Afghanistan

People from Afghanistan are referred to as Afghans. There are 31,056,997 Afghans live today, but 3 million Afghans live outside the country, mostly in Pakistan and Iran. Though over three and a half million have returned since the removal of the Taliban. Afghanistan has been independent since 1919, and set a constitution in 2004. Their agriculture produces wheat, corn, barley, rice, cotton, fruit, nuts, karakul pelts, wool, and mutton. Afghanistan held its first democratic presidential election, 8 million people voted and nearly 41% were women.

Their government officals: President--Hamid Karzai First Vice President--Ahmad Zia Masood Second Vice President--Abdul Karim Khalili Minister of Foreign Affairs--Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta Minister of Defense--General Abdul Raheem Wardak Minister of Interior--Zarar Ahmad Muqbal Ambassador to the United States--Said Tayib Jawad

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