Afghan Report

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MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP INTERNATIONAL

AFGHANISTAN A Nation of Minorities

BY NASSIM JAWAD

R E P O R T

T H E M I N O R I T Y RIGHTSGROUP is an international research and information unit regis- tered in Britain as an educational charity under the Charities Act of 1960. Its principal aims are – To secure justice for minority or majority groups suffering discrimination, by investigating their situation and publi- cising the facts as widely as possible, to educate and alert public opinion throughout the world. To help prevent, through publicity about violations of human rights, such problems from developing into dan- gerous and destructive conflicts which, when polarised, are very difficult to resolve; and To foster, by its research findings, international under- standing of the factors which create prejudiced treatment and group tensions, thus helping to promote the growth of a world conscience regarding human rights. The Minority Rights Group urgently needs further funds for its work. Please contribute what you can. MRG is eligible to receive a covenant from UK taxpayers.

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SPONSORS Lady Butler George Cadbury Milovan Djilas Dr Robert Gardiner Lord Arnold Goodman CH Lord Joseph Grimond PC David Kessler Dr Joseph Needham FRS Dr Dharam Ghai COUNCIL ChairmanSir John Thomson Dr Shirin Akiner Philip Baker Hugo Brunner Efua Dorkenoo Scilla Elworthy Ben Hooberman Richard Kershaw Dr Claire Palley Kate Phillips Philip Rudge

STAFF Executive DirectorAlan Phillips InternationalChristine Bloch Director’s PAEmmie Dharmakan SecretaryGloria Mitchell ProductionBrian Morrison FinancePatricia Pons ProjectsPatricia Sellick SalesFrances Smith Deputy DirectorKaye Stearman EducationRachel Warner MarketingRobert Webb

OFFICE 379/381 Brixton Road London SW9 7DE UK Tel: [phone]

 

The Minority Rights Group gratefully acknowledges all organizations and individuals who gave financial and other assistance for this report. NASSIM JAWAD is an Afghan from the minority Shia Qizilbash community. Educated in Afghanistan and Austria, from 1980 he worked for an Austrian NGO based in Peshawar, on relief and development projects, both with Afghan refugees in Pakistan and in various areas inside Afghanistan. He left Peshawar in 1990 and is presently co-ordinating development projects in Africa and writing a book on the politics of aid in Afghanistan.

Widow in Afghan refugee camp, 1988 JENNY MATTHEWS / REX FEATURES

©Minority Rights Group British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available for the British Library ISBN 0 946690 76 6 Published February 1992 Printed on bleach free paper by Manchester Free Press

AFGHANISTAN A Nation of Minorities BY NASSIM JAWAD

CONTENTS 5 Preface 6 Afghanistan in Outline 9 Peoples of Afghanistan   14 History of Afghanistan 17 The Political Background to the Soviet Invasion 18 The Soviet Invasion and After   20 Political Alignments in the 1980s 23 The Aid Invasion 25 Social and Cultural Dimensions of the Migration 27 Ending the Afghan Crisis 31 Conclusions 33 Ideas for the future 34 Footnotes 35 Bibliography

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