country. it is actually not a very recent country, it has been there since the time of ahmed shah gurani in the mid 19th century but it very few times governments have exerted a strong control over its extremities and whether it is an invasion invading colonialforce and whether it is an invasion invading colonial force or a and whether it is an invasion invading colonialforce or a native afghan leader powell has been devolved to tribal chieftains and often these battles which look to towards like battles between western democracy and islamic barbarism actually mass pre—existing tribal fault lines. in 18 39 they put in the chief of the... tribe and when we put in hamid karzai he was the great—great—grandson of batman and the chief of the same man. in 1839 they were brought down by the