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Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

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- Ab Band District

Ab Band District

Ab Band is a district in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is almost entirely Pashtun, was estimated at 41,340 in 2002. Ab Band is on the main road from Kabul to Kandahar....

- Ab Kamari District

Ab Kamari District

Ab Kamari is a district in the west of Badghis Province, Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 36,300 in 2002, the ethnic makeup of which was approximately 80% Tajik with a Pashtun minority. The district capital is Sang Atesh. Other localities include Ab Khuda'i, Alkhan, Anjir, Duzdanak,...

- Ab Khuda'i

Ab Khuda'i

Ab Khuda'i is a village in the west of Ab Kamari District in the Badghis Province, of north-west Afghanistan. Its population, consists of approximately 90% Tajik with a small Pashtun, Aimaq and Uzbek minority. Other localities include Alkhan, Anjir, Duzdanak, Gana Gul, Khalifa, and Papal....

- Abaidullah

Abaidullah

Obaidullah is a citizen of Afghanistan, currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate that Obaidullah was born in 1980 in Khowst, Afghanistan....

- Abasi
- Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak Janko

Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak Janko

A Syrian-Kurd, Abd Al-Rahim Abdul Rassak al-Janko was a student in the United Arab Emirates who traveled to Afghanistan in 2000, where he was captured by the Taliban who announced that he had confessed to plotting to murder Osama bin Laden, as well as spying against the Taliban on behalf of Israel...

- Abd al-Latif ibn Muhammad Taraghay Ulughbek
- Abdul Ahad Mohmand

Abdul Ahad Mohmand

Abdul Ahad Momand is a former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first Afghan in space when he spent nine days aboard the Mir space station in 1988 as a Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut...

- Abdul Ali Mazari

Abdul Ali Mazari

Abdul Ali Mazari was a political leader of the Hezbe Wahdat during and following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Mazari was an ethnic Hazara, and believed the solution to the divisiveness in Afghanistan was in federalism, where every ethnic group would have specific constitutional...

- Abdul Hakim Bukhary

Abdul Hakim Bukhary

-Transcript:Bukhary chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.Bukhary chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.-Abdul Bukhary and other former Taliban prisoners:...

- Abdul Haq (Afghan leader)

Abdul Haq (Afghan leader)

Abdul Haq was an Afghan Pashtun mujahideen commander who fought against the Soviets and Afghan communists during the Soviet-Afghan War...

- Abdul Jabbar Naeemi

Abdul Jabbar Naeemi

Abdul Jabbar Naeemi is an Afghan diplomat and politician. He is the current Governor of Khost Province in Afghanistan. At one time he served as a representative from Kandahar Province to the Loya Jirga...

- Abdul Latif Hakimi

Abdul Latif Hakimi

Mullah Abdul Latif Hakimi, also known as Latif Hakimi or Hakim Latifi, was a purported spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan.Hakimi first claimed a suicide bombing on 28 January 2004, that killed a British soldier in Kabul....

- Abdul Malik Pahlawan
- Abdul Qader Bedil

Abdul Qader Bedil

Mawlānā Abul-Ma'āni Mirzā Abdul-Qādir Bēdil , also known as Bedil Dehlavī , was a famous Persian poet and Sufi born in Azimabad ; to a family of Chaghatay Turkic descent...

- Abdul Qadir Dagarwal

Abdul Qadir Dagarwal

Abdul Qadir Dagarwal , a colonel, was the leader of the Afghan Air Force squadrons that attacked the Radio-TV Station during the 1978 Coup that started the Saur Revolution....

- Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai

Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai

Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai was a politician and diplomat of Afghanistan. He was an ethnic Pashtun, a member of the Mohammadzai tribe. During the 1970s he entered the Afghan foreign service. He was sent to the United States to represent the political administration supported by the Soviet Union. As...

- Abdul Rahim Hatef

Abdul Rahim Hatef

Abdul Rahim Hatef is an Afghan politician. He served as Vice President during the last years of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan....

- Abdul Rahman (convert)

Abdul Rahman (convert)

Abdul Rahman was an Afghan citizen who was arrested in February 2006 and threatened with the death penalty for converting to Christianity. On March 26, 2006, under heavy pressure from foreign governments, the court returned his case to prosecutors, citing "investigative gaps". He was released...

- Abdul Rahman Abdullah Mohamed Juma Kahm

Abdul Rahman Abdullah Mohamed Juma Kahm

Abdul Rahman Abdullah Mohamed Juma Kahm is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 118....

- Abdul Rahman Mosque

Abdul Rahman Mosque

The Haji Abdul Rahman Mosque , also known as the Grand Mosque of Kabul, is one of the largest mosques in Afghanistan, located in the middle of downtown area of Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul. It sits in a busy commercial area of the city, near the Pashtunistan square and across from the...

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- Abdul Rahman Pazhwak

Abdul Rahman Pazhwak

Abdul Rahman Pazhwak was an Afghan poet and diplomat. He was educated in Afghanistan and started out his career as a journalist, but eventually joined the foreign ministry. During the 1950s he became ambassador to the United Nations, and served as president of the UN General Assembly from 1966 to...

- Abdul Rashid Dostum

Abdul Rashid Dostum

Abdul Rashid Dostum is a former pro-Soviet fighter during the Soviet war in Afghanistan and is considered by many to be the leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community and the party Junbish-e Milli-yi Islami-yi Afghanistan...

- Abdul Rasul Sayyaf

Abdul Rasul Sayyaf

Ustad Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf is an Afghan Islamist politician. He took part in the war against the PDPA government in the 1980s, leading the Mujahedin faction Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan....

- Abdul Razeq
- Abdul Wali (detainee)
- Abdul Zahir (Afghan Prime Minister)
- Abdul Zahir (Guantanamo captive 753)
- Abdul Zahir (Taliban leader)
- Abdullah (Afghanistan)
- Abdullah Gan

Abdullah Gan

Abdullah Gan, is a mountainous region of Afghanistan. The population there are primarily members of the Shia Muslim Hazara ethnic group. They were particularly obstinate in their opposition to the hard-line Sunni Taliban regime....

- Abdullah Shah Ghazi

Abdullah Shah Ghazi

Abdullah Shah Ghazi is considered to be patron saint of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He is widely revered in Pakistan. His tomb is also a revered Sindhi shrine especially for the Bawarij Sindhi Muslims and the Samma tribe....

- Abdur Rab Nishtar

Abdur Rab Nishtar

Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar was a Muslim League stalwart, Pakistan movement activist and later Pakistani politician.-Education:...

- Abdur Rahman Khan

Abdur Rahman Khan

Abdur Rahman Khan was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.The third son of Mohammad Afzal Khan, and grandson of Dost Mohammad Khan, Abdur Rahman Khan was considered a strong ruler who re-established the writ of the Afghan government in Kabul after the disarray that followed the second...

- Abdurrahim Wardak

Abdurrahim Wardak

General Abdul Rahim Wardak is the Defense Minister of Afghanistan. He was appointed on December 23, 2004 by Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Before this appointment, Wardak was the deputy Defense Minister to the former minister, Mohammed Fahim...

- Abib Sarajuddin

Abib Sarajuddin

-Transcript:Sarajuddin chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal....

- Ablepharus pannonicus

Ablepharus pannonicus

The Asian Snake-eyed Skink is a species of skink. It is found in Georgia, southern Turkmenistan, southern Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, western Azerbaijan, eastern Iran, Iraq, Oman, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, northwestern India, Australia, and...

- Abu Sa'id (Timurid dynasty)

Abu Sa'id (Timurid dynasty)

Abū Saʿīd b. Muḥammad b. Mīrānshāh b. Timūr , was a Timurid Empire ruler in what is today parts of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Afghanistan and member of the Timurid dynasty....

- Access for Afghan Women Act

Access for Afghan Women Act

The Access for Afghan Women Act of 2003 is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Dana Rohrabacher...

- Achaemenid Empire

Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire , sometimes known as First Persian Empire and/or Persian Empire, was founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great who overthrew the Median confederation...

- Achakzai

Achakzai

Achakzai are Durrani primarily found in southern Afghanistan and northern regions of Balochistan Province, Pakistan.-Demographics:Achakzais of Afghanistan are mainly located in Spin Boldak, Reg, Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan and Herat...

- Achin District

Achin District

Achin is a district in the south of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering on Pakistan. Its population is 100% Pashtun.Achin is home to the Shinwari tribe, one of the largest Pashtun tribes. It was a stronghold of the Mujaheddin during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.-Economy:The primary...

- Adam Khan And Durkhanai

Adam Khan And Durkhanai

Adam Khan Aw Durkhanai is a classic Pashtun romance which has been called the Pashto Romeo and Juliet along with Yusuf Khan and Sherbano. It is considered classic pashto literature....

- Afghan abasi
- Afghan afghani

Afghan afghani

The Afghani is the currency of Afghanistan. It is notionally subdivided into 100 pul , although there are no pul coins in circulation.-Original Afghani :...

- Afghan Air Force

Afghan Air Force

The Afghan Air Force , formerly the Afghan National Army Air Corps and Afghan National Army Air Force , is one of seven "corps" of the military of Afghanistan, responsible for air defense and air warfare. It was officially established in 1924 and for most of its history has functioned as a small...

- Afghan bread

Afghan bread

Afghan bread, or Nan-e Afghani , is the national bread of Afghanistan. The bread is oval or rectangular and baked in a tandoor, a cylindrical oven which is the primary cooking equipment of the sub-continental region. The Afghan version of the tandoor sits above ground and is made of bricks, which...

- Afghan Cabinet of Ministers

Afghan Cabinet of Ministers

The Cabinet of Afghanistan is made of the heads of all the government ministries. The president selects the members of cabinet with the approval of the National Assembly of the country.-Current cabinet of ministers:...

- Afghan carpet
- Afghan Christians

Afghan Christians

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan does not recognize any Afghan citizens as being Christians. Nor are Afghan citizens legally permitted to convert to Christianity. Although there are no explicit laws that forbid proselytizing, many authorities and most of society view the practice as contrary to...

- Afghan Civil War (1989-1992)

Afghan Civil War (1989-1992)

The 1989 to 1992 phase of the Afghan Civil War began after the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving the Afghan communist government to fend for itself against the Mujahideen. After several years of fighting, the government fell in 1992...

- Afghan Civil War (1992-1996)

Afghan Civil War (1992-1996)

The 1992 to 1996 phase of the Afghan Civil War began with the resignation of President Najibullah from the Government of Afghanistan and the entrance of the Mujahideen groups into Kabul. The fighting involved multiple factions and up until the Taliban entered the city in 1996, was largely fought on...

- Afghan Civil War (1996-2001)

Afghan Civil War (1996-2001)

On September 27, 1996, the Taliban seized the Afghan capital Kabul and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Islamic State of Afghanistan government remained the internationally recognized government of Afghanistan. The Taliban's Emirate received recognition only from Saudi Arabia,...

- Afghan Civil War
- Afghan Constitution Commission

Afghan Constitution Commission

The Afghan Constitution Commission was established October 5, 2002 as required by the Bonn Agreement, which stipulated that a new Afghan constitution be adopted by a loya jirga...

- Afghan cricket team

Afghan cricket team

The Afghanistan national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Afghanistan in international cricket matches. Cricket has been played in Afghanistan since the mid 19th century, but it is only in recent years that the national team has become successful...

- Afghan Defense Ministry

Afghan Defense Ministry

The Afghan Ministry of Defense is an organ of the Central Government of Afghanistan, overseeing the entire military of Afghanistan. , it is headed by Abdul Rahim Wardak, a former mujahid who also received some military training in the United States...

- Afghan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program

Afghan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program

The Afghan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program was established by the government of Afghanistan to disarm 90,000 former combatants and integrate them into civilian life....

- Afghan dress

Afghan dress

As a chiefly rural and nomadic population, the Pashtun dress of Afghanistan and Pakistan is typically made from light linens, and are loose fitting for ease of movement. The Pashtun dress includes shalwar kameez, which is differently made for males and females. Males usually wear kufi, Kandahari...

- Afghan Hedgehog

Afghan Hedgehog

The Afghan Hedgehog is a subspecies of the Long-eared Hedgehog native to Afghanistan and western Pakistan. It is larger and reddish in colour, but otherwise similar in appearance to the Long-eared Hedgehog....

- Afghan Independence Day

Afghan Independence Day

Afghan Independence Day is celebrated in Afghanistan on 19 August to commemorate the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919. The treaty granted complete independence from Britain; although Afghanistan was never officially a part of the British Empire...

- Afghan Islamic Press

Afghan Islamic Press

Afghan Islamic Press is an Afghan news agency based in Peshawar, Pakistan. It was established 1982, during the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan, by Muhammad Yaqub Sharafat. Sharafat was the nephew of Maulavi Yunis Khales, one of the leaders of the anti-Soviet mujahideen guerrilla movement...

- Afghan Kadu Bouranee

Afghan Kadu Bouranee

Kadu bouranee is a pumpkin dish made by frying pumpkin with different spices. It is topped with chaka/sour cream and dried mint. Kadu bouranee is eaten with bread or rice....

- Afghan Kofta
- Afghan Ministry of Health

Afghan Ministry of Health

Afghan Ministry of Public Health is the ministry of the government of Afghanistan which deals with matters concerning the health of Afghanistan's population. This body has large funds at its disposal to train, educate and cure. Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan the Ministry of Health,...

- Afghan Mobile Mini Children's Circus

Afghan Mobile Mini Children's Circus

The Afghan Mobile Mini Children's Circus is a traveling educational entertainment group in Afghanistan. MMCC accepts children aged 5-17 to learn juggling, unicycling, acrobatics, singing, comedy, theater and magic tricks...

- Afghan Museum

Afghan Museum

The Afghan Museum is private museum of culture and cultural history of Afghanistan, situated in the historic and picturesque Speicherstadt of Hamburg, Germany...

- Afghan national anthem

Afghan National Anthem

The Afghan National Anthem was adopted and officially announced in May 2006. According to article 20 of the Constitution of Afghanistan, "The national anthem of Afghanistan shall be in Pashto with the mention of "God is Greatest" as well as the names of the ethnicities of Afghanistan." The lyrics...

- Afghan National Army

Afghan National Army

The Afghan National Army is a service branch of the military of Afghanistan, which is currently trained by the coalition forces to ultimately take the role in land-based military operations in Afghanistan. , the Afghan National Army is divided into seven regional Corps. The strength of the Afghan...

- Afghan National Museum
- Afghan National Solidarity Programme

Afghan National Solidarity Programme

The Afghan National Solidarity Programme is an initiative by the government of Afghanistan which aims to rehabilitate and develop around 5 000 villages in Afghanistan. The programme has been funded by $600 million and, over three years, hopes to develop local democratically-elected institutions...

- Afghan New Beginnings Programme

Afghan New Beginnings Programme

The Afghan New Beginnings Programme aims to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate thousands of combatants from the Afghan Militia Forces and provide them opportunities to join the Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police or an alternative line of work....

- Afghan Northern Alliance
- Afghan parliamentary election, 2005

Afghan parliamentary election, 2005

Afghanistan held parliamentary and provincial council elections on 18 September 2005. The first results were declared on 9 October, with final results being delayed by accusations of fraud, and were finally announced on 12 November.-Results:...

- Afghan poetry

Afghan poetry

Poetry of Afghanistan has ancient roots, which is mostly written in Pashto and Dari . Afghan poetry relates to the culture of Afghanistan, the Afghan people and the region of Afghanistan or the former Khorasan region.-History:...

- Afghan refugees
- Afghan rupee

Afghan rupee

The rupee was the currency of Afghanistan until 1925. Before 1891, silver rupees circulated with copper falus and gold mohur. The three metals had no fixed exchange rate between them, with different regions issuing their own coins....

- Afghan Social Democratic Party

Afghan Social Democratic Party

The Afghan Social Democratic Party, more commonly known as Afghan Mellat , is a Pashtun nationalist political party in Afghanistan. Controversially, the party's leadership describes it as social democratic, but it is not recognized as such by the Socialist International...

- Afghan Supreme Court

Afghan Supreme Court

Stera Mahkama or the Afghan Supreme Court is the court of last resort in Afghanistan. It was created by the Constitution of Afghanistan, which was approved on January 4, 2004...

- Afghan Television
- Afghan Transitional Administration

Afghan Transitional Administration

The Afghan Transitional Administration was the name of a temporary administration of Afghanistan put in place by the 2002 Loya Jirga and followed the Afghan Interim Administration which was installed after the Bonn Conference.-Background:Following the US Invasion in Afghanistan, a UN sponsored...

- Afghan Turkestan

Afghan Turkestan

Afghan Turkestan is a region in northern Afghanistan, on the border with the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It was the name of a former province in this area until its division by Abdur Rahman, and was centred on Mazari Sharif and included territory in the...

- Afghan TV

Afghan TV

Afghan TV is a commercial television station, based in Kabul, Afghanistan since late 21 May 2004. The station is owned by Mr. Afghanzai, an Afghan entrepreneur. It originally broadcasted for 18-hours daily, but has been 24-hours since July 2004.-Programs:...

- Afghan Water and Power Ministry

Afghan Water and Power Ministry

The Afghan Ministry of Water and Power is a ministry of the government of Afghanistan. Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan the ministry had the task of co-ordinating an effort to reintroduce power to areas of Afghanistan that had been cut off. Areas particularly badly affected were southern...

- Afghan Wireless Communication Company
- Afghan Women's Network

Afghan Women's Network

The Afghan Women's Network is a non-governmental organization which was created in 1996 by Afghan women following the World Conference on Women in Beijing and works to, "empower women and ensure their equal participation in Afghan society." The organization one of hundreds of its kind in...

- Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

- Afghanistan at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan first competed at the Summer Olympic Games at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.- Athletics :Men's 100 metres* Mohd Mohammad Khan** sixth and last in heat 3Men's long jump* Mohd Mohammad Khan...

- Afghanistan at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London....

- Afghanistan at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, after having missed the 1952 Games in Helsinki....

- Afghanistan at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 1960 Summer Olympics

- Athletics:- Wrestling:-References:**...

- Afghanistan at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 1964 Summer Olympics

http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/AFG/summer/1964/WRE/Afghanistan competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo....

- Afghanistan at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.They fielded five wrestlers, all men.-Wrestling:Men's freestyle bantamweight * Jan Ahmad** Round 1 — fought Bazaryn Sükhbaatar of Mongolia...

- Afghanistan at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany from August 26, 1972 to September 11, 1972. They sent eight athletes who all competed in wrestling....

- Afghanistan at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Although many nations boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Asian nation itself ironically participated in the Games held in the capital city of the Soviet Union...

- Afghanistan at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, after having boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles....

- Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The Central Asian nation returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona....

- Afghanistan at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Afghanistan returned to the Olympic Games at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.Afghanistan was banned from Olympic competition in 1999, during Taliban rule, but was reinstated in 2002. At the 2004 Games, female athletes represented Afghanistan for the first time in the country's history...

- Afghanistan Football Federation

Afghanistan Football Federation

The Afghanistan Football Federation is the governing body of football in Afghanistan, controlling the Afghanistan national football team. It was founded in 1922, and has been a member of FIFA since 1948 and the Asian Football Confederation since 1954....

- Afghanistan Information Management Services

Afghanistan Information Management Services

Afghanistan Information Management Services is a Kabul-based Afghan non-governmental organisation which works to fill the gap in the information management needs of Afghanistan...

- Afghanistan International Bank

Afghanistan International Bank

Afghanistan International Bank is a local commercial bank in Afghanistan, with its head office in Kabul. The bank has seven branch offices in the major cities of the country....

- Afghanistan Liberation Organization

Afghanistan Liberation Organization

Afghanistan Liberation Organization is a Maoist political group in Afghanistan. It was founded by Dr. Faiz Ahmad and some others in 1973. ALO is one of several organization that grew out of the Sholaye Javid movement...

- Afghanistan Meteorological Authority

Afghanistan Meteorological Authority

The Afghanistan Meteorological Authority is located in Kabul, Afghanistan. The authority has been led by Abdul Qadeer since the late 1970s.- History :...

- Afghanistan national football team

Afghanistan national football team

The Afghanistan national football team is the national team of Afghanistan and is controlled by the Afghanistan Football Federation. The national team was founded in 1922 that joined FIFA in 1948 and the AFC in 1954...

- Afghanistan Pakistan People's Friendship Association

Afghanistan Pakistan People's Friendship Association

The Afghanistan Pakistan People's Friendship Association is a non-governmental organization group which operates in Pakistan and Afghanistan. These two South Asian nations neighbor each other and have had at times turbulent relationships...

- Afghanistan presidential election, 2004

Afghanistan presidential election, 2004

An election to the office of President of Afghanistan was held on October 9, 2004. Hamid Karzai won the election with 55.4% of the votes and three times more votes than any other candidate. Twelve candidates received less than 1% of the vote. It is estimated that more than three-quarters of...

- Technology Education Center, Kabul

Afghanistan Relief Organization

Afghanistan Relief Organization is a humanitarian organization which provides direct aid and education to those in need in Afghanistan. It runs a large technology education centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and is also involved in the training of midwives.-Description:Afghanistan Relief...

- Afghanistan Scout Association
- Afghanistan War order of battle

Afghanistan War order of battle

The Afghan War order of battle is the disposition and structure of military forces in the ongoing War in Afghanistan. This article lists deployed units under the command of the International Security Assistance Force , which controls both combat and reconstruction operations . ISAF comprises units...

- Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge

Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge

The Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge is a road and rail bridge across the river Amu Darya in the northern Balkh province of Afghanistan, which connects the town of Hairatan with Termez in Uzbekistan...

- Afrasiab Khattak

Afrasiab Khattak

Afrasiab Khattak or Afrasayab Khattak is a politician from Kohat, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. He is currently a member of the Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Pakistan and the provincial president of the Awami National Party in North-West Frontier Province.Afrasiab Khattak...

- Afridi
- Afshar language

Afshar language

Afshar or Afshari, is a Turkic language spoken in Turkey, Syria, parts of Afghanistan and Iran. It is considered by many to be a dialect of Turkish...

- Afsharid dynasty

Afsharid dynasty

The Afsharids were members of an Iranian dynasty of Turkmen origin from Khorasan who ruled Persia in the 18th century. The dynasty was founded in 1736 by the military commander Nader Shah who deposed the last member of the Safavid dynasty and proclaimed himself King of Iran. During Nader's reign,...

- Agesiles

Agesiles

Agesiles , who reigned around 20BC-1BC, is, with Sapadbizes, one of the first identified kings of the northern Indo-European Yuezhi tribes, that had invaded the Greco-Bactrian kingdom in the region of Bactria from around 125 BC. This king is known only from his coins, which are very rare.-External...

- AH1

AH1

AH1 is the longest route of the Asian Highway Network, running 12,845 miles from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Southeast Asia, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul.-Japan:...

- Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai

Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai

Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai is an Afghan politician. He served as the prime minister of Afghanistan from 1995 to 1996. He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Ahmadzai sub-tribe.-Biography:...

- Ahmad Shah Bahadur

Ahmad Shah Bahadur

Ahmad Shah Bahadur was born to Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah. He succeeded his father to the throne as the 15th Mughal Emperor in 1748 at the age of 22. His mother was Udhambai, . When Ahmed Shah came to power the rule of the Mughal Empire was collapsing...

- Ahmad Wali

Ahmad Wali

Ahmad Wali is a popular Ghazal singer from Afghanistan. He began his career in the 1970s, becoming popular in his native country before he was forced to flee by political upheaval in Afghanistan. He continued his work after resettling in Germany, performing throughout Europe and the United...

- Ahmad Zahir

Ahmad Zahir

Ahmad Zahir was a singer, songwriter, and composer from Afghanistan. He is considered an icon of Afghan music and is sometimes called the "King of Afghan music"...

- Ahmad Zia Massoud

Ahmad Zia Massoud

Ahmad Zia Massoud was the First Vice President of Afghanistan in the first elected administration of President Hamid Karzai, from December 2004 to November 2009...

- Ahmadzai

Ahmadzai

Aḥmadzai is a Pashtun tribe. There are many separate and distinct clans, sub-clans, tribal fractions, large families etc. that trace their ancestry to different Aḥmads.-Afghanistan:...

- Ahmed Khan of Herat

Ahmed Khan of Herat

Ahmed Khan was a ruler of the region of Herat in Afghanistan, that enjoyed independence from 1856 to 1863....

- Ahmed Shah Abdali
- Ahmed Shah Massoud

Ahmed Shah Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud was a Kabul University engineering student turned military leader who played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the name Lion of Panjshir. His followers call him Āmir Sāhib-e Shahīd...

- Ahmed Wali Karzai

Ahmed Wali Karzai

Ahmed Wali Karzai was a prominent politician in Afghanistan and the younger paternal half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and son of Abdul Ahad Karzai. As an elder of the Popalzai Pashtun tribe, he was elected to the Kandahar Provincial Council in 2005 and served as its chairman. Karzai...

- Ahmed Yusuf Nuristani

Ahmed Yusuf Nuristani

Dr. Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani is a politician in Afghanistan. He was the spokesperson for President Hamid Karzai during the interim administration. Subsequently, he was appointed as Water and Energy during the transitional period of Afghan government. In January 2005, he became First Deputy Minister of...

- Ahtaj

Ahtaj

Ahtaj is a town in Afghanistan....

- Aimak

Aimak

Aymāq , also transliterated as Aimak or Aimaq, are a collection of Persian-speaking nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. They are found throughout the north and northwest highlands of Afghanistan, immediately to the north of Herat, and in the Khorasan Province of Iran...

- Aimaq language

Aimaq language

Aimaq is a dialect of the Persian language spoken west of the Hazarajat , in central northwest Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and Tajikistan. It is the dominant dialect of Persian spoken by the Aymāq people. It is very close to Khorasani and Dari dialects...

- AINA (organization)

AINA (organization)

Aina's actions are based on Education, information and communication.Its goal is to strengthen civil society through education of children and women,and training in communication and information skills....

- Aisha-i-Durani School

Aisha-i-Durani School

The Aisha-i-Durani School or Durani High School is a girls' school in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is one of two schools reconstructed with German help after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the other being Amani High School.- External links :* *...

- Ajmal Khattak

Ajmal Khattak

Ajmal Khattak was a Pakistani politician, writer, Pashtun poet, Khudai Khidmatgar, former President of Awami National Party and close friend of the late Khan Wali Khan....

- Ajristan District

Ajristan District

Ajristan is a district in the west of Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 62,028 in 2001, of whom 97% were Pashtun with a small number of Hazara. The district capital is Sangar located in the center of the district. Most of the population lives in the valley of the Jikhai...

- Akbar Khan

Akbar Khan

Amir Akbar Khan Amir Akbar Khan Amir Akbar Khan (1816 – 1846;, born as Mohammad Akbar Khan and famously known as Wazir Akbar Khan, was an Afghan Prince, a general, a tribal leader and Emir. He was active in the First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839 to 1842...

- Akbar Shah II

Akbar Shah II

Akbar Shah II , also known as Mirza Akbar, was the second-to-last of the Mughal emperors of India. He held the title from 1806 to 1837. He was the second son of Shah Alam II and the father of Bahadur Shah Zafar II....

- Akbar
- Akcha
- Akhund of Swat

Akhund of Swat

The Akhund of Swat Abdul Ghafur was a Muslim saint who exercised great influence and authority over Muslims over large parts of central Asia....

- Akram Khan Durrani

Akram Khan Durrani

Akram Khan Durrani was born to Ghulam Khan in 1958 in Village Mewa Khel, Surrani, Bannu. He studied at Sikander Khel Primary and High Schools. He completed his FA from Government Degree College, Bannu. His clan members inhabit in Mewa Khel, Duri Khel, Allah Dodi kala, Ahmad Khon kala and Bazidi.He...

- Akram Yari

Akram Yari

Akram Yari was a Maoist political organizer in Afghanistan. He was the leader and founder of the Progressive Youth Organization , a Maoist organization which was formed on October 6, 1965.-Early years:...

- Al Farouq training camp

Al Farouq training camp

The Al Farouq training camp, also known as "the airport camp", was an alleged Al-Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Camp attendees received small-arms training, map-reading, orientation, explosives training, and other training....

- Al Ghuraba training camp

Al Ghuraba training camp

Al Ghuraba training camp is an alleged al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, near Kabul.-Alleged alumni:-References:...

- Al Sadeeq training camp

Al Sadeeq training camp

The Al-Sadeeq training camp is one of the training camps in Afghanistan, near Khost, that American intelligence officials have asserted were used to train individuals with ties to al Qaeda or the Taliban....

- Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef
- Al-Walid I
- Al-Walid II

Al-Walid II

Walid ibn Yazid or Walid II was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 743 until 744. He succeeded his uncle, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik....

- Alamgir II

Alamgir II

Aziz-ud-din Alamgir II was the Mughal Emperor of India from 3 June 1754 to 29 November 1759. He was the son of Jahandar Shah....

- Alchon
- Ali Ahmad Jalali

Ali Ahmad Jalali

Ali Ahmad Jalali is an Afghan American and a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the United States' National Defense University. He is also a former Interior Minister of Afghanistan, serving in that position from January 2003 to September 2005.Jalali...

- Ali Shah Durrani

Ali Shah Durrani

Sultan Ali Shah Durrani was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1818 to 1819. He was the son of Timur Shah Durrani, and the penultimate Durrani Emperor. He was deposed by his brother Ayub Shah.-External links:*...

- Ali Sher Nawai
- Alif Mohammed

Alif Mohammed

Alif Mohammed is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.-Press reports:...

- Alikozai
- Alptigin

Alptigin

Alp Tigin was a founder of the state of Ghazna. He was a general of Central Asian Turkic origin from Balkh who had risen from a mercenary to general to the Governor of Khorasan based in Ghazni, and eventually to the ruler of Ghazna state....

- Amani High School

Amani High School

Amani High School, also known as Amani–Oberrealschule, is a school in Kabul, Afghanistan. From the time of its foundation in 1924 until 1985, Amani High School was recognized as one of the elite schools in Kabul and received direct support from Germany, which also helped to provide a qualified staff...

- Amanullah Khan

Amanullah Khan

Amanullah Khan was the King of the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, first as Amir and after 1926 as Shah. He led Afghanistan to independence over its foreign affairs from the United Kingdom, and his rule was marked by dramatic political and social change...

- Amanullah Shah
- Ameer Hamza Shinwari

Ameer Hamza Shinwari

Ameer Hamza Shinwari , born in Landi Kotal in the year 1907 and died in February 1994, was a famous Pashtun poet. He Belonged to the Shinwari tribe of the ethnic Pashtuns. Ameer Hamza's work is considered a fusion between classic and modern poetry...

- American prisoners who were previously Taliban prisoners

American prisoners who were previously Taliban prisoners

The United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba contains a dozen or more detainees who were previously Taliban prisoners.According to the Associated Press Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a Department of Defense spokesman defended the men's continued detention:-References:...

- American University of Afghanistan

American University of Afghanistan

The American University of Afghanistan is Afghanistan’s first private, not-for-profit institution of higher education. Chartered in 2004, AUAF offers undergraduate degree programs as well as intensive English-language college preparatory courses and continuing education and professional...

- Amu Darya

Amu Darya

The Amu Darya , also called Oxus and Amu River, is a major river in Central Asia. It is formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers...

- Anar Dara District

Anar Dara District

Anar Dara is a district in Farah Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is approximately 70% Tajik with a Pashtun minority, was estimated at 30,000 in January 2005. The capital town, Anar Dara, is situated at 801 m altitude, with a population of about 13,300 people.-References:* , compiled...

- Ancient Iranian peoples

Ancient Iranian peoples

Iranian peoples first appear in Assyrian records in the 9th century BCE. In Classical Antiquity they were found primarily in Scythia and Persia...

- Andkhoy
- Angaria (tribe)

Angaria (tribe)

Angaria is a clan of Lasi tribe in Balochistan, Pakistan....

- Anwar Saifullah Khan

Anwar Saifullah Khan

Anwar Saifullah Khan is a politician of Pakistan and is currently a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He hails from District Lakki Marwat and has remained a Federal Minister under the Premiership of Benazir Bhutto. Anwar Saifullah Khan has remained federal Minister three...

- Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi

Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi

Anwar ul-Haq Ahady is a prominent academic and politician in Afghanistan, who served as the nation's Finance Minister from December 2004 to February 5, 2009. Prior to that he served as head of Da Afghanistan Bank, the central bank of Afghanistan...

- Arachosia

Arachosia

Arachosia is the Latinized form of the Greek name of an Achaemenid and Seleucid governorate in the eastern part of their respective empires, around modern-day southern Afghanistan. The Greek term "Arachosia" corresponds to the Iranian land of Harauti which was between Kandahar in Afghanistan and...

- Ardashir I

Ardashir I

Ardashir I was the founder of the Sassanid Empire, was ruler of Istakhr , subsequently Fars Province , and finally "King of Kings of Sassanid Empire " with the overthrow of the Parthian Empire...

- Ardashir II

Ardashir II

Ardashir II was the tenth Sassanid King of Persia from 379 to 383.He is believed by some to be the son and by others to be the brother of his predecessor, Shapur II...

- Ardashir III

Ardashir III

Ardashir III was the twenty-fourth Sassanid King of Persia from 628 to 630.He was a son of Kavadh II/Shiroes and "Anzoy the Roman". His mother was probably from the Byzantine Empire. He was raised to the throne as a boy of seven years, but was killed 18 months later by his general, Shahrbaraz .-...

- Arghandab District

Arghandab District

Arghandab is a district in the central part of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It borders Panjwai and Khakrez districts to the west, Shah Wali Kot District to the north and east and Kandahar District to the east and south....

- Arghandab River

Arghandab River

Arghandab is a river in Afghanistan, about in length. It rises in the Hazarajat country north-west of Ghazni, and flows south-west falls into the Helmand below Girishk. In its lower course it is much used for irrigation, and the valley is cultivated and populous; yet the water is said to be...

- Aria (satrapy)
- Ariana Afghan Airlines

Ariana Afghan Airlines

Ariana Afghan Airlines Co. Ltd. is the oldest and the national airline of Afghanistan, and is currently the largest Afghan airline, headquartered in Kabul...

- Ariana TV

Ariana TV

For the American-based Afghan television channel, see Ariana AfghanistanAriana TV, officially shortened as ATN, is a private television network based in Kabul, Afghanistan, that was launched on 17 August 2005. Ariana TV is owned by an Afghan-American called Ehsan Bayat, who also owns AWCC...

- Arif Khan

Arif Khan

Arif Khan was a Pashtun leader from the village of Zakhel, Kunduz, Afghanistan. He was a military commander and governor of Kunduz province. He was reportedly killed on April 4, 2000. His brother Haji Omar Khan assumed his responsibilities.-External links:*...

- Arkan Mohammad Ghafil Al Karim

Arkan Mohammad Ghafil Al Karim

Arkan Mohammad Ghafil Al Karim is a citizen of Iraq who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Al Karim's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 653....

- Arsala Rahmani

Arsala Rahmani

Arsala Rahmani is an Afghan politician, who served as Prime Minister. He was a mujahideen commander during the "Jihad" against the Soviet occupation forces. By June, the government troops had driven the rebel forces from Kabul, and in November he was named Prime Minister. In March 1995,...

- Aryob

Aryob

Aryob is an area in the Paktia province of Afghanistan where the Zazi tribe of Pashtuns live.-External links:*...

- Asadabad district

Asadabad district

Asadabad district is one of 15 districts in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. It includes the city of Asadabad - the district center, close the Kunar River. It is situated in the central part of the province...

- Asadabad, Afghanistan

Asadabad, Afghanistan

Asadabad or Asad Abad is the capital city of Kunar Province in Afghanistan. It is located in the eastern portion of the country adjacent to Pakistan...

- Asadullah Abdul Rahman

Asadullah Abdul Rahman

Asad Ullah is a young Afghani formally held at Camp Iguana in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Ullah and his friends and supporters claim that he was twelve years old when he was arrested by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The military, however, believe him to have been around fifteen years old. Asad was...

- Asadullah Khalid
- Asfandyar Wali Khan

Asfandyar Wali Khan

Asfandyar Wali Khan is a democratic socialist and the current the President of the Awami National Party in Pakistan.His father, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, was the party's first President...

- Ashraf Ghani

Ashraf Ghani

Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai is a prominent politician in Afghanistan and the former chancellor of Kabul University. He is also the chairman of the Institute for State Effectiveness, an organization set up in 2005 to promote the ability of states to serve their citizens. Before returning to...

- Asii

Asii

Asii, also written Asioi, were one of the nomadic tribes mentioned in Roman and Greek accounts as responsible for the downfall of the state of Bactria circa 140 BCE. These tribes are usually identified as "Scythian" or "Saka" peoples....

- Askunu language

Askunu language

Askunu is a language of Afghanistan spoken by the Askunu, Sanu, and Gramsana people in the region of Pech Valley around Wama, northwest of Asadabad in Kunar province...

- Assadullah Sarwari

Assadullah Sarwari

Assadullah Sarwari is an Afghan politician, who belongd to the Khalq faction of the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan....

- Assadullah Wafa

Assadullah Wafa

Assadullah Wafa is the former governor of the Afghan province of Helmand, and formerly governor of Kunar Province of Afghanistan and a previous governor of the Paktia Province where he was succeeded by Hakim Taniwal. His first name is sometimes spelled "Asadullah"...

- At Five in the Afternoon

At Five in the Afternoon

At Five in the Afternoon is a 2003 film by Iranian writer-director Samira Makhmalbaf. It tells the story of an ambitious young woman trying to gain an education in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban...

- Atel Mohammed

Atel Mohammed

Atel Mohammed is a village in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan. During Operation Warrior Sweep of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan the inhabitants hid their Qur'ans and other religious tokens fearing the United States soldiers would harm them if they realised they were Muslim, these...

- Attan

Attan

Attan is a form of dance that originated in the Pashtun regions of Afghanistan, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and north Balochistan. Attan began as a folk dance conducted by Afghans in the time of war or during wedding or other celebrations...

- Aurangzeb

Aurangzeb

Abul Muzaffar Muhy-ud-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir , more commonly known as Aurangzeb or by his chosen imperial title Alamgir , was the sixth Mughal Emperor of India, whose reign lasted from 1658 until his death in 1707.Badshah Aurangzeb, having ruled most of the Indian subcontinent for nearly...

- Aush

Aush

Aush is an Afghan soup dish made with noodles and different vegetables in a tomato-based broth. It is topped with chaka and dried/crushed mintleaves....

- Aymāq
- Ayna TV
- Ayub Khan (Afghan commander)

Ayub Khan (Afghan commander)

Ghazi Mohammad Ayub Khan was also known as The Victor of Maiwand or The Afghan Prince Charlie and was, for a while, the governor of Herat Province in Afghanistan. He was Emir of Afghanistan from October 12, 1879 to May 31, 1880 and was also the leader of Afghans in the Second Anglo-Afghan War...

- Ayub Shah Durrani

Ayub Shah Durrani

Ayub Shah, a son of Timur Shah, ruled Afghanistan from 1819 to 1823. The loss of Kashmir during his reign opened a new chapter in Indian history. In 1823, he was deposed and imprisoned by the Barakzai, marking the end of the Durrani dynasty. He fled to Punjab after buying his freedom and died...

- Azam Khan (squash player)

Azam Khan (squash player)

Azam Khan is a former squash player from Pakistan who won the British Open four times between 1959 and 1962.Azam was introduced to squash by his older brother, Hashim Khan, who was also one of the world's top squash players in his time. After winning the British Open in 1951, Hashim recruited Azam...

- Azam Shah

Azam Shah

Mirza Muhammad Azam Shah was Emperor of the Mughal Empire and a son of Emperor Aurangzeb and Dilrus Bano Begum. He was a brother of Zeb-un-Nissa, Bahadur Shah I, and Sultan Muhammad Akbar. Like his brothers, Azam Shah married a daughter of Sultan Dara Shikoh.He served as the Governor of Berar...

- Azarethes

Azarethes

Azarethes , also recorded as Exarath and Zuraq, was a Sassanid Persian military commander during the Byzantine–Sassanid Wars. His name is the Greek corruption of a probably honorific title....

- Azim Khan

Azim Khan

Azim Khan was an ethnic Pashtun and the governor of Kashmir during the period 1810-1816. Prior to him the governor was Abdullah Khan Alukzai .Azim Khan owed Ranjit Singh an annual tribute of 8 lakh rupees...

- Aziz Herawi

Aziz Herawi

Aziz Herawi is a noted musician from Afghanistan. He specializes in the dutar and rubab, both plucked string instruments. Afghan musician Aziz Herawi was seven years of age the first time he heard the strings of the dutar being plucked. He talked one of the family servants, who hid it in a...

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- Babrak Karmal

Babrak Karmal

Babrak Karmal was the third President of Afghanistan during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He is the best known of the Marxist leadership....

- Babur Ibn-Baysunkur

Babur Ibn-Baysunkur

Babur Ibn-Baysunkur , also known as Abu'l-Qasim Bābur, was a Timurid ruler in Khurasan . He was the son of Baysunqar, and thus the a grandson of Shāhrukh Mirzā....

- Babur

Babur

Babur was a Muslim conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty of South Asia. He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother...

- Baburkhel

Baburkhel

Babarkhel have settled in areas as far as at Zhob and there are small communities of Babarkhel, at Quetta, Multan and Dera Ismail Khan as well as in Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan....

- Baburnama

Baburnama

Bāburnāma is the name given to the memoirs of Ẓahīr ud-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur , founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur...

- Bacha Khan Zadran
- Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

The Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex is the modern archaeological designation for a Bronze Age culture of Central Asia, dated to ca. 2300–1700 BC, located in present day Turkmenistan, northern Afghanistan and northeastern Iran, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan, centered on...

- Bactria

Bactria

Bactria and also appears in the Zend Avesta as Bukhdi. It is the ancient name of a historical region located between south of the Amu Darya and west of the Indus River...

- Bactrian Gold

Bactrian Gold

The Bactrian Treasure is a treasure cache that lay under the "Hill of Gold" in Afghanistan for 2,000 years until Soviet archeologists exposed it shortly before the 1979 invasion...

- Badakhshan Province

Badakhshan Province

Badakhshan is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, consisting of 28 districts. It is located in the north-east of the country, between the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya. It is part of the Badakhshan region.-Geography:...

- Badar

Badar

Mullah Badar was a governor of the Afghan province of Badghis during the reign of the Taliban.He was captured by Tajik forces in April 2003. -References:...

- Badghis Province

Badghis Province

Bādghīs is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located in northwestern Afghanistan, between the Murghab and Hari rivers, extending as far northward as the edge of the desert of Sarakhs. It includes the Chul formations through which the Turkmen-Afghan boundary runs...

- Badi' al-Zaman
- Baghlan Province
- Baghlan

Baghlan

Baghlan is a city in northern Afghanistan, in the eponymous province, Baghlan Province. It is located three miles east of the Kunduz River, 35 miles south of Khanabad, and about 1,700 metres above sea level in the northern Hindu Kush...

- Baghran District

Baghran District

Baghran is the northernmost district in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 90% Pashtun and 10% Hazara, was estimated at 82,018 in 2002...

- Bagram Air Base

Bagram Air Base

Bagram Airfield, also referred to as Bagram Air Base, is a militarized airport and housing complex that is located next to the ancient city of Bagram, southeast of Charikar in Parwan province of Afghanistan. The base is run by a US Army division headed by a major general. A large part of the base,...

- Bagram

Bagram

Bagram , founded as Alexandria on the Caucasus and known in medieval times as Kapisa, is a small town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. It is the site of an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir...

- Bahadur Shah I

Bahadur Shah I

Bahadur Shah was a Mughal Emperor, who ruled India from 1707 to 1712. His original name was Qutb ud-Din Muhammad Mu'azzam later titled as Shah Alam by his father. He took the throne name Bahadur Shah in 1707. His name Bahādur means "brave" & "hero" in Turko-Mongol languages...

- Bahadur Shah II

Bahadur Shah II

His Royal Highness Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar , also known as Bahadur Shah or Bahadur Shah II was the last of the Mughal emperors in India, as well as the last ruler of the Timurid Dynasty.He was the son of Akbar Shah II and Lalbai, who was a Hindu Rajput...

- Bahlikas
- Bahram Chobin

Bahram Chobin

General Bahrām Chobin was a famous Eran spahbod during the late 6th century in Persia, usurping the Sassanid throne for a year as Bahram VI .- Life :...

- Bahram I

Bahram I

Bahram I was the fourth Sassanid emperor of the second Persian Empire. He was the eldest son of Shapur I and succeeded his brother Hormizd I , who had reigned for only a year....

- Bahram II

Bahram II

Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was the son of Bahram I .Bahram II is said to have ruled at first tyrannically, and to have greatly disgusted all his principal nobles, who went so far as to form a conspiracy against him, and intended to put him to death...

- Bahram III

Bahram III

Bahram III was the sixth Sassanid King of Persia and son of Bahram II. He was appointed viceroy to the region of Sakasthan after Bahram II's conquest of it sometime in the 280's CE....

- Bahram IV

Bahram IV

Bahram IV was twelfth Sassanid King of Persia , son and successor of Shapur III of Persia , under whom he had been governor of Kerman; therefore he was called Kermanshah Bahram IV was twelfth Sassanid King of Persia (388–399), son and successor of Shapur III of Persia (383–388), under whom he had...

- Bahram V

Bahram V

Bahram V was the fourteenth Sassanid King of Persia . Also called Bahram Gur or Bahramgur , he was a son of Yazdegerd I , after whose sudden death he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of Mundhir, the Arab dynast of al-Hirah.- Reign and war with Rome :Bahram V...

