Re: [OpenHeroQuest] We have got the Maxim gun...

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_nLkg0ctn_-T_MNaR7RrMk1sH-ZDoevWcTf0wnGY0WpuDkJ4iiq5fOqavqDLZj62h1YR>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:43:26 +1300


At 05:00 PM 12/3/03 -0800, you wrote:

>Does Afghanistan really *exist*? I mean, as an actual thing, rather than as
>a blank space on the map?

Yes. It was created by King Durrani during the turmoil that beset Iran after the
assassination of Nadir Shah (1747 AD). Prior to the civil war that began in 1973, Afghanistan was well developed compared to its neighbours (although with a neighbour like Pakistan, that admittedly isn't too hard).

--Peter Metcalfe            

Powered by hypermail