Universities
demonstrations, 173–174, 194–195
overseas programs, 125, 139–140, 158, 171women allowed to attend, 157, 168
Unocal oil company, 241–242, 244, 256, 270Urban elite, 99, 105, 133, 202, 266, 267Veiling practices, 126, 156–157, 283–284Verne, Jules, novels, 104
Village republics of Afghanistan
Abdu’Rahman tries to consolidate, 87, 99culture, social structure, 20–28
destroyed by Soviet depopulation, bombing, 198–206, 215impacted by HVA dams, irrigation, 169–170Mujahideen replace secular elders with clerics, 206vs. new Afghanistan, 134, 269
as old Afghanistan, 133, 176
Vitkevich, Ivan Victorovich, 43–44
Wag the Dog movie, 252
Wahhabi sect of Saudi Arabia, 226–227, 247, 260Wardak, 235
Water Carrier’s Son. See Saqao, Bachey
Water management of rural
Afghanistan, 24, 169–170, 181–182, 280
Weddings as economic stimuli, 337
Whitewater investigation, 250–251
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 339
Wilson, Charlie, 215–216
Women
accepted into police, army, ranks, 339
attend university, enter professions, 157, 168, 281–282girls schools, 138–139, 156–157
in nomadic culture, 26–27
and offensive behavior by British men, 51–53oppressed by Taliban, 239–240, 255–256
PDPA improves status, 180
progress under Daoud’s reforms, 155–158roles in rural areas, 25
stalked, acid thrown in faces, 175
World War I, 106
World WarⅡ, 142, 147
Wrongful death compensation, 310–311
Yaqub Khan, 75–79, 80–81
Young Turks, 104, 145
Younus, Borhan, 307
Zabuli, Abdul Majid, 141
Zaheda (author’s cousin), 222–223, 274
Zahir, Ahmad, 166, 283
Zahir Shah
and Bonn project, 267, 271–273
as figurehead king for Musahi-bban family, 136–137, 141, 144–145