- Bakhtar Afghan Airlines

Bakhtar Afghan Airlines

Bakhtar Afghan Airlines was an airline from Afghanistan, which offered domestic flights. The company was founded in 1967 as Bakhtar Alwatana, a name it kept until 1985, when it was renamed Bakhtar Afghan Airlines. In 1985 the company absorbed Ariana Afghan Airlines and became Afghanistan's sole...

- Bakwa District

Bakwa District

Bakwa is a district in Farah Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is entirely Pashtun, was estimated at 79,529 in November 2004. The district center is Sultani Bakwa. It is situated at 726 m altitude.-References:...

- Bala Buluk District
- Bala Hissar

Bala Hissar

Bala Hissar is an ancient fortress located in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. The estimated date of construction is around the 5th century A.D. Bala Hissar sits to the south of the modern city centre at the tail end of the Kuh-e-Sherdarwaza Mountain...

- Balash

Balash

Balash , the eighteenth Sassanid King of Persia in 484–488, was the brother and successor of Peroz I of Persia , who had died in a battle against the Hephthalites who invaded Persia from the east.- Reign of Balash :Balash was made King of Persia following the death of his...

- Balkh Airlines

Balkh Airlines

Balkh Airlines was an airline based in the town of Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan. As of August 2006, its fleet consisted of just one aircraft. Although the airline is relatively unknown, Balkh Airlines began as a passenger airline in 1996, whose purpose was to compete against the government-owned...

- Balkh Province

Balkh Province

Balkh is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country and its name derives from the ancient city of Balkh, near the modern town...

- Balkh River

Balkh River

The Balkh River or Balkhab is a river in Balkh Province, Afghanistan.The river rises in the Band-e Amir lakes in the Hindu Kush. In its upper reaches the river is known as the Band-e Amir River . The river flows west, then north, and terminates in irrigation canals in the area of the cities of...

- Balkh

Balkh

Balkh , was an ancient city and centre of Zoroastrianism in what is now northern Afghanistan. Today it is a small town in the province of Balkh, about 20 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some south of the Amu Darya. It was one of the major cities of Khorasan...

- Baloch (tribe)

Baloch (tribe)

Baloch is also the name of a Baloch tribe in Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan.Baloch is a common family name in Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan....

- Baloch people

Baloch people

The Baloch or Baluch are an ethnic group that belong to the larger Iranian peoples. Baluch people mainly inhabit the Balochistan region and Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the southeast corner of the Iranian plateau in Western Asia....

- Baloch tribes

Baloch tribes

The Baloch are a tribal society settled in Balochistan in southwestern Asia. The Balochistan region is divided among Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.The following is a partial list of major Baloch tribes.A* Ahmadani...

- Balochistan (region)

Balochistan (region)

Balochistan or Baluchistan is an arid, mountainous region in the Iranian plateau in Southwest Asia; it includes part of southeastern Iran, western Pakistan, and southwestern Afghanistan. The area is named after the numerous Baloch tribes, Iranian peoples who moved into the area from the west...

- Baluchi, Afghanistan
- Bamyan City
- Bamyan Province
- Band-e Amir

Band-e Amir

Band-e Amir is a series of six deep blue lakes separated by natural dams made of travertine, a mineral deposit. The lakes are situated in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Central Afghanistan at approximately 3000 meters of elevation, west of the famous Buddhas of Bamiyan.They were created by the carbon...

- Banebshenan banebshen

Banebshenan banebshen

Banebshenan banebshen was the Pahlavi title of Sassanid Queens of Persia. The most famous Banebshenan banebshens are Mohri mother of king Hormizd III and Purandokht daughter of King Khosrau II who ruled the Sassanid Empire for a year and half....

- Bangash

Bangash

Bangash is the name of a Pashtun clan. The Bangash clan inhabit regions within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas , the Kurram Agency, the Miranzai Valley bordering the Samana Range, Naryab, Tirah, Kohat and Peshawar within the Sarhad province...

- Bangulzai
- Barai Ghar

Barai Ghar

Barai Ghar are a group of mountains in the southeast of Zabul province, Afghanistan - northeast of Kandahar. It is in proximity to Ata Ghar and Shinkay mountains. Topically, the region was used following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan as a hiding place by some Taliban insurgents. It has hence...

- Barakzai Dynasty

Barakzai dynasty

The Barakzai dynasty ruled Afghanistan from 1826 until 1929 or 1973 when the monarchy rule finally ended under Mohammad Zahir Shah. The Barakzai dynasty was established by Dost Mohammad Khan after the Durrani dynasty of Ahmad Shah Durrani was removed from power...

- Barakzay clan
- Baranzai

Baranzai

Baranzai is a Pashtun tribe in the North West Frontier Province and a Baloch tribes in Balochistan and Iran. The Baranzai in Iran speak Baluchi....

- Barbad

Barbad

Barbad or Barbad the Jahromi was a Persian musician of the Sassanid era, who lived during the rule of Khosrau II, 590 to 628..- Etymology :...

- Barbari dialect
- Barija

Barija

Barija is a Sindhi tribe settled in Balochistan, Pakistan....

- Basharmal Sultani

Basharmal Sultani

Basharmal Sultani is an Afghan Olympic athlete, who competed in boxing in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was invited to participate by the International Olympic Committee.-References:...

- Bashgul Valley
- Bati Kot District

Bati Kot District

Bati Kot is a district in the east of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 63,960 in 2002, of whom 25,500 were children under 12. The district centre is Nader Shah Kot....

- Battanni

Battanni

Battanni is the name of a small tribe who originally resided in the regions of Dera Ismail Khan district of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan....

- Battle of Ahmed Khel

Battle of Ahmed Khel

The Battle of Ahmed Khel was fought in April 1880 and ended in a British victory. This battle occurred during General Donald Stewart's march from Kandahar to Ghazni, then on to Kabul.-Order of battle:*Royal Horse Artillery*Royal Artillery...

- Battle of al-Qādisiyyah

Battle of al-Qadisiyyah

The Battle of al-Qādisiyyah was fought in 636; it was the decisive engagement between the Arab muslim army and the Sassanid Persian army during the first period of Muslim expansion. It resulted in the Islamic conquest of Persia, and was key to the conquest of Iraq...

- Battle of Damghan

Battle of Damghan

The Battle of Damghan was fought from September 29 to October 5, 1729, near the city of Damghan. On one side of the battle were the Afsharid Persians commanded by Nader Shah Afsharid. On the other side were the Hotaki forces led by Ashraf Hotaki...

- Battle of Jellalabad

Battle of Jellalabad

The Battle of Jellalabad in 1842 was an Afghan siege of the isolated British outpost at Jellalabad about 80 miles east of Kabul...

- Battle of Kabul (1842)

Battle of Kabul (1842)

for other uses of the term see Battle of KabulThe Battle of Kabul was fought from August to October, 1842, between British and Afghan forces. It was the concluding engagement of the First Anglo-Afghan War. The British advanced on Kabul from Kandahar and Jalalabad to avenge the earlier Massacre of...

- Battle of Kandahar

Battle of Kandahar

The Battle of Kandahar, 1 September 1880, was the last major conflict of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The battle in southern Afghanistan was fought between the British forces under command of General Roberts and the Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan, inflicting nearly 3,000 casualties in...

- Battle of Maiwand

Battle of Maiwand

The Battle of Maiwand in 1880 was one of the principal battles of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Under the leadership of Malalai Anaa, the legendary woman of Afghanistan, the Afghan followers of Ayub Khan defeated the British Army in one of the rare nineteenth-century victories of an Asian force...

- Battle of Tora Bora

Battle of Tora Bora

The Battle of Tora Bora was a military engagement that took place in Afghanistan in December 2001, during the opening stages of the war in that country launched following the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The U.S...

- Battles of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
- Bazai

Bazai

The Bazai is a Pashtun tribe settled in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Bazai Tribe is the sub-cast of Kakar tribe living in the western and southern region of Quetta District, Pishin, Ziarat and Sibi districts of Balochistan...

- Bazrangids

Bazrangids

The Bazrangids were the local rulers of Persis and Carmania as clients of the Arsacids . They were expelled from their original home in the Middle East by the Parthians. Gocihr, the last king of the Bazrangids, was deposed by King Papag in 205 AD.-External links:*...

- Bengal monitor

Bengal monitor

The Bengal monitor or common Indian monitor, is a monitor lizard found widely distributed over South Asia. This large lizard is mainly terrestrial, and grows to about 175 cm from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail...

- Bhutani

Balochi language

Balochi is a Northwestern Iranian language. It is the principal language of the Baloch of Balochistan, Pakistan, eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan. It is also spoken as a second language by some Brahui. It is designated as one of nine official languages of Pakistan.-Vowels:The Balochi vowel...

- Bhutta

Bhutta

Bhutta is a Jatt tribe found in Punjab, Pakistan. The Bhutta are of Rajput origin are descended from a branch of the Suryavanshi Rajput family. Like "Soomra" jats of Punjab became Soomro in Sindh, likewise "Bhutta" became Bhutto when tribe moved towards south of Indus valley...

- Bishapur

Bishapur

thumb|Irano-Roman floor mosaic detail from the palace of [[Shapur I]] at BishapurBishapur is an ancient city situated south of modern Faliyan, Iran on the ancient road between Persis and Elam. The road linked the Sassanid capitals Istakhr and Ctesiphon...

- Bizenjo

Bizenjo

Bizenjo is a Baloch tribe in Balochistan. This tribe is mainly located in Awaran Districtkolwa and grashag and district khuzdar,naal,ornach mountains till jhaoo and lasbella,and in district makran,gwadar,pasni,turbat the bizenjo tribe has four clans hamalani,tumrani,omrani,sehpaad sardar aslam...

- Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

The Black-crowned Night Heron commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia .-Description:Adults are...

- Blanford's Fox

Blanford's Fox

Blanford's fox , is a small fox found in certain regions of the Middle East.-Other names:It is also known as the Afghan fox, royal fox, Corsac, dog fox, hoary fox, steppe fox, black fox, king fox, cliff fox or Baluchistan fox...

- Boghra Irrigation Canal

Boghra Irrigation Canal

The Boghra Irrigation Canal is a man-made canal some 155 kilometres long in central Afghanistan in Helmand Province, serving to divert water from the Helmand River and the Arghandab for farmland. It was built in the 1950s....

- Boiga trigonata

Boiga trigonata

The Indian gamma Snake or common cat snake is a species of rear-fanged colubrid found in South Asia.-Description:B. trigonata has anterior palatine and mandibular teeth scarcely larger than the posterior. Its eyes are as long as the distance from its nostril; the rostral is broader than deep with...

- Bolan Pass

Bolan Pass

The Bolan Pass is a mountain pass through the Toba Kakar Range of Balochistan province in western Pakistan, 120 kilometres from the Afghanistan border....

- Bolani

Bolani

Bolani is a vegan flat-bread from Afghanistan baked or fried with a vegetable filling. It has a thin crust and can be stuffed with a variety of ingredients, such as potatoes, spinach, lentils, pumpkin, or leeks....

- Bolawnee
- Bonjan Salad
- Bonn Agreement (Afghanistan)

Bonn Agreement (Afghanistan)

Officially the Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-Establishment of Permanent Government Institutions, the Bonn Agreement was the initial series of agreements intended to re-create the State of Afghanistan following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in response to the...

- Boran

Boran

Buran or Poran, or more correctly Burandokht or Purandokht , was the daughter of the King Khosrau II of Persia . She was one of only two women on the throne of the Sassanid dynasty . She was the twenty-sixth Sassanid monarch of Persia, reigning from 630 to 631...

- Bostan Karim

Bostan Karim

Bostan Karim is a citizen of Afghanistan currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 975....

- Brahmani (tribe)

Brahmani (tribe)

Birhmani are a Baloch tribe settled in Balochistan, Sindh & Punjab.- Birhmani :The Birhmani of Punjab number around 20 000 and are settled in D.G Khan, Rajanpur, Jampur & Muzzaffargarh. Those of D.G.Khan live mostly in Choti Zareen. Choti Zareen is the seat of the Leghari tribal chief and the...

- Brahui language
- Brahui people

Brahui people

The Brahui or Brohi are ethnic Baloch group of about 2.2 million people with the majority found in Kalat, Baluchistan, Pakistan, but they are also found in smaller numbers in neighboring Afghanistan and Iran. The Brahuis are almost entirely Sunni Muslims.-Origins:The ethnonym "Brahui" is a very...

- Brent Bennett

Brent Bennett

Brent Bennett is a former US Army paratrooper who was convicted by an Afghan court on 15 September 2004 for participating in torture and kidnapping, and for running a private jail in Kabul...

- Broghol

Broghol

Broghol, also spelled Broghil, Boroghil and several other ways, is a high mountain pass that crosses the Hindu Kush and connects the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan with Chitral in Pakistan....

- Buddhas of Bamyan

Buddhas of Bamyan

The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2,500 meters...

- Buddhism in Afghanistan

Buddhism in Afghanistan

Buddhism in Afghanistan was one of the major religions during pre-Islamic era. The religion was wide spread south of the Hindu Kush mountains. Buddhism first arrived to Afghanistan in 305 BCE when the Seleucid Empire made an alliance with the Indian Maurya Empire...

- Bugti

Bugti

Bugti , is a Baloch tribe located in Balochistan, Pakistan. They are divided into various clans such as Rahija, Mandawani , Kalpar, Nauthani, Masuri, Ferozani, Salamaan Zai, Mundarani, Qasimani, Shambani, Sobazai, Pahi, Maretha and Moharkanzai etc., numbering around 300,000.On a bigger scale the...

- Bukhori language

Bukhori language

Bukhori is a unique dialect of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia by the Bukharian Jews. Hence, a more descriptive name for the language might be Judæo-Persian or Judæo-Tajik....

- Buledi

Buledi

Buledi is a Baloch tribe in Balochistan, Pakistan.The Buledis are thought to be named after town of Buleda in Makran, Balochistan. They follow Baloch culture. Most people of Buledi are in politics, journalism, government and education....

- Buni Zom

Buni Zom

The Buni Zom group is a prominent mountain area of Chitral, in the Hindu Kush range of Pakistan. It rises about 50 km northeast of the town of Chitral, and about 50 km east of Tirich Mir, the highest peak in the Hindu Kush....

- Burfat
- Burhanuddin Rabbani

Burhanuddin Rabbani

Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani was President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was...

- Burqa

Burqa

A burqa is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic religion to cover their bodies in public places. The burqa is usually understood to be the woman's loose body-covering , plus the head-covering , plus the face-veil .-Etymology:A speculative and unattested etymology...

- Burzoe

Burzoe

Borzūya was a Persian physician in the late Sassanid era, at the time of Khosrow I.He translated the Indian Panchatantra from Sanskrit into the Middle Persian language of Pahlavi. But both his translation and the original Sanskrit version he worked from are lost...

- Buzdar

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- Camp Rhino

Camp Rhino

Forward operating base Rhino, also known as Camp Rhino, was the first US land base established in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. It was located in the Registan Desert, southwest of Kandahar.-History:...

- Camp Warehouse

Camp Warehouse

Camp Warehouse is the operations centre for the multinational International Security Assistance Force located 10 kilometers east of Kabul. The camp has soldiers and equipment from dozens of countries. Part of Camp Warehouse is a German-sponsored ISAF military hospital.- External links :* * *...

- Caspian Tiger

Caspian Tiger

The Caspian tiger, also known as the Turan tiger and Hyrcanian tiger, is an extinct tiger subspecies that has been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and used to inhabit the sparse forest habitats and riverine corridors west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Turkey, Iran and west through...

- Cataphract

Cataphract

A cataphract was a form of armored heavy cavalry utilised in ancient warfare by a number of peoples in Western Eurasia and the Eurasian Steppe....

- Caucasus Indicus
- Central Council of Afghan Trade Unions

Central Council of Afghan Trade Unions

The Central Council of Afghan Trade Unions was a labour council established by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan in 1978 to organize the Afghan labour movement. It was purged and restructured in 1979 by the Soviet Union....

- Chador

Chador

A chādor or chādar is an outer garment or open cloak worn by many Iranian women and female teenagers in public spaces. Wearing this garment is one possible way in which a Muslim woman can follow the Islamic dress code known as ḥijāb. A chador is a full-body-length semicircle of fabric that is...

- Chaghcharan

Chaghcharan

Chaghcharān , in historical literature as Chakhcherān, formerly known as Ahangaran, is a town and district in central Afghanistan, which serves as the capital of Ghor Province...

- Chakansur
- Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa

Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa

The Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa, also code-named "Stupa C1", is a small limestone stupa from the Chakhil-i-Ghoundi monastery, at the archeological site of Hadda in eastern Afghanistan...

- Chaki Wardak District

Chaki Wardak District

Chaki Wardak or Čak-e-Wardak , literally : The Head of Wardak , is a district in the south of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 83,376 in 2005, the last year for which figures are available...

- Chamkanni

Chamkanni

Chamkanni is the name of a small Pashtun tribe of Afghanistan. The Chamkannis residing in the western part of the Khurmana valley in Tirah are considered to be a distinct race...

- Chaparhar District

Chaparhar District

Chaparhar is a district in the centre of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 54,858 in 2002, of whom 21,800 were children under 12. The district centre is the village of Chaparhar.-External links:...

- Char Bagh

Char Bagh

Char Bagh is an area within Laghman Province, Afghanistan and is observable from the Jalalabad-Kabul Road. According to some sources, when Alexander the Great entered the region, he built a town between Char Bagh and Mandrawar after the Greek god of victory....

- Charikar

Charikar

Charikar is the main town of the Kohdaman Valley and the capital of Parwan Province in northern Afghanistan. The city lies on the road 69 km from Kabul to the northern provinces. Travelers would have to pass by the city when going to Mazari Sharif, Kunduz or Puli Khumri. Charikar is at the...

- Charlemagne to the Mughals

Charlemagne to the Mughals

Charlemagne to the Mughals is a genealogical route connecting Charlemagne with the Mughal dynasty of India. According to this route, numerous oriental rulers, including those of Brunei and the Maldives, should be counted among Charlemagne's descendants....

- Chief Justice of Afghanistan

Chief Justice of Afghanistan

The Chief Justice of Afghanistan is the head of the Afghan Supreme Court. The incumbent chief justice is Abdul Salam Azimi.-List of Chief Justices, 2001-present:*Faisal Ahmad Shinwari , was member of the Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan...

- Chisht

Chisht

Chisht, also written Chisht-e Sharif, Chesht-i Sharif or Chesht is a town near Herat in Afghanistan. It is important in Sufism because the Chishti Sufi Order originated there....

- Choaspes River (Afghanistan)

Choaspes River (Afghanistan)

The Choaspes is a river that rises in the ancient Paropamise range , eventually falling into the Indus near its confluence with the Cophes river...

- Christmas in Kabul

Christmas in Kabul

Christmas in Kabul is a CBC Christmas special about comedian Rick Mercer going to Afghanistan to bring Christmas cheer to the Canadian troops stationed outside Kabul....

- Civilian casualties of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan

Civilian casualties of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan

The decade-long War in Afghanistan has caused the deaths of thousands of Afghan civilians directly from insurgent and foreign military action, as well as the deaths of possibly tens of thousands of Afghan civilians indirectly as a consequence of displacement, starvation, disease, exposure, lack of...

- Cleophis

Cleophis

Cleophis was the mother of Assakenos or Assacanus, the reigning war-leader of the Assakenoi or Assacani people at the time of Alexander's invasion...

- Coalition casualties in Afghanistan

Coalition casualties in Afghanistan

As of November 30, 2011, there have been 2,744 coalition deaths in Afghanistan as part of ongoing coalition operations since the invasion in 2001. In this total, the American figure is for deaths "In and Around Afghanistan" which, as defined by the U.S...

- Combined Joint Task Force 76
- Communications in Afghanistan

Communications in Afghanistan

Communications in Afghanistan has dramatically increased since 2002, and has embarked on wireless companies, internet, radio stations and television channels. Afghan telecommunication companies, such as Afghan Wireless and Roshan, have been boasting rapid increase in cellular phone usage in the mid...

- Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
- Concord Peak

Concord Peak

Concord Peak is a mountain of the Pamirs, on the Afghan-Tajik border, about south of Lake Zorkul....

- Constitution of Afghanistan

Constitution of Afghanistan

The Constitution of Afghanistan is the supreme law of the state Afghanistan, which serves as the legal framework between the Afghan government and the Afghan citizens...

- Corsac Fox

Corsac Fox

The corsac fox , also known as the steppe fox, is a medium sized Asiatic fox species found throughout the central steppes of Asia. It is sometimes referred to as the "sand fox", but this terminology is confusing because two other species, the Tibetan sand fox and Rüppell's fox are also sometimes...

- Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan

Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan

The Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan is specialist force under the Afghan Ministry of the Interior. The CNPA is the lead agency for counter narcotics investigations in Afghanistan and has an establishment of some 3000 officers...

- Ctesiphon

Ctesiphon

Ctesiphon, the imperial capital of the Parthian Arsacids and of the Persian Sassanids, was one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia.The ruins of the city are located on the east bank of the Tigris, across the river from the Hellenistic city of Seleucia...

- Culture of Afghanistan

Culture of Afghanistan

The culture of Afghanistan has been around for over two millenniums, tracing record to at least the time of the Achaemenid Empire in 500 BCE. Afghanistan translates to the "place of Afghans" or "land of the Afghans" in the nation's official languages, Pashto and Dari...

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- Da Afghanistan Bank

Da Afghanistan Bank

The Afghanistan Bank is the central bank of Afghanistan. It regulates all the banking and money handling operations in Afghanistan.Da Afghanistan Bank is one of the leading & government recognized bank of Afghanistan which was established on 1939....

- Dacht-i-Navar Group

Dacht-i-Navar Group

Dacht-i-Navar is a volcanic group of 15 trachyandesitic lava domes located southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan. The lava domes lie along the southern margin of Dacht-i-Navar.Last eruption is Unknown....

- Dad Mohammad Khan

Dad Mohammad Khan

Dad Mohammad Khan, locally known as Amir Dado, is a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Afghanistan representing the Helmand province...

- Daman District, Afghanistan

Daman District, Afghanistan

Daman district is situated in the central part of the Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It borders Panjwai and Kandahar districts to the west, Shah Wali Kot District to the north, Zabul Province to the northeast, Arghistan and Spin Boldak districts to the east and Reg District to the south. The...

- Dand District
- Daoud's Republic of Afghanistan
- Dara-I-Nur District

Dara-I-Nur District

Dara-I-Nur is a district in the north of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 99% Pashai with a small number of Pashtuns, was estimated at 120,000 in 2002, of whom 28,000 were children under 12....

