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The following lists events that happened during '''[[1996]] in [[Afghanistan]]'''.
==[[April 3]], [[1996]]==
*About 1,000 Muslim clergymen elect Taliban leader [[Mohammed Omar]] as ''amir al-momineen'' (commander of the faithful), denouncing Rabbani as unfit to lead the Islamic nation.


==Incumbents==
==[[June 26]], [[1996]]==
*[[List of heads of state of Afghanistan|De facto head of state]]: [[Mullah Omar|Mohammed Omar]]
*Hekmatyar, whose Hezb-i-Islami forces have bombarded the government in Kabul until driven from their positions by the Taliban, is sworn in again as prime minister. He immediately attempts to open contacts with northern Afghanistan's powerful warlord, General Dostum. From his power base in Mazar-i-Sharif, Dostum continues to control a virtually independent northern Afghanistan. On July 3 President Rabbani names a 10-man cabinet under Prime Minister Hekmatyar. Foreign minister: Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai; defense: Wahidullah Sabawoon; finance: Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal; interior: Mohammad Younus Qanuni.
* [[President of Afghanistan|President]]: [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]]
* [[Prime Minister of Afghanistan|Prime Minister]]: [[Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai]] (until 26 June), [[Gulbuddin Hekmatyar]] (starting 26 June)
* [[Vice President of Afghanistan|Vice President]]: [[Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi]] (left)


==Events==
==[[September 5]], [[1996]]==
*The Taliban launch a rapid offensive in eastern Afghanistan. Their forces capture the city of Jalalabad, together with important areas in Nangarhar and Laghman provinces. With these territorial advances most of Afghanistan's traditionally Pashtun homelands are united under Taliban control. The gains include Kabul's main road to Pakistan and seal the fate of Rabbani's mostly Tajik government.


===April===
==[[September 27]], [[1996]]==
*April 3 – About 1,000 Muslim clergymen elect Taliban leader [[Mullah Omar|Mohammed Omar]] as ''amir al-momineen'' (commander of the faithful), denouncing Rabbani as unfit to lead the Islamic nation.
*The long power struggle between Afghanistan's armed factions takes a decisive turn when Taliban militias enter Kabul, where they meet little resistance from government forces. Despite the fundamentalist nature of the Taliban movement, many hope that it might mean an end to the deadly rivalry between Afghan factions, which have killed 25,000-45,000 Afghans, mostly civilians, since the collapse of Afghanistan's communist government in April 1992. The Taliban's first act is to execute the last communist president, Najibullah, together with his brother, Shahpur Ahmadzai. Najibullah had been living inside the UN compound in Kabul since 1992. Rabbani and other members of his government retreat north of Kabul. Government forces under Ahmad Shah Masood withdraw to the Panjsher valley. The country is now to be run by a six-man Supreme Council headed by Mullah Mohammad Rabbani (no relation), who appoints Mullah Mohammad Ghous as his foreign minister.


===May===
==October [[1996]]==
*May 18 – the [[Taliban]] provided protection to [[Al-Qaeda]]'s leader [[Osama bin Laden]] after relocating to Afghanistan following his expulsion from [[Sudan]].
*Masood and other former government forces form a military alliance with General Dostum.


===June===
==[[December 1]], [[1996]]==
*June 26 – [[Gulbuddin Hekmatyar|Hekmatyar]], whose Hezb-i-Islami forces have bombarded the government in Kabul until driven from their positions by the Taliban, is sworn in again as prime minister. He immediately attempts to open contacts with northern Afghanistan's powerful warlord, [[Abdul Rashid Dostum|General Dostum]]. From his power base in Mazari Sharif, Dostum continues to control a virtually independent northern Afghanistan. On July 3 President Rabbani names a 10-man cabinet under Prime Minister Hekmatyar. Foreign minister: Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai; defense: [[Waheedullah Sabawoon]]; finance: [[Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal]]; interior: [[Yunus Qanuni|Mohammad Yunus Qanuni]].
*Former head of state Babrak Karmal dies in Moscow.


