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[edit] Pashtu

Hello,

I recently used the search engine to see what Wikipedia says about my country's (Afghanistan) diversity and culture. I was disappointed to find that it is stated..."Pastu is an Eastern Iranian language..." Actually, Pashtu, is an ancient language, much older than the Farsi spoken by Afghanistan and Iran. Pashtu has never migrated to or from Iran. The only other region of the world that speaks Pashtu, is Western Pakistan, which is inhabited by the Pashtun/Pathan people. Also, the Farsi spoken in Afghanistan is known as Dari, the purest form of Farsi. The author also incorrectly stated that people of Afghanistan are descendants of Eastern Iranian people. If that is the case, Iranian people are descendants of Afghans. I make this statement because, the Persian Empire, was once made up, and ruled by both countries. Each country still retained and cherished their unique differences in language and ethnicity.

Posted January 22, 2007--Upperwali 17:08, 21 January 2007 (UTC)hm--Upperwali 17:08, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

(dropped here from somewhere else completely unrelated Matt Whyndham 17:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC))

Please read Iranian languages. The usage of "Iranian" here is related to a linguistic group and has nothing to do with the modern country of Iran. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:33, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] doingbusiness.org external link

This link: Doing Business in Afghanistan

Was added by an editor whose only contributions have been to promote the World Bank Group (Doing business is a World Bank project). We have recently uncovered significant edits promoting this organization (see this WikiProject Spam discussion). In the interest of our neutral point of view policy and conflict of interest guideline I've moved it here for other editors to consider. If you decide it is appropriate for inclusion, you may wish to consider wikilinking to Wikipedia's article on the project - Ease of Doing Business Index - instead. Generally wikilinks are more appropriate than external links. Thanks. -- Siobhan Hansa 13:21, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 300% Worsening?

Deleted paragraph referencing a 300% increase in Taliban activity due to lack of citation.Nf utvol 14:52, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Restoring paragraph with updated cite. It is not hard to find this news report, there is enough text cited. A search on Google turns up no fewer than 240+ matches. NN 18:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ethnolinguistic map

The new Ethnolinguistic map posted by User:NisarKand in the Languages section, is more an Ethnic map rather than Linguistic. I suggest that it should be moved to the Ethnic Groups section replacing the old BBC/CIA ethnic map. Ariana310 19:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that was not a Language map. I fixed that. Thanks for pointing it out. Behnam 01:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I replaced the BBC chart with this new map. The BBC chart, as you yourself had stated first, is inaccurate. It mixes up Tajiks, Hazaras and Aimaq, and plus it shows Pashtuns in Herat province. The new map is much accurate and very authentic. Please do not remove it. Ariana310 11:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

This map has an even more important mistake. It shows Kabul as being a Pashtun city. That is a critical mistake and because of this the other map takes priority right now. Kabul is a mixed city with Tajiks the largest group, certainly Pashtuns. Behnam 12:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Oh and I reported User: NisarKand's sock-puppet. Next time he does that report it every time. This is totally unacceptable. I don't what this guy's doing here. Behnam 12:25, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Despite its inaccuracy, this map will have to stay for now since have no other map right now. Behnam 12:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Most of the authentic maps bring Kabul under the Pashtun areas, I know it is totally incorrect. The major group is Tajik, and then Pashtuns and Hazaras are equal nowadays (especially after the civil war an important number of Hazaras moved to the western areas of Kabul such as Allauddin and Dasht-e Barchi). But I think they all rely on the fake informations published by the Afghan government. And oh yeah, this map has an error between Uzbeks and Turkmens. It calls the proportion of Uzbeks as Turkmens and vice versa. Nevertheless, we can keep this one untill Tajik gets those two maps prepared. Ariana310 16:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I have asked a professional map-creator to create two maps for this article, based on all information available - most of all the license-protected government-maps. He needs a few weeks to finish them ... so just wait and see ;) Tājik 12:57, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Wow, thats so great. Now I was planning of making maps for languages and ethnic. Now I don't have to spend time on it and best of all a PROFESSIONAL be doing it! We're all looking very forward to this! Behnam 15:34, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wildlife of Afghanistan

Kindly contribute to this article when you get time, and request others too.

