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for the spinning and weaving of wool, Colleges,
and the extension of roads and telephone and
telegraph lines to distant parts of the country,
thus giving a new colour and splendour to the
country, so that if the Second World War had not
begun, Afghanistan would by now have completed
the greater part of her modern programme.
Monument where the king Nadir Shah was assassinated
یاد گار موقع شهادت اعلیحضرت شهید محمد نادر شاه غازی
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