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2009 Afghan presidential election, the Glossary

Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 20 August 2009.^[1]

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ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Abdul Ghafor Zori

Al Hajj Abdul Ghafoor Zori is a citizen of Afghanistan who was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections.

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Abdul Jabar Sabet

Abdul Jabar Sabet (عبدالجبار ثابت; 1945 – 26 January 2023) was an Afghan politician.

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Abdul Latif Pedram

Abdul Latīf Pedrām (عبداللطيف پدرام; born 29 July 1963) is a politician and a Member of Parliament in Afghanistan.

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Abdul Majid Samim

Abdul Majid Samim is a citizen of Afghanistan who was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 presidential elections.

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Abdul Rashid Dostum (عبدالرشید دوستم; Uzbek Latin: Abdurrashid Do'stum, Uzbek Cyrillic: Абдуррашид Дўстум,; born 25 March 1954) is an Afghan warlord, exiled politician, former Marshal in the Afghan National Army, founder and leader of the political party Junbish-e Milli.

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Abdul Rasul Sayyaf

Abdulrab Rasul Sayyaf (عبدالرب رسول سیف; born 1946) is an exiled Afghan politician and former mujahideen commander.

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Abdul Raziq Achakzai

Abdul Raziq Achakzai, also known as General Raziq, (عبدالرازق اڅکزی; عبدالرازق اچکزی.; 1979 – October 18, 2018) was the chief of police for Kandahar Province.

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Abdul Salam Rocketi

Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi (born 1958) is a former mujahideen "freedom fighter" and Taliban military commander who renounced his allegiance to run for the Parliament of Afghanistan in 2005, and for the Presidency in 2009.

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Abdullah Abdullah

Abdullah Abdullah (Dari/عبدالله عبدالله,; born as Abdullah on 5 September 1960) is a Pashtun Afghan politician who led the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) from May 2020 until August 2021, when the Afghan government was overthrown by the Taliban.

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Afghan conflict

The Afghan conflict (دافغانستان جنګونه; درگیری افغانستان) refers to the series of events that have kept Afghanistan in a near-continuous state of armed conflict since the 1970s.

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Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission

The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) (Dari:کمیسیون مستقل حقوق بشر افغانستان, د افغانستان د بشري حقونو خپلواک کميسيون) is a national human rights institution that was created during the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, dedicated to the promotion, protection, and monitoring of human rights and the investigation of human rights abuses.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Afghanistan National Television

Afghanistan National Television (تلویزیون ملی Televizion-e Milli-ye Afghanistan, ملی تلویزیون Da Afghanistan Milli Televizion) is the state-owned television channel in Afghanistan.

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Ahmad Zia Massoud

Ahmad Zia Massoud (احمد ضیاء مسعود, born May 1, 1956) is an Afghan politician who was the vice president of Afghanistan in the first elected administration of President Hamid Karzai, from December 2004 to November 2009.

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Ahmed Rashid

Ahmed Rashid (Urdu:; born 1948 in Rawalpindi) is a Pakistani journalist and best-selling foreign policy author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.

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Ahmed Wali Karzai

Ahmed Wali Karzai (احمد ولي کرزی,, 1961 – 12 July 2011) was an Afghan politician who served as Chairman of the Kandahar Provincial Council from 2005 until his death. 2009 Afghan presidential election and Ahmed Wali Karzai are Hamid Karzai.

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Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Anand Gopal

Anand Gopal is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes, which describes the travails of three Afghans caught in the war on terror.

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Ashraf Ghani

Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan former politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban.

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Azizullah Lodin

Dr.

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Badghis Province

Bādghīs (Dari) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northwest of the country, on the border with Turkmenistan.

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Baghlan

Baghlan (Pashto and Dari: بغلان Baġlān) is a city in northern Afghanistan, in the eponymous province, Baghlan Province.

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Baghlan Province

Baghlan (Baġlān) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.

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Balkh Province

Balkh (Pashto: بلخ، Balx) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country.

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Ballot box

A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually a square box though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period.

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Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon (born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016.

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Bashir Ahmad Bezan

Bashir Ahmad Bezan is a citizen of Afghanistan who was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bernard Kouchner

Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician and doctor.

