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Afghanistan: Countries
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This is the first Microwave Ring across the country in the history of Afghanistan, covering a distance of 2,500 Kilometers and millions of dollars of investment. It passes through 18 provinces providing direct coverage and connectivity to the population residing in surrounding areas. The ring ensures excellent quality coverage to 31 provinces, more than 250 towns, cities, highways and ensures world class GSM service to the largest customer base in Afghanistan.
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Rahman was released from Afghanistan's highest security prison Monday after mounting international pressure from world leaders, human-rights workers and Christian groups. His asylum raises fears here that other Afghans will convert to other faiths, just to be able to leave the country.The case has been a test for the fledgling Afghan democracy, struggling to find its way after the fall of the harsh Taliban in late 2001. The country's constitution protects human rights and freedom of religion but ... sets up Islamic law as the overriding law of the land. Many conservative Muslims here believed Rahman's conversion should be punished by death.
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The CIA World Factbook on languages spoken in Afghanistan is shown in the right image box. Persian (Dari dialects) 50% and Pashto 35%; both are Indo-European languages from the Iranian languages sub-family. Pashto and Persian are the official languages of the country. Hazaragi, spoken by the Hazara minority, is another dialect of Persian. Other languages spoken include Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 9%, as well as 30 minor languages 4% (primarily Balochi, Nuristani, Pashai, Brahui, Pamiri languages, Hindko, etc.). Bilingualism is common.
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Suicide attacks have become a major factor in the current resurgence of violence in Afghanistan, indicating Al Qaeda is staging a comeback. So far this year, there have been 32 suicide terrorist attacks, more than the total committed in the entire history of the country, write Hekmat Karzai and Seth G. Jones.
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According to the Encyclopædia Iranica,[56] the Persian language is the mother tongue of roughly one-third of Afghanistan's population, while it is ... the most widely used language of the country, spoken by around 80% of the population. It further states that Pashto is spoken by around 50% of the population.
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