Abdur Rahman Khan Quotes
The first and most important advice that I can give to my successors and people to make Afghanistan into a great kingdom is to impress upon their minds the value of unity; unity, and unity alone, can make it into a great power.
Abdur Rahman Khan, 1880-1901, Amir of Afghanistan, Founder of modern Afghanistan, Quoted in Afghanistan On-Line, http://www.afghan-web.com/history/quotes.html
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Abdur Rahman Khan (Pashto: عبدالرحمن خان) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901. He is known for uniting the country after years of internal fighting and negotiation of the Durand Line Agreement with British India.