===September===
==[[May 24]], [[1997]]==
*September 5 – The Taliban launch a rapid offensive in eastern Afghanistan. Their forces capture the city of Jalalabad, together with important areas in Nangarhar and Laghman provinces. With these territorial advances most of Afghanistan's traditionally Pashtun homelands are united under Taliban control. The gains include Kabul's main road to Pakistan and seal the fate of Rabbani's mostly [[Tājik people|Tajik]] government.
*Opposition warlord Dostum is ousted from his fiefdom in northern Afghanistan by a combined assault of Taliban fighters and followers of Gen. Abdul Malik, who switched sides to the Taliban. The Taliban forces and their new allies capture Kunduz, Baghlan and Samangan provinces, now controlling 26 of the 32 provinces. Dostum flees to Turkey, vowing to continue his struggle. Malik promises a strict Islamic regime in the northern areas under his control, centred on Mazar-i-Sharif, which was the last major city to hold out against the Taliban. On May 25 Pakistan becomes the first country to recognize the Taliban government. On May 28, however, Malik turns against the Taliban again, and the Taliban are driven out of Mazar-i-Sharif in a bloody battle in which several thousand of them are taken captive.
*September 27 – The long power struggle between [[Afghanistan]]'s armed factions takes a decisive turn when [[Taliban]] militias enter [[Kabul]], where they meet little resistance from government forces.<ref name=IRB,Can.,1997>{{cite report |ref={{sfnRef|Chronology of Events|1997}} |title=Afghanistan: Chronology of Events January 1995 – February 1997 |date=February 1997 |publisher=Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |url=https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2014/01/16/Af_chronology_1995-.pdf|page=15}}</ref> The Taliban's first act is to execute the last [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan]] president [[Mohammad Najibullah]] along with his brother [[Shahpur Ahmadzai]]. Najibullah had been living inside a [[United Nations]] compound in Kabul since 1992. The new state, the [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)|Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]] was recognized only by three UN member states: [[Pakistan]], [[Saudi Arabia]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]].


===October===
==[[June 13]], [[1997]]==
*October 4 – In [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Russia]] and four other Central Asian countries adopted a declaration expressing concern regarding the conflict in [[Afghanistan]], assessing it as a direct threat to the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]].
*The Taliban leadership names a new foreign minister, Mullah Abdul Jalil, to replace Mullah Mohammad Ghous, who was taken prisoner by opposition forces in late May.


===November===
==[[July 24]], [[1997]]==
*November 11 – In [[Tehran]], [[Iran]], [[Afghanistan]]'s ousted president [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]] arrived for talks with high-ranking Iranian officials to discuss developments in Afghanistan.
*Opposition forces come within 20 km of Kabul, within rocket range. Aid workers leave.