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Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a nonpartisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., with operations in Europe, South and East Asia, and the Middle East as well as the United States.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

During the War in Afghanistan, according to the Costs of War Project the war killed 176,000 people in Afghanistan: 46,319 civilians, 69,095 military and police and at least 52,893 opposition fighters.

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Congressional Research Service

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a public policy research institute of the United States Congress.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Credibility

Credibility comprises the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source or message.

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Dasht-i-Leili massacre

The Dasht-i-Leili massacre occurred in December 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan when 250 to 2,000 Taliban prisoners were shot and/or suffocated to death in metal shipping containers while being transferred by Junbish-i Milli soldiers under the supervision of forces loyal to General Rashid Dostum from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison in Afghanistan.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.

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Demographics of Afghanistan

The population of Afghanistan is around 41 million as of 2023.

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Der Spiegel

(stylized in all caps) is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.

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Director of National Intelligence

The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a senior cabinet-level United States government official, required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and to direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program (NIP).

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Drug Enforcement Administration

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating illicit drug trafficking and distribution within the U.S. It is the lead agency for domestic enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act, sharing concurrent jurisdiction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S.

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Elections in Afghanistan

Though Afghanistan has had democratic elections throughout the 20th century, the electoral institutions have varied as changes in the political regime have disrupted political continuity.

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Electoral fraud

Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both. 2009 Afghan presidential election and Electoral fraud are political corruption.

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Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is an American news publication founded in 1970 focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.

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Freedom fighter

"Freedom fighter" is a term for those engaged in a struggle, the main cause of which is to achieve political freedom for themselves or obtain freedom for others.

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Frozan Fana

Frozan Fana (born 1969) was a candidate in the 2009 Afghan presidential election.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Ghazni Province

Ghazni (غزنی; غزني) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in southeastern Afghanistan.

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Ghulam Faroq Nijrabi

Ghulam Faroq Nijrabi was a candidate in the Afghan presidential election in 2004 and the Afghan presidential elections in 2009.

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Ghulam Mohammad Rigi

Ghulam Muhammad Rigi was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections.

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Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.

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Green Zone

The Green Zone (translit) is the most common name for the International Zone of Baghdad.

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Gul Ahmmad Yama

Gul Ahmmad Yama is a citizen of Afghanistan who was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections.

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Habib Mangal

Habib Mangal is an Afghan citizen who was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections.

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Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai (Pashto/حامد کرزی,,; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan politician who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from December 2004 to September 2014.

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Hazaras

The Hazaras (Hazāra; Āzrə) are an ethnic group and a principal component of the population of Afghanistan.

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Hedayat Amin Arsala

Hedayat Amin Arsala (هدايت امين ارسلا; born January 12, 1942) is an economist and a prominent politician in Afghanistan.

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Helmand Province

Helmand (Pashto/Dari), also known as Hillmand, in ancient times, as Hermand and Hethumand, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, in the south of the country.

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Herat

Herāt (Pashto, هرات) is an oasis city and the third-largest city in Afghanistan.

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Herat Province

Herat (هرات) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the western part of the country.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.

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House of the People (Afghanistan)

The House of Representatives of the People, or Da Afghanistan Wolesi Jirga (دَ افغانستان ولسي جرګه), was the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, alongside the upper House of Elders.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Insurgency

An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority.

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International Foundation for Electoral Systems

The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is an international, non-profit organisation founded in 1987.

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International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan

A 47-nation global survey of public opinion conducted in June 2007 by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found considerable opposition to the NATO military operations in Afghanistan.

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International Republican Institute

The International Republican Institute (IRI) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1983 and funded and supported by the United States federal government.

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Ismail Khan

Mohammad Ismail Khan (Dari/Pashto: محمد اسماعیل خان) (born 1946) is an Afghan former politician who served as Minister of Energy and Water from 2005 to 2013 and before that served as the governor of Herat Province.

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Jalalabad

Jalalabad (d͡ʒä.lɑː.lɑː.bɑːd̪) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan.

