of humanitarian assistance, Dr.T.Nassery, an Afghan Professor laid the foundation stone of Union Aid for Afghan Refugees (UAAR) as a pioneer organization and initiated
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Insight is an Afghan women-owned group of companies established in 2004. Our primary areas of service are in media, research and education/training. In just a few years Insight has established a track record of positive past performance in Afghanistan. Insight has been a successful U.S. military subcontractor and Afghan Woman Owned Business (AWOB) prime vendor since early 2008. Education and Training Experiences • Rehabilitative Educational and Counseling Program at the Detention Facility in
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better sense of what to expect as I transition. My military career has had many successes that will help me integrate well into this program. The accomplishment that has given me the most pride is when I planned and executed the largest combined Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) mission in the history of Eastern Afghanistan. This was the first time that the Afghanistan National Army (ANA), Afghanistan Border Patrol (ABP), Afghanistan Local Police (ALP), and Afghanistan National Police (ANP)
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task orders. Sample tasks were (1) develop high resolution short-wave infrared cameras for surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, (2) provide intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance support in the Trans-Sahara region of Africa, and (3) train Afghan Border Police to perform functions necessary to deny the flow of illegal persons, drugs, and weapons across borders. Task order requests for proposals (TORP) 150 is for mentoring and training the Ministry
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