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Afghanistan the Making of the 1964 Constitution: Afghanistan : The Making of the 1964 Constitution: Memoirs of Sayed Qassem Rishtya, Former Senior Government Minister
Afghanistan the Making of the 1964 Constitution Afghanistan The Making of the 1964 Constitution Memoirs of Sayed Qassem Rishtya Former Senior Government Minister Author:Sayed Qassem Rishtya Discover a forgotten key page of the modern history of Afghanistan: the first Afghan attempt at democracy as experienced from within — As early as 1964, Afghanistan endowed itself with a democratic Constitution based on an english model. Nobody has ever uttered a word about it! At that time, Afghan women seated in parliament, sporting occidental ... more »attire. Kaboul, the capital, housed four foreign universities.
In short, Afghanistan - the only non-christianized and non-colonized country of Asia - did not look at all like what we currently think of it...
In order to reveal this hidden page of their past to young exiled Afghans, Leila Enayat-Seraj translated the diaries of her father, one of the artisans of this major political evolution in her country.« less