Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 41 Soviet occupation 41 hardline militia 40 abortive uprising 39 Pushtun 38 ethnic Hazara 38 Mughal emperor 37 Soviet occupiers 37 Hazaras 36 Mughal Empire 36 Sandinista revolution 36 Taliban 36 Pashtuns 35 colonial domination 35 vestige 35 existential threat 35 Pashtun 35 Ahmed Shah Massoud 35 Pashtun tribal 35 Zahir Shah 34 Pushtuns 34 Ahmad Shah Massoud 34 Persian empire 34 Hekmatyar 34 dictator Siad Barre 34 Hezb e Islami 34 hardline Islamic 34 feudal 34 Taleban 33 Mughals 33 affront 33 feudalistic 33 tyrannical rule 33 Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 33 barbarism 33 Pashtoon 32 totalitarian dictatorship 32 despotic rule 32 heartland 32 Wali Khan 32 Zhari districts 32 Mujaheddin 32 gravest threats 32 Naziism 32 stronghold 32 illicit opium 32 perversion 32 Baath regime 32 manifest injustice 32 harboring al Qaeda 32 Pakhtuns 31 Soviet Union invaded 31 sheltering Osama bin 31 gravest threat 31 dictatorship 31 Mohammad Zia ul 31 virulent insurgency 31 Persian Empire 31 Jalaluddin Haqqani 31 dramatic turnabout 31 insurgency 31 opium poppy producing 31 dictator Mobutu Sese Seko 31 repudiation 31 bastion 31 Safavid 31 bygone era 30 seismic shift 30 Islamist extremists 30 Army KLA 30 mujaheddin 30 reversal 30 reassertion 30 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 30 oppressive 30 mujahedin 30 Maoist Shining Path 30 colonial era 30 Shah Mohammad Reza 30 Afghanistan 29 Islamic fundamentalists 29 mujahedeen 29 brutal dictatorships 29 paradigm shift 29 Islamists 29 Dostum 29 General Ziaul Haq 29 SAVAK 29 rollback 29 tyranny 29 entrenchment 29 Baloch nationalists 29 toppled communism 29 Burhanuddin Rabbani 29 jehad 29 Pathans 29 liberation 29 tectonic shift 29 Durand Line 29 brutal dictatorship 29 Afghan istan 29 Vichy regime