===December===
==[[July 30]], [[1997]]==
*December 2 – The season's first snowfall in [[Badghis Province]], [[Afghanistan]] severely hampered fighting between [[Taliban]] and [[Afghan Northern Alliance]] forces, and halted humanitarian relief efforts.
*The Taliban tighten regulations in Kabul, punishing over 700 people for breaking Islamic laws forbidding women from working outside their homes and men from trimming beards.
*December 3 -
**Former [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] head of state [[Babrak Karmal]] died in [[Moscow, Russia]].
**[[Ehsanullah Ehsan (banker)|Ehsanullah Ehsan]], the chairman of the [[Taliban]]'s Central Bank, declared most [[Afghani note]]s in circulation to be worthless and cancelled the contract with the [[Russia]]n firm that had been printing the currency since 1992. Ehsan accused the firm of sending new shipments of Afghani notes to ousted president [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]] in northern [[Takhar Province]].
**In [[Kabul]], [[Mazari Sharif]], [[Geneva]] and [[New York City|New York]] the [[United Nations]] launched its fifth annual appeal for $133 million in [[humanitarian aid]] to [[Afghanistan]], but warned [[Taliban]] leaders that policies toward conduct of women would have to change.
**In [[Jalalabad]], [[Afghanistan]], the local Department for Promoting the Good and Suppressing the Bad issued a directive prohibiting [[taxicab driver|taxi driver]]s from giving rides to women wearing [[chador]]s.
**[[UNICEF]] announced that it would stop funding education projects in [[Kabul]], [[Afghanistan]] if girls were not allowed by the [[Taliban]] to go to school.
*December 4 -
**In [[Mazari Sharif]], [[Afghanistan]] faction leader [[Gulbuddin Hekmatyar]] joined the anti-[[Taliban]] [[Afghan Northern Alliance]] formed by ousted president [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]] and northern militia leader General [[Abdul Rashid Dostum]].
**In [[Kabul]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Radio Shariat]] (Radio Islamic Law) announced that women should be covered from head to foot.
*December 5 -
**In [[Tehran]], [[Iran]], [[Afghanistan]]'s ousted president [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]] arrived for talks with [[President of Iran|President]] [[Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]] to discuss developments in Afghanistan.
**The [[Taliban]] punished 225 women for violating [[Taliban]] clothing rules, and punished several men for violating Taliban beard rules. The men were advised to "grow thick beards and small moustaches within one and a half months."
*December 6 -
**In [[Istalif]], [[Afghanistan]] enemy troops pounded [[Taliban]] positions with heavy artillery and rockets, prompting Taliban troops to pull out of the village.
**[[United Nations]] special envoy [[Norbert Holl]] met with [[Taliban]] Foreign Minister Mullah [[Mohammed Ghous]].
**A [[Russia]]n military airplane transported the body of former [[President of Afghanistan|Afghan President]] [[Babrak Karmal]] to [[Mazari Sharif]] to be buried.
*December 7 -
**A [[United Nations]] 10-seater [[Beechcraft]] airplane carrying [[Tājik people|Tajik]] opposition leader [[Sayid Abdulloh Nuri]] and seven other Tajik passengers from [[Mashhad]], [[Iran]] to [[Taloqan]], [[Afghanistan]] was intercepted by [[Taliban]] aircraft and forced to land in [[Shindand, Herat|Shindand]].
**[[Pakistan]]i Foreign Secretary [[Najmuddin Shaikh]] met with rebel forces in [[Mazari Sharif]], [[Afghanistan]].
*December 8 -
**In [[Shindand, Herat|Shindand]], [[Afghanistan]], the [[Taliban]] released the [[United Nations]] a 10-seater [[Beechcraft]] airplane they had forced to land the previous day, and had it flown to Taliban headquarters in [[Kandahar]] for repairs rather than allowing it to complete its flight to [[Kunduz]].
**[[Taliban]] officials met with [[Pakistan]]i Foreign Secretary [[Najmuddin Shaikh]]The subject discussed as during Mr. Shaikh's meeting with Dostum and Dr. Abdullah in Mazar Sharif a day earlier was the working out of ceasefire arrangements between the contending factions in Afghanistan and suggesting talks with the Northern Alliance for the formation of a coalition government
**[[Taliban]] leadership nominated [[Abdul Hakeem Mujahed]] as [[Afghanistan]]'s ambassador to the [[United Nations]].
**In [[Kunduz]], [[Afghanistan]], [[United Nations]] special envoy [[Norbert Holl]] met with ousted commander [[Ahmad Shah Massoud]] to discuss U.N. proposals for an Afghan [[ceasefire]], the demilitarization of [[Kabul]], and the formation of a neutral [[Afghan Police Force]].
*December 10 – In [[Kandahar]], [[Afghanistan]], [[United Nations]] special envoy [[Norbert Holl]] with senior [[Taliban]] officials.
*December 12 – In [[Mazari Sharif]], [[Afghanistan]], [[United Nations]] special envoy [[Norbert Holl]] met with rebel leader General [[Abdul Rashid Dostum]].


