Use "afghan" in a sentence

1. Crates marked Afghan, Uzbek, Cyr, Scy, Ity, Try, Cthge and every Greek island including Faria stacked high to the roof on galleries along four or five avenues

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2. with a knitted afghan covering him all the way to the neck

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3. I soon gave up, content to let some mindless cartoons rot Nathaniel’s impressionable young mind, while I, wrapped in an afghan, collapsed, shivering, onto the floor’s heating vent

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4. To equate American religious conservatives with the Afghan Taliban is to be more than murky, for the Taliban are not conservatives nor conservators

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5. conspicuously absent whenever Westerners are mistreated? For what reason our obsessive concern over Saddam Hussein receiving three square meals and proper medical attention or that Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay should be issued copies of the Koran and provided legal counsel although nary a peep over the public executions of (American/European) soldiers/civilians that have become common throughout the Middle East and other parts of the world? This consistent pattern of cuddling up to our nation‘s enemies by liberal activists has been well chronicled over the years following the Vietnam War when tears were seldom shed for the many brave young men and women who courageously served their nation in the cause of Freedom

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6. Each additional year of war in Iraq or Afghanistan would likely have cost hundreds of American lives and tens of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan lives

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7. The final sticking point was the US demand that US troops be above Iraqi and Afghan law

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8. The Iraqi and Afghan public, both overwhelmingly opposed to a US military presence in their nations from the beginning

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9. In the end Obama was driven out, again, by an Afghan government and public that had not wanted the US there for years

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10. The Afghan war was on the pretext that the Taliban, who my

11. I hope that the Afghan war, short and without a great number of civilian victims, thank God, will help as example to other governments that protect, finance and shelter those terrorist bands

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12. I nourish the hope that the present Afghan experience has been a lesson to the entire world and that bombs are no longer urgent to guarantee our security and preserve our peace and

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13. potential for torture of prisoners handed over by the Canadian military to Afghan

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14. "We think this is a glorification of the Afghan effort," he said

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15. combined effort between the Afghan National Security Forces, Canada and other

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16. In spite of the minor trouble, Al-Qaeda and other Afghan war lords came out of hiding and marched into the villages with smiles on their faces as they greeted the crowds of cheering people

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17. The Afghan president called a meeting of all concerned and the assembly, smiling and convivial, declared a peaceful end to hostilities

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18. Nearly a month later, following a friendly meeting between the Secretary of State and the Afghan president, the secretary"s office called Warren to Washington

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19. In 1983, Ras is recruited by the mujahideen in Afghan to train resistance forces against the Russian invasion

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20. In 1992, he receives a personal medal from Abdul Rashid Dostum, the former leader of the Afghan militia he once trained his unit to defeat (Dostum had switched sides after the Soviets withdrew)

21. Ras’s reputation and respect among the Afghan rebels is legendary

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22. Shades sat comfortably in his rocker, the afghan draped across his legs

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23. “Can I ask you to remove that afghan?”

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24. I was knitting a panel of an afghan that Harriet wanted finished for her boutique, that would take place in November, sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas

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25. Angela sat close beside her on the sofa, bundled up in an afghan blanket

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26. Afghan drug smugglers also used the same route to cross the Turkish border on their way to Europe and America

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27. ‘What I would suggest James, is that you concentrate on Hu Lyang – we know now where the drugs are entering the country – even if we no longer have the evidence………so I think that we leave Umberto Goncalves alone for the moment………especially after the big Afghan Drugs confiscation in Durban the other day - give him a chance to cool down – perhaps first try to discover who the informer is within our ranks… there must be one, as they were obviously expecting Rory…………

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28. How we laughed over that together, but Cameron didn"t think it was quite so funny at the time, especially when his sister gave him a good swift kick up the backside when he was so demanding of his new Afghan friends! But Cameron was sure it was because they were not paying enough attention to her!

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29. Clarene ran to the shabby davenport, pulled the white afghan off the backrest, and then curled herself into a ball

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30. Recently, an Afghan teenage girl (15 years old) was rescued

31. She was fully committed to use that experience to the maximum to help train the recruits of the Afghan National Army, or ANA, who were due to assume in a bit over a year the full responsibility for defending their country from the Taliban extremists

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32. That was where she was going to replace the unfortunate Captain Lebowsky as the second most senior Canadian trainer of Afghan Army recruits in Herat

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33. Due to a series of unfortunate incidents involving American soldiers during the last year, relations between the Afghan people and NATO troops, especially American troops, were very tense

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34. It had to stop at the western entrance to the camp, where Italian soldiers were supervising Afghan soldiers guarding the gate

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35. He decided that having a female officer train Afghan soldiers for combat was not appropriate

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36. You will be the senior NATO mentoring officer for the training of female Afghan police recruits who follow an eight-week basic patrolman course in Shouz

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37. You will have with you as fellow NATO trainers an Italian Carabinieri lieutenant and an American Military Police sergeant, while the Afghan course staff had only one senior lieutenant and two sergeants

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38. Unfortunately, the American Marine battalion that was based in Farah Province was recently withdrawn, creating quite a hole in the security situation there that the Afghan army and police are now trying desperately to plug

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39. However, the Afghan security forces are losing a lot of people there, and about everywhere else in the country

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40. Do the Afghan staff eat at the same mess as the international staff?’’

