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To Jrkso: Stop cutting pieces of Afghan history out of the article

The Soviet War, Islamic State and Taliban Emirate periods are three very important parts of Afghan history. You cannot belittle them by simply putting them as one section. Also, the information given by the version you keep restoring is heavily misleading (to say the least). The episode of the "Democratic Republic and Saur Revolution" is not that important like the parts you keep erasing and they make a huge part of the history section. Operation Enduring Freedom has an own section. Yet you concentrate only on the Soviet War, Islamic State and Taliban Emirate. The question that springs to mind is, why is that? JCAla 6 September 2010 (UTC)

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The central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan: pastoral nomadism in transition By Thomas Jefferson Barfield — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.204.45.116 (talk • contribs) 05:20, 19 January 2011

Edit request from Thanhas, 21 February 2011

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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت (Pashto: Da Afġānistān Islāmī Jomhoriyat) جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان (Persian: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Afġānistān)

Thanhas (talk) 02:39, 21 February 2011 (UTC) HELLO, The majority of Afghanistan ARE pashtoon's and the first national language is Pashto, so just replease the lines above, for your kind info please check this link to know the reality, http://www.worldpassports.org/asia/images/passportAfganistan.jpg THANKS[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The link you give does not meet our reliable source guidelines, so you'll need to provide a reliable source to add that. In any event, the ordering of the languages doesn't imply that one is more important than the other. If there were a convincing reason to change (like the order right now doesn't have a good reason, and you had an RS to support Pashto being the majority), though, I guess it could be changed. If you do find a reliable source, please make a new edit request. Qwyrxian (talk) 05:32, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong history, Afghanistan was not source of various empires

For example, Mughals were not from Afghanistan. Mughal Babur was from Farghana which is in modern day Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan. He made pillars from heads of modern day Afghons. Please don't ruin credibility of wikipedia because some inferiority complexed tribes want to fake their history. Also Ghaznavids were Turks not Afghan either, so is the case with Ghauris and Safavids. So please correct where it says it was source, as they were mainly invaded and defeated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.166.139 (talk) 06:30, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of more right information

Afghanistan was a totally hindu country but nowhere in wikipedia it is mentioned.Why it is so afghanistan's captital Kandhar which mispronunciation of the Sanskrit term “Gandhar” which was the capital of a flourishing ancient Hindu kingdom. And this "Gandhar" names comes from the wife of King Dhritarastra who's wife name was Gandhari and it was her maternal place.It was a totally hindu country at that time and all the religion develop later invade bharat or hindu society because these was full of peace,fertile soil,prosper culture but newly develop religion were in desert and full of cruelty.Later afghanistan was invade by arab muslims,turk and mongols.Afghanistan people was lord shiva worshipers it was well explained in pakistan writer Dr. Rehman's book with collection of coins and some segments of lord shiva,ganesha and durga's idols.And during mahabharata war some Kaurva's descendants migrate to afghanistan then to iraq and saudi arab.I don't know why muslim country always hide such information truth is truth.But everyone knows who is he,from where he comes so hiding information is nothing but looser's work.Most of the religion now is very recent so they must be accurate about past.I am sorry for any misinterpretation but this is everyones right for right information.

A man from Matrix (talk) 19:15, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Get some WP:reliable sources to show WP:Verifiability. Dmcq (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Further Edit: Massud Wais is also one of the remaining Jews in the country of Afghanistan.

Surveys / Edit request

The survey "Afghanistan: Where Things Stand" from 2006 has been replaced with that of 2010. I think it would be better to keep both surveys, that of 2006 and of 2010, because these are not definite numbers, but simply surveys. The change of percentages does not mean that a certain group has become bigger, smaller, etc. Please copy the table below (taken from the article Demography of Afghanistan) into the article. Thank you.

Ethnic group	"Afghanistan: Where Things Stand" (2004-2009) ^[1]	"A survey of the Afghan people" (2006) ^[2]	"A survey of the Afghan people" (2010) ^[3]
Pashtun	38-46%	41%	42%
Tajik	37-39%	37%	31%
Hazara	6-13%	9%	10%
Uzbek	5-7%	9%	9%
Aimak	0-0%	0%	2%
Turkmen	1-2%	2%	2%
Baloch	1-3%	1%	1%
Others (Nuristani, Arab, etc.)	0-4%	1%	3%
No opinion	0-2%	0%

Done. carl bunderson (talk) (contributions) 16:25, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

offical point

aslam o alaikum i hope is all this well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.177.94.149 (talk) 14:31, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History section is unjustice to Indian links and Indian history

Ok this is going to seem complicated, but give me a chance to explain.....Before the arrival of Islam, Afghanistan was predomenantaly a Hindu area......Lets go by what we know.......Afghanistan, before the arrival of Islam, was all one land connected with Ancient India and Ancient Iran. And the article even says, that Hinduism has been in Afghanistan almost as long as Hinduism itself. And the Hinduism article says that that Hinduism is the oldest religion. And, not only that, but there are places in Afghannistan that were Hindu, before the arrival of Islam. And, not only that, but the Aryans, followed Hinduism, and were in India, Iran, and Afghanistan, which was all one connnected land......And in this article it even says how Afghanistan is connected with India and Iran, and how there was a Hindu sphere before the arriveal of Islam....but....this article is not just....because.....when you go through the history section, it makes it seem like Afghanistan was only alittle Hindu, and more linked with Iran then India...And then later in the article it mentioens India and Hinduism to a lesser extent....Thats not just....It should be the other way around....The start of the history section should be more in linke with India and Hinduism, and then later mention Iran...I mean this did it bacwards....why?......iTS MIS LEADING.....because there people, including Afghans, who dont know about the links to India and Hinduism, and who dont want to be linked to India and Hinduism.....and so by writing more about Islam and Iran, you make it seem like Afhganistan is more linked with Iran and Islam, and was lesser linked to HInduism and India then.......

Even in other articles on wikipedia, there are articles that give the link more to India and Hinduism....and yet here....They give the history more with Iran and Islam, and then lesser mention to Hinduism and India then...why? 71.106.83.19 (talk) 16:39, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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