Talk:Afghanistan/Archive 3

message: Hi,
This sentence should be modified.
In December 2001, the United Nations Security Council authorized the creation of an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). This force, composed of NATO troops, 
---> Should read: (NATO and coalition troops), because there is Sweden and other countries who don't belong to the NATO but are contributing troops for ISAF.
Here is a intresting page listing the Coalition dead, wounded, disabled and war-maytars if it is of help to any one-[]
70.134.103.78 (talk) 21:06, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Troops in Afghanistan. 

message: Hello,
I recently used the search engine to see what Wikipedia says about my country's (Afghanistan) diversity and culture. I was disappointed to find that it is stated..."Pastu is an Eastern Iranian language..." Actually, Pashtu, is an ancient language, much older than the Farsi spoken by Afghanistan and Iran. Pashtu has never migrated to or from Iran. The only other region of the world that speaks Pashtu, is Western Pakistan, which is inhabited by the Pashtun/Pathan people. Also, the Farsi spoken in Afghanistan is known as Dari, the purest form of Farsi. The author also incorrectly stated that people of Afghanistan are descendants of Eastern Iranian people. If that is the case, Iranian people are descendants of Afghans. I make this statement because, the Persian Empire, was once made up, and ruled by both countries. Each country still retained and cherished their unique differences in language and ethnicity.
lol, go and get education cave boy!! Pashtu is a SOUTH-EAST iranian language (iranian=aryanic) which is full of turkish, drawidic, dardic and foreighn vocabulars beside those real pashtu words, plus Pashtu is the most strong influenced language by persian..f. expl. instead calling lawardey or izid in pure Pashtu you people say khoda to god or the pashtunized form is khwday ;)) . Do Pashto have the words dev and ahura like in german, latin, greec and english?? NO!!! HOW CAN PASHTU BE THE OLDEST LANGUAGE; THAN??? YOU AND YOUR LANGUAGE IS A JOKE. DUPREE AND FRY´S CALLD YOUR LANGUAGE AS THE MOST BACKWARD LANGUAGE OF IRANIANS BESIDE OSSETIANS. If Pashto would be the oldest iranic language why didn´t it influence other language but other language infleunced Pashto?? LOLL : THERE IS NOT A LANGUAGE LIKE DARI YOU CAN SPEAK. DARI IS PARSI; THE WRITTEN FORM OF PARSI WHILE YOU SPEAK PARSI YOU WRITE IN DARI, BUT INSHALLAH WE WILL CHANGE THE BOOKS BACK; INSHALLAH...never should have pashtunizm a chance in afghanistan, more!
YOUR DREAM OF PARSI looool IS WASHED AWAY WITH PASTHUNS looool THERE NEVER WILL BE A PARSI, FARSI IN AFGHANISTAN. EVEN THE PASHTUNS HAVE RIGHTS TO DARI and now in the modern times have DIGITAL RIGHTS and cannot be taken by anybody looooooool
Pashtun786 (talk) 01:29, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read Iranian languages. The usage of "Iranian" here is related to a linguistic group and has nothing to do with the modern country of Iran. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:33, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pashtu 

message: This link: Doing Business in Afghanistan
Was added by an editor whose only contributions have been to promote the World Bank Group (Doing business is a World Bank project). We have recently uncovered significant edits promoting this organization (see this WikiProject Spam discussion). In the interest of our neutral point of view policy and conflict of interest guideline I've moved it here for other editors to consider. If you decide it is appropriate for inclusion, you may wish to consider wikilinking to Wikipedia's article on the project - Ease of Doing Business Index - instead.  Generally wikilinks are more appropriate than external links.  Thanks. -- Siobhan Hansa 13:21, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  doingbusiness.org external link 

message: Deleted paragraph referencing a 300% increase in Taliban activity due to lack of citation.Nf utvol 14:52, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Restoring paragraph with updated cite. It is not hard to find this news report, there is enough text cited. A search on Google turns up no fewer than 240+ matches. NN 18:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  300% Worsening? 

message: The new Ethnolinguistic map posted by User:NisarKand in the Languages section, is more an Ethnic map rather than Linguistic. I suggest that it should be moved to the Ethnic Groups section replacing the old BBC/CIA ethnic map. Ariana310 19:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that was not a Language map. I fixed that. Thanks for pointing it out. Behnam 01:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

text: This map has an even more important mistake. It shows Kabul as being a Pashtun city. That is a critical mistake and because of this the other map takes priority right now. Kabul is a mixed city with Tajiks the largest group, certainly Pashtuns. Behnam 12:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oh and I reported User: NisarKand's sock-puppet. Next time he does that report it every time. This is totally unacceptable. I don't what this guy's doing here. Behnam 12:25, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Despite its inaccuracy, this map will have to stay for now since have no other map right now. Behnam 12:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of the authentic maps bring Kabul under the Pashtun areas, I know it is totally incorrect. The major group is Tajik, and then Pashtuns and Hazaras are equal nowadays (especially after the civil war an important number of Hazaras moved to the western areas of Kabul such as Allauddin and Dasht-e Barchi). But I think they all rely on the fake informations published by the Afghan government. And oh yeah, this map has an error between Uzbeks and Turkmens. It calls the proportion of Uzbeks as Turkmens and vice versa. Nevertheless, we can keep this one untill Tajik gets those two maps prepared. Ariana310 16:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Wow, thats so great. Now I was planning of making maps for languages and ethnic. Now I don't have to spend time on it and best of all a PROFESSIONAL be doing it! We're all looking very forward to this! Behnam 15:34, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnolinguistic map

