1973 in Afghanistan

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See also:	Other events of 1973 List of years in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1973 in Afghanistan.

Incumbents

• Mohammed Zahir Shah
  (until 17 July)
• Mohammed Daoud Khan
  (starting 17 July)
• Prime Minister: Mohammad Musa Shafiq (until 17 July)

Beginning of 1973

Afghanistan's internal situation is dominated by difficulties arising from three successive seasons of drought in the central and northern areas of the country. In Ghor province, the shortage is particularly bad; famine is widespread and there are many deaths from starvation. Although massive Soviet and U.S. aid programs, supplemented by less ambitious efforts sponsored by China, Britain, France, India, and other countries, have done much to improve roads, power supplies, irrigation, and other essential elements of an economic substructure on which future progress could be based, the gap that divides Kabul from the outlying and backward areas shows little signs of closing. In those parts of the country the authority of the central government remains minimal, and small notice is taken of the men selected for parliament. Thus, the capital tends to be a world of its own, where governments change, where unrest is chronic, and where the country finds almost its only link with the outside world.

July 1973

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