- Dara-i-Suf District

Dara-i-Suf District

DarahSof was a district in Samangan Province, northern Afghanistan. Until 2005, the district was dissolved and it is now split into 2 new districts surrounding the now, former bigger Darah Sof district:*Darah Sof Balla*Darah Sof Payan...

- Dardic languages

Dardic languages

The Dardic languages are a sub-group of the Indo-Aryan languages spoken in northern Pakistan, eastern Afghanistan, and the Indian region of Jammu and Kashmir...

- Dari (Afghanistan)

Dari (Afghanistan)

Dari or Fārsī-ye Darī in historical terms refers to the Persian court language of the Sassanids. In contemporary usage, the term refers to the dialects of modern Persian language spoken in Afghanistan, and hence known as Afghan Persian in some Western sources. It is the term officially recognized...

- Darul Aman Palace

Darul Aman Palace

Darul Aman Palace is a European-style palace, now ruined, located about sixteen kilometers outside of the center of Kabul, Afghanistan....

- Darvaz
- Dasht-i-Leili massacre

Dasht-i-Leili massacre

The Dasht-i-Leili massacre occurred in December 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan where between 250 and 3,000 Taliban prisoners were shot and/or suffocated to death in metal truck containers, while being transferred by U.S...

- Daulat Khel
- Daulatzai
- Davi (tribe)

Davi (tribe)

Daavi is a Gharghasht Pashtun tribe and the brother of the Kakar tribe. Both are the sons of Gharghasht tribe. the Daavi tribesmen mostly live in Baluchistan...

- Dawood Sarkhosh

Dawood Sarkhosh

Dawood Sarkhosh is an Afghan poet, singer, and musician.An ethnic Hazara, Dawood Sarkhosh was born in 1971 in the Daikundi region of Uruzgan province in Central Afghanistan. Sarkhosh started writing poetry at the age of nine; his inspiration came from his elder brother, Sarwar Sarkhosh, who was a...

- Day Mirdad District

Day Mirdad District

Day Mirdad is a district in the south of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. The capital of the district is Miran city. The district was previously known as Jilga.-Demographics and population:...

- Daykundi Province
- Deh Rahwod District

Deh Rahwod District

Deh Rahwod is a district in Oruzgan Province, southern Afghanistan, and the name of the town that serves as district seat. Deh Rahwod lies along the Helmand River...

- Deh Rawood

Deh Rawood

Deh Rawood is a town in Deh Rahwod District in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. It is located 400 kilometres southwest of Kabul. Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan the area has been noted as a remaining Taliban stronghold. The area is rural with mountainous, roadless terrain....

- Del Bar Jan Arman

Del Bar Jan Arman

Delbar Jan Arman, also Dilbar Jan Arman Shinwari is a politician from Jaji Maidan district of Khost, Afghanistan. He is the current governor of Badghis Province....

- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was a government of Afghanistan between 1978 and 1992. It was both ideologically close to and economically dependent on the Soviet Union, and was a major belligerent of the Afghan Civil War.- Saur Revolution :...

- Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan

Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan

The Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan is a political party in Afghanistan.It emerged out of the Parcham faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan...

- Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan

Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan

The Democratic Youth Organisation of Afghanistan was the main youth organisation in the former Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. It was the youth wing of the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan . Upon turning seventeen years of age, members of the DYOA would become eligible for...

- Demographics of Afghanistan

Demographics of Afghanistan

The population of Afghanistan is around 29,835,392 as of the year 2011, which is unclear if the refugees living outside the country are included or not. The nation is composed of a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual society, reflecting its location astride historic trade and invasion routes between...

- Derafsh Kaviani

Derafsh Kaviani

The Derafsh Kaviani , was the legendary royal standard of the Sassanid kings. The banner was also sometimes called the "standard of Jamshid" , the "standard of Fereydun" , and the "royal standard" .-Name:The name Drafš e Kāvīān The Derafsh Kaviani (Middle Persian: Drafš e Kāvīān), was the...

- Derunta training camp

Derunta training camp

The Derunta training camp was one of the most well-known of many military training camps that have been alleged to have been affiliated with al Qaeda.-Training with poisons:...

- Dih Bala District

Dih Bala District

Dih Bala is a district in the south of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering on Pakistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 50,595 in 2002, of whom 20,200 were children under 12. The district centre is Deh Bala....

- Dilawar
- Dilip Kumar

Dilip Kumar

Dilip Kumar , is an Indian actor and a former Member of Parliament.He lives in Pali Hill, Bandra in Mumbai, India. He is commonly known as "Tragedy King",and is described as "the ultimate method actor" by Satyajit Ray....

- Dishu District

Dishu District

Dishu is a district in the south of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan. Its population, which is 58% Pashtun and 42% Baloch, was estimated at 20,600 in 2002. The district centre is the village of Dishu; most of the settlements in the district are along the Helmand River.-References:*...

- Districts of Afghanistan

Districts of Afghanistan

The provinces of Afghanistan are divided into Wolaswalei or districts. The number of districts in Afghanistan has fluctuated over the years, with new districts created by splitting or merging parts of others. Prior to 1979, there were 325 districts. This was increased to 329 and, in 2004, a major...

- Djamasp

Djamasp

Djamasp was a Sassanid king who ruled from 496 to 498. He was a younger brother of king Kavadh I and was installed on the Sassanid throne upon the deposition of the latter by members of the nobility....

- Domari language

Domari language

Domari is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken by the Dom people across the Middle East, mainly in Iran and Egypt, but significant numbers of speakers are also found in India where they are known as Domba....

- Domki

Domki

Dombki is a Baloch tribe in Baluchistan, Pakistan. The Dombki is one of the major tribe in Pakistan and Iran. Dombki tribe live upper Sindh:in Jacobabad District Kashmore District and Bakhshapur....

- Dorah Pass

Dorah Pass

Dorah Pass, also spelled and pronounced Durah Pass, connects Badakshan in Afghanistan with Chitral in Pakistan. The Dorah Pass is more than high. It crosses the Hindu Kush. Situated at the foot of pass is Lake Dufferin, also known locally as Hauzi-Dorah. The lake is roughly 2 3/4 miles long by...

- Dost Mohammad Khan

Dost Mohammad Khan

Dost Mohammad Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan between 1826 and 1863. He first ruled from 1826 to 1839 and then from 1843 to 1863. He was the 11th son of Sardar Pāyendah Khan who was killed by Zaman Shah Durrani in 1799...

- Drangiana

Drangiana

Drangiana or Zarangiana was a historical region of the Achaemenid Empire. This region comprises territory around lake Hâmûn, wetlands in endorheic Sīstān basin on the Irano-Afghan-Pakistan border, and its primary watershed Helmand river in nowadays southwestern Afghanistan and the "Nok Kondi" of...

- Dur Baba District

Dur Baba District

Dur Baba is a district in the southeast of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun , was estimated at 29,197 in 2002, of whom 11,600 were children under 12. The district centre is the village of Dur Baba....

- Durand line

Durand Line

The Durand Line refers to the porous international border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, which has divided the ethnic Pashtuns . This poorly marked line is approximately long...

- Durrani Empire

Durrani Empire

The Durrani Empire was a Pashtun dynasty centered in Afghanistan and included northeastern Iran, the Kashmir region, the modern state of Pakistan, and northwestern India. It was established at Kandahar in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani, an Afghan military commander under Nader Shah of Persia and chief...

- Durrani

Durrani

Durrani or Abdali is the name of a chief Pashtun tribal confederation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Originally known by their ancient name Abdali later as Durrani they have been called Durrani since the beginning of the Durrani Empire in 1747. The number of Durranis are estimated to be roughly 16%...

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- Economy of Afghanistan

Economy of Afghanistan

The economy of Afghanistan has improved significantly since 2002 due to the infusion of multi-billion dollars in international assistance and investments, as well as remittances from Afghan expats. It is also due to dramatic improvements in agricultural production and the end of a four-year drought...

- Edo-Khel

Edo-Khel

Edo-Khel is a Pashtun tribe who inhabit the mountainous and vallied regions of southeastern Afghanistan, mainly Wardak and Logar. As well, there is a village in the Baraki Barak District of Logar named Edo-Khel. Western variants of the surname may include Heddokheel, Eidokheil, or Eedokhel. The...

- Education in Afghanistan

Education in Afghanistan

Education in Afghanistan includes K-12 and Higher education, which is supervised by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education in Kabul, Afghanistan...

- Eg, Afghanistan

Eg, Afghanistan

Eg is a town of almost 2,500 residents in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan. It is located at 34.0667 N latitude, 67.1167 longitude at an altitude of approximately 2800 meters , near the towns of Pshin Mazar, Zergak and Zerko....

- Elections in Afghanistan

Elections in Afghanistan

This article gives information on elections in Afghanistan.Though Afghanistan has had democratic elections throughout the 20th century, the election institutions have varied as changes in regimes have disrupted political continuity...

- Emam Sahib

Emam Sahib

Imām Ṣāhib , also transliterated as Emām Sāheb, is a town in the Kunduz Province of Afghanistan,center of the Imam Sahib District. It is sometimes called Khwaja or Hazrat. Baba Hatim Ziyarat is located on the outside of Emam Sahib....

- Embassy of Afghanistan in Ottawa

Embassy of Afghanistan in Ottawa

The Embassy of Afghanistan in Canada is the embassy of Afghanistan in Ottawa, Canada. It is located at 240 Argyle Avenue, in downtown Ottawa. It promotes Afghan-Canadian relations, performs diplomatic, political, economic, defence, cultural, media and other bilateral activities. The Embassy also...

- Emblem of Afghanistan

Emblem of Afghanistan

The national emblem of Afghanistan has appeared in some form on the flag of Afghanistan since the inception of that nation.The latest incarnation of the coat of arms has the added inscription of the shahadah in Arabic at the top. Below it is the image of a mosque with a mehrab that is facing Mecca...

- Environmental issues in Afghanistan

Environmental issues in Afghanistan

Environmental issues in Afghanistan predate the political turmoil of the past few decades. Forests and wetlands have been depleted by centuries of grazing and farming, practices which have only increased with modern population growth...

- Eristicophis

Eristicophis

Eristicophis is a monotypic genus created for a venomous viper species, E. macmahonii. It is found only in the desert region of Balochistan near the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Description:...

- Eumeces schneideri

Eumeces schneideri

Schneider's Skink , Eumeces schneideri, is a species of skink found in central and west Asia and north Africa. It is named after the German zoologist, Johann Gottlob Schneider.-Description:Head moderate; snout short, obtuse...

- European influence in Afghanistan

European influence in Afghanistan

The European influence in Afghanistan refers to political, social, and sometimes imperialistic influence several European nations have had on this historical development of Afghanistan.-Rise of Dost Mohammad Khan:...

- Eurylepis taeniolatus

Eurylepis taeniolatus

Alpine Punjab Skink Eurylepis taeniolatus is a species of skink found in Central Asia and West Asia.- Description :Eurylepis taeniolatus Blyth 1854 is the type species of the genus Eurylepis....

- Euthydemia

Euthydemia

Euthydemia was a city in Bactria . According to the Pali Buddhist text Milinda Pañha King Milinda is said to have reigned from the city around 100 BC....

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- Faisal Ahmad Shinwari

Faisal Ahmad Shinwari

Faisal Ahmad Shinwari or Fazal Hadi Shinwari was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan from 2001 until 2006. He was appointed to the post by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in accordance with the Afghan Constitution approved after the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government...

- Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari

Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari

Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti citizen who has been detained in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. He has been charged with war crimes.The US Department of Defense reports he was born on June 3, 1975 in Kuwait City....

- Falak Sher

Falak Sher

Falak Sher is a mountain in Ushu Valley of Swat-Kohistan. At , it is considered the highest peak of the Swat district in the Hindu Kush mountains....

- Fall of Sassanids

Fall of Sassanids

The Sassanid era is one of the most influential periods in Iran's history. It also marks the second rise of a great Persian empire, a dynasty that rivaled its predecessor, the Achaemenids who too, like the Sassanids were native to the province of Pars, and in some instances the Parthians, in...

- Faqir of Ipi

Faqir of Ipi

Faqir of Ipi born Mirza Ali Khan was a Pashtun from today's North-Waziristan Pakistan, Federally Administrated Tribal Areas. His followers addressed him as 'Haji Sahib'...

- Farah City District

Farah City District

Farah City District is a district in Farah Province, Afghanistan, containing the main city of Farah. Its population was estimated at 159,310 in 2004, composed of 85% Pashtun and 10% Tajik, along with other minor ethnic groups.-Popular perceptions:...

- Farah Province

Farah Province

Farah is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the southwest of the country. Its capital is Farah. Farah is a spacious and sparsely populated province that lies on the Iranian border...

- Farah River

Farah River

The Farah River is a river in western Afghanistan. The river originates in the Band-e Bayan Range, and flows for 560 km to the Helmand swamps on the Afghanistan-Iran border. The town of Farah is located on the river....

- Farah, Afghanistan

Farah, Afghanistan

Farah is a city in western Afghanistan, situated at 650 m altitude, and located on the Farah River. It is the capital of Farah Province, and has a population of approximately 109,409....

- Farhad Darya

Farhad Darya

Farhad 'Darya' Nasher is an Afghan singer and composer, as well as a highly acclaimed music producer, and Good Will and Peace Ambassador for Afghanistan to the United Nations. Widely popular, he has earned affection for not only his music but also patriotism...

- Fariba Ahmedi

Fariba Ahmedi

Fariba Ahmedi is an Afghan member of parliament.-References:...

 (member of parliament)
- Fariba Nawa

Fariba Nawa

Fariba Nawa is an Afghan-American freelance journalist who grew up in both Herat and Lashgargah in Afghanistan as well as Fremont, California. She was born in Herat, Afghanistan to a native Afghan family. Her family fled the country during the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. She is trilingual in...

- Farrukhsiyar

Farrukhsiyar

Abu'l Muzaffar Muin ud-din Muhammad Shah Farrukh-siyar Alim Akbar Sani Wala Shan Padshah-i-bahr-u-bar [Shahid-i-Mazlum] was the Mughal emperor between 1713 and 1719. Noted as a handsome but weak ruler, easily swayed by his advisers, Farukhsiyar lacked the ability and character to rule independently...

- Faryab Province

Faryab Province

Fāryāb is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Maymana. The majority of the population is Uzbek.-History:...

- Faryadi Sarwar Zardad

Faryadi Sarwar Zardad

Faryadi Sarwar Zardad is a former Afghan warlord. In 2005 he was convicted in the United Kingdom where he was living, for conspiring to take hostages and conspiring to torture during the 1990s in Afghanistan.-War crimes:Born circa 1963, Faryadi Sarwar Zardad is Pashtun and a former Mujahideen...

- Fayzabad

Fayzabad, Badakhshan

See also: Faizabad Fayzabad is the provincial capital and largest city in Badakhshan Province, in northern Afghanistan, with around 50,000 people. It is situated in Fayzabad District and is at an altitude of 1,200 m. It is located in the northeast of Afghanistan, on the River Kokcha...

- February 2010 Salang tunnel avalanches
- Firouzabad

Firouzabad

Firuzabad is a city in and the capital of Firuzabad County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 58,210, in 12,888 families.Firuzabad is located south of Shiraz. The town is surrounded by a mud wall and ditch....

- First Anglo-Afghan War

First Anglo-Afghan War

The First Anglo-Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts during the Great Game, the 19th century competition for power and influence in Central Asia between the United Kingdom and Russia, and also marked one of the worst...

- Flag of Afghanistan

Flag of Afghanistan

The flag of Afghanistan was adopted by the transitional government of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan in 2002–2004. This flag is similar to the one flown in Afghanistan during the monarchy between 1930 and 1973...

- Foreign relations of Afghanistan

Foreign relations of Afghanistan

The foreign relations of Afghanistan, like those of any country, have changed along with the political, sociological, and economic state of the various parts of Afghanistan.-Overview:...

- Friba Razayee

Friba Razayee

Friba Rezayee is an Afghan judoka. In 2004, along with Robina Muqimyar, she was the first Afghan woman to participate in the Olympic Games....

- Friday Mosque of Herat

Friday Mosque of Herat

The Friday Mosque of Herat , also known as the Jumah Mosque, is a mosque in the city of Herat, in the Herat Province of north-western Afghanistan. It was built by the Timurids and extended by several rulers swapping hands down the centuries between the Timurids, Safavids, Mughals and the Uzbeks all...

 (Herat city)

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- Gabol

Gabol

Gabol is a Baloch tribe settled in the Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan. Gabols are of Rind origin and are mostly settled in Tikko Baran surrounding the Kirthar Mountains Range, Karachi, Ghotki, Alipur, Sibi, and Jacobabad. This tribe is also considered to be present in Iran...

- Gandamak

Gandamak

-Description:The village is located between Kabul and Peshawar, from Jalalabad on the old road to Kabul. On the retreat from Kabul of General Elphinstone's army in 1842, a hill near Gandamak was the scene of the Battle of Gandamak, the massacre of the last survivors of the force: twenty officers...

- Gandapur

Gandapur

The Gandapurs are a Pashtun tribe inhabiting the environs of Dera Ismail Khan, a major commercial center on the west bank of the Indus River, in the southern region of the Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa of Pakistan, near the frontier with South Waziristan. The Gandapurs reside principally in the small town of...

- Gandhara

Gandhara

Gandhāra , is the name of an ancient kingdom , located in northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. Gandhara was located mainly in the vale of Peshawar, the Potohar plateau and on the Kabul River...

- Gardez, Afghanistan

Gardez, Afghanistan

-History:According to the Encyclopaedia Iranica, Gardēz is a city "belonging to a network of old isolated Tājīk settlements in southern Afghanistan that are remnants of a time when Pashto had not yet reached the area."...

- Gay rights in Afghanistan

Gay rights in Afghanistan

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people living in Afghanistan face certain unique legal and social challenges. Homosexuality and cross-dressing are considered serious crimes in Afghanistan, possible punishment may include the death penalty. This is usually the case in rural parts of the...

- Gelan District

Gelan District

Gelan is a district in the south of Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 78,408 in 2002. The district capital is Janda.-References:* , accessed 2006-04-25 .-External links:*...

- Geneva Accords
- Geography of Afghanistan

Geography of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a landlocked nation located in Central Asia. Strategically located at the crossroads of major north-south and east-west trade routes, it has attracted a succession of invaders including Alexander the Great, in the fourth century B.C...

- Gereshk

Gereshk

Gereshk is a town in Gerishk District in Helmand province on the Helmand River in central Afghanistan, some northwest of Kandahar at 817 m altitude. Gereshk is the centre of a rich agricultural region with the Kajakai dam upriver diverting water to the Boghra Irrigation Canal. Gereshk was...

- Gerishk District

Gerishk District

Gereshk District , also called Nahri Saraj, takes the name from its principal municipality of Gereshk town in Helmand Province, Southern Afghanistan.-Demography:The ethnic composition is predominantly Pashtun....

- Ghani Khan

Ghani Khan

Ghani Khan is widely considered as one of the best Pashto language poets of the 20th century, along with Ameer Hamza Shinwari. He stands on a par with Khushal Khan Khattak and Rahman Baba. He was also a respected writer and artist...

- Ghaznavid Empire

Ghaznavid Empire

The Ghaznavids were a Persianate Muslim dynasty of Turkic slave origin which existed from 975 to 1187 and ruled much of Persia, Transoxania, and the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent. The Ghaznavid state was centered in Ghazni, a city in modern-day Afghanistan...

- Ghazni Province

Ghazni Province

Ghazni is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. Babur records in his Babur-Nama that Ghazni is also known as Zabulistan It is in the east of the country. Its capital is Ghazni City...

- Ghazni

Ghazni

For the Province of Ghazni see Ghazni ProvinceGhazni is a city in central-east Afghanistan with a population of about 141,000 people...

- Ghilzai

Ghilzai

Ghilzai are the largest Pashtun tribal confederacy found in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They are also known historically as Ghilji, Khilji, Ghalji, Ghilzye, and possibly Gharzai...

- Gholam Rabani Nasher

Gholam Rabani Nasher

Gholam Rabani Nasher is an Afghan statesman, and is a member of the current Loya Jirga. He was born in Kunduz in 1940, son of Loe Khan Nasher, grandson of Sher Khan Nasher.- External links :*...

- Gholam Serwar Nasher

Gholam Serwar Nasher

Ghulam Sarwar Nashir , an ethnic Pashtun, stepson and nephew of Sher Khan Nashir, was the President of Spinzar Cotton Company in Kunduz, Afghanistan...

- Ghor Province
- Ghorak District

Ghorak District

Ghorak district is situated in the northwestern part of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It borders Helmand Province to the West, Oruzgan Province and Naish District to the North, Khakrez District to the East and Maywand District to the South. The population is 8,600 . The district center is the...

- Ghorids
- Ghormach District

Ghormach District

Ghormach is a district situated in the north east Badghis Province of Afghanistan. The district centre is Ghowrmach.-Demographics:The estimated population of Ghormach District in 2003 was roughly 52,566...

- Ghourghushti

Ghourghushti

Gharghasht refers to the Pashtun sub-tribes that are descended from Gharghasht, one of Qais Abdur Rashid's sons.-Sub-tribes:*Babai* Daavi* Jadoon* Kakar* khudadi* Ludin* Mando* Mashwanis* Naghar* Safi...

- Ghulam Faruq Yakubi

Ghulam Faruq Yakubi

Ghulam Faruq Yaqubi was an Afghan politician and Army General. He was a significant figure In the Afghan Security Service, KHAD, from 1980 to 1985....

- Ghulam Faruque

Ghulam Faruque

Khan Bahadur Ghulam Faruque Khan was a politician and industrialist of Pakistan. He belonged to the village Shaidu in Nowshera District. Nowshera is the home of the famous Pashtun Tribe the Khattaks of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan...

- Ghulam Haider Khan High School

Ghulam Haider Khan High School

' is an all boys school located in Second Phase Khair Khana section of Kabul, Afghanistan. The school is named after Afghan Prince Ghulam Haider Khan, son of Emir Dost Mohammad Khan, who fought against the British forces in the July 1839 Battle of Ghazni during the First Anglo-Afghan War...

- Ghulam Ishaq Khan

Ghulam Ishaq Khan

Ghulam Ishaq Khan , abbreviated as GIK, was the seventh President of Pakistan from August 17, 1988 until July 18, 1993 and a career statesman from the start to the end of cold war...

- Ghulam Khan

Ghulam Khan

Ghulam Khan is town in North Waziristan, FATA, Pakistan. Ghulam Khan is on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is the third most important border crossing point between Pakistan and Afghanistan, after Chaman and Torkham....

- Ghulam Mohammad Farhad

Ghulam Mohammad Farhad

Ghulam Mohammad Farhad was an Afghan engineer and Pashtun nationalist. He lived in Germany on a royal scholarship from 1921 to 1928, training as an electrician at the Technical University of Munich. During his studies in Germany, he came in contact with Nazi policy and became fascinated by some...