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James Carville

Chester James Carville Jr. (born October 25, 1944) is an American political consultant, author, and occasional actor who has strategized for candidates for public office in the United States and in at least 23 nations abroad.

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Jirga

A jirga (جرګه, jərga) is an assembly of leaders that makes decisions by consensus according to Pashtunwali, the Pashtun social code.

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John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Kabul Province

Kabul (Dari/Pashto), situated in the east of the country, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.

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Kai Eide

Kai Aage Eide (born 28 February 1949 in Sarpsborg) is a Norwegian diplomat and writer.

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Kandahar

Kandahar is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of.

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Kandahar Province

Kandahār (کندهار; Kandahār, قندهار; Qandahār) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country, sharing a border with Pakistan, to the south.

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Karim Khalili

Karim Khalili (کریمخلیلی; born 1950) is an Afghan politician serving as leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Afghanistan party.

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Karl Eikenberry

Karl Winfrid Eikenberry (born November 10, 1951) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from April 2009 to July 2011.

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Khanashin

Khanashin, or Khan Neshin, (other names: Khān Neshīn, Khannesin, Khan Nashin, Khān Nashīn, Khan Nashim, Khānnešīn) is a village located in the Reg District of Helmand Province, Afghanistan at at 642 altitude.

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Khost Province

Khost (Pashto/Dari) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan located in the southeastern part of the country.

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Kunduz Province

Kunduz (قندوز) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northern part of the country next to Tajikistan.

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Lashkargah

Lashkargāh (لښکرګاه; لشکرگاه), historically called Bost or Boost (بست، بوست), is a city in southwestern Afghanistan and the capital of Helmand Province.

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Le Figaro

() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826.

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List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel

The Afghan Transitional Administration was established in June and July 2002.

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Mahbob-U-lah Koshani

Mahbob-U-lah Koshani is a citizen of Afghanistan who was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections.

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Maidan Wardak Province

Maidan Wardak or Wardak, also called Wardag (Pashto:, Dari) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the central region of Afghanistan.

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Mirwais Yasini

Mirwais Yasini میرویس یاسینی (born 1962) is the current First Deputy Speaker of the Lower House of the Afghan Parliament.

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Mohammad Daoud Khan

Mohammad Daoud Khan (محمد داود خان; also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan; 18July 190928April 1978) was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup d'état which overthrew the monarchy, served as the first president of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in the Saur Revolution.

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Mohammad Fahim

Mohammad Qasim Fahim (محمد فهیم, popularly known as "Marshal Fahim"; 1957 – 9 March 2014) was an Afghan military commander and politician who served as Vice President of Afghanistan from June 2002 until December 2004 and from November 2009 until his death.

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Mohammad Hashem Taufiqui

Al Haj Eng Economist Mohammad Hashem Taufiqui (Persian: الحاج محمد هاشمتوفیقی) (June 6, 1942 – June 6, 2021, Kabul) was one of the candidates in the presidential election of 2009 in Afghanistan.

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Mohammad Sarwar Ahmedzai

Sarwar Ahmedzai is a citizen of Afghanistan who was a presidential candidate in 2009 and 2014.

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Motasim Billah Mazhabi

Motasim Billah Mazhabi is a citizen of Afghanistan who was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections.

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MSNBC

MSNBC (short for Microsoft NBC) is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City.

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Mujahideen

Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community (ummah).

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Nader Nadery

Ahmad Nader Nadery (born 1975) is an Afghan-born human rights activist and government official.

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National Coalition of Afghanistan

The National Coalition of Afghanistan (ائتلاف ملی, Etelaf-e Milli; previously known as the Coalition for Change and Hope), was a political coalition in Afghanistan led by Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's former foreign minister (2001–2005) and main challenger of President Hamid Karzai in the 2009 Afghan presidential elections.

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National Congress Party of Afghanistan

The National Congress Party of Afghanistan (حزب کنگره ملی افغانستان Hezb-e Kongra-ye Millī-ye Afghānistān) is a liberal, secular and anti-Pashtun nationalist political party in Afghanistan.

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National Democratic Institute

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) is a non-profit American non-governmental organization whose stated mission is to "support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability".

