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Parent topics
- Afghanistan [r]: A Islamic republic in Central Asia, with an unstable but elected government; borders China, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan [e]
- Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attacks, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [e]
Subtopics
- Abdullah Abdullah [r]: Candidate in the 2009 Afghanistan presidential election; former Foreign Minister; opthalmologist; half Tajik and half Pashtun but tends to be regarded as Tajik [e]
- Lakhdar Brahimi [r]: Member, Global Leadership Foundation; board, International Crisis Group; former Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and U.N. Special Envoy to Iraq in 2004; former Foreign Minister of Algeria [e]
- Ashraf Ghani [r]: 2009 candidate for President of Afghanistan; Strategic Advisory Group, Atlantic Council; Finance Minister in the Afghan interim government of 2001; former nonresident senior fellow, Brookings Institution; faculty of Johns Hopkins University; World Bank anthropologist [e]
- Ramazan Bashardost [r]: Independent member of the parliament of Afghanistan and candidate in the 2009 Afghanistan presidential election; was Planning Minister in 2004; French-educated in law, diplomacy and political science; ethnically Hazara but running as an Afghan populist [e]
- Abdul Qadir [r]: Elder brother of Abdul Haq, assassinated in 2002 after becoming vice president and Public Works Minister in Hamid Karzai's government; son was a militia commander at the Battle of Tora Bora [e]
- Karim Khalili [r]: (1950-) Currently the second vice president in the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai, a member of the Hazara group and a Shi'a [e]
- Mohammed Qasim Fahim [r]: A Tajik warlord and Northern Alliance commander, running as vice president with Hamid Karzai in the 2009 Afghanistan election; accused of human rights violations [e]
- Taj Muhammed Wardak [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yunus Qanooni [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Northern Alliance [r]: A military alliance against the Taliban in Afghanistan's civil war, which, with U.S. assistance, drove it from power in the Afghanistan War (2001-) [e]
- Abdul Rashid Dostum [r]: Afghan Uzbek warlord who had been the dominant figure in the north, although he may have gone into exile in Turkey [e]
- Ismail Khan [r]: A Hazara warlord of western Afghanistan, whose base is in Herat, with good ties to but not under the control of Iran; he has been on both sides of warfare [e]
