We're looking at how all 65 former British Empire countries became independent.
Afghanistan, landlocked between Iran and Pakistan and sharing borders with Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and even China to the north, has a terribly complex history that is extremely hard to report in brief.“It is a story of outside meddling. It is a story of a country that has never been allowed to find its own way, and Afghan resistance to that,” he says.from the British on August 19 – which is actually 11 days after the signing of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 which it commemorates.
A second treaty between the Afghans and British followed in 1921, and the decades after saw King Amanullah’s work “catapult Afghanistan to become the first Islamic state to be a proud member – not a pariah – of the nascent international community after World War I”, according to Faiz Ahmed, an associate professor of history at Brown University.
Today, the country is run by the hardline Islamist group, with women persecuted as second-class citizens and neighbouring Pakistan “calling the shots”, Pratt says.A century of strife, compounded and even encouraged by foreign powers, is not a blueprint for an independent Scotland. Tut the period directly after the end of the British protectorate may offer some small lessons of sorts.
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