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Afghan

An Afghan is a person or thing that comes from Afghanistan or lives in Afghanistan.

Afghan

Something or someone that is Afghan comes from or is related to Afghanistan.

afghan

a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl (= sheepskin coat) a coat made of sheepskin

Afghan

a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan (= Afghani) of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people (= Afghan hound) tall graceful breed of hound with a long silky coat; native to the Near East (= Pashto) an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan

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Movie subtitles

The guy shooting at us is Afghan.
I'm sure you know that examples of knitting, much like your afghan there, date back to the mainstream of the Egyptian civilisation.
Now, that one there is an ayrshire And that one there is a king george bitch, I think. And that one killing the little flitbat is an afghan.
And suppose we got across the Afghan plains, then what?
In 2001, he was captured by Taliban troops while reporting the Afghan war.
Exiled Afghan prince.
Sometimes when we were discussing old campaigns, the premier, the Mutiny, Afghan War, the smile would often be struck from his mouth as if by some invisible hand.
One day some Afghan tribesmen murdered the rebels that held me prisoner.
Number Two, one beautiful Afghan carpet that I bought at Top Shop.
Last week, a guy burned his Afghan.
Around what? That you and your Venom brothers swap guided missiles for Afghan dope? Dope which you blow up in the street?
And the thread is a unique form of cat-gut. easily distinguished by its peculiar pungency. found only in the Afghan provinces.
This is Afghan money, my friend.
Let's see. ls this man really a champion Afghan cyclist?
And that one killing the little flitbat is an afghan.
Italian, Afghan, Swedish?
I had just entered Pakistani airspace, and already, the Afghan border was coming up fast.
LIEUTENANT: The Afghan militiamen report the American was wounded twice.
AFGHAN: Answer me, woman.
And the thread is a unique form of catgut easily distinguished by its peculiar pungency, found only in the Afghan provinces.
Another day, another afghan.
An afghan around her legs.
The Afghan Resistance.
Why do you stick up for the Afghan?
Sometimes Afghan snipers pick off tank drivers.
Afghan women, turn your grief to stone!
Another Afghan war.
Let me go, you faithless Afghan.
Why is the Government carrying on the Afghan campaign?
This Afghan does wonders.
The Afghan hero has been on this bicycle blindfolded since this morning.
It's the second day that this Afghan. lt's the second day that this Afghan is riding.
This Afghan stopped a train in India with the fierceness of his gaze.
And now it's the third day this Afghan man is riding.
Rich people have come to see him, to see this Afghan.

News and current affairs

Finally, unlike in Iraq, the intervention did not fundamentally rupture the inner structure of the Afghan state or threaten its very cohesion.
The war in Afghanistan was never just an Afghan civil war; rather, for decades the country has been a stage of regional conflicts and hegemonic struggles.
Indeed, without Taliban sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border, and without Pakistani financial backing, the rebirth of the Taliban's armed insurgency against the central Afghan government would have been impossible.
Without Taliban sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border and the backing by the Pakistani intelligence service ISI, the rebirth of the Taliban's armed insurgency against the central Afghan government would have been impossible.
Opium money is corrupting Afghan society from top to bottom.
As a result, the Afghan state is at risk of takeover by a malign coalition of extremists, criminals, and opportunists.
Opium is choking Afghan society.
It is time for the Afghan government to name, shame, and sack corrupt officials, arrest major drug traffickers and opium landlords, and seize their assets.
It is a bitter irony that the countries whose soldiers' lives are on the line in Afghanistan are also the biggest markets for Afghan heroin.
Allowing opium traffickers to operate with impunity gives them a free hand to raise money to pay for the arms and fighters battling the Afghan army and NATO forces.
NATO troops should be given the green light to help the Afghan army fight opium - destroy the heroin labs, disband the opium bazaars, attack the opium convoys, and bring the big traders to justice.
Three problems are of immediate concern, the most important being feeding the Afghan people - both within the country and in refugee camps outside Afghanistan.
In Afghan society, discrimination begins at birth.
KABUL - Recently, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in Kudoz province reported the rescue of a young woman who had been imprisoned in her in-laws' dungeon for seven months.
Fifteen-year-old Sahar Gul was forced to marry an older man who serves in the Afghan army.
Finally, while the Taliban lost power ten years ago, discrimination and violence against women has occurred in Afghan society for centuries.
The Afghan government must take several steps to protect women fully.
The second problem involves relocating Afghan refugees now living in Pakistan and Iran, as well as those displaced within Afghanistan.
But autonomous economic regions should be avoided as a threat to Afghan national unity because they would play into the hands of the warlords.
Thirty years ago, the Afghan mujahedin were mistaken for friends of the West when they fought their country's Soviet invaders.
The looming Afghan withdrawal recalls, at least for some Asians, a third, even more traumatic event: America's chaotic exit from Saigon in April 1975.
There, we met a group of Afghan Uzbeks who helped us to settle in Mazar-i-Sharif.

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