- Ghulam Sediq Wardak

Ghulam Sediq Wardak

Ghulam Sediq Wardak is a peasant inventor in Afghanistan, credited with 341 inventions, none of which are patented. He is a local hero, despite being only semi-literate, and having no formal higher education. His inventions tend to be practical devices, inspired by needs he perceives in his daily...

- Ghurids

Ghurids

The Ghurids or Ghorids were a medieval Muslim dynasty of Iranian origin that ruled during the 12th and 13th centuries in Khorasan. At its zenith, their empire, centred at Ghōr , stretched over an area that included the whole of modern Afghanistan, the eastern parts of Iran and the northern section...

- Gichki

Gichki

The Gichki [ is a Baloch tribe in Balochistan, Pakistan. There are different historical explanations of their origin. Some historians also say that they were native inhabitants of Gichk tehsil in Panjgur....

- Girishk

Girishk

Girishk is a village and fort of Afghanistan. It stands on the right bank of the Helmand River 78 miles west of Kandahar on the road to Herat; 3641 ft. above the sea. Girishk was occupied by the British during the First Afghan War, and a small garrison of sepoys under a native officer successfully...

- Gloydius

Gloydius

Gloydius is a genus of venomous pitvipers found in Asia. Named after Howard Gloyd, this group is very similar to the North American genus Agkistrodon...

- Gola (tribe)

Gola (tribe)

Gola is a Baloch tribe in Balochistan, Punjab and Sindh provinces of PakistanMost of the Golas speak Balochi while minority speak Sindhi and Saraiki . They live in Jaffarabad, Naseerabad, Sibi in Balochistan and Kamber Khan, Jacobabad and Larkana in Sindh...

- Golden Needle Sewing School

Golden Needle Sewing School

The Golden Needle Sewing School was an underground school for women in Herat, Afghanistan, during the rule of the Taliban. Because women were not allowed to be educated under the strict interpretation of Islamic law introduced by the Taliban, women writers belonging to the Herat Literary Circle set...

- Gomal River

Gomal River

Gomal River is a river in the historical region of Pashtunistan, consisting of areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan, inhabited by the Pashtuns...

- Gosh Feel

Gosh Feel

Gosh feel, literally, elephant ear pastries in Persian, is an Afghan and Iranian dessert dish made by shaping dough into a gosh shape, and cooking in oil. Each gosh is topped with chopped pistachios and powdered sugar. Gosh feel is often consumed with Afghan tea.Afghans also make gosh e feel for...

- Goshta District

Goshta District

Goshta District is located in the northeast of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan and borders Pakistan. The district's population is 100% Pashtun and was estimated at 160,000 in 2002, of whom 30,000 were children under 12...

- Great Cormorant

Great Cormorant

The Great Cormorant , known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the Black Cormorant in Australia and the Black Shag further south in New Zealand, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds...

- Great Gerbil

Great Gerbil

The Great Gerbil is a large gerbil found throughout much of Central Asia.-Description:The largest of the gerbils, Great Gerbils have a head and body length between 15-20cm . Their skulls are distinctive by having two grooves in each incisor...

- Greater Khorasan

Greater Khorasan

Greater Khorasan or Ancient Khorasan is a historical region of Greater Iran mentioned in sources from Sassanid and Islamic eras which "frequently" had a denotation wider than current three provinces of Khorasan in Iran...

- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was the easternmost part of the Hellenistic world, covering Bactria and Sogdiana in Central Asia from 250 to 125 BC...

- Green Mosque (Balkh)

Green Mosque (Balkh)

The Masjid Sabz or Green Mosque is a mosque in the city of Balkh, in northern Afghanistan. It is believed to be have been commissioned by the then ruler of the Eastern Timurid Empire, Shah Rukh, or by his wife Goharshad.-History:...

- Grey Heron

Grey Heron

The Grey Heron , is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in the milder south and west, but many birds retreat in winter from the ice in colder regions...

- Gul Agha Sherzai

Gul Agha Sherzai

Gul Agha Sherzai is the current Governor of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan.He previously served as Governor of Kandahar province, in the early 1990s and from 2001 until 2003.-Biography:...

- Gul Hassan Khan

Gul Hassan Khan

Lieutenant-General Gul Hassan Khan , was a former three star general and the last Army Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Army from December 20, 1971 – March 3, 1972...

- Gul Lasht Zom

Gul Lasht Zom

Gul Lasht Zom is a snowy pinnacle easily visible from any vantage point on the Tirich Glacier from the Shagroom side. It lies in the Hindu Kush range of Pakistan. It offers easy climbing and was first climbed by Kurt Diemberger of Austria.-External links:*...

- Gul M. Zhowandai

Gul M. Zhowandai

Gul Mohamad Zhowandai was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. A poet and writer, his publications were novels written in Persian, and several volumes of inspirational verse...

 (poet, novelist, short story writer)
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is an Afghan Mujahideen leader who is the founder and leader of the Hezb-e Islami political party and paramilitary group. Hekmatyar was a rebel military commander during the 1980s Soviet war in Afghanistan and was one of the key figures in the civil war that followed the...

- Gulistan District

Gulistan District

Gulistan, also transliterated as Golestan , is a district in Farah Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is approximately 80% Pashtun with a Tajik minority, was estimated at 53,780 in October 2004. The main village, also called Gulistan, is situated at 1434 m altitude in the mountainous part...

- Gumal Pass

Gumal Pass

Gomal Pass is a mountain pass on the Durrand Line between Afghanistan and the southeastern portion of South Waziristan in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. It takes its name from the Gomal River and is midway between the legendary Khyber Pass and the Bolan Pass....

- Gundeshapur

Gundeshapur

Gundeshapur Gundeshapur Gundeshapur (Persian گندی‌شاپور, Gund-ī Shāh Pūr, Gondeshapur, Jondishapoor, Jondishapur, and Jondishapour, Gundishapur, Gondêšâpur, Jund-e Shapur, Jundê-Shâpûr, etc...

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- Habiba Sarabi

Habiba Sarabi

Dr. Habiba Sarabi is a hematologist, politician, and reformer of the post-Taliban reconstruction of Afghanistan. In 2005, she was appointed as governor of Bamyan Province by President Hamid Karzai, becoming the first woman to ever be a governor of any province in the country...

- Habibullah Ghazi

Habibullah Ghazi

Habībullāh Kalakānī , also known as Habībullāh Ghāzī, was Emir of Afghanistan from January to October 1929 after deposing Amānullāh Khān with the help of various Ghilzai tribes who opposed modernization of Afghanistan...

- Habibullah Khan

Habibullah Khan (Afghan king)

Habibullah Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan from 1901 until 1919. He was born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the eldest son of the Emir Abdur Rahman Khan, whom he succeeded by right of primogeniture in October 1901....

- Habibullah Shah
- Habibullāh Kalakāni
- Hadda
- Hafizullah Amin

Hafizullah Amin

Hafizullah Amin was the second President of Afghanistan during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan....

- Hafizullah Shabaz Khail

Hafizullah Shabaz Khail

Dr. Hafizullah Shabaz Khail is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1946, in Paktia, Afghanistan....

- Haibak

Haibak

Haibak is a town of Afghanistan in the Samangan Province and is a former khanate of Afghan Turkestan. The valley of Haibak, which is 3,100 feet above sea level, is fertile and richly cultivated...

- Haji Bashar

Haji Bashar

Haji Bashir Noorzai is a convicted former Afghan drug lord, the Asian counterpart of the Colombian cocaine legend Pablo Escobar. He was an early supporter of the austere Taliban movement, and later worked as an undercover agent on behalf of the U.S. government...

- Haji Gilani

Haji Gilani

Haji Gilani was the first person to give Hamid Karzai shelter in the province of Uruzgan, Afghanistan as Karzai launched his anti-Taliban revolt weeks before the religious militia collapsed under heavy U.S. bombing in late 2001. Gilani and his nephew were shot dead on April 3, 2003 by six gunmen...

- Haji Kashmir Khan

Haji Kashmir Khan

After the Taliban took charge in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1994, Commander Kashmir Khan opposed the Taliban regime and fought several battles with the Taliban.Kashmir Khan belonged to the Shura Nizami of Hezb-e Islami....

- Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq

Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq

Hajji Mohammad Mohaqiq is the founder and chairman of the People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan. He took an active part in the war against the invading Soviet Union to Afghanistan in 1979...

- Haji Mohammed Zaher
- Haji Piyada

Haji Piyada

Haji Piyada Mosque or Noh Gonbad Mosque , a Samanid-style building in Balkh province of northern Afghanistan. Built in the ninth century, it is thought to be the earliest Islamic building in the country....

- Haji Piyada

Haji Piyada

Haji Piyada Mosque or Noh Gonbad Mosque , a Samanid-style building in Balkh province of northern Afghanistan. Built in the ninth century, it is thought to be the earliest Islamic building in the country....

 (Balkh Province)
- Hajigak

Hajigak

The Hajigak Pass is situated at a height of above sea-level and is one of the two main routes from Kabul to Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, leading across the Koh-i Baba range....

- Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai, GCMG is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001...

- Hamidullah (Guantanamo detainee 1119)

Hamidullah (Guantanamo detainee 1119)

Hamidullah is a citizen of Afghanistan currently held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1963, in Kabul, Afghanistan....

- Hamun-i-Helmand

Hamun-i-Helmand

Hāmūn-e Helmand is a shallow, marshy, lake or hāmūn located in eastern Iran, near the Afghanistan border. It is fed by the Helmand River, which starts in the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan...

- Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami

Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami

Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami was a traditionalist Afghan mujahedeen group fighting against Soviet forces during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi was the leader of the group. It operated Southern Afghan Provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan, Ghazni, Paktika, and Wardak...

- Harakat-i-Islami
- Hari River
- Hashim Khan

Hashim Khan

Hashim Khan is a former squash player from Pakistan. He won the British Open seven times between 1951 and 1958.Hashim Khan was born in Nawakille , a small village near Peshawar, in British India to an ethnic Pashtun family. The year of his birth is usually reported as 1916, though this has been...

- Hasni

Hasni

Hasni is the name of a Baloch tribe in Balochistan, Pakistan. Their leader was Sardar Muhammad Sadiq Khan Hasni.* Hasni* the main article -Clans:* Bubkhiani* Nathwiani* Raisiani* Shahani* Mumyani* Mandwiani...

- Hazara
- Hazaragi language

Hazaragi language

Hazaragi is a dialect of the Persian language spoken by the Hazara people, most of all in an area known as the Hazarajat.- General :The primary differences between Standard Persian and Hazaragi are the accent and Hazaragi's greater array of Turkic and Mongolian loanwords...

- Hazarajat

Hazarajat

The Hazarajat is the original homeland of the Hazara people, and lies in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains and the western extremities of the Hindu Kush. Its physical boundaries, however, are roughly marked by the Bamiyan Basin to the north, the headwaters of...

- Hazaristan
- Hazrat Ali

Hazrat Ali

Hajji Hazrat Ali bin Bahawal Sheir is a military commander in eastern Afghanistan.-Biography:He was born in 1964 and is an ethnic Pashai....

- Hedayat Arsala

Hedayat Arsala

Hedayat Amin Arsala , is an economist and a prominent politician in Afghanistan. Mr. Arsala was most recently the Vice President of Afghanistan and subsequently the Senior Minister to President Hamid Karzai.-Education:...

- Helmand Province

Helmand Province

Helmand is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the southwest of the country. Its capital is Lashkar Gah. The Helmand River flows through the mainly desert region, providing water for irrigation....

- Helmand River

Helmand River

The Helmand River is the longest river in Afghanistan and the primarily watershed for the endorheic Sistan Basin....

- Hemorrhois ravergieri

Hemorrhois ravergieri

Hemorrhois ravergieri, commonly called the spotted whip snake is a species of snake found in Western Asia, Central Asia and South-Central Asia.-Geographic range:...

- Heraios

Heraios

Heraios was a clan chief of the Kushans , one of the five constituent tribes of the Yuezhi confederacy in Bactria in the early 1st century CE, roughly at the time when the Kushans were starting their invasion of India.Silver coins were made in the Hellenistic style and used the Greek writing...

- Herat Airfield

Herat Airfield

Herat Airport is 6.5 miles southeast of the city Herat, just east of the Herat-Farah road, close to Guzara in the Guzara District of the Herat Province....

- Herat Province

Herat Province

Herat is one the 34 provinces of Afghanistan; together with Badghis, Farah, and Ghor provinces, it makes up the South-western region of the country...

- Herat

Herat

Herāt is the capital of Herat province in Afghanistan. It is the third largest city of Afghanistan, with a population of about 397,456 as of 2006. It is situated in the valley of the Hari River, which flows from the mountains of central Afghanistan to the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan...

- Hezb-e Jomhorikhahan

Hezb-e Jomhorikhahan

Republican Party of Afghanistan is a political party in Afghanistan. When the party was founded in 1999, it declared the UN Human Rights Declaration as the programme of the party. Sebghatullah Sanjar was elected as the chairman of the party....

- Hezbi Islami

Hezbi Islami

Hezbi Islami , meaning Islamic Party is an Islamist organization commonly known for fighting in the Marxist Government of Afghanistan and their close ally the Soviet Union. Founded and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, it was established in Pakistan in 1975...

- Hezbi Wahdat
- Hindu Kush

Hindu Kush

The Hindu Kush is an mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir in the Chitral region of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.It is the westernmost extension of the Pamir Mountains, the Karakoram Range, and is a...

- Hindu temples of Kabul

Hindu temples of Kabul

Kabul was the capital of the great Hindu Shahi kings.Afghanistan was a great center of Vedic culture.There were many Hindu temples in Afghanistan...

- Hinduism in Afghanistan

Hinduism in Afghanistan

Hinduism in Afghanistan has existed for almost as long as Hinduism itself. The religion was widespread in the region until the Islamic conquest of Afghanistan...

- Hindukush White-Robed Kafir people

Hindukush White-Robed Kafir people

Sfed-Posh or Lal-Posh Kafirs were designations for usually three clans, namely:# Wais or Waigulis# Askunus or Ashkuns# Presungulis, Vasi or Viron people...

- Hisarak District

Hisarak District

Hesarak or Hisarak is a district in the west of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 28,462 in 2002, of whom 11,380 were children under 12. The district centre is the village of Hesarak....

- Hisarak, Afghanistan
- Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik 10th Umayyad caliph who ruled from 723 until his death in 743. When he was born in 691 his mother named him after her father....

- History of Afghanistan since 1992

History of Afghanistan since 1992

This article on the History of Afghanistan since 1992 covers the time period from the fall of the Najibullah government in 1992 to the ongoing American military presence in Afghanistan.-End of Najibullah government:...

- History of Afghanistan

History of Afghanistan

The written history of Afghanistan can be traced back to the Achaemenid Empire ca. 500 BCE, although evidence indicates that an advanced degree of urbanized culture has existed in the land since between 3000 and 2000 BCE. Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army arrived to Afghanistan in 330 BCE...

- Hormizd I

Hormizd I

Hormizd I was the third Sassanid King of Persia from 270/72 to 273.He was the youngest son of Shapur I , under whom he was governor of Khorasan, and appears in his wars against Rome Hormizd I was the third Sassanid King of Persia from 270/72 to 273.He was the youngest son of Shapur I...

- Hormizd II

Hormizd II

Hormizd II, was the eighth Persian king of the Sassanid Empire, and reigned for seven years and five months, from 302 to 309. He was the son of Narseh .Almost nothing is known of his reign...

- Hormizd III

Hormizd III

Hormizd III, sixteenth Sassanid King of Persia, son of Yazdegerd II , succeeded his father in 457.Hormizd, the older son of Yazdegerd II, was kept near Ctesiphon, while his younger brother, Peroz, was stationed in Sistan. Following his father's death, Hormizd became ruler of the Sassanian Empire...

- Hormizd IV

Hormizd IV

Hormizd IV, son of Khosrau I, reigned as the twenty-first King of Persia from 579 to 590.He seems to have been imperious and violent, but not without some kindness of heart. Some very characteristic stories are told of him by Tabari. His father's sympathies had been with the nobles and the priests...

- Hormizd VI

Hormizd VI

Hormizd VI or V, twenty-eighth Sassanid King of Persia, was one of the many pretenders who rose after the murder of Khosrau II in 628. He maintained himself about two years in the district of Nisibis. There was also a brief usurper king, not always numbered among the monarchs, called Hormizd V in...

- Hotak

Hotak

Hotak is an Afghan royal family name among the Pashtun people.The Hotaki started long ago as a rich and well known political family. The first king to take power in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was Mirwais Hotak . After his death many different Hotakis took the power of the throne, such as Mahmud...

- Hotaki

Hotaki

The Hotaki were an Afghan tribe and dynasty that ruled over Afghanistan, most of Iran, and northwestern parts of Pakistan from 1722 to 1729, after defeating the Persian Safavid dynasty. The Hotaki dynasty was founded in 1709 by Mirwais Hotak, chief of the Ghilzai Pashtuns of Kandahar who led a...

- House of Elders

House of Elders

Mesherano Jirga or the House of Elders, is the upper house of the bicameral National Assembly of Afghanistan, alongside the Wolesi Jirga .It has 102 members...

- House of the People (Afghanistan)

House of the People (Afghanistan)

The House of the People or Wolesi Jirga , abbreviated WJ, is the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly of Afghanistan, alongside the House of Elders....

- Hua (state)

Hua (state)

Huáguó was a vassal state of Western Zhou that existed in what is now Henan, whose ruling elites belonged to the royal family but which was destroyed by the State of Qin in 627 BC. The population were the earlier Hua of the Spring and Autumn Period not the later Huá of the Hephthalites...

- Human rights in Afghanistan

Human rights in Afghanistan

The situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan is a topic of some controversy and conflict. While the Taliban were well known for numerous human rights abuses, several human rights violations continue to take place in the post-Taliban government era....

- Humayun

Humayun

Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530–1540 and again from 1555–1556. Like his father, Babur, he lost his kingdom early, but with Persian aid, he eventually regained an even larger one...

- Husayn Bayqarah

Husayn Bayqarah

Husayn Bayqarah was a Timurid ruler of Herat from 1469 to 1506, with a brief interruption in 1470. His father was Mansur, a great-grandson of Timur...

- Huvishka

Huvishka

Huvishka was a Kushan emperor from the death of Kanishka until the succession of Vasudeva I about forty years later. His rule was a period of retrenchment and consolidation for the Empire...

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- Ibrahim (Timurid Dynasty)

Ibrahim (Timurid Dynasty)

Ibrahim was a Timurid ruler of Herat in the fifteenth century. He was the son of 'Ala' al-Daula, a great-grandson of Timur.Ibrahim came to power in Herat in the aftermath of the death of Babur Ibn-Baysunkur. Babur's son Shah Mahmud had succeeded him but, as he was still a boy, his hold on power...

- Ibrahim ibn al-Walid

Ibrahim ibn al-Walid

Ibrahim ibn Al-Walid was an Umayyad caliph. He only ruled for a short time in 744 before he abdicated, and went into hiding out of fear of his political opponents. The shortness of this time and his incomplete acceptance led Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari to state that he did not succeed in...

- Id Gah Mosque

Id Gah Mosque

Id Gah Mosque or Eid Gah Mosque is the second largest mosque in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. It is considered the cardinal religious mosque in the country, where a million people offer Eid prayers twice a year...

- Id Gah Mosque

Id Gah Mosque

Id Gah Mosque or Eid Gah Mosque is the second largest mosque in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. It is considered the cardinal religious mosque in the country, where a million people offer Eid prayers twice a year...

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- Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev

Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev

Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev or Elham Battayav was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 84...

- Inayatullah Shah
- Indian Pond Heron

Indian Pond Heron

The Indian Pond Heron or Paddybird is a small heron. It is of Old World origins, breeding in southern Iran and east to India, Burma, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. They are widespread and common but can be easily missed when they stalk prey at the edge of small water-bodies or even when they roost...

- Indo-Sassanid
- InterContinental Hotel, Kabul

InterContinental Hotel, Kabul

The Inter-Continental is a three star hotel located in the Kârte Parwân neighbourhood in western Kabul, Afghanistan. It served as the nation's first international luxury hotel, one of the most visited by foreigners since its opening in 1969...

- International Security Assistance Force

International Security Assistance Force

The International Security Assistance Force is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 by Resolution 1386 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement...

- Invasion of Afghanistan prisoner escapes

Invasion of Afghanistan prisoner escapes

During the 2001 Invasion of Afghanistan, many Taliban, al-Qaeda and militant fighters were captured and held at military bases in the region. On several occasions, there were instances of mass escapes.-2003:...

- Invasion of India by Scythian Tribes
- Invasions of Afghanistan

Invasions of Afghanistan

Afghanistan has been invaded many times, its boundaries and governments almost always in dispute. Invaders include the Mughal rulers of South Asia, Russian Tsars, Soviet Union, British Empire, and currently a coalition force of NATO troops with UN-backing led by US armed forces.-Purpose of...

- Irfanullah Khan Marwat

Irfanullah Khan Marwat

Irfanullah Khan Marwat is a Pakistani politician. He has served as a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh and a Provincial Minister in Sindh, Pakistan. Irfanullah Khan Marwat has held numerous portfolios in the Sindh Government since 1989 including transport, health, home, education and...

- Iris verification center

Iris verification center

Iris Verification Center is a UNHCR funded center for Afghan returnees, the technology was introduced by UNHCR-Pakistan in 2002 to counter fraud attempts....

- Ishaq Shahryar

Ishaq Shahryar

Ishaq M. Shahryar was the Afghan ambassador to the United States from 2002 to 2003.Shahryar who was born in Kabul, Afghanistan to an ethnic Tajik family. He came to the United States in 1956 on a scholarship to study at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Santa...

- Ishkashimi language

Ishkashimi language

The Ishkashimi language is one of the Pamir languages of the Southeastern Iranian language group. Its distribution is in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan, Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan and Chitral region of Pakistan....

- Islam in Afghanistan

Islam in Afghanistan

Islam is the official state religion of Afghanistan, with approximately 99.7% of the Afghan population being Muslim. About 80-89% practice Sunni Islam and belong to the Hanafi Islamic law school while 10-19% are Shi'a, majority of whom follow the Twelver branch with smaller numbers of Ismailis...

- Islamic conquest of Afghanistan

Islamic conquest of Afghanistan

The Islamic conquest of Afghanistan began in the middle of the 7th century after the Islamic conquest of Persia was completed, when Arab Muslims defeated the Sassanid Empire at the battles of Walaja, al-Qādisiyyah and Nahavand. The Muslim Arabs then began to move towards the lands east of Persia...

- Islamic conquest of Persia

Islamic conquest of Persia

The Muslim conquest of Persia led to the end of the Sassanid Empire in 644, the fall of Sassanid dynasty in 651 and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia...

- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was founded in 1996 when the Taliban began their rule of Afghanistan and ended with their fall from power in 2001...

