Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-584) and index.
Contents
Editor's foreword / Jon Woronoff -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Reader's note -- Maps of Afghanistan -- Introduction -- The dictionary -- appendix 1. Major sections of the "Durand Agreement" -- appendix 1A. The legal case for the Durand Line -- appendix 2. Soviet report on intervention in Afghanistan in December 1979 -- appendix 3. Interim agreement -- appendix 4. Military technical agreement -- appendix 5. Commission of Loya Jirga -- appendix 5A. Procedures for Afghanistan's emergency Loya Jirga -- appendix 6. Transitional government -- appendix 7. Taliban government -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- About the author.