Rangin dadfar spanta biography of donald

  • In our interview, we'll be talking to Afghanistan's former foreign minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta.
  • Today's meeting underscores our commitment to the objectives of enhancing the long-term security, democracy and prosperity of Afghanistan.
  • Rangin Dadar Spanta was born in the Karokh district of Herat Province in 1954 to a wealthy landowning family.

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    Speech of Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta

    I am glad to have been given the opportunity to speak at the Second Vienna Conference/Vienna Meeting on Afghanistan.

    It is a great pleasure that, once more, I get to meet my dear friends and fellow countrymen on this fortuitous occasion. inom hope we can have a result-oriented open dialogue on solutions to the political, security, cultural and economic catastrophe currently reigning over our homeland.

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Fellow Afghans,

    I would like to express my gratitude to the Kreisky Forum, Ambassador Patrick,  and all our Austrian hosts, Mr. Safa and his esteemed family, my dear fellow countrymen and all other contributors, thanks to whose efforts this meeting has been arranged.

    It has been twenty months since the surrender of power to the Taliban and their global sympathisers. Over the course of those twenty months, our country has fallen a hundred years behind the progressing caravan of human civilisation. With the passing of

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    Afghanistan’s resurgent publishing industry battles piracy

    Afghanistan’s position on the fault lines of east and west, coupled with the diverse mix of cultures, religions, histories and political ideologies that have penetrated this central Asian country, has created a nation with a rather unique relationship to literature.

    An ancient land with a rich history of storytelling, poetry and folklore, the 1978 communist uprising was hugely inspired by Soviet literature translated into Afghanistan’s official languages of Pashto and Dari (Afghan Persian or Farsi). When the Taliban violently rose to power in the late 1990s, they destroyed libraries across Afghanistan, including the National Library. At the same time, however, religious schools flourished, as did Islamic literature, mostly in Arabic. Today, the country’s western-backed government in Kabul is rigorously pursing capitalism, and English-language, western literature is in high demand as a result.

    Despite having one of the l