آرشیو مطبوعات افغانستان
Afghan Press Archive
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Volume 1, number 1 — Kabul, 1911. Mahmud Tarzi's Torch of the News, printed at the Mashin Khana on a press the state had only just acquired. It ran for seven years, argued for schools, railways and a modern Afghan nation, and taught a generation of writers their trade. Every later paper in this archive descends from it.
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