Afghanistan in the 1950's and 1960's

This is Afganistan of 50s and 60s. Lots of people would think that they will see pictures of wild, underdeveloped and medieval country with lif econditions worse than now. Oh well, think again.Mohammad Qayoumi, president of California State University, East Bay, writes in Foreign Policy:On a recent trip to Afghanistan, British Defense Secretary Liam Fox drew fire for calling it "a broken 13th-century country." The most common objection was not that he was wrong, but that he was overly blunt.

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