41. Amin did not need to mention names, as Wahid and the other Afghan officers present knew well which international staff member truly respected them and which ones didn’t

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42. ‘’I have just reviewed quickly the course schedule and the required curriculum from the Afghan Border Police program

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43. If you wish so, you could use us to actually give the instruction in those specialties, which would allow you and your two sergeants to teach the points touching specifically Afghan law, border and checkpoint procedures and how to handle family and women-related crimes

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44. After a few clipped phrases, the Afghan police woman slowly put down the receiver and looked at Maria with sadness

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45. That barrack had been set apart from the other Afghan barracks, on the edge of the square occupied by the international staff, to keep the women as widely separated from the Afghan men as possible

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46. Maria and Nancy were still about thirty meters away from the Afghan soldier, who was now at one of the entrance door of the female barracks, when the man noticed them coming towards him

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47. That parade, which Nancy attended on the sidelines with Maria Garibaldi and Jennifer Cummings, to let the spotlight on the Afghan staff, was a standard affair, with a number of speeches from senior officers and the passing of basic information about the course

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48. Watched by all the Afghan recruits and most of the staff, Nancy, dressed in her white Ji 4, did the routine that had earned her her fifth dan, complete with high kicks and lightning-quick punches

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49. Nancy examined the target at which one of the female Afghan recruits had been shooting with her AK-47 assault rifle from a distance of fifty meters, then patted her shoulder in encouragement, speaking to her in Pashto

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50. Finally, with the Sun low on the horizon and due to disappear in one hour, she concluded the shooting session and had her recruits dismantle and clean their rifles on folding tables, under the supervision of their female Afghan instructors

51. For the Americans to pull out like this will mean that many Afghan police and army units will lose their mentoring teams

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52. ‘’Maybe you should ask Colonel Amin afterwards what the Afghan government thinks of this, sir

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53. When they do, it will be the Afghan soldiers and policemen that will pay for the Americans’ myopia

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54. contingents, notably the British and Canadian ones, had readily responded to the calls for help from beleaguered Afghan army and police units, keeping their mentoring staff embedded with Afghan units involved in fighting the Taliban

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55. Finally, with both Nancy and Maryam satisfied that the designated section leaders had the correct heading set on their compasses and knew where they were and where they were going, the Afghan women lined up and turned towards the Mecca before kneeling for the evening prayers

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56. Apart from all this, she wore a headset under her helmet that was connected to the small radio tuned to the frequency used by the patrol, plus had a second, bigger radio tucked inside her small backpack, tuned to the general frequency of the Afghan police in the Bala Buluk district

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57. Thus equipped, Nancy started walking at an easy pace, mindful of the fact that the Afghan recruits had no night vision equipment and could barely see past a few paces in front of them

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58. The Afghan women, knowing full well what was at stake and also fueled by their hatred of the Taliban, didn’t complain about the accelerated pace and kept up with Nancy

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59. Careful not to approach any house and having Maryam Shirzai enforce noise discipline along the file of Afghan policewomen following her, Nancy cautiously covered the last kilometer to the enemy position

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60. Both then grabbed in succession the two crates of grenades and the four Afghan policewomen, pulling them up to the rooftop

61. Nancy had barely the time to distribute grenades to the four Afghan policewomen while giving them quick instructions before they had to lay prone and be silent in order not to be located

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62. Flipping down her night vision goggles, she shouted an order in Dari to the Afghan policewomen of her group, followed by words in Italian

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63. Nancy saw as well in a corner of the courtyard what looked like an Afghan family, with four adults and seven children huddled in a corner under the guard of two Taliban fighters

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64. One of the children of the Afghan family, a small boy, was looking up at that moment and suddenly pointed towards Nancy’s position while shouting to his parents

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65. The Afghan Air Force now had a number of armed helicopters based in nearby Shindand that could cause him no end of grief

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66. That reporter was covering with his cameraman and a Paris Match photo journalist the work of the Afghan police road checkpoint she was helping supervise in downtown Bala Buluk