message: Kindly contribute to this article when you get time, and request others too.
Thanks
Atulsnischal 13:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wildlife of Afghanistan]]

message: hi i just wanted to know how the relationship with iran and afghanistan was. are they allies or what? do they like eachother. are they cool with eachother and all? can anyone tell me plz. i would really appreciate it.
Afghanistan and Iran have a mutual relationship based on culture , ethnicity , and being apart of the former Persian empire. The Relationship was far better during the time of Zahir Shah king of Afghanistan and Reza Shah king of Iran, but since the two countries have been through wars and political ups and downs. The two nations have always tried to respect each others sovernty, especially now with the treaty of co-operation Afghanistan has signed in dec 2006 with Iran...basically stating that Iran is an allie of its sister nation Afghanistan and both will contribute and help each other militaraly and economicaly. So the relatioship is good for now. ( Iran has always been suspicious of Pakistan who mess around in Afghan politics and Iran has accused and told pakistan to stop meddling in Afghan politics) Abdul916 04:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Afghanistan and Iran have had a love-hate relationship. But nowadays, ever since the Taliban left, Iran and Afghanistan have become close allies. Whoever wrote the above, I don't know who you are, but saying that most people in Iran don't know where Afghanistan is... that's not only ludicrous, but also besides the point. It is not the people of Iran that decide Iran's policies towards Afghanistan, but rather the current government. Same goes for Afghanistan. America's stooge, Hamid Karzai, is friends with Iran because a lot of Afghanistans trade is done with Iran. You mentioned heroin, and that's true, a lot of drugs in Afghanistan end up in Iran. But they also end up everywhere in the world, since Afghanistan produces most of the heroin of the world. Afghanistan, a landlocked country which has been in continuous war for decades, is not "doing fine". Please see War in Afghanistan (2001–present), where it lists how many people have died as a result of US invasion. Kabul may be safe, but currently most of Afghanistan is ruled by either Taliban or corrupt Northern Alliance leaders.--Kirby♥time 11:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Kirby and Abdul, WP is not a discussion forum. Please see: WP:NOT#FORUM. --Matt57 (talk•contribs) 11:55, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  afghanistan and iran 

message: I've only recently had this page on my watchlist, but it does seem to get a good deal of vandalism. Does anybody think it warrants semi-protection from unregistered editors? Perhaps I'm being too extreme. Liamshaw 21:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the lack of reply to the above, I have removed the semi-protection. If someone wants to add it back, say at least here why you do so. AugustinMa 21:16, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still protected until April 5. (Adding or removing the  tags doesn't actually do anything to the page.) If you'd like the protection removed early let me know. --Fang Aili talk 16:21, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism and semi-protection 

message: Hi,
I found following interesting Website:
   "Afghanistan Calendar Project"
   http://www.nongnu.org/afghancalendar/
The site overs free (GNU GPL) afghan calendars in different languages. The site is hosted at the GNU Savannah project.
The Mission Statement sound quite interesting:
"This project is not bound to any political, ethnic, social or religious groupings. The aim of this project is to provide free available multilingual Afghan calendars, that are accessible on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality via free tools. The calendars are released under the GNU General Public License."
I suggest to add a link to this website to the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.51.218.180 (talk) 00:47, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Afghanistan Calendar Project" http://www.nongnu.org/afghancalendar/ 

message: In the External Links section, under Other, could you add a link to
    The Williams Afghan Media Project, http://drm.williams.edu/wamp
The Williams Afghan Media Project (WAMP) is an online resource for the study of Afghanistan. In addition to helping to preserve and make available resources related to Afghanistan, WAMP also provides a site for exploring Afghanistan's cultural legacy, historical development, and present situation.
Three photo collections that document in image and sound Afghan history and society from the late 19th century through the Soviet occupation represent the heart of the WAMP website:
* The Khalilullah Enayat Seraj (KES) collection of photographs taken between the late 19th century and 1930,
* The Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree collection of slides taken between 1949 and 1987, and
* The Afghan Media Resource Center (AMRC) collection of photographs and slides taken between 1987 and 1992. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gbarton (talk • contribs) 12:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical Photo and Video Archive 

message: The administrative divisions as shown are incorrectly numbered. In the list province 24 has been missed, and the subsequent province numbers do not match the actual province positions. 203.55.231.107 23:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out.Ariana310 09:46, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Administrative Divisions 

message: Under the Education headline, there is an error, tho i could not fix it. 4 lines from the title, it says " an estimated 40% had adequate sanitation. Education for boys was and girls were a priority."
if someone else could fix this that would be great
thx
206.116.96.207 06:24, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammer Error 

message: Hello, 
the population of Pashtunes are between 11 and 12 mio. while the populatiopn of Tajiks are between 9 and 10 mio. plz correct your informations. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tajik-Professor (talk • contribs) 19:22, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The population