[b]Summary:[/b]

[hider=Spoiler]1. Habibullah Khan lists the many achievements in his reign so far and of the projects in future years.
2. The Emirate of Timuristan decalres independence.
3. The Emirate of Timuristan offers to mediate between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire in a conflict which it sees as wholly unproductive and detrimental to peace and stability in the region.
4. The Emirate of Timuristan offers all other warring nations the opportunity to come and resolve their issues, peacefully, in Kabul.[/hider]

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Nearly seventeen years ago, you declared me your legitimate Amir, the guardian of this nation and the protector of the true religion of Islam, and I pledged that I will unite our mighty nation, resist all forms of foreign aggression - military or otherwise - and that I will reform this blessed country and set it on the path of progress and prosperity. Since then, much has been done and I can say, with confidence, that I have not failed in these promises I made you all these years ago, and will not fail to continue as I have in these past two decades.

The Tribes, an integral part of our nation and culture, have been included into our society more than they ever were before. Military recruitment from their ranks has been relaxed and they now have more recognition through both the State Council, run by my own brother, your ever-loyal Shazada Nasrullah Khan, and in their local areas where tribal representatives can now participate in provincial activities.

To create a clean slate for us all and to unite us as a nation more than ever before, our brothers in what was once known as Kufristan, the land of the unbelievers, are today enlightened Muslims who have the full rights to their ancestral lands, in Nuristan, the land of the enlightened. Further, those who had been exiled by our wise Amir Abdur Rahman - God have mercy on his soul - were pardoned and called back to their home to once more resume their service of this nation, and the repressive secret police who caused great trauma and pain upon all our people was dismantled, and we shall never again return to such organisations which spread chaos and destruction wherever they land.

Not only have we had the support of the Tribes in our crusade to lift this great Emirate from the darkness of ignorance and onto the path of enlightenment, but all our Imaams and Mullahs have been of the best mindset and have also given their blessings and strongest support for the actions we have taken to improve this great Emirate. With all Mullahs and Imaams now officially recognised by the government once in government service, having passed the state exams and earned the robes of honour, our programme to bring education to our children through the mosques of God rather than through separate schools have thus far been a great success, and while so far it is mainly the teaching of the noble Qur'an, theology, calligraphy, mathematics, literature and languages which occurs, we shall expand on the subjects studied and on this most noble venture as a whole in future years, with the support and progressive thinking of our blessed Mullahs and Imaams, so as to produce a generation of educated Timurs who would do our noble prophet and our glorious religion proud.

Our industry has slowly, but surely, been expanding over the years, the most recent leap forward being the many textile factories which have been built and to be soon operated solely by those whom the law and God allows. We have also built a great many workshops, with nearly a hundred different types of machines, and only in 1910 we built the very first hydroelectric plant in our nation, the first of many, many more. We also connected Kabul to Paghman via a pipeline which now brings in water to the capital, a sign that our capital is slowly becoming a modern city to take pride in. Though still under-staffed and poorly equipped, our very first state hospital now stands proudly here in Kabul; never will epidemics strike us to find us helpless again! And we shall be building many more hospitals in this nation of ours in the near future.

Our basic infrastructure has also been improved, and many routes have been built. Our people, mainly in Kabul, have taken more and more to cars, and we are learning the value of good roads - and that, amazing though they are, they are not places to stop and hold meetings, as a few of our good-intentioned Tribal brothers did. To increase the use of cars, we have founded the Timur Motor Transport Company and ever since its founding in the early years of my reign, it has gone from strength to strength. We also now have a telephone line between Kabul and Jalalabad and a few other minor lines, and they shall be expanded so that the entire nation shall soon be connected by both telephone lines and railways. We hope that our so-far primitive postal service will also begin improving once the railway project comes out of the planning stage and we see it on the ground.

The first public orphanage was built under us, and those orphans - like our noble prophet who grew without his parents - are now in the care of the state and growing into fine Timurs the likes of which shall lead this nation to the greatness we all envisage. In a show of solidarity with the poorest of my people, I freed all my slaves and divorced all my wives but four, selling all the gold and jewelry and luxuries which have been passed down from one generation of Amirs to the next, and I hope that the austere life, like that of our prophet and his enlightened successors, will become the model which all Amirs of this Islamic Emirate take from now on, that we do not fall for the temptations of this world and forget that we shall meet our creator one day as surely as we shall meet death. The pagan and wholly un-Islamic pagan ways of torturing prisoners have been abolished and shall never again be allowed in our fine nation. Instead, our prisoners have become productive to our nation, learning handicrafts and giving back to society for the offences they have commit. Punishments which our just religion allows only under the most severe and horrific circumstances have also been terminated after a great many scholars assured me that these punishments only exist to dissuade crimes and not to truly be implemented, as many mistaken Muslims have been led to believe.

The old methods of telling the time in Kabul have been surpassed, and we can now boast a clock-tower which shows us the time when the sun is out, and when it is not. I have personally taught various citizens the use of the camera, a truly magnificent invention, and journalism has finally taken off with the foundation of our first official newspaper, Siraj Al-Akhbar, copies of which are sent to all mosques across the nation on a weekly basis, to keep our people informed of the happenings in and out of the Emirate.

The Emirate has taken steps to increase the production of food and the livelihood of those who live by the land. Over the last few years the state has bought land from many of our most impoverished peasants and have created a number of nationally owned farms, on which former-owners and the poor of our nation now work, with the help of new recruits to the army. This has proven a huge success and we can say with confidence that less and less Timurs are experiencing hunger as the years pass. We shall continue creating these farms in our most fertile regions, and very soon, hunger and food shortages shall be a thing of the past. Endorsing our Muslim religion and heritage, more mosques have been built all over the land, even in the most tribal areas, and none can now complain about not having access to at least two mosques. To further strengthen our unity as a people, the Kabul Games have been initiated and teams from all over Timuristan now come to Kabul annually to take part in this noble buzkashi competition.

Our youth, long fragmented and unaware of their potential, has been mobilised under the Muslim Youth programme, and despite members initially being concentrated in Kabul, over the past few years, and with the help of the many Imaams and Mullahs, more and more of our young Timus have joined this powerful group and have come to learn and understand their religion and fellow Timurs of similar age more than ever before.

Despite initial hesitation, and with careful consulting and planning with the ever supportive scholars of our nation, we converted the treasury - where the money of all Timurs lay unused - into Beyt al Mal, from which any Timur can take and deposit money, under the supervision of none other than our eagle-eyed Shazada Nasrullah Khan, making for a period of unexpected growth and prosperity, to which we have now returned with more wariness and experience.

And today, I come bearing the greatest of all news, a declaration which has been awaited by every Timur since our great defeat and subjugation by the British in the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Today I come bearing victory and freedom to all Timurs. [b]It is hereby declared that the Emirate of Timuristan is a free, autonomous, independent nation, with self-determination and sovereignty over both its domestic and foreign affairs. 

As an expression of our new found freedom and sovereignty, we hereby offer to mediate between our faithful allies and friends, the British Empire, and our brothers in the Ottoman Empire, so as to end a war which we believe is wholly unproductive and damaging to the unity of Muslim lands. We are certain that a peaceful end to the conflict can be achieved should both parties be willing to come to the negotiating table here in the completely neutral city of Kabul, in the equally neutral Emirate of Timuristan.[/b]

We also offer all other warring nations the opportunity to meet and discuss the issues between them in a civilised and brotherly manner here in Kabul.

[i]Habibullah Khan, By the Will and Might of the Most High, Amir of the Emirate of Timuristan, Repossessor of the Two Seas, Khan of the Tribes[/i][/centre]