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67. The road checkpoint was manned by six Afghan policemen, supplemented by two policewomen from the Shouz patrol tasked to search women and children

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68. The driver, still unaware that his companions were dead, started speeding through the chicane, swerving wildly and making the Afghan policemen jump urgently out of the way

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69. Seeing Afghan policemen raising their rifles to shoot down the fugitive, Nancy shouted at them in Dari as she started sprinting after the Taliban

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70. The video then switched to the scene of an Afghan police checkpoint in Bala Buluk

71. Looking at the television, Erik had to say that the first pictures he saw cheered him up: Afghan policemen were guarding long lines of corpses that were being described as Taliban fighters killed while attacking the district police station in Bala Buluk during the early morning of Friday

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72. He then listened with the others around the table at the BBC account of the battle, learning that an Afghan police patrol had intervened in time to take the Taliban in the rear and throw their attack into confusion

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73. Then, the scene changed from a field strewn with corpses to that of an Afghan police checkpoint in Bala Buluk

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74. The 23 Afghan female recruits that were present on parade, along with their three Afghan female instructors, were also in their blue-gray dress uniforms with caps over their head scarves

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75. Nancy had seen countless graduation parades and other ceremonial parades during her reservist career but this one meant much more for her and she felt a lump in her throat as Colonel Amin spoke to the proud policewomen: those Afghan women had braved threats of death simply to enroll and were going to have to survive during the next years in a poisoned atmosphere of public disapproval and Taliban wrath, even though they had proven that they deserved much better than that

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76. and later on placement with the Afghan government

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77. To further spice up my life, the Taliban leadership in Pakistan have decreed that I was the Devil personified and proclaimed a fatwa calling for all Muslim believers to kill me on sight, this after I led a platoon of Afghan policewomen in a battle in 2012 where nearly 400 Taliban extremists were killed, wounded or captured

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78. You were a ‘werewolf’ in the Afghan, and a man who

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79. “You have two women with you, one is your colleague and the other is Anita Harooni, an Afghan scientist, tell them to come out here

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80. Abdul phoned his chief, one of the Afghan drug lords, to report they had taken Anita and two others

81. The Afghan chief then phoned Sam Leighton and told him that he had Anita, and she could be bought for a ransom, was he interested?

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82. Several hours later, as darkness descended around the cave, the Afghan chief arrived with armed men

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83. The mood was electric, in that same year of Afghan exodus and

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84. The details were still very sketchy, but the star CNN anchor and talk show host had been kidnapped about twelve hours ago near the Pakistani border in Kandahar Province, while his cameraman and his local interpreter had been killed, along with a number of Afghan policemen escorting him

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85. To resume quickly what happened two days ago, or at least what we know about it, Cooper, a CNN cameraman and a local translator were visiting the region of Spin Boldak, near the Pakistani border in Kandahar Province, with an escort of six Afghan policemen

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86. The bad news is that we got confirmation that the Afghan Border Police unit in Spin Boldak is in league with the Taliban, and so are the Pakistani border policemen in Chaman

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87. “You don’t need to know how to knit,” Ellen said, ignoring his question as she set her afghan into a light blue wicker basket where she always kept all her knitting supplies

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88. Emperor Akbar famous for his liberal policies and inclination towards hindu muslim unity ,did not approve of his son’s love for Noor-Jehan and had her married of to Sher Afghan a captain in his army As soon as Jehangir ascended the throne he had Sher Afgan killed married Noor-Jehan and adopted their daughter

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89. Termination of the first Afghan war (1842)

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90. His resignation over the Afghan question

91. Second Afghan War of (1878-80)

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92. The warrior king Mahmud, who built an empire from the Afghan city of Ghazni, waged the first jihad in the heart of India

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93. Besides, they would have been alive to the problems logistics pose in fighting wars far off from their Afghan backyards, and so desisted from venturing farther into the grand landmass that is Hindustan

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94. And for another, either owing to their inability to rope in the Brahman ministerial talent or being intellectually apathetic towards them, and/or both, the Turkish Sultans and their Afghan minions brought in nobles from their, or the Persian, lands to administer their Indian fiefdoms

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95. a multi-colored afghan Effie had knitted

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96. gave Bout the use of Afghan Airlines, and he delivered around 800 new

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97. Pushing open the door, he saw several Afghan men hunched over their screens and one or two Africans and Indians

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98. were rumours he supplemented his salary with importing Afghan heroin through

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99. There had always been an afghan on the back of the couch, and as a single bright spot in what was otherwise the second worst day of Ryan’s life, it was still there

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100. S, attack on the Taliban Government, Afghan children did not even flinch when bombs or bullets exploded nearby