==Births==
==[[August 7]], [[1997]]==
*July 7 – [[Zekeria Ebrahimi]], actor
*Aid workers return to Kabul, but are hampered by Taliban rules limiting access to women.


==References==
==[[August 11]], [[1997]]==
{{reflist}}
*Following an initiative by the UN special representative in Afghanistan, Norbert Holl, to build a broad-based government, the opposition names a new administration lineup, including Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai as prime minister, Abdul Malik Pahlawan as foreign minister, and Ahmad Shah Masood as defense minister. Burhanuddin Rabbani is to remain as president. The Hezb-i-Islami faction of former prime minister Hekmatyar denounces the new cabinet without any Hezb representation and based in the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif as designed to divide Afghanistan. In fact, this government is little more than a cover for the northern alliance's military effort to retake Kabul. The reinvigorated northern alliance of Malik's and Masood's forces plus Hazara Shi`ite militias push the Taliban back to within a few kilometres of Kabul.


{{Years in Afghanistan}}
==[[August 21]], [[1997]]==
{{Year in Asia|1996}}
*Ghafoorzai dies in a plane crash. Abdul Ghafoor Rawan Farhadi later replaces him as prime minister.


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*Fighting rages outside Mazar-i-Sharif after the Taliban try again to take the city.
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*Over 70 aid workers and dependants evacuate Mazar-i-Sharif after their premises are ransacked and looted.
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==[[September 29]], [[1997]]==
*The Taliban arrest European Union Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs [[Emma Bonino]], EU delegates, and journalists for taking pictures in a women's hospital in Kabul. They are released the same day.

==[[October 14]], [[1997]]==
*Dostum returns to Mazar-i-Sharif from exile in Turkey.

==[[October 26]], [[1997]]==
*The Taliban change the name of the country to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, underlining the importance of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who is known as ''amir al-momineen'' (Leader of the Faithful), although his constitutional position remains unclear. Although controlling about two-thirds of the country, the Taliban have only been recognized by three countries - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates - as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's seat in the UN is occupied by representatives of the administration of Burhanuddin Rabbani that has been ousted from Kabul 13 months ago, while the Organization of the Islamic Conference declared Afghanistan's seat vacant.

==[[November 2]], [[1997]]==
*Malik is routed by Dostum and forced to flee.

==[[February 4]], [[1998]]==
*At least 4,500 people die when a severe earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale strikes the opposition-ruled Rustaq district of Takhar province in northeastern Afghanistan. Another earthquake hits the same region on May 30 (magnitude 6.9), claiming another several thousand lives. (Need to find which tectonic plates caused it)

==[[July 8]], [[1998]]==
*The Taliban movement gives Afghans 15 days to get rid of their television sets, video players, and satellite receivers. The Taliban has anyway put a stop to television broadcasts in the two-thirds of the country it controls. But Maulvi Qalamuddin, the Taliban deputy minister in charge of its Department for Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue, said people continued to watch video tapes and foreign television channels received via satellite dishes. He said watching video tapes and satellite television broadcasts was inadmissible in Islam, damaging to morals, and caused mental disorders.

==[[July 12]], [[1998]]==
*The Taliban capture the key opposition stronghold of Maimana, capital of Faryab province in the northwest.

==[[July 21]], [[1998]]==
*140 detainees were released in Afghanistan under the auspices of the [[International Committee of the Red Cross]]. Half of the detainees were being held by Taliban authorities in Kandahar and the other half by authorities of the Northern Alliance in Panshir.

==[[August 2]], [[1998]]==
*The opposition alliance admits the loss of the key northern town of Shiberghan to the Taliban. The entire province of Sar-i-Pul falls on August 4.

==[[August 7]], [[1998]]==
*[[United States]] [[embassy|embassies]] in [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]] were bombed. Some 250 people were killed in the blasts and thousands more wounded. [[Osama bin Laden]] was the primary suspect.

