dipity

A timeline of events from 1989 to the present in Afghanistan

Created by mtaylor on May 14, 2008

Last updated: 03/04/10 at 09:06 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  May 14, 2008 10:36 AM

• Event 7
  2004

  The National Assembly was inaugurated on December 19, 2005.

• Event 6
  2003

  On December 7, 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan.

• Event 4
  2000

  Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, a US, Allied, and anti-Taliban Northern Alliance military action toppled the Taliban for sheltering Osama BIN LADIN.

• Event 5
  2000

  The UN-sponsored Bonn Conference in 2001 established a process for political reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution and a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005.

• Event 3
  1995

  a series of civil wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban.

• Event 2
  Dec 31, 1993

  A hardline Pakistani-sponsored movement that emerged in 1994 to end the country's civil war and anarchy.

• Event 1
  Dec 31, 1988

  The USSR withdrew in 1989 under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-Communist mujahedin rebels. Subsequently, a series of civil wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban.

• Event 1
  Dec 31, 1988

  The USSR withdrew in 1989 under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-Communist mujahedin rebels.