Thanks

Atulsnischal 13:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] afghanistan and iran

hi i just wanted to know how the relationship with iran and afghanistan was. are they allies or what? do they like eachother. are they cool with eachother and all? can anyone tell me plz. i would really appreciate it.

Afghanistan and Iran have a mutual relationship based on culture , ethnicity , and being apart of the former Persian empire. The Relationship was far better during the time of Zahir Shah king of Afghanistan and Reza Shah king of Iran, but since the two countries have been through wars and political ups and downs. The two nations have always tried to respect each others sovernty, especially now with the treaty of co-operation Afghanistan has signed in dec 2006 with Iran...basically stating that Iran is an allie of its sister nation Afghanistan and both will contribute and help each other militaraly and economicaly. So the relatioship is good for now. ( Iran has always been suspicious of Pakistan who mess around in Afghan politics and Iran has accused and told pakistan to stop meddling in Afghan politics) Abdul916 04:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to tell you this but Afghanistan and Iran will never be as friends the way you view it. Iran should help itself first and at the same time keep outta Afghan affairs. America signed a long term strategical partnership with Afghanistan in 2005, committing USA to help rebuild Afghanistan for no matter how long it takes. Since America and Iran are not friendly towards each others and Afghanistan being on USA's side, Iran should step off. I've visited Iran on several occasions, most people in Iran don't even know where Afghanistan is located, you call that having good relations with Afghanistan? Iranians naturally envy Afghans, Pakistanis also envy Afghans. That's been the case for a very long time now and Afghanistan's people are very well used to this. If you like Iran so much, go live there because nobody is stopping you. Afghanistan is doing fine, slowly rebuilding by the help of the western countries, especially USA. I'm very much sure Afghans don't need Iran or Pakistan for help right now, except in trying to make them stop the insurgents from crossing over to Afghan territories. At the same time, Iran and Pakistan need Afghanistan's help in trying to stop drugs from being smuggled to their countries. Iran has the world's highest heroin users, that could permanently cripple Iran. Pakistan also has the same problem with high drug use.

iraq is cool i like iraq and chicken balls

[edit] Vandalism

I've only recently had this page on my watchlist, but it does seem to get a good deal of vandalism. Does anybody think it warrants semi-protection from unregistered editors? Perhaps I'm being too extreme. Liamshaw 21:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Afghanistan Calendar Project" http://www.nongnu.org/afghancalendar/

Hi, I found following interesting Website:

  "Afghanistan Calendar Project"
  http://www.nongnu.org/afghancalendar/


The site overs free (GNU GPL) afghan calendars in different languages. The site is hosted at the GNU Savannah project.

The Mission Statement sound quite interesting: "This project is not bound to any political, ethnic, social or religious groupings. The aim of this project is to provide free available multilingual Afghan calendars, that are accessible on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality via free tools. The calendars are released under the GNU General Public License."

I suggest to add a link to this website to the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.51.218.180 (talk) 00:47, 18 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Historical Photo and Video Archive

In the External Links section, under Other, could you add a link to

   The Williams Afghan Media Project, http://drm.williams.edu/wamp

The Williams Afghan Media Project (WAMP) is an online resource for the study of Afghanistan. In addition to helping to preserve and make available resources related to Afghanistan, WAMP also provides a site for exploring Afghanistan's cultural legacy, historical development, and present situation.

Three photo collections that document in image and sound Afghan history and society from the late 19th century through the Soviet occupation represent the heart of the WAMP website:

  • The Khalilullah Enayat Seraj (KES) collection of photographs taken between the late 19th century and 1930,
  • The Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree collection of slides taken between 1949 and 1987, and
  • The Afghan Media Resource Center (AMRC) collection of photographs and slides taken between 1987 and 1992. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gbarton (talk • contribs) 12:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC).
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