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Nur Muhammad Taraki

Born: 1917

Died: 1979)

Profession: revolutionary politician

He was a founding member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

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Afghanistan is a country located in Asia.

Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan. 

Afghanistan is known as Buffer State of Asia. 

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Buffer states—countries geographically and/or politically situated between two or more regional or global powers

بفر ریاستیں - جغرافیائی اور/یا سیاسی طور پر دو یا زیادہ علاقائی یا عالمی طاقتوں کے درمیان واقع ممالک

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دنیا میں سب سے زیادہ افیون کی پیداوار افغانستان میں ہوتی ہے۔

Hilmand remained the country's leading opium poppy-cultivating province

It  is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan

It is the largest province by area

The province contains 13 districts,

Helmand was part of the Greater Kandahar region

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ND8-1-2023

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Global Passport Power Rank 2022

Total countries: 97

Topper: UAE

Bottom: Afghanistan

Pakistan: 94

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Haibatullah Akhundzada is the supreme leader Afghanistan's Taliban

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Mullah Omar’s son Mullah Yaqoob heads the military commission.

Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, a Taliban leader, is Afghanistan's interim defense minister.

Muhammad Khorasani is one of the founding members of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan.

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Henley Passport Index 2022 was released in January 2022. The latest edition shows record-breaking levels of travel freedom for the top-ranking countries, Japan and Singapore. Pakistan was ranked at 108th position with score of 31.

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After 20 years, the Taliban fully re-captured Afghanistan on 15 August 2021.

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In December 2021, Saudi Arabia sent two aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to Afghanistan,

its first such initiative since the Taliban took control of the crisis-stricken country in August 2021.

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on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, and took control of the country.

Over the past 12 months, human rights violations against women and girls have mounted steadily.

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•  Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US strike in Afghanistan on 31 July 2022.
• Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who had a $25 million bounty on his head, helped coordinate the Sept 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people۔