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About A.H Amin
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Indo Pak Military History ,Afghanistan , Low Intensity Warfare,History of Baluchistan

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Military History - afganistan


Expert: A.H Amin - 6/28/2004

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Might seem to be an inane question but where or who does the word Afgan come from. The reason i ask this is that i have noticed that afganistan is made up of numerous ethnic groups, of which many have parent countries outside Afganistan( Tajik, Uzbek etc.)
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thanks for the mail.

afghanistan is essentially a geograpic term referring to the country between indus and oxus rivers , land of the afghans, all races living in afghanistan come under the term the afghan millat and they speak a common language dari , a type of persian ...i am in remote area , for more exact details please get hold of american anthropologist Louis Dupree's book "Afghanistan" , its available in all libraries .

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A.H Amin
pavocavalry@kurdland.com

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