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National Islamic Front of Afghanistan

National Islamic Front of Afghanistan (Mahaz-e Milli-ye Islami-ye Afghanistan, Mahaz-i Milli-yi Islami-yi Afghanistan) is a political party in Afghanistan.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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Northern Alliance

The Northern Alliance (ائتلاف شمال E'tilāf Šumāl or اتحاد شمال Ettehād Šumāl), officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان Jabha-ye Muttahid-e Islāmī-ye Millī barāye Najāt-e Afğānistān), was a military alliance of groups that operated between early 1992 and 2001 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011)

The Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) was characterized by a large United States military deployment on Iraqi territory, beginning with the US-led invasion of the country in March 2003 which overthrew the Ba'ath Party government of Saddam Hussein and ending with the departure of US troops from the country in 2011.

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Opium

Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.

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Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011.

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Paghman District

Paghman District is in the western part of Kabul Province, Afghanistan.

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Paktia Province

Paktia (Pashto – Paktyā) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the east of the country.

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Paktika Province

Paktika (Pashto) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country.

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Pashtuns

Pashtuns (translit), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are a nomadic, pastoral, Eastern Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. They historically were also referred to as Afghans until the 1970s after the term's meaning had become a demonym for members of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan.

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Peter Galbraith

Peter Woodard Galbraith (born December 31, 1950) is an American author, academic, commentator, politician, policy advisor, and former diplomat.

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Political strongman

In politics, a strongman is a type of authoritarian political leader—civilian or military—who exerts control through military enforcement and has, or has claimed to have, strong popular support.

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Politics of Afghanistan

The politics of Afghanistan are based on a totalitarian emirate within the Islamic theocracy in which the Taliban Movement holds a monopoly on power.

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President of Afghanistan

The president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was constitutionally the head of state and head of government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2004–2021) and Commander-in-Chief of the Afghan Armed Forces.

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Private military company

A private military company (PMC) or private military and security company (PMSC) is a private company providing armed combat or security services for financial gain.

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Provinces of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces (ولايت, wilåyat).

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Radio Azadi

Radio Azadi (formerly Radio Free Afghanistan) is the Afghan branch of the U.S. government's Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL) external broadcast services.

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Radio France Internationale

Radio France Internationale, usually referred to as RFI, is the state-owned international radio news network of France.

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Radio Television Afghanistan

National Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA; د افغانستان ملي راډيو تلويزیون Da Afġānistān Millī Rādīo Televizion, رادیو تلویزیون ملی افغانستان Rādīo Televizion-e Millī-ye Afġānistān, branded as ملی (meaning national)) is the public-broadcasting organization of Afghanistan, based in Kabul.

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Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician and diplomat currently serving as United States ambassador to Japan.

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Ramazan Bashardost

Ramazan Bashardost (رمضان بشردوست; born 1961) is an Afghan politician who was the former planning minister in Afghanistan and a current member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan.

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Rangin Dadfar Spanta

Dr.

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Rangina Hamidi

Rangina Hamidi (Pashto: رنګینه حمیدي; born 1978) is an Afghan-American writer, educator, social activist, and politician.

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Richard Holbrooke

Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat and author.

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Robert Gates

Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American intelligence analyst and university president who served as the 22nd United States secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011.

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Ronald E. Neumann

Ronald Eldredge Neumann (born September 30, 1944) is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Afghanistan (2005–2007), Bahrain (2001–2004) and Algeria (1994–1997).

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Roshanak Wardak

Roshanak Wardak (Pashto: روشنک وردگ; Dari: روشنک وردگ; born 1962) is an Afghan gynaecologist and former politician from Maidan Wardak Province.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Sampling (statistics)

In statistics, quality assurance, and survey methodology, sampling is the selection of a subset or a statistical sample (termed sample for short) of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

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Sayed Jalal Karim

Said Jalal Karim is a citizen of Afghanistan who was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections.

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Secretary-General of the United Nations

The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.

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Shahla Ata

Shahla Ata (October 20, 1959 – March 12, 2015) was an Afghan politician, congresswoman and one of two female candidates during Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential election.