==[[August 8]], [[1998]]==
*The Taliban capture the northern opposition capital of Mazar-i-Sharif. On August 11, they capture Taloqan, the Takhar provincial capital, the latest in a series of spectacular victories.

==[[August 20]], [[1998]]==
*The [[United States]] carried out preemptive missile attacks in eastern [[Afghanistan]] on suspected terrorist training camps allegedly run by [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] dissident [[Osama bin Laden]].

==[[August 21]], [[1998]]==
*[[United States President]] [[Bill Clinton]] signed an [[executive order]] freezing the accounts of [[Osama bin Laden]]. Bin Laden was also placed on the [[FBI ten most wanted fugitives|FBI most wanted list]], and a reward of US$5 million was offered for his capture. An Italian army officer working for the United Nations is shot dead in Kabul. All foreigners working for the UN in Afghanistan are evacuated.

==[[September 3]], [[1998]]==
*70,000 [[Iran]]ian troops engaged in [[war games]] near the border of [[Afghanistan]].
*In [[Taloqan]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Taliban]] aircraft dropped several cluster bombs on a market, killing nine people, including a foreign journalist.

==[[September 10]], [[1998]]==
*The Taliban movement says it has found the bodies of nine Iranian diplomats whose disappearance sparked tension with neighbouring Iran; two survivors return to Iran.

==[[September 13]], [[1998]]==
A*The Taliban militia says its fighters have captured the central Shi`ite town of Bamiyan, the last major opposition stronghold in Afghanistan. On September 14, Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warns the Taliban and Pakistan that their actions could provoke a major regional conflict.

==[[September 21]], [[1998]]==
*Anti-Taliban forces shell Kabul with rockets for a second day, bringing the death toll to over 70 people.

==[[September 19]], [[1998]]==
*A senior [[United States|U.S.]] diplomat told a top [[Taliban]] official in [[Islamabad]], [[Pakistan]] that the militia would be held responsible for any new terror strikes by [[Osama bin Laden]].

==[[October 8]], [[1998]]==
*Iran inflicts "heavy casualties" in a first armed clash with Afghan Taliban forces after weeks of tension between the hostile neighbours.

==[[October 12]], [[1998]]==
*The last three bodies of Iranian diplomats killed by Afghan Taliban militiamen are flown back to Tehran.

==[[October 23]], [[1998]]==
*The UN and the Taliban movement sign an agreement paving the way for the return of UN international staff to Afghanistan.

==[[February 13]], [[1999]]==
*America's public enemy number one, Osama Bin Laden, is reported missing by his Taliban hosts in Afghanistan.

==[[May 9]], [[1999]]==
*The Taliban movement says that its forces have retaken the key central town of Bamiyan from the opposition alliance.

==[[June 20]], [[1999]]==
*The Red Cross pulls non-essential foreign staff out of Afghanistan after 10 of its workers were beaten.

==[[July 6]], [[1999]]==
*U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes financial and commercial sanctions on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement because of its support of Saudi terrorism suspect Osama Bin Laden.

==[[July 19]], [[1999]]==
*The U.S. assistant secretary of state for South Asia, [[Karl Inderfurth]], tells [[Taliban]] Information Minister Mullah [[Amir Khan Muttaqi]] that the [[United States|U.S.]] would be forced to take further actions if [[Osama bin Laden]] is not brought to justice.

==[[July 28]], [[1999]]==
*Thousands of Taliban fighters launch an offensive to crush Ahmad Shah Masood, the last hurdle between the Islamic militia and control of the whole of Afghanistan.

==[[August 1]], [[1999]]==
*Taliban fighters seize opposition leader Ahmad Shah Masood's key Bagram airbase in an offensive to establish total dominance of Afghanistan; anti-Taliban fighters recapture the airbase on August 5.

