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Geography
- Durand Line [r]: A boundary line between 19th century Afghanistan and India, disputed then and now, and now forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the border of Balochistan Province [e]
- Afghanistan [r]: A Islamic republic in Central Asia, with an unstable but elected government; borders China, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan [e]
- Khost Province [r]: A province of Afghanistan, on the border with Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Area [e]
- Pakistan [r]: Country in southern Asia, established as a Muslim state split from India in 1947, bordering the Arabian Sea to the south, India to the east, Iran and Afghanistan to the west, and China to the north. [e]
Groups
- Durrani [r]: One of the two major tribes of the Pashtun people [e]
- Ghilzai [r]: One of the two major tribes of the Pashtun people, rivals of the Durrani who founded the monarchy and retain leadership roles [e]
Politics
- Hamid Karzai [r]: President of Afghanistan, who took interim office in 2002, was reelected to a full five-year term in 2004, and gained another term after a disputed election in August 2009; Pashtun of the Durrani tribe [e]
- Taliban [r]: Salafist Islamic militia, governing Afghanistan 1996–2001; still fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [e]
- Quetta Shura [r]: The core Afghan Taliban leadership group believed to be in Quetta, Pakistan, after being driven out of Afghanistan, and still led by Mullah Omar; leadership over native Pakistani Taliban is not clear [e]
- Haqqani Network [r]: An insurgent group, now in its second generation of leadership, on the Afghan-Pakistani border; more tribal than religious but with an alliance with Taliban factions [e]
Culture
- Pashtunwali [r]: The honor code of the Pashtun people, a strong tenet of which is protection of guests [e]
- 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]
- Tajik [r]: An ethnic group of Central Asia, culturally Persian and speaking the Dari dialect of Farsi; they are the dominant group of Tajikistan and the second largest ethnic group of Afghanistan [e]
- Afghan and Pakistani local forces [r]: In Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially within Pashtun culture, tribes will raise local forces variously as akarbai (community police), lashkar (fighters for a common threat) and paid militias [e]
