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Timeline
-Persian Empire extends past Indus River. -Alexander the Great brings mix of Hellenistic culture-marries in Bacteria. -Invasion of Arab Muslims-bring Islam. -British Occupation of India. -Mongols Invade(once by Gengis Khan, once by Timur Lung). -Khan takes over Afghan government and attempts to modernize. - Indian Independence Movement begins. -Afghanistan becomes a monarchy after fighting the British-peace for 40 years. -Indian Independence declared. -Partition. -Conflict over Kashmir begins. -Daoud takes over Afghanistan and with Soviet help begins reforms. Women allowed to work and attend university. -Third India-Pakistan war, Bangladesh breaks away to become a sovereign state. -India tests first nuclear device, Paksitan begins nuclear program. -India detonates first nuclear bomb. -Peace with Soviet Union, Najibullah takes control of Afghanistan. -Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, Pakistan maintains allegiance to U.S. -Osama bin Laden makes his first documented trip to Afghanistan to aid anti-Soviet fighters. -The Mujahadeen are receiving arms from United States, Britain and China via Pakistan. -In September, Osama bin Laden and 15 other Islamists form the group al Qaida, or the base, to continue their jihad, or holy war, against the Soviets and other who they say oppose their goal of a pure nation governed by Islam. -Kashmiri Separatists attack villages in India-controlled Kashmir. -The Mujahadeen, a group already beginning to fracture as warlords fight over the future of Afghanistan, form a largely Islamic state in Afghanistan with Professor Burhannudin Rabbani as president. -Pakistan detonates first nuclear bomb. -Following al-Qaida's bombimgs of two American embassies in Africa, President Clinton orders cruise missile attacks against bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan. -Kargil War, Pakistani incursion into india-controlled Kashmir. -General Pervez Musharraf takes power in military coup. -Hijackers commander four commercial airplanes and crash them into the World Trade center Towers in New York, the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., and a Pennsylvania field, killing thousands. -Air Strikes by the U.S and allies begin after Taliban refuse to turn over bin Laden-force Taliban southward and take over capital. -Afghanistan creates a new constitutuion and elects Hamid Karzai as president. -Bus service across Kashmir opens. -India and Pakistan sign security accords. -India blames Mumbai train bombings on pakistani-friendly terrorists. -Continuing drought devastates farmers and makes many rural areas uninhabitable. More than 1 million Afghans flee to neighboring Pakistan, where they languish in squalid refugee camps. -Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries with now increased drug trafficking, Warlords control most of the country (anything outside of Kabul) and the Taliban is strenghtening again.
