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  • Translation / Fixing / Facilitating Reporting from Afghanistan, gripped as it is in violence and entangled in cultural complexities, can be quite a challenge. A helping hand from Kabul Pressistan will ensure your trip here is successful. Contact us before you set off to get the full lay of the land. Working with Kabul Pressistan during your stay in Afghanistan, you'll be notified about major government announcements that are usually in local languages and can easily slip under the radar of foreign correspondents. We'll alert you to any media advisories and give regular tips-off about incident in any part of the country. Read more
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 Chronology of major events in post taliban Afghanistan

Afghanistan is hardly off the world's headlines since the United States invaded it to unseat the Taliban from power as a punishment for sheltering Al-Qaeda leaders whom Washington accused of carrying out the 9/11 attacks on its cities.

 

Since then an international force currently numbering more than 150,000 troops are stationed in the country fighting an insurgency being waged by the remnants of the Taliban regime.

 

The following is a chronology of key events in the country from that time:

2001

September 11: More than 3,000 people are killed in New York and Washington in attacks blamed on Osama bin Laden the leader of the international "terror network" known as Al-Qaeda.

 

October 7: First US-led military strikes launched on Afghanistan as the Taliban fail to meet US demands to hand over bin Laden and his associates.

 

November 13: Northern Alliance forces enter Kabul following an overnight pullout by Taliban. The fall of the capital follows sweeping gains against the Islamist Taliban across the country from north to south.

 

December 6: The Taliban agrees to surrender Kandahar province its last stronghold and Mullah Mohammad Omar the Taliban supreme flees the city, reporteldy in the back of a motorbike.

 

December 22: Hamid Karzai is sworn in as head of a post-Taliban government following agreements reached in Bonn, Germany, laying down a timetable for Afghanistan's transition to democracy.

 

 

2002

April 18: The 87-year-old former king Zahir Shah returns from 29 years' exile in Rome, Italy.

 

June 13: Karzai elected for a two-year term by Afghanistan's traditional grand assembly or Loya Jirga.

 

September 5: Karzai survives assassination attempt in Kandahar. The same day, 30 Afghans are killed in car bomb explosion in the capital Kabul.

 

 

2003

August 11: NATO takes charge of the International Security Assistance Force deployed to Afghanistan after the Bonn accords. It is NATO's first mission outside of Europe since its inception 54 years earlier.

 

 

2004

January 4: Loya jirga approves new constitution which enshrines a presidential democracy.

 

January 6: The International Security Assistance Force extends its mandate beyond Kabul and deployes in provinces where they were banned to go.

 

October 9: The first post-Taliban presidential elections takes place in relatively peace despite some Taliban threats.

 

November 3: Karzai declared winner with 55 percent of vote.

 

 

2005

September 18: Afghans vote in the first parliamentary elections in more than 30 years. There are no major attacks despite Taliban threats.

 

December 19: Parliament opens with warlords and strongmen taking most fo the 249 seats. About 25 percent of the votes are allocated to women.

 

 

2006

May 29: A traffic accident involving a US military truck unleashes a day of rioting in Kabul and shook capital's stability. At least 14 people are killed.

 

 

2007

July 20: Taliban kidnap 23 South Korean missionaries. Two are shot dead before the others are freed with millions of dollar reportedly paied. South Korea agreed to withdraw its several hundred soldiers deployed under ISAF.

 

July 23: Afghanistan's last king, Zahir Shah, dies in Kabul at the age of 92.

 

November 6: A suicide blast kills around 60 people, including six parliamentarians, in the northern town of Baghlan.

 

 

2008

February 17: A bomb explodes in a dog fighting match in southern Kandahar, killing around 100 people in the deadliest attack ever happened to date.

 

April 27: Insurgents attack a military parade in Kabul. President Hamid Karzai escapes unhurt but three other Afghans including a parliamentrian are killed. Since than (to date) public military parades are banned in Kabul.

 

June 13: Taliban break a jail in Kandahar and more than 1,100 inmates nearly half of them Taliban escape. Fifteen guards are killed in the incidents

 

July 7: A suicide car bomb on the Indian embassy kills around 60 people, including two Indian diplomats. The government accuses Pakistan's intelligence agency of materminding the bombing.

 

August 19: Ten French soldiers are killed in the deadliest ambush on foreign soldiers since their deployement in 2001.

 

August 22: Locals say air strikes in western Afghanistan killed scores of civilians. Those claims were later backed by Afghan government and UN investigations. About 90 people died. The US military give a lower death toll.

 

 

2009

August 20: Afghans vote under Taliban massive attacks and bombing campaign in the nation's second ever presidential elections won by Hamid Karzai. More than 1.5 million votes, mostly cast for Karzai, were invalidated as fraudulent ballots

 

 

2010

July 3-4-5: More than 1,500 Afghan tribal elders, chieftains and politicians gather in Kabul in a traditional gathering -- Consultive Peace Jirga -- to find a way how to make peace with the Taliban. The gathering suggested the creation of Peace Council. President Hamid Karzai inagurated the High Council for Peace on October 7

 

July 20: Dozens of international officials including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Scretary General Ban Ki-moon attends Kabul Conference to discuss a blueprint for world community's involvement in Afghanistan

 

September 18: Afghans vote in the second post-Taliban parliamentary elections. About 1.3 votes are invalidated due to fraud.

 

 


 

 

 

 

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Chronology of major events in Post-Taliban Afghanistan Afghanistan is hardly off the world's headlines since the United States invaded it to unseat the Taliban from power as a punishment for sheltering Al-Qaeda leaders whom Washington accused of carrying out the 9/11 attacks on its cities.

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