- Islamic Movement of Afghanistan

Islamic Movement of Afghanistan

Islamic Movement of Afghanistan is a political party and former faction of the Afghan Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. The movement is registered as a political party with the Ministry of Justice. From its foundation to 2005, the movement was led by Ayatollah Muhammad Asif Muhsini. The movement...

- Islamic Party Jamiat of Afghanistan
- Islamic Party of Afghanistan
- Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan

Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan

The Islamic Dawah Organization of Afghanistan is a political party in Afghanistan led by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf. Founded in the early 1980s as the Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan , it was originally an attempt to bring unity amongst Islamist opposition forces in Afghanistan...

- Islamic United Party of Afghanistan
- Ismail of Ghazni

Ismail of Ghazni

Ismail of Ghazni was the second ruler and Amir of the Ghaznavid Empire. He succeeded his father Amir Sabuktigin, who died of an illness acquired in Balkh during a campaign in the Samanid civil war...

- ISO 3166-2:AF

ISO 3166-2:AF

ISO 3166-2:AF is the entry for Afghanistan in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Afghanistan, ISO 3166-2 codes...

- Istakhr

Istakhr

Estakhr was an ancient city located in southern Iran, in Fars province, five kilometers north of Persepolis. It was a prosperous city during the time of Achaemenid Persia.-History:...

- Istalif

Istalif

Istālif is a village about 18 miles northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, situated at at 1693 m altitude. It is the center of Istalif District, Kabul Province, Afghanistan. The village was destroyed during the longlasting wars around Kabul. There are a few repaired or newly constructed buildings. The...

- Istor-o-Nal

Istor-o-Nal

Istor-o-Nal is the third highest mountain in the Hindu Kush, in the Chitral District of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. It is the 68th highest independent peak in the world. It crowns a massif with eleven peaks of elevation more than . The peak is located a few kilometres northeast of...

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- Jadoon

Jadoon

The Jadoons are one of the largest Pashtun tribes in Pakistan. They originate from Jallalabad and are now located in the southern Hazara Division area of Khyber Pakhtoonkhuwa, Pakistan, partly in Gadoon area in Swabi on the southern slopes of Mahaban Mountains, and partly in Abbottabad District...

- Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres

Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres

The Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres took place near Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan in 1998, and involved hundreds of victims massacred by the Taliban. Mass graves have not yet been found, but the United Nations is planning to search for them....

- Jaghori District

Jaghori District

Jaghori is a major business center and one of the main districts of Ghazni province in Afghanistan. It is situated in the highlands of the central region. The population was estimated at 192,216 in 2002, making it one of the most populous districts in Afghanistan. Sange-e-Masha is a small bazaar...

- Jaghori
- Jahandar Shah

Jahandar Shah

Jahandar Shah was a Mughal Emperor who ruled India for a brief period in 1712-1713. His title was Shahanshah-i-Ghazi Abu'l Fath Muiz-ud-Din Muhammad Jahandar Shah Sahib-i-Quran Padshah-i-Jahan .-Early life:...

- Jahangir

Jahangir

Jahangir was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1605 until his death. The name Jahangir is from Persian جهانگیر,meaning "Conqueror of the World"...

- Jahangiri

Jahangiri

The Jahangiris are one of the leading Pashtun clans of the Swati there are three main tribes,Gabaris sultans Mitrvis and Mimialis the Deghans now called them collectively swati tribe of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, widely spread across the districts of Battagram and Mansehra and...

- Jalalabad District
- Jalalabad

Jalalabad

Jalalabad , formerly called Adinapour, as documented by the 7th century Hsüan-tsang, is a city in eastern Afghanistan. Located at the junction of the Kabul River and Kunar River near the Laghman valley, Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province. It is linked by approximately of highway with...

- Jalozai

Jalozai

Jalozai refugee camp, 35 kilometres southeast of Peshawar, Pakistan, was one of the largest of 150 refugee or transit camps in Pakistan, holding Afghan refugees from the 1980s Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It had an estimated 70,000 refugees at its peak. New Jalozai adjoined the original Jalozai...

- Jalrez District

Jalrez District

Jalrez is a district in the east of Maydan Shahr, Wardak Province, Afghanistan. The district center is the village of Jalrez.-External links:...

- Jamali

Jamali

Jamali is the name of a Baloch tribe in Pakistan. Jamali tribe consists of 14 more tribes,like Esaani,Mureedani,Walwaani,Dodaani,Lalwaani. A large number of Jamali tribes also live in province of Sindh; these peopole speak Balochi,Sindhi,Seraiki,Punjabi and Urdu languages. In Sindh majority of...

- Jamiat Islami
- Jamoot
- Jamote
- Jattak

Jattak

Jattak is a Baloch tribe in Balochistan, Pakistan....

- Jawand District

Jawand District

Jawand is the largest district of Badghis Province, Afghanistan, located in the southeast. Its population is estimated at 186,000, although a 1990 estimate by the United States Agency for International Development puts the population at 46,403. Its capital is Jawand.Jawand has approximately 380...

- Jawand

Jawand

Jawand is a town and the capital of Jawand District, in Badghis Province, Afghanistan.-External links:**...

- Jews of Afghanistan

Jews of Afghanistan

Jews have lived in Afghanistan for at least 2,000 years, but the community has been reduced greatly because of emigration. Afghan Jewish communities now exist mostly in Israel, Pakistan and the United States. Today, it is believed that there is only one Jew, Zablon Simintov, residing in Afghanistan...

- Jirga

Jirga

A jirga is a tribal assembly of elders which takes decisions by consensus, particularly among the Pashtun people but also in other ethnic groups near them; they are most common in Afghanistan and among the Pashtuns in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan...

- Jogezai

Jogezai

Jogezai is a Pashtun tribe settled in Pakistan .It is A sub Tribe Of Kakar Jalalzai Sanzarkhail. The majority of the Jogezai live in the valley of Zhob in Pakistan. Their current Nawab is Nawab Mohammad Ayaz Khan Jogezai who is also prominent leader of Pashtunkhwa Party who are against the...

- Jowzjan Province

Jowzjan Province

Jowzjān or Jōzjān or Jawzjan is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Sheberghan.- Demographics :...

- Judiciary of Afghanistan

Judiciary of Afghanistan

Afghanistan's judicial system is still under construction. The Justice Ministry is now working to set up a workable judicial system, but it seems to be taking some time....

- Juma Khan

Juma Khan

Haji Juma Khan, an ethnic Baluch from Afghanistan’s Nimroz Province, is a drug lord with links to the Taliban. The title Haji indicates that he has completed the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca....

- Juma Mohammad Mohammadi

Juma Mohammad Mohammadi

Jum'a-Mohammad Mohammadi was the Afghan Minister for Mines and Industries under the Afghan Transitional Administration. He died in a plane crash on February 24, 2003 while returning from a mission in Pakistan to learn techniques in copper mining. He was in his late 60s.Mohammadi had served in...

- Jurm District

Jurm District

Jurm District is one of the 30 districts of Badakhshan Province in northeast Afghanistan. The district capital is a town named Jurm. The district is 3 hours far from the center of the province and is home to approximately 3,000 residents, making it one of the most sparsely populated portions of the...

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- Ka'ba-i Zartosht
- Kabul Golf Club

Kabul Golf Club

The Kabul Golf Club is a nine-hole golf course located near Qargha, around 7 miles from the center of Kabul, Afghanistan.- Overview :Different from other golf courses in the Middle East where desert golf is a new trend, the greens at the Kabul Golf Club are actually brown to black due to their...

- Kabul International Airport

Kabul International Airport

-Facilities:The airport has two terminal buildings, the modern for international flights and the Soviet built one for domestic flights. Several hangars along the runway are for military aircraft...

- Kabul Province

Kabul Province

Kābul , situated in the east of the country, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. The capital of the province is Kabul City, which is also Afghanistan's capital. The population of Kabul province is 3.5 million people as of 2009, of which almost 80 percent live in the urban areas...

- Kabul River

Kabul River

Kabul River , the classical Cophes , is a 700 km long river that starts in the Sanglakh Range of the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan and ends in the Indus River near Attock, Pakistan. It is the main river in eastern Afghanistan and is separated from the watershed of the Helmand by the Unai Pass...

- Kabul Soccer Club

Kabul Soccer Club

The Kabul Soccer Club promotes soccer and provides a common ground for cultural differences between generations of Afghan Americans. The club consists of former Afghanistan national football team players and Afghan American youth players.The club president is Nemat Jamili...

- Kabul Times

Kabul Times

The Kabul Times, established in 1962, was the first English language printed newspaper in Afghanistan.Following the 1978 coup, the Kabul Times was renamed New Kabul Times, and began to print Communist rhetoric that was reminiscent of days during the Cold War and was highly confrontative to the...

- Kabul University

Kabul University

Kabul University is located in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. It was founded in 1931 but officially opened for classes in 1932. Kabul University is currently attended by approximately 7,000 students, of which 1,700 are women. As of 2008, Hamidullah Amin is the chancellor of the university...

- Kabul Weekly

Kabul Weekly

The Kabul Weekly was the most widely distributed newspaper in Afghanistan, both in the center and the provinces. It has ceased publication in 2011, with the sudden announcement printed on the front page of the last issue. Quote from the last issue: "While this is a column, I wanted to share with...

- Kabul-Kandahar highway

Kabul-Kandahar highway

The Kabul-Kandahar Highway is a road linking Afghanistan's two largest cities, Kabul and Kandahar. This highway is a key portion of Afghanistan's national road system or "Ring Road"...

- Kabul

Kabul

Kabul , spelt Caubul in some classic literatures, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is also the capital of the Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan...

- Kafiristan

Kafiristan

Kāfiristān or Kāfirstān was a historic name of Nurestan , a province in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, prior to 1896. This historic region lies on, and mainly comprises, basins of the rivers Alingar, Pech , Landai Sin, and Kunar, and the intervening mountain ranges...

- Kajakai Dam

Kajakai Dam

The Kajakai Dam is one of the two major hydroelectric power dams of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The dam is located on the Helmand River 100 miles north-west of Kandahar City. It has a dual function, to provide electricity and to irrigate some 650,000 acres of an otherwise arid land...

- Kajaki District

Kajaki District

Kajaki is a district in the east of Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Its population is by a vast majority Pashtun, and stood at 60,700 in 2005. The district centre is the village of Kajaki.-References:* , dated 2002-12-31, accessed 2006-08-03 ....

- Kakakhel
- Kakar

Kakar

The Kakar are a Pashtun tribe, with members living in Afghanistan and Pakistan.-Kakar :Kakar Afghan was one of the grandsons of Qais Abdur Rashid. Kakar's father's name was Dani, son of Gharghasht, who was the son of Qais in the Afghan appendix of tribes. According to Afghan and Muslim historians,...

- Kakazai

Kakazai

The Kakazai , also known as Loye Mamund , are a Pashtun tribe originally from the Laghman province of Afghanistan.They came to South Asia during Afghan invasions such as those of Mahmud of Ghazni, settling in various regions....

- Kalasha-ala language

Kalasha-ala language

Waigali or Waigeli is a language spoken by the Kalasha of the Nuristan Province in a few villages in the central part of the Kunar Province of Afghanistan. The native name is Kalasa-Alâ or simply Kalasa...

- Kalpar

Kalpar

Kalpar is a clan of Baloch tribe Bugti and is settled in Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan....

- Kam Air Flight 904

Kam Air Flight 904

Kam Air Flight 904 was involved in a deadly aviation disaster over the Pamir mountains of Afghanistan in February 2005. The incident took place shortly after 4:00 p.m.local time on February 3, when a private Kam Air Boeing 737-200 jet aircraft went missing in Afghanistan during a domestic flight...

- Kam Air

Kam Air

Kam Air is an airline headquartered in the Kabul Business Centre in Shah-e-Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan. It operates scheduled domestic passenger services and international services to the Middle East and several Asian republics...

- Kama District

Kama District

Kama is a district in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, to the east of Jalalabad. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 88,000 in 2002.The district centre is the village of Sanger Srye Kama....

- Kambojas in Indian Traditions
- Kambojas

Kambojas

The Kambojas were a kshatriya tribe of Iron Age India, frequently mentioned in Sanskrit and Pali literature.They were an Indo-Iranian tribe situated at the boundary of the Indo-Aryans and the Iranians, and appear to have moved from the Iranian into the Indo-Aryan sphere over time.The Kambojas...

- Kamkata-viri language

Kamkata-viri language

Kamkata-viri, the largest Nuristani language, contains the main dialects Kata-vari, Kamviri and Mumviri. Kata-vari and Kamviri are often defined as two separate languages, but according to linguist they form one language....

- Kamp Holland

Kamp Holland

Kamp Holland is the main Dutch military base on the outskirts of Tarin Kowt, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan....

- Kamviri

Kamviri

Kamviri is a dialect of the Kamkata-viri language spoken by 5,500 of the Kom people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. There are slight dialectal differences of the Kamviri speakers of Pakistan...

- Kandahar Airfield

Kandahar Airfield

Kandahar International Airport is located 10 miles south-east of Kandahar City in Afghanistan. The airport was built by the United States in the 1960s, under the United States Agency for International Development program. It may have been intended to be used as a possible U.S...

- Kandahar Province

Kandahar Province

Kandahar or Qandahar is one of the largest of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located in southern Afghanistan, between Helmand, Oruzgan and Zabul provinces. Its capital is the city of Kandahar, which is located on the Arghandab River. The province has a population of nearly...

- Kandahar

Kandahar

Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...

- Kanishka II

Kanishka II

Kanishka II was one of the emperors of the Kushan Empire from around 225–245 CE. He succeeded Vasudeva I who is considered to be the last great Kushan emperor. It is likely he lost part of his empire to the Kushano-Sassanians.-External links:*...

- Kanishka III

Kanishka III

Kanishka III was a Kushan emperor who reigned for a short period around the year 268 CE. He is believed to have succeeded Vasishka and was succeeded by Vasudeva II....

- Kanishka

Kanishka

Kanishka ) was an emperor of the Kushan Empire, ruling an empire extending from Bactria to large parts of northern India in the 2nd century of the common era, and famous for his military, political, and spiritual achievements...

- Kapisa Province

Kapisa Province

Kapisa is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north-east of the country. Its capital is Mahmud-i-Raqi, and other districts include Kohistan, Nijrab and Tagab. The population of Kapisa is estimated to be 364,900, although there has never been an official estimate...

- Karakalpak language

Karakalpak language

Karakalpak is a Turkic language mainly spoken by Karakalpaks in Karakalpakstan , as well as by Bashkirs and Nogay. Ethnic Karakalpaks who live in the viloyatlar of Uzbekistan tend to speak local Uzbek dialects.-Classification:...

- Karakul (hat)
- Kardan University

Kardan University

Kardan University was founded in 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.Kardan derives its name from a Persian word which means "professional". The logo portrays the name in Persian....

- Karim Khalili

Karim Khalili

Abdul Karim Khalili is the current second Vice President of Afghanistan in the administration of President Hamid Karzai. Khalili was appointed first time as Vice President in 2002 and was elected as running mate of Hamid Karzai in 2004...

- Kartir

Kartir

Kartir Hangirpe was a highly influential Zoroastrian high-priest of the late 3rd century CE and served as advisor to at least three Sassanid emperors....

- Karz

Karz

Karz is a village in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, near the city of Kandahar. The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is from Karz....

- Kashmir Smast

Kashmir Smast

The Kashmir Smast caves are a series of natural limestone caves, artificially expanded from the Kushan to the Shahi periods, situated in the Babozai mountains in the Mardan Valley in Northern Pakistan...

- Kata-vari

Kata-vari

Kata-vari is a dialect of the Kamkata-viri language spoken by the Kata in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The most used alternative names are Kati, Kativiri or Bashgali, which derive from Khowar....

- Kavadh I

Kavadh I

Kavad or Kavadh I was the son of Peroz I and the nineteenth Sassanid king of Persia, reigning from 488 to 531...

- Kavadh II

Kavadh II

Kavadh II , twenty-third Sassanid King of Persia, son of Khosrau II , was raised to the throne in opposition to his father in February 628, after the great victories of the Emperor Heraclius...

- Kazakh language

Kazakh language

Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....

- KHAD

KHAD

Khadamat-e Etela'at-e Dawlati translates directly to English as: "Government Information Agency". However, this phrase is more correctly translated as Government Intelligence Service...

- Khajeh Abdollah Ansari

Khajeh Abdollah Ansari

Abu Ismaïl Abdullah ibn Abi-Mansour Mohammad or Khajah Abdullah Ansari of Herat also known as Pir-i Herat was a famous Persian Sufi who lived in the 11th century in Herat...

- Khak-e-Safid District

Khak-e-Safid District

Khaki Safed is a district in Farah Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is almost entirely Pashtun with a few Tajiks, was estimated at 43,000 in October 2004...

- Khalden training camp

Khalden training camp

The Khalden training camp was a military training camp in Afghanistan. According to the documentary Son of al Qaeda there were hundreds of military training camps in Afghanistan which were tied to al Qaeda...

- Khalil (tribe)

Khalil (tribe)

Khalil is a Pashtun tribe living in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the Peshawar valley, west and south-west of Daudzai lie the settlements of the Khalils. These are bounded on the south by the Bara stream. The Khalils like Mohmands and Daudzais claim to be descendants of Sultan Ibrahim Ghauri, son...

- Khalil Sultan (Timurid dynasty)
- Khalilollah Khalili

Khalilollah Khalili

Khalilullah Khalili was Afghanistan's foremost 20th century poet as well as a noted historian, university professor, diplomat and royal confidant....

- Khalilulla Khalili
- Khalilullah Khalili (poet)
- Khalis faction

Khalis faction

In 1979 Maulawi Khalis separated from Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami and formed his own resistance group. It was also called Hezb-e Islami. The two parties were distinguished as Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin and Hezb-e Islami Khalis, after the names of their respective leaders.The Khalis party was...

- Khalq

Khalq

Khalq was a faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Its historical leaders were Presidents Nur Muhammad Taraki and Hafizullah Amin. It was also the name of the leftist newspaper produced by the same movement. It was supported by the USSR and was formed in 1965 when the PDPA was born...

- Khan

Khan (title)

Khan is an originally Altaic and subsequently Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, widely used by medieval nomadic Turko-Mongol tribes living to the north of China. 'Khan' is also seen as a title in the Xianbei confederation for their chief between 283 and 289...

- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was an Afghan, Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India...

- Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan

Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan

Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan popularly known as Dr. Khan Sahib was a pioneer in the Indian Independence Movement and a Pakistan politician.-Early life:...

- Khan Lodhi
- Khan Muhammad Sarwar Khan Kakar

Khan Muhammad Sarwar Khan Kakar

Muhammad Sarwar Khan Kakar was a former politician and head of the Pashtun Kakar tribe in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. He was from the Barshore and Toba Kakar Ranges area of Pishin District. He was born in 1942 and studied at St. Michael's School, Quetta. His political career began in...

- Khan Wali Khan

Khan Wali Khan

Khan Abdul Wali Khan was Pakistani democratic socialist and Pashtun leader who also served as President of National Awami Party. Son of the prominent Pashtun Bacha Khan, Wali Khan was an activist and a writer against the British India like his father.His early years were marked by his involvement...

- Kharoti

Kharoti

Kharoti is a Pashtun tribe of Ghilzai origin. The tribe has an estimated population of about 2.5 million ....

- Khatir Afridi

Khatir Afridi

Khatir Afridi was born as Misree Khan in 1929, at Landi Kotal, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan near the border of Afghanistan, and died on August 24, 1961. Misree Khan was born to Afridi parents of the Zakka Khel clan. He was a prominent poet of the Pashto language but died young...

- Khatir Afridi

Khatir Afridi

Khatir Afridi was born as Misree Khan in 1929, at Landi Kotal, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan near the border of Afghanistan, and died on August 24, 1961. Misree Khan was born to Afridi parents of the Zakka Khel clan. He was a prominent poet of the Pashto language but died young...

 (poet)
- Khattak Dance

Khattak Dance

Khattak is a swift martial sword-dance performed by the tribesmen from the egile Khattak tribe of Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan.It was performed by Khattak warriors before going to war with enemy tribes in the time of Malik Shahbaz Khan Khattak and then Khushal Khan Khattak.It was called a...

- Khattak

Khattak

Khattak or Khatak , is the name of an Afghan tribe. speaking a variant of the Kandahari Pashto. They are accorded the status of being one of the original and true Afghans. The tribe is settled along the western bank of the river Indus from as north upwards as Sammah; modern day Lund Khwar & Sher...

- Khel

Khel (Clan)

Khel are clans of Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The title of the tribe ends in Zai and its clan name end in Khel...

- Khetran

Khetran

The Khetran is a Baloch tribe in [Balochistan], Pakistan, of Rind origin. Their first language is the Khetrani language, and balochi language which is spoken only by their tribe....

- Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa

Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa

Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa is a Taliban official and former governor of Herat, he is currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....

- Khogyani District

Khogyani District

Khogyani is a district in the south of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering on Pakistan. Its population is almost entirely Pashtun, and was estimated at 146,852 in 2002. The district centre is the village of Khogyani, though the largest village is Vazir....

- Khosrau I

Khosrau I

Khosrau I , also known as Anushiravan the Just or Anushirawan the Just Khosrau I (also called Chosroes I in classical sources, most commonly known in Persian as Anushirvan or Anushirwan, Persian: انوشيروان meaning the immortal soul), also known as Anushiravan the Just or Anushirawan the Just...

- Khosrau II

Khosrau II

250px|thumb|Khosrau II 250px|thumb|Khosrau II 250px|thumb|Khosrau II (Khosrow II, Chosroes II, or Xosrov II in classical sources, sometimes called Parvez, "the Ever Victorious" – (in Persian: خسرو پرویز), was the twenty-second Sassanid King of Persia, reigning from 590 to 628...

- Khost Mosque

Khost Mosque

Khost Mosque is a mosque in the city of Khost, in eastern Afghanistan.-References:...

 (Khost city)
- Khost Province

Khost Province

Khost is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the country. Khost province used to be part of Paktia province in the past...

- Khost

Khost

Khost or Khowst is a city in eastern Afghanistan. It is the capital of Khost province, which is a mountainous region near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan...

- Khudiadadzai

Khudiadadzai

The Khudiadadzai are a Pashtun tribe in Afghanistan and Pakistan.Khudiadadzai of the Kakar Sunzerkel tribe from Balochistan, a region divided between Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. It consists of many clans, including Mirdadzai, Paizai, and Baigzai.The people of Khudiadzai live in Nasai, Muslim...

- Khulm
- Khulmi

Khulmi

Khulmi is a district of Balkh Province, Afghanistan....

- Khulozai
- Khushal Khan Khattak

Khushal Khan Khattak

Khushal Khan Khattak was a prominent Pashtun malik, poet, warrior,A charismatic personality and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote a huge collection of Pashto poems during the Mughal Empire in the 17th century, and admonished Pashtuns to forsake their divisive tendencies and unite...

