by Ahmed Rashid
Afghan conflict
aid for Hikmetyar's Hizbae-Islami party
Arab-Afghans
Bin Laden
Central Asian Republics
Council of the Assembly of Senior Ulema
foreign policy
funds to Mujaheddin
Intelligence Service
Iran relations
madrassas funds
Red Crescent
relations with Central Asia
Royal Family
Talibans
ulema
US relations
Wahabbi creed
Save the Children
Sayyaf, Abdul Rasul
Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations for South Asia
Sergeyev, Igor
Sestanovich, Stephen
Sevan, Benon
Shad, Queen Gowhar
Shafiq, Mohammed Musa
Shah, King/ex-King Zahir
Shah, Taimur
Sharia
courts
law
Sharif, Prime Minister Nawaz
Afghan cease-fire
government (1990–93)
Muslim League
Talibans
Sharjah
Sheikh, Najmuddin
Sher, Ahmed
Shevardnadze, Eduard
Shias
Afghans
Hazaras
Iran
Islam
Muslims
Persia
and Sunnis war
Shiberghan
Shiism
Shindand
Shomali valley
Shorish-Shamley, Zieba
Sikhs
Silk Route
Simmons, Tom
Sind
Sipah-e-Sahaba party (SSP)
Soderberg, Nancy
Sony
South Asia
Southern Afghanistan
Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan (1979)
Red Army
Spetsnatz (Special Forces)
Union
withdrawal (1989)
Special Services Group
Spin Baldak, Afghanistan
Sri Lanka
Stalin, Joseph
Stanakzai, Sher Mohammed
Starobin, Paul
State Bank of Afghanistan
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island
Sudan, National Islamic Front
Sufism
suicide bombers
Sunni
Arabia
fundamentalism
Hanafis
Islam
Pashtuns
Supreme Council for the Defence of the Motherland
Sureda, Jose Louis
Swati Taliban
Swat valley
Swedish Committee
Tacitus (Roman historian)
Taggert, Chris
Taimur (Tamerlane)
Tajikistan
Afghanistan border
CIA attack
conflict
heroin addiction
Masud
Pashtun alliance
Tashkent meeting
Uzbek-Hazara alliance
Tajiks
Takhar province
Talbott, Strobe
Talibans
airforce and airport operations
Ashkhabad talks
attacks against presidential candidates
ban on opium production
casualties
control of Afghanistan
culture
fiefdoms
gender policies
government
governors
international relations
ISI clandestine support to
Islamic
code
Kunduz expeditionary force
leaders
meeting with anti-Taliban Alliance
military campaign by
military committee in Quetta
mullahs
origins of
pipeline
political and military organisation
prisoners
Rabbani, Mullah Mohammed
religious police
resurgence (2000–09)
as role model for Islamic extremism
Shuras
source of funding for
as strategic allies of Pakistan
suicide attacks
Sunni fundamentalism
Supreme Court
in Swat valley
US bombing raids on
use of IEDs and suicide bombers
see also Afghan Taliban; anti-Taliban alliance; Bin Laden; Central Asian Taliban; Dostum, General; Indian Taliban; Mazar-e-Sharif; Pakistan; Saudi Arabia; United States (US)
Tanai, General Shahnawaz
Tanzania, US embassy bombing
TAP Pipelines
Taraki, President Nur Mohammed
Tariaqath
Tarinkot (Urozgan province)
Tashkent
Tashkhorgan
Taxas District Court
Tazim Nifaz Shariat-i-Mohammedi in Bajaur Agency
Tehran
see also Iran
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
Tehrik-i-Tuleba (Movement of Taliban)
Tenet, George
Termez
terrorist attacks
by Muslim extremists
Western retaliation to
Timurids
Todor, Robert
Tomb of Ali
Tora Bora
Torkham
TTP see Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
Turabi, Mullah
Turabi, Nuruddin
Turkey
CARs
Dostum
pipeline project
Turkic
Afghanistan
arts and architecture
nomadic empires
peoples
Turki, Prince see al Faisal, Prince Turki
Turkmen gas 173
Turkmenistan
gas pipeline
heroin addiction
US
see also Ashkhabad; Bridas Corporation
Uighurs
Ukraine
ulemas
ul Haq, President (General) Zia
ul Momineen, Amir
see also Omar, Amir Mullah Mohammed
ul Muslimeen, Ikhwan
Ummah
UNESCO
UNICEF
United Arab Emirates
United Front see Northern Alliance (NA)
United Islamic and National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan
United Nations (UN)
Afghanistan
agencies
aid agencies
Aid programmes
Charter
Drugs Control Programme (UNDCP)
Group of Concerned Countries
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
humanitarian aid agencies
investigations
Islamabad
mediation
officials, Kabul
peace-making
Security Council
Special Representative for Afghanistan see Brahimi, Lakhdar
staff
United States (US)
Afghan policy
Agency for International Development
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia see Raphel, Robin
attack
Bin Laden
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CIA
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Consulate in Calcutta
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Foreign Oil Companies group
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Mujaheddin
narcotics policy
oil companies
Pakistan relations
pipeline plans
> policy to Afghanistan-Pakistan-Iran-Central Asia region
pressure
Saudi Arabia relations
Senate
State Department
Talibans (1997–99)
Turkmenistan
University of Omaha Centre of Afghanistan Studies
Unocal (US), Central Asian Oil Pipeline Project (CAOPP)
UN Security Council
Urozgan province
Usmani, Mullah Akthar
US Special Operations Forces
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Afghanistan border
Dostum
heroin addiction
lease of airbases to US forces
Tashkent meeting
Uzbeks
clan history
commanders
exiles in FATA
fighters
forces
leadership
massacres (1998)
Shaybani Khans
Uzbek-Tajik-Hazara alliance
Velayti, Ali Akbar
Vendrell, Francesc
Vietnam
Vyakhirev, Rem
Wahab, Abdul (1703–1792)
Wahabbis
ulema
Wahabbism
Wahadat see Hizb-e-Wahadat party
Wais, Mir
Wakil, Mullah
Wali, Abdul
Wali, Mahmud Ibn
Wali, Simi
Wardak province
Washington
Unocal
Washington Post
Western humanitarian aid agencies
Witschi-Cestari, Alfredo
World
Bank
Food Programme (WFP)
Muslim League
Trade Center
Trade Organisation
Xinjiang province
Yeltsin, President Boris
Yousufzai, Rahimullah
Yuldeshev, Tohir
Zabul province
Zardari, President Asif Ali
Zia, President see ul Haq, President (General) Zia
Zohra, Bibi
Zoroastrianism
Zubaydah, Abu