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Shahnawaz Tanai

Lieutenant General Shahnawaz Tanai (Russian: Шахнаваз Танай, 1950 – 7 March 2022) was an Afghan politician and general officer who served as the Chief of General Staff of the Afghan National Army until his defection to neighbouring Pakistan following a failed coup d'état in 1990.

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Spin Boldak

Spin Boldak (Dari, سپین بولدک) is a border town and the headquarters of Spin Boldak District in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, next to the border with Pakistan.

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Stephen Harper

Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015.

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Stern (magazine)

Stern (German for "Star", stylized in all lowercase) is an illustrated, broadly left-liberal, weekly current affairs magazine published in Hamburg, Germany, by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.

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Suicide attack

A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack.

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Tajiks

Tajiks (Tājīk, Tājek; Tojik) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.

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Tarinkot

Tarinkot (ترين کوت), also spelled as Tarin Kowt, is a city in south-central Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Uruzgan Province.

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The Canadian Press

The Canadian Press (CP; La Presse canadienne, PC) is a Canadian national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly is an international English-language news magazine based in London, England.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Sunday Telegraph

The Sunday Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper, first published on 5 February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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The Washington Times

The Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It covers general interest topics with an emphasis on national politics.

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Third Anglo-Afghan War

The Third Anglo-Afghan War began on 6 May 1919 when the Emirate of Afghanistan invaded British India and ended with an armistice on 8 August 1919.

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TOLO (TV channel)

TOLO (sunrise) is a commercial television station operated by MOBY Group in Afghanistan. Launched in 2004, it became one of the first commercial stations in the country and laid the foundation for an accessible media outlet by offering a large library of shows. It is one of the most popular television channels in Afghanistan and broadcasts shows in both Dari-Persian and Pashto.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan

The Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan (TISA), also known as the Afghan Transitional Authority, was the name of the temporary transitional government in Afghanistan put in place by the loya jirga in June 2002.

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United National Front (Afghanistan)

The United National Front was a coalition of various political parties in Afghanistan.

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United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is a UN Special Political Mission tasked with assisting the people of Afghanistan.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the U.S. Senate charged with leading foreign-policy legislation and debate in the Senate.

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Uruzgan Province

Uruzgan (Pashto:; Dari), also spelled as Urozgan or Oruzgan, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.

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Uzbeks

The Uzbeks (Oʻzbek, Ўзбек,, Oʻzbeklar, Ўзбеклар) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the wider Central Asian region, being among the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.

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Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international radio broadcasting state media agency owned by the United States of America.

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Voter turnout

In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election.

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Wahid Omar

Waheed Omar (Dari:وحید عمر) (born March 1978) is a politician in Afghanistan currently serving as President Ghani's Senior Advisor and Director General of Office of Public and Strategic Affairs.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.

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Warlord

A warlord is an individual who exercises military, economic, and political control over a region, often within a country without a strong national government, through usually informal or illegal coercive control over the local armed forces.

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WebCite

WebCite is an intermittently available archive site, originally designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important material on the web by taking snapshots of Internet contents as they existed at the time when a blogger or a scholar cited or quoted from it.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.

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World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.

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Zabih-U-llah Ghazi Noristani

Zabih-U-llah Ghazi Noristani is a citizen of Afghanistan who was a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections.

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Zabul Province

Zabul (Pashto/Dari) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the south of the country.

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Zalmay Khalilzad

Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (زلمی خلیل زاد, زلمی خلیل‌زاد; born March 22, 1951) is an American diplomat and foreign policy expert.

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2004 Afghan presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on October 9, 2004. 2009 Afghan presidential election and 2004 Afghan presidential election are elections in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai and presidential elections in Afghanistan.

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2004 Constitution of Afghanistan

The 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan was the supreme law of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which lasted from 2004 to 2021.

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2005 Afghan parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Afghanistan alongside provincial elections on 18 September 2005.

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2009 Iranian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. 2009 Afghan presidential election and 2009 Iranian presidential election are 2009 elections in Asia.

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2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul

The 2009 UN guest house attack happened in the early hours of October 28, 2009, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Afghan_presidential_election

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