==[[August 31]], [[1999]]==
**[[Afghan Northern Alliance]] leaders, including [[Ahmad Shah Masood]], General [[Sayed Husain Anwari]], [[Ustad Sayaf]] and [[Yonnus Qanooni]], met in the [[Panjsher Valley]] of [[Afghanistan]] to plan the establishment of a central Afghan bank and the recreation of close to a dozen ministries.

==[[September 1]], [[1999]]==
*[[Afghan Northern Alliance]] Spokesman General [[Sayed Anwari]] announced his forces made gains against the [[Taliban]] in [[Jozjan]] and [[Alaghan]], killing commander [[Maulavi Ismael]], pushed the Taliban from the districts of [[Aqgunbad]], [[Tonjgola]] and [[Gosfandi]], and captured the district of [[Gordara]] in [[Samangan province]].

==[[September 2]], [[1999]]==
*Joint Secretary for Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, [[Vivek Katju]], and Joint Secretary for the Americas, [[Alok Prasad]], met [[U.S.]] officials in [[Washington, D.C.]].
*The [[Afghan Northern Alliance]] rejected [[Pakistan]]'s peace efforts and planned to work further with the [[six-plus-two nations]].
*In [[Washington, D.C.]], [[U.S.]] assistant secretary of state for South Asia [[Karl Inderfurth]] and [[India]]n senior officials [[Alok Prasad]] and [[Vivek Katju]] met to discuss [[Afghanistan]].

==[[October 22]], [[1999]]==
*[[United States Assistant Secretary of State]] for South Asia [[Karl Inderfurth]] told [[Congress_of_the_United_States|Congress]] that the US is “Prepared to work with the Taliban to rid Afghanistan of terrorist networks,” if it would hand over bin Laden to American authorities. <ref>(http://www.rawa.org/us-talib.htm)</ref>

==[[October 27]], [[1999]]==
*Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil is named foreign minister, replacing Mullah Mohammad Hassan. Mullah Abdul Razzaq is made interior minister, replacing Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa, who is appointed as governor of the western province of Herat.

==[[October 29]], [[1999]]==
* Saudi-born terrorism suspect Osama Bin Laden is reported to have sought safe passage from the Taliban's Afghanistan to an unknown country.

==[[November 14]], [[1999]]==
*UN sanctions against Afghanistan go into force, imposed for not handing over Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden.

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Events

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April

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  • April 3 – About 1,000 Muslim clergymen elect Taliban leader Mohammed Omar as amir al-momineen (commander of the faithful), denouncing Rabbani as unfit to lead the Islamic nation.

May

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June

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  • June 26 – Hekmatyar, whose Hezb-i-Islami forces have bombarded the government in Kabul until driven from their positions by the Taliban, is sworn in again as prime minister. He immediately attempts to open contacts with northern Afghanistan's powerful warlord, General Dostum. From his power base in Mazari Sharif, Dostum continues to control a virtually independent northern Afghanistan. On July 3 President Rabbani names a 10-man cabinet under Prime Minister Hekmatyar. Foreign minister: Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai; defense: Waheedullah Sabawoon; finance: Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal; interior: Mohammad Yunus Qanuni.

September

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  • September 5 – The Taliban launch a rapid offensive in eastern Afghanistan. Their forces capture the city of Jalalabad, together with important areas in Nangarhar and Laghman provinces. With these territorial advances most of Afghanistan's traditionally Pashtun homelands are united under Taliban control. The gains include Kabul's main road to Pakistan and seal the fate of Rabbani's mostly Tajik government.
  • September 27 – The long power struggle between Afghanistan's armed factions takes a decisive turn when Taliban militias enter Kabul, where they meet little resistance from government forces.[1] The Taliban's first act is to execute the last Democratic Republic of Afghanistan president Mohammad Najibullah along with his brother Shahpur Ahmadzai. Najibullah had been living inside a United Nations compound in Kabul since 1992. The new state, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was recognized only by three UN member states: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

October

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November

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December

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Births

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References

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  1. ^ Afghanistan: Chronology of Events January 1995 – February 1997 (PDF) (Report). Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. February 1997. p. 15.
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