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politics of Afghanistan: Information from Answers.com (2432 words) |
 | In recent years the politics of Afghanistan have been dominated by the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by the United States and the subsequent efforts to stabilise and democratise the country. |
| Afghanistan held parliamentary elections on 18 September 2005. |
| United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan was established in March 2003 "in an effort to integrate all UN activities in Afghanistan. |
| AFGHANISTAN: (3714 words) |
| The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 in order to rescue a PDPA regime which was on the verge of collapse, confronted by countrywide uprisings and with an army rapidly disintegrating from desertions. |
| Rural reform policies it implemented (land redistribution, the abolition of the peasant debts, the abolition of brideprice in marriage, compulsory education), were seen by the peasants as an outside intervention whose effect would be to undermine traditional social structures by strengthening the power of the state. |
| These were still in the hands of Najibullah and his supporters in the Watan (Homeland) Party, as the PDPA had been re-named in a new spirit of national reconciliation, and were still being supplied by the Russians. |
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