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The following lists events that happened during 1969 in Afghanistan.
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- ↑ Tamim Ansary (2012) Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- ↑ Sarfraz Khan (2013) Politics of policy and legislation affectin g women in Afghanistan: One step forward two steps back Central Asia Journal, Number 73
- ↑ Skaine, Rosemarie (2001). The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-78648-174-3.
- ↑ Louis Dupree (2014) Afghanistan Princeton University Press, p653
- ↑ Emadi, Hafizullah, Repression, resistance, and women in Afghanistan, Praeger, Westport, Conn., 2002
- ↑ The first five was Kubra Noorzai in 1965, Shafiqa Ziaie in 1971, Anahita Ratebzad in 1976, Masuma Esmati-Wardak in 1990 and Saleha Farooq Etemadi in 1990.
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