- Khushal Khan Khattak

Khushal Khan Khattak

Khushal Khan Khattak was a prominent Pashtun malik, poet, warrior,A charismatic personality and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote a huge collection of Pashto poems during the Mughal Empire in the 17th century, and admonished Pashtuns to forsake their divisive tendencies and unite...

 (poet)
- Khvarvaran

Khvarvaran

Khvārvarān, also known as Iraq or Mesopotamia, was a province of the Iranian Persian Empire, which ruled the region since the time of Cyrus the Great...

- Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine

Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine

The Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine, also known as Gazar Gah, is a funerary compound in Herat, Afghanistan, that houses the tomb of the Sufi mystic and saint Khwajah Abdullah Ansari, also known as the guardian pir of Herat....

 (Herat)
- Khyber Afghan Airlines

Khyber Afghan Airlines

Khyber Afghan Airlines is a cargo airline based in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, with its hub at Jalalabad Airport....

- Khyber Pass

Khyber Pass

The Khyber Pass, is a mountain pass linking Pakistan and Afghanistan.The Pass was an integral part of the ancient Silk Road. It is mentioned in the Bible as the "Pesh Habor," and it is one of the oldest known passes in the world....

- Kidarites

Kidarites

The Kidarite were a dynasty of the "Ki" clan, probably originating from the Uar people. They were part of the complex of tribes known collectively as Xionites or "Hunas"....

- Killi Faizo

Killi Faizo

Killi Faizo is a UNHCR staging refugee camp on the Afghan-Pakistan border, in Chaman, Pakistan - two kilometres into the country. A parallel camp exists on the other side of the border. It was opened in late 2001 as a response to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.Medical organisations such as...

- Klasik

Klasik

The classical music of Afghanistan is called klasik, which includes both instrumental and vocal forms . Many ustad, or professional musicians, are descended from Indian artists who emigrated to the royal court in Kabul in the 1860s upon the invitation of Amir Sher Ali Khan.These north Indian...

- Koche Sesame

Koche Sesame

Koche Sesame is a Dari language children's television series based on Sesame Street, started in 2004. The show is only shown within schools in Afghanistan, as a teaching tool....

- Komedes

Komedes

Komedes is an ethnonym recorded by Ptolemy. Ptolemy notes that the Komedes inhabited "the entire mountainous land of the Sakas", placing them in eastern Scythia .-Kumud-dvipa:...

- Kotal-e Salang

Kotal-e Salang

The Salang Pass is the major mountain pass connecting northern Afghanistan and Kabul province, with further connections to southern Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is just to the east of the Kushan Pass, and both of them were of great importance in early times as they provided the most direct...

- Koyo Zom

Koyo Zom

Koyo Zom is the highest peak in the Hindu Raj mountain range in Pakistan at . The Hindu Raj mountain range lies between the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram ranges....

- Kuchelai

Kuchelai

Kuchelaiis a clan of the Deshiwals, division of the Swatis on the eastern slopes of the Black Mountain of Hazara in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan....

- Kujula Kadphises

Kujula Kadphises

Kujula Kadphises, reigned was a Kushan prince who united the Yuezhi confederation during the 1st century CE, and became the first Kushan emperor...

- Kunar Province

Kunar Province

Kunar is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. Its capital is Asadabad. It is one of the four "N2KL" provinces...

- Kunar River

Kunar River

The Kunar River is about 480 km long, located in eastern Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan. The Kunar river system is fed from melting glaciers and snow of the Hindu Kush mountains....

- Kunar Valley

Kunar Valley

Kunar Valley or Chitral Valley is a valley in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Afghanistan the length of the valley is almost entirely narrow with steep and rugged mountains on both sides. The center of the valley is occupied by the Kunar River flowing south where it joins the Kabul River...

- Kundi
- Kunduz Province
- Kunduz

Kunduz

Kunduz also known as Kundûz, Qonduz, Qondûz, Konduz, Kondûz, Kondoz, or Qhunduz is a city in northern Afghanistan, the capital of Kunduz Province. It is linked by highways with Mazari Sharif to the west, Kabul to the south and Tajikistan's border to the north...

- Kurram River
- Kurram Valley

Kurram Valley

Kurram tribal agency is located in the FATA area of Pakistan. Geographically it covers Kurram Valley which is a beautiful valley in the northwestern part of Pakistan neighboring Afghanistan....

- Kurta

Kurta

A kurta is a traditional item of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Pakistan , Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. It is a loose shirt falling either just above or somewhere below the knees of the wearer, and is worn by both men and women...

- Kushan Empire

Kushan Empire

The Kushan Empire originally formed in the early 1st century AD under Kujula Kadphises in the territories of ancient Bactria on either side of the middle course of the Oxus in what is now northern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.During the 1st and early 2nd centuries...

- Kushk River

Kushk River

The Kushk is a river which, during a portion of its course, forms the boundary between Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, and used to form the southernmost border of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union...

- Kuz Kunar District

Kuz Kunar District

Kuz Kunar is a district in the north of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, on the Kunar River. It is counted one of the more secured districts of the Nangarhar province, where many foreigners go to visit the social, agricultural and structural rehabilitation of the area...

- Kyrgyz language

Kyrgyz language

Kyrgyz or Kirgiz, also Kirghiz, Kyrghiz, Qyrghiz is a Turkic language and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan...

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- Laghman Province
- Lakhmids

Lakhmids

The Lakhmids , Banu Lakhm , Muntherids , were a group of Arab Christians who lived in Southern Iraq, and made al-Hirah their capital in 266. Poets described it as a Paradise on earth, an Arab Poet described the city's pleasant climate and beauty "One day in al-Hirah is better than a year of...

- Lal Pur District

Lal Pur District

Lal Pur is a district in the east of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 34,516 in 2002, of whom 13,800 were children under 12. The district centre is the village of Lal Pur....

- Lal Pur
- Landay, Helmand
- Lari (tribe)

Lari (tribe)

Lari is the name of a Baloch tribe settled in Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan....

- Lash wa Juwayn District
- Lash wa Juwayn
- Lashari

Lashari

Lashari is the name of a Baloch tribe in Pakistan and Iran. The Lasharis have migrated and settled in the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, India, Indonesia, USA, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, England, and many other countries of the world...

- Lashkar Gah Mosque

Lashkar Gah Mosque

Lashkar Gah Mosque is a mosque in the city of Lashkar Gah, in Helmand province of south-western Afghanistan.-References:...

 (Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province)
- Lashkargah District

Lashkargah District

Lashkar Gah is a district in the east of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, surrounding the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah. Its population is 45% Pashtun and 20% Baluch, with ca. 30% Tajiks, 5% are Hindus and Hazara; the population was estimated at 85,800 in 2005...

- Lashkargah

Lashkargah

Lashkar Gah , historically also called Bost, is a city in southern Afghanistan and the capital of Helmand Province, located in Lashkar Gah district. It is situated between the Helmand and Arghandab rivers. Lashkar Gah is linked by highways with Kandahar to the east, Zaranj to the west, and Herat...

- Lasi

Lasi

Lasi is a tribe settled in Lasbela District of Balochistan, Pakistan....

- Laudakia badakhshana

Laudakia badakhshana

The Badakhshana Rock Agama is an agamid lizard found in NE Afghanistan, N Pakistan, Kashmir, China , SE Turkmenistan, eastward through Tajikistan to W Kyrgyzstan....

- Laudakia caucasia

Laudakia caucasia

The Caucasian agama is a species of agamid lizard found in the Caucasus, E/S Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Dagestan , E Turkey, Iraq, N Iran, Afghanistan, NW Pakistan and parts of Kashmir.-Description:...

- Laudakia himalayana

Laudakia himalayana

The Himalayan agama is an agamid lizard found in Central Asia and South Asia.-Description:Head much depressed; snout slightly longer than diameter of orbit; nostril lateral, below the canthus rostralis, slightly tubular...

- Law enforcement in Afghanistan

Law enforcement in Afghanistan

Law enforcement in Afghanistan is one of three major components of the nation's criminal justice system, along with courts and corrections. The National Directorate of Security is the domestic intelligence agency of the government of Afghanistan, which operates similar to that of the United States...

- Layeq Shir-Ali

Layeq Shir-Ali

Loiq Sher-Ali was a Tajik poet, Iranologist and one of the most cellebrated Persian literary figures of Tajikistan and central Asia....

- Leghari

Leghari

The Leghari , or Laghari) are a Baloch tribe living in Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan. The Leghari Baloch primarily speak the Seraiki, Sindhi, and Balochi language, and are largely Sunni Muslims....

- Lejay, Afghanistan

Lejay, Afghanistan

Lejay, Afghanistan is a small village where an ambush of an American convoy took place on February 10, 2003.The Americans rounded up dozens of prisoners. By one account, the Americans rounded up 70 Afghans. Another account said they rounded up 40 Afghans. The Americans selected some of the men...

- Lemar TV

Lemar TV

Lemar TV is a television station based in Kabul, Afghanistan, which was founded in 2006. It is owned by MOBY Group. The channel broadcasts news, shows, and entertainment programs to certain parts of the country....

- Liberal Democratic Party of Afghanistan

Liberal Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The Liberal Democratic Party of Afghanistan is a political party in Afghanistan. The party seems to be pragmatic and centrist in ideology, with some social liberal features. The party states it wishes to avoid extremism and defend human rights and equality for all citizens of Afghanistan...

- LGBT rights in Afghanistan (Gay rights)
- List of Afghan Air Force aircraft
- List of Afghan companies
- List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel
- List of Afghanistan Governors
- List of Afghans
- List of airports in Afghanistan
- List of birds on stamps of Afghanistan
- List of cities in Afghanistan
- List of Coalition aircraft crashes in Afghanistan
- List of fish on stamps of Afghanistan
- List of leaders of Afghanistan
- List of Mughal emperors
- List of newspapers in Afghanistan
- List of notable Persian figures in the Sassanid era
- List of people on stamps of Afghanistan
- List of places in Afghanistan
- List of political parties in Afghanistan
- List of schools in Afghanistan
- List of Soviet aircraft crashes in Afghanistan
- List of Taliban leaders
- List of universities in Afghanistan
- List of years in Afghanistan
- Little Cormorant

Little Cormorant

The Little Cormorant is a member of the Cormorant family of seabirds: Aptly named, the Little Cormorant is small in comparison with other cormorants, only 55 cm in length with an average mass of 442.5 g...

- Lodhi

Lodhi

Lodhi is a Batani Pashtun tribe mainly found in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were part of a wave of Pashtuns who pushed east into what is today Pakistan. Often accompanying the Timurids who conquered South Asia, the Lodhi established themselves during the Islamic period as a Muslim ruling class...

- Logar Province
- Logar River

Logar River

Logar River is a river of Afghanistan. It gives the name to the Logar Valley and Logar Province.The Logar River drains a wide tract of country, rising in the southern slopes of the Sanglakh Range and receiving tributaries from the Kharwar hills, north-east of Ghazni. It joins the Kabul River a...

- Loya jirga

Loya jirga

A loya jirga is a type of jirga regarded as "grand assembly," a phrase in the Pashto language meaning "grand council." A loya jirga is a mass meeting usually prepared for major events such as choosing a new king, adopting a constitution, or discussing important national political or emergency...

- Lycodon striatus

Lycodon striatus

The northern wolf snake Lycodon striatus is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake.-Geographic range:It is found in Sri Lanka, NW India , Pakistan, S Turkmenistan , W Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, E/NE Iran, and Afghanistan....

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- Macrovipera lebetina

Macrovipera lebetina

Macrovipera lebetina is a venomous viper species found in North Africa, much of the Middle East, and as far east as Kashmir. Five subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate race described here.-Description:...

- Madda Khel

Madda Khel

Madda Khel is a Pashtun clan of Allaiwals of the Swati tribe, Batagram district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Historically, Madda Khel had 600 fighting men against English at the end of the 19th century during the British colonial rule....

- Maghdud Khel
- Magsi

Magsi

Magsi is a name of Baloch tribe in the Balochistan, Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan and Balochistan province of Iran.The Magsi tribe came from Iran where is place name is Magas in Lishar. They migrated to modern Pakistan with Lashari and Rind tribes that is the reason some historians...

- Mahmud (Timurid Dynasty)

Mahmud (Timurid Dynasty)

Shah Mahmud was briefly a Timurid ruler of Herat. He was the son of Babur Ibn-Baysunkur, who was a great-grandson of Timur.Shah Mahmud succeeded his father upon his death in 1457 at the age of eleven. Only a few weeks later, his cousin Ibrahim, a son of 'Ala' al-Daula, expelled him from Herat...

- Mahmud Khel
- Mahmud of Ghazni

Mahmud of Ghazni

Mahmud of Ghazni , actually ', was the most prominent ruler of the Ghaznavid dynasty who ruled from 997 until his death in 1030 in the eastern Iranian lands. Mahmud turned the former provincial city of Ghazni into the wealthy capital of an extensive empire which covered most of today's Iran,...

- Mahmud Shah Durrani

Mahmud Shah Durrani

Mahmud Shah Durrani was born Prince and ruler of the Durrani Empire between 1801 and 1803, and again between 1809 and 1818...

- Mahmud Tarzi

Mahmud Tarzi

Mahmūd Bēg Tarzī was one of Afghanistan's greatest intellectuals. He is known as the father of Afghan journalism...

- Mahsud Khel
- Mahsud

Mahsud

Mahsud is a Pashtun tribe in South Waziristan, a tribal region in Pakistan. Mahsud are considered to be one of the bravest and toughest Pashtun Tribes. The Mahsud tribe lives in the centre of South Waziristan valley, surrounded on three sides by the Darwesh Waziris, and being shut off by the...

- Mahwash

Mahwash

Ustad Mahwash commonly referred to as Ustad Mahwash is a popular Afghan singer. She was the first woman to have been conferred the honorary title of “Ustad”...

- Maidan Shahr

Maidan Shahr

Maidan Shar is the capital of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Its population was estimated to be 35,008 in 2003, of which 85% are Pashtuns, and a smaller number of Hazaras and Tajiks forming the rest.-Geography:...

- Maiwand

Maiwand

Maiwand is a village in Afghanistan and the district center of Maiwand District of Kandahar Province. It is located 50 miles northwest of Kandahar....

- Malang Jan

Malang Jan

-Early life & education:Malang Jan was born as Mohammad Amin in Bihsud District of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. When he was only 3 years old, his father, Abdul Shakoor died. He was 15 years old when he along with his family moved to Kama District in search of work. Few years later he went to...

- Malek Military Center

Malek Military Center

The Malek Military Center is a military training camp described in the allegations against some Guantanamo Bay detainees....

- Malik Ayaz

Malik Ayaz

Malik Ayaz, son of Aymáq Abu'n-Najm, was a Turkic slave who rose to the rank of officer and general in the army of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni . His rise to power was a reward for the devotion he bore his master....

- Malistan District

Malistan District

Malistan is a district in the west of Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 100% Hazara, was estimated at 71,784 in 2003. The district capital is Meradina.-History:...

- Mamund

Mamund

The Mamund are a Pashtun tribe who are one of the four clans of Tarkanis. The tribe is located principally in the Watelai valley, but also owns villages on both sides of the Durand Line. Majority of Mamund live in one of the seven tribal regions of Pakistan "Bajaur Agency", although Mamund also...

- Mandokhel

Mandokhel

The Mandokhel or Mindo Khel is a Pashtun tribe primarily found in northern regions of Balochistan Province, Pakistan and southern Afghanistan Most of the Mandokhels are settled in Zhob District of Balochistan Province, Pakistan,They live on both sides of Zhob river.They are mentioned in the...

- Mantu
- MarcoPolo Airways

Marcopolo Airways

MarcoPolo Airways was an airline based in Afghanistan.In December 2003, the airline was reported to have flown between Kabul and Dubai....

- Marina Golbahari

Marina Golbahari

Marina Golbahari is an Afghan actress who earned international fame for her role as the title character in the 2003 film Osama, playing a girl who had to dress and act as a boy to support her family during the Taliban years.She was cast as Osama by the Afghan film director Siddiq Barmak...

- Marjan (lion)

Marjan (lion)

Marjan was the most famous resident of the rundown Kabul Zoo. The lion witnessed Afghanistan’s turbulent history, from the 1978 murder of King Zahir Shah’s brother-in-law, Sardar Mohammed Daoud and his entire family, to the arrival of the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan that...

- Marri

Marri

Marri ) is one of the largest ethnic Baloch tribes in Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan. Marri was considered to be a clan of the Rind tribe in the early history of Baloch and Balochistan...

- Maruf District

Maruf District

Maruf District is a district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It borders Arghistan District to the west, Zabul Province to the north and Pakistan to the east and south. The population is 29,300 . The district center is the town of Maruf, located in the northern part of the district...

- Maruf
- Marwan I

Marwan I

Marwan ibn al-Hakam was the fourth Umayyad Caliph, who took over the dynasty after Muawiya II abdicated in 684. Marwan's ascension pointed to a shift in the lineage of the Umayyad dynasty from descendants of Abu Sufyan to those of Hakam, both of whom were grandsons of Umayya...

- Marwan II

Marwan II

Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan or Marwan II was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 744 until 750 when he was killed. He was the last Umayyad ruler to rule from Damascus.In A.H. 114 Caliph Hisham appointed Marwan governor of Armenia and Azerbaijan. In A.H...

- Marwand

Marwand

Marwand is a historical city in Afghanistan. Sufi Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a patron saint of Sindhis, was born early in the twelfth century in 1177 CE....

- Marwat

Marwat

Marwat مروت, refers to a Pashtun tribe, located primarily in Lakki Marwat District in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan as well the districts of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan...

- Marzban

Marzban

Marzban were a class of margraves or military commanders in charge of border provinces of the Sassanid Empire of Persia between the 3rd and 7th centuries CE....

- Mas'ud I of Ghazni

Mas'ud I of Ghazni

Mas'ud I seized the throne of the Ghaznavid Empire upon the death of his father Mahmud from his younger twin Mohammad who had been nominated as the heir upon the death of their father Mahmud of Ghazni. His twin was blinded and imprisoned...

- Mashwanis

Mashwanis

The Mashwani are a Syed tribe living predominantly in Pakistan and Afghanistan.-Origin:...

- Massoud Khalili

Massoud Khalili

Masood Khalili, also Massoud Khalili and Masud Khalili is a diplomat, linguist and urbane poet. He was an adviser and close friend of legendary Afghan leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. Khalili is the current Afghan Ambassador to Spain. He has previously been the ambassador to Turkey and India. He speaks...

- Massouda Jalal

Massouda Jalal

Massouda Jalal is a politician in Afghanistan, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs from October 2004 to July 2006. She was also the only woman candidate in theAfghan presidential election, 2004...

- Masuri

Masuri

Masuri or Mashori is a clan of the Baloch Bugti tribe that resides in the Punjab, Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan....

- Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman
- Maw'dud Ghaznavi

Maw'dud Ghaznavi

Shahab-ud-Dawlah Maw'dud seized the throne of the Ghaznavid Empire from Mohammad Ghaznavi in revenge for the murder of his father, Ma'sud I. His brother in Lahore did not recognize him, but his sudden death paved the way for Maw'dud to exercise control over the eastern portion of the Ghaznavid...

- Maydan Shahr District

Maydan Shahr District

Maydan Shahr is a district in the east of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 121,531 in 2002, consisting of about 85% Pashtuns and 14% Tajiks, with a few Hazara families. The district centre is Maydan Shahr.-References:...

- Maymana
- Mazari Sharif
- Meena Keshwar Kamal

Meena Keshwar Kamal

Meena Keshwar Kamal , commonly known as Meena, was an Afghan feminist, women's rights activist and founder of RAWA, who was assassinated in 1987.-Biography:...

- Mehdat Abdul Salam Shabana

Mehdat Abdul Salam Shabana

Mehdat Abdul Salam Shabana was a member of the board of directors, during the mid 1990s, of the now defunct Konsojaya Trading Company, a terrorist front organization based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He owned half of the company's 6,000 shares. Konsojaya was a shell company cofounded by Riduan...

- Mehmood Khan Achakzai
- Mengal

Mengal

Mengal is a Brahui / Baloch tribe in Balochistan, Pakistan- Demographics :The Mengal tribe is one of the largest Baloch tribe. Mengal people speak Brahui, a Dravidian language that has been heavily influenced by other Iranian languages spoken in the area, especially Balochi...

- Mes Aynak

Mes Aynak

Mes Aynak is located 30 km southeast of Kabul, in a barren region of Logar Province; that is still considered a major transit route for insurgents coming from Pakistan. The mine could be a major boost for the Afghan economy...

- Mesalina guttulata

Mesalina guttulata

Small-spotted Lizard, is a species of lizard. It is found in the following countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sinai, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran , India, S. Turkmenistan, N. Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan,...

- Mian Ghulam Jilani

Mian Ghulam Jilani

Major General Mian Ghulam Jilani was a two-star general officer in the Pakistan Army who, as British Army officer, was a World War II Japanese POW camp survivor at Singapore, who subsequently rose to help negotiate Pakistan’s membership in the Baghdad Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization...

- Miangul Aurangzeb

Miangul Aurangzeb

Miangul Aurangzeb, the last Wali Ahad of Swat State, was born May 28, 1928 in Saidu Sharif. He has served in the National Assembly of Pakistan as well as the Governor of Balochistan and later as Governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa....

- Miangul Jahan Zeb

Miangul Jahan Zeb

Miangul Jahan Zeb formally Miangul Abdul-Haqq Jahan Zeb was a father of five, ruler of the princely state of Swat currently part of Pakistan and formally titled the Wāli. He served as the Wāli of Swat between 1949 and 1969, taking over from his father, Miangul Abdul Wadud...

- Middle Bih-Kavad

Middle Bih-Kavad

Middle Bih-Kavad was one of the Persian provinces during the Sassanid era. It encompassed all of today's cities of Najaf and Kufa in Iraq.-Source:Mohammadi-yi Malayeri, M.: Dil-i Iranshahr, Tehran 1357 Hsh. ....

- Military of Afghanistan

Military of Afghanistan

The military of Afghanistan is composed of the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Army Air Force . Being a landlocked country, Afghanistan has no navy, and the private security forces who are sometimes seen wearing military uniforms are not part of Afghanistan's military...

- Minaret of Jam

Minaret of Jam

The Minaret of Jam is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in western Afghanistan. It is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province, by the Hari River. The 65-metre high minaret, surrounded by mountains that reach up to 2400m, was built in the 1190s, entirely of baked-bricks...

- Mir Wais Hotak

Mir Wais Hotak

Hajji Mirwais Khan Hotak, also known as Mir Vais Ghilzai , was an influential tribal chief of the Ghilzai Pashtuns from Kandahar, Afghanistan, who founded the Hotaki dynasty that ruled a wide area in Persia and Afghanistan from 1709 to 1738...

- Mir Waiz
- Mirwais Sadiq

Mirwais Sadiq

Mirwais Sadiq was the Civil Aviation Minister of Afghanistan and the son of the Ismail Khan, who was then the governor of Herat Province....

