Afghanistan: a history of instability
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Afghanistan and the British Empire
The british empire's involvement in this story more fully, and perhaps think about what it says about our own history, as well as that of afghanistan. The frontier was really drawn up with the convenience of the defence of british india in mind. And it it cut through e pushton peoples. It divided e tribes, villages in half. Since then has just been a deep bone of contention between afghanistan and and its neighbours,. o originally britishindia, but later on, pakistan and pacistan.
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