- Moghol language

Moghol language

Moghol is a Mongolic language spoken in the region of Herat, Afghanistan, by a few members of the Hazara community. In the 1970s, when the German scholar Michael Weiers did fieldwork on the language, few people spoke the language, most knew it passively and most were older than 40...

- Mohamedzai

Mohamedzai

Mohammadzai is the name of several Pashtun tribes found in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran....

- Mohammad Afzal Khan

Mohammad Afzal Khan

Mohammad Afzal Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan from 1865 to 1867. The oldest son of Dost Mohammed Khan, Afzal Khan seized power from his brother Sher Ali Khan three years after their father's death. Following Afzal Khan's death the following year, Mohammad Azam Khan was reinstated as Amir of...

- Mohammad Aslam Watanjar

Mohammad Aslam Watanjar

Mohammad Aslam Watanjar was an Afghan General and Politician. ] He started the "Saur Revolution".Watanjar later became a member of the politburo in the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, playing prominent roles in the communist coup as well as the coup that overthrew the...

- Mohammad Fahim Dashty

Mohammad Fahim Dashty

Mohammad Fahim Dashty is a journalist, politician and political analyst from Afghanistan. An ethnic Tajik, born in Panjshir province in 1973, Dashty studied political sciences in Kabul University...

- Mohammad Ghaznavi

Mohammad Ghaznavi

Mohammad Ghaznavi ascended the throne upon the death of his father Mahmud in 1030. He was the younger of a set of twins; this circumstance resulted in civil strife. His reign lasted five months before he was overthrown by his twin Ma'sud I, after which he was blinded and imprisoned...

- Mohammad Ghous

Mohammad Ghous

Mullah Mohammad Ghous was among the leadership of the Taliban which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. He served as foreign minister of Afghanistan from September 1996, when the Taliban captured Kabul until June 1997, when he and some other Taliban leaders were kidnapped by opposition forces at...

- Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal

Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal

Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal was an Afghan politician during the reign of Zahir Shah.-Biography:After graduating from high school, Mohammad Hashim became a journalist, editing several newspapers...

- Mohammad Hussain Sarahang

Mohammad Hussain Sarahang

Ustād Mohammad Hussain Sarāhang was an Afghan musician and best known exponent of hindustani classical music from Kabul Afghanistan. He was the second oldest son of the renowned musician, Ustad Gholam Hussain...

- Mohammad Musa Shafiq

Mohammad Musa Shafiq

Mohammad Musa Shafiq was Prime Minister of Afghanistan. He was an Afghan politician and poet. He became Foreign Minister in 1971 and Prime Minister in December 1972. He lost both positions when Mohammed Zahir Shah was overthrown on July 17, 1973...

- Mohammad Najibullah

Mohammad Najibullah

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai , originally merely Najibullah, was the fourth and last President of the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He is also considered the second President of the Republic of Afghanistan.-Early years:Najibullah was born in August 1947 to the Ahmadzai...

- Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi

Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi

Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi was an Afghan diplomat and politician.Etemadi was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He served as ambassador to Pakistan for the first time from 1964 to 1965. He was appointed foreign minister in 1965 and became Prime Minister of Afghanistan on November 1, 1967...

- Mohammad Rabbani

Mohammad Rabbani

Mullah Mohammad Rabbani Akhund was one of the main founders of the Taliban movement. He was second in power only to the supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, in the Taliban hierarchy....

- Mohammad Yaqub Khan

Mohammad Yaqub Khan

Mohammad Yaqub Khan was Emir of Afghanistan from February 21 to October 12, 1879. He was the son of the previous ruler, Sher Ali Khan....

- Mohammad Yusuf
- Mohammed Asif Safi

Mohammed Asif Safi

General Mohammed Asif Safi was an Army General in the Afghan National Army during King Zahir Shah's rule in Afghanistan, and later during the 1970s era of President Mohammed Daoud Khan...

 (Army General)
- Mohammed Daoud Khan

Mohammed Daoud Khan

Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan or Daud Khan was Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and later becoming the President of Afghanistan...

- Mohammed Fahim

Mohammed Fahim

Mohammad Qasim Fahim is an Afghan military commander, politician and the First Vice President since November 2009. He was the Defense Minister of the Afghan Transitional Administration, beginning in 2002 and also served as Vice President from June 2002 to December 2004...

- Mohammed Ibrahim
- Mohammed Khaksar
- Mohammed Nadir Shah

Mohammed Nadir Shah

Mohammed Nadir Shah was King of Afghanistan from 15 October 1929 until his assassination in 1933. Previously, he served as Minister of War, Afghan Ambassador to France, and as a general in the military of Afghanistan...

- Mohammed Omar

Mohammed Omar

Mullah Mohammed Omar , often simply called Mullah Omar, is the leader of the Taliban movement that operates in Afghanistan. He was Afghanistan's de facto head of state from 1996 to late 2001, under the official title "Head of the Supreme Council"...

- Mohammed Zahir Shah

Mohammed Zahir Shah

Mohammed Zahir Shah was the last King of Afghanistan, reigning for four decades, from 1933 until he was ousted by a coup in 1973...

- Mohmand

Mohmand

The Mohmand are a clan of Sarban Pashtuns, living primarily in the FATA & Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan & northeastern Afghanistan.- Demographics :...

- Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed

Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed

The Shrine of the Cloak is located adjacent to the Friday Mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It contains a cloak that was once worn by Islam's Prophet Muhammad, which is widely considered as one of the holiest Islamic sites in Afghanistan, and even considered by some as the "heart of Afghanistan".The...

 (Kandahar)
- Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet

Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet

The Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet, also known as Jame Mui Mobarak, is a mosque near the Kabul Bazaar, in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan.The mosque was built in the 19th century by Kohendil Khan. A canal runs through the mosque's shaded courtyard...

 (Kandahar)
- Mount Sikaram

Mount Sikaram

Mount Sikaram is a mountain in the Spin Ghar range on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border south of the Kabul River and Khyber Pass. At , it is the highest peak of the Spin Ghar.-See also:* Hindukush* Mountain ranges of Pakistan* List of Mountains in Pakistan...

- Mouse-like hamster

Mouse-like hamster

thumb|200px|rightthumb|200px|right|Mouse-like hamster using its tail for balance while standing on a branch .Mouse-like hamsters are a group of small rodents found in Syria, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan...

- Muawiya II

Muawiya II

Muawiyah II was an Umayyad caliph for about four months after the death of his father Yazīd...

- Muawiyah I

Muawiyah I

Muawiyah I was the first Caliph of the Umayyad Dynasty. After the conquest of Mecca by the Muslims, Muawiyah's family converted to Islam. Muawiyah is brother-in-law to Muhammad who married his sister Ramlah bint Abi-Sufyan in 1AH...

- Mufti Mahmud

Mufti Mahmud

Maulana Mufti Mahmud , an ethnic Marwat Pashtun hailing from Abdul Khel, was born in January 1919 in Paniala, Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, province of Pakistan. He was an Islamic scholar and political activist. Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman is his son and was the leader of opposition in...

- Muhammad Asif Muhsini

Muhammad Asif Muhsini

Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Asif Muhsini is a Twelver shi'a marja from Afghanistan. He is the founder of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan . He was born in Kandahar to an ethnic Tajik Shia family...

- Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak

Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak

Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak was a Pakistani politician and diplomat.-Biography:He was the President of Pakistan Movement in U.K with Dr. Abdur Rahim as Vice President and Chaudhry Rehmat Ali as Secretary. This Organisation gave the world the name "PAKISTAN"...

- Muhammad Ismail Agha

Muhammad Ismail Agha

Muhammad Ismail Agha is an Afghan national who at age 13 was arrested by Afghan militia soldiers, who transferred him to U.S. forces in December 2002....

- Muhammad of Ghor

Muhammad of Ghor

Sultan Shahāb-ud-Din Muhammad Ghori , originally called Mu'izzuddīn Muḥammad Bin Sām , was a ruler of the Ghurid dynasty who reigned over a territory spanning present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India.Shahabuddin Ghori reconquered the city of Ghazna Sultan Shahāb-ud-Din Muhammad Ghori...

- Muhammad Shah

Muhammad Shah

Muhammad Shah also known as Roshan Akhtar, was a Mughal emperor of India between 1719 and 1748. He was son of Khujista Akhtar Jahan Shah, the fourth son of Bahadur Shah I. Ascending the throne at 17 with the help of the Sayyid Brothers, he later got rid of them with the help of Nizam-ul-Mulk Chin...

- Muhammad Hasni
- Muhmand Dara District

Muhmand Dara District

Momand Dara is a district in the east of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 33,966 in 2002, of whom 14,800 were children under the age of 12. The district centre is the village of Momand Dara...

- Mullah Dadullah Akhund
- Mullazai

Mullazai

Mullazai is a Pashtun village in Pakistan situated in southern part of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa near Tank District..Mullazai, also known as Malazai or Malay zai or Mali Zai, is a Pashtun Marwat village.-Geography:...

- Mumviri

Mumviri

Mumviri is a dialect of the Kamkata-viri Nuristani language spoken by perhaps 1,500 of the Mumo people of Afghanistan. There are only slight differences to the Kata-vari, Mumviri has Kamviri phonetic features. The most used alternative name is Bashgali, which derive from Khowar.Mumviri is spoken...

- Munji language
- Muqawqis

Muqawqis

Al-Muqawqis is mentioned in Islamic history as a ruler of Egypt, who corresponded with the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is often identified with Cyrus, Patriarch of Alexandria, who administered Egypt on behalf of the Byzantine Empire. However, this identification is challenged as being based on...

- Muqur District, Ghazni

Muqur District, Ghazni

Muqur is a district in the southwest of Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is mostly Pashtun along with a few Hazara and Tajik, was estimated at 70,900 in 2002, of whom around 20,000 were children under 12.-References:...

- Muqur, Ghazni

Muqur, Ghazni

Muqur is located in the southern part of Muqur District, Ghazni, Afghanistan at at 2,003 m altitude.see also Muqur...

- Murgab River (Afghanistan)

Murgab River (Afghanistan)

The Morghāb River , also transliterated as Murgab from Russian Мургаб, is an 850 km long river in Central Asia...

- Murghab District

Murghab District

Murghab is a district situated in the northeast of Badghis Province, Afghanistan. The district capital is Murghab.-Demographics:The estimated population of Murghab District in 2003 was roughly 109,381...

- Murghab River (Tajikistan)
- Murghab, Afghanistan
- Musa Qala District

Musa Qala District

Musa Qala is a district in the north of Helmand Province, Afghanistan.Its population, which is 97% Pashtun, was 50,300 in 2005. The district centre is the village of Musa Qala; there are 19 other large villages and 200 smaller settlements, mostly along the Musa Qala River.In an effort to shoot at...

- Music of Afghanistan

Music of Afghanistan

The music of Afghanistan has existed for a long time, but since the late 1970s the country has been involved in constant wars and people were less concerned about music...

- Music of Badakhshan

Music of Badakhshan

Badakhshan is a region of Tajikistan and Afghanistan with a unique musical heritage, especially that of the remote Pamiri Ismailis. Badakhshan's unique folk scene is said to be characteristed by the use of many chromatized tones in a narrow melodic range, and the use of a characteristic...

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- Nad Ali District

Nad Ali District

-References:* , dated 2002-12-31, accessed 2006-08-03 .-External links:*...

- Nadia Anjuman

Nadia Anjuman

Nadia Anjuman was an Afghan poet and journalist from Afghanistan.In 2005, while still a student at Herat University, she had her first book of poetry published, Gul-e-dodi which proved popular in Afghanistan, Pakistan and even nearby Iran...

 (poet)
- Naish District

Naish District

Naish is a mountainous district in the northern part of Kandahar Province, shifted from Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan. It borders Oruzgan Province to the west, north and east and Shah Wali Kot, Khakrez and Ghorak districts to the south. The population is 11,800 . The district center is the village...

- Naja oxiana

Naja oxiana

Naja oxiana or the Central Asian Cobra is a species of venomous snake found in Central Asia.-Distribution:It is found in Afghanistan, NE Iran, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, SW Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The type locality is Transcaspia....

- Nakisa

Nakisa

Nakisa is the Arabicized pronunciation of the word Nagisa. Both names originate from the Persian word Negin. Many Persian words have Arabic pronunciations and some have changed over time completely to the Arabic form. The Arabic alphabet is similar to that of the Persian alphabet, yet lacks certain...

- Nangarhar Province

Nangarhar Province

Nangarhar is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan in the east of the country. Its capital is the city of Jalalabad. The population of the province is 1,334,000, which consists mainly of ethnic Pashtuns with a sizable community of Arabs and Pashais....

- Naqsh-e Rustam

Naqsh-e Rustam

Naqsh-e Rustam also referred to as Necropolis is an archaeological site located about 12 km northwest of Persepolis, in Fars province, Iran. Naqsh-e Rustam lies a few hundred meters from Naqsh-e Rajab....

- Narseh

Narseh

Narseh was the seventh Sassanid King of Persia , and son of Shapur I ....

- Narsieh

Narsieh

Narsieh was a Persian-Chinese general stationed in the Tang military garrison. He was son of prince Peroz III and grandson of Yazdgerd III, the last Sassanid king of Persia....

- Naseerullah Babar

Naseerullah Babar

Major-General Naseerullah Khan Babar , SJ, HJ, was a retired 2-star rank general officer in the Pakistan Army, and later career military officer-turned statesman from the leftist democratic soclialist, the Pakistan Peoples Party...

- Nasibullah

Nasibullah

-Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant:The Washington Post reports that Nasibullah was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.They report that Nasibullah has been released....

- Nasrat Parsa

Nasrat Parsa

Nasrat Parsa was a popular Afghan singer. Up until his murder, he continued his music in exile from Hamburg, Germany, occasionally touring other countries.-Background:Nasrat Ali Parsa was born in a suburb of Kabul, Afghanistan...

- Nasrullah Khan (Afghanistan)
- National Assembly of Afghanistan

National Assembly of Afghanistan

The National Assembly is Afghanistan's national legislature. It is a bicameral body, comprising two chambers:*Wolesi Jirga or the House of the People: the 250-member lower house.*Meshrano Jirga ) or the House of Elders: an upper house with 102 seats....

- National Congress Party of Afghanistan

National Congress Party of Afghanistan

The National Congress Party of Afghanistan is a liberal, secular, and multi-ethnic political party in Afghanistan. The party was formed in 2004 and is the only major opposition party that is not linked to an armed group. The leader of this party is Latīf Pedrām who is an opponent of the...

- National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan
- National Movement of Afghanistan

National Movement of Afghanistan

The National Movement of Afghanistan is a political party in Afghanistan.The size of the party is not available yet, since parliamentary elections were held on a non-partisan basis....

- National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan

National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan

The party known as National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan is led by Sayed Ishaq Gailani. It supported Hamid Karzai in the 2004 presidential election despite its previous support for the former King Zahir Shah. It is connected with powerful conservative families in the Pashtun region.The NSMA...

- National Stadium (Afghanistan)

National Stadium (Afghanistan)

Ghazi Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan. It was built during the reign of King Amanullah Khan in 1923, who was regarded as Ghazi for winning the war with British and gaining independence of his nation...

- National Workers' Union of Afghanistan

National Workers' Union of Afghanistan

The National Workers' Union of Afghanistan was the sole labour body of Afghanistan, from 1990 until the Mujahideen rose to power in 1992. Previous to 1990 the Central Council of Afghan Trade Unions fulfilled the same role....

- Nausherwani

Nausherwani

Nausherwani is a Baloch tribe in Balochistan, Pakistan. Like many other tribes in Pakistan, the Nausherwanis also have a Persian origin, claiming a descent from legendary Persian King Nausherwan-e-Adil . Most Nausherwanis were Zoroastrians before conversion to Islam...

- Nawa District

Nawa District

Nawa is a large district in the far south of Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. It is situated 100 km south from Ghazni in a mountainous region. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 29,054 in 2002, of whom around 45% were children under 12. The district center is the village of...

- Nawur District

Nawur District

Nawur is the largest district in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is entirely Hazara, was estimated at 91,778 in 2002. The Jikhai River originates here.-References:...

- Nawzad District

Nawzad District

Nawzad is a district in the north of Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 51,170 in 2002. The district centre is the village of Nawzad; there are 14 other large villages and over 100 smaller settlements....

- Nawzad
- Nazyan District

Nazyan District

Nazyan is a district in the south-east of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 22,858 in 2002, of whom 9000 were children under 12. The district centre is the village of Nazyan....

- Nematullah Shahrani

Nematullah Shahrani

Professor Nematullah Shahrani is one of the most prominent Afghan scholars. He was one of four Vice Presidents of the Afghan Transitional Administration from 2002 to 2004. Shahrani also headed of the Afghan Constitution Commission....

- Niazi

Niazi

The Niazi are a tribe of Ghilzai Pashtun people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkey. The name Niazi is derived from Niazai, like the other forms of Pashtun tribes, such as Yusufzai and Orakzai...

- Nikusiyar

Nikusiyar

Neku Siyar, or Nikusiyar Mohammed, was a claimaint to the throne of India. He had been in prison from 1681 to 1719 and initiated a war to seize the throne in 1719. He was son of rebel Muhammad Akbar, son of Aurangzeb and was brought up in a harem in Agra...

- Nimruz Province

Nimruz Province

Nimruz is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, in the south-west of the country on the borders of Iran and Pakistan. The name Nimruz means "mid-day" or "half-day" in Persian. Nimruz covers 41,000 km² and has a population of 149,000...

- Nirkh District

Nirkh District

Nirkh is a district of about 480 square kilometres in the east of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 57,000 in 2002, consisting of about 80% Pashtuns, 15% Tajiks and 5% Hazara...

- Nishapur

Nishapur

Nishapur or Nishabur , is a city in the Razavi Khorasan province in northeastern Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot of the Binalud Mountains, near the regional capital of Mashhad...

- Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi

Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi

Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Alī, known as Nizamī-i Arūzī-i Samarqandī and also Arudi , was a Persian poet and prose writer who flourished between 1110 and 1161 AD. He is particularly famous for his Chahar Maqala , his only work to fully survive.Born in Samarqand, Aruzi spent most of his time in Khorasan...

- Nok Kundi

Nok Kundi

Nok Kundi is a town in western Pakistan in the province of Balochistan.Nok Kundi is a border post town in Pakistan. People traveling from Iran into Pakistan check through this border post....

- Noorzai

Noorzai

SHARIEF KHAN NOORZAI IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFULL PASHTONS LEADER IN THE WHOLE AFGHANISTAN AND HE IS FROM THE THE TRIBE 'Noorzai or Nurzai and are one of the biggest tribes of the Pushtoon, with a population of roughly 4.5 million in Afghanistan. They are an influential tribe in southern and...

- Norbert Holl

Norbert Holl

Norbert Holl is a German diplomat who served as Head of the United Nations special mission to Afghanistan from 1996 to 1997. He resigned from the position on December 29, 1997.-References:...

- North Zone of Afghanistan

North Zone of Afghanistan

On March 27, 2003, deputy defense minister of Afghanistan general Abdul Rashid Dostum created an office for the North Zone of Afghanistan and appointed officials to it, defying interim president Hamid Karzai's orders that there be no zones in Afghanistan....

- Noshaq

Noshaq

Noshaq is the highest mountain in Afghanistan and the second highest independent peak of the Hindu Kush after Tirich Mir . Noshaq is located in the northeastern corner of the country along the Durand line which marks the border with Pakistan. It is the westernmost peak in the world...

- Nothazai

Nothazai

Nothazai is a Baloch tribe settled in Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan....

- Nur Muhammad Taraki

Nur Muhammad Taraki

Nur Muhammad Taraki was an Afghan politician and statesman during the Cold War. Taraki was born near Kabul and educated at Kabul University, after which he started his political career as a journalist...

- Nurestan Province

Nurestan Province

Nuristān , also spelled Nurestān or Nooristan, is a region in Afghanistan embedded in the south of the Hindu Kush valleys. Its administrative center is Parun...

- Nuristan
- Nuristani people
- Nuristani languages

Nuristani languages

The Nuristani languages are one of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, alongside the much larger Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups. They are spoken primarily in eastern Afghanistan...

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- Oligodon taeniolatus

Oligodon taeniolatus

Streaked Kukri Snake is a species of nonvenomous snake found in Asia. Also known as the Variegated Kukri or the Russell's Kukri.-References:...

- OMAR Mine Museum

OMAR Mine Museum

Located in Kabul, Afghanistan, the OMAR Mine Museum contains a collection of 51 types of land mines out of the 53 used in Afghanistan over the years. The collection includes unexploded ordnance, cluster bombs and airdrop bombs used by the U.S...

- Omar Samad

Omar Samad

Former Afghan Ambassador to France Omar Samad also served as Afghanistan's Ambassador to Canada...

- Operation Avalanche (Afghanistan)

Operation Avalanche (Afghanistan)

Operation Avalanche was a four-week U.S.-led offensive in December 2003 designed to disrupt a resurgence in militant activity in the southeastern territory of Afghanistan and to establish conditions for the provision of humanitarian aid. Described by the U.S...

- Operation Infinite Reach

Operation Infinite Reach

The August 1998 bombings of Afghanistan and Sudan were American cruise missile strikes on terrorist bases in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan on August 20, 1998...

- Operation Mountain Viper

Operation Mountain Viper

In Operation Mountain Viper, the United States Army and the Afghan National Army worked together from August 30 to early September, 2003, to uncover hundreds of suspected Taliban rebels dug into the mountains of Daychopan district, Zabul province, Afghanistan.The Operation killed an estimated 124...

- Operation Tsunami

Operation Tsunami

Operation Tsunami was a joint operation in 2003 between 200 Canadian forces and Afghanistan police against drug trafficking in Afghanistan.On January 18, 2003, Operation Tsunami forces arrested sixteen suspected drug traffickers.-External links:*...

- Operation Valiant Strike

Operation Valiant Strike

Operation Valiant Strike was a major United States military ground operation in Afghanistan announced on 19 March 2003 that involved 2nd and 3rd battalions of 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Romanian and Afghan troops...

- Operation Warrior Sweep

Operation Warrior Sweep

Operation Warrior Sweep involved a July 20, 2003 deployment of about 1,000 soldiers of the Afghan National Army, together with U.S.-led coalition troops, in the Zormat Valley region and the 3,260 meter-high peaks of the Ayubkhel Valley in the southern Paktia province in Afghanistan...

- Orakzai

Orakzai

Orakzai is a Pashtun tribe settled in the Orakzai Agency of Pakistan. It consists of eighteen clans. Most of the members are situated in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.-Location:...

- Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation

Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation

Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation is the chief organisation in the awareness and removal of mines in Afghanistan...

- Origins of the name Afghan

Origins of the name Afghan

The ethnonym Afghan has been used in reference to the Pashtun people during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. The name Afghanistan is a derivation from the ethnonym, originally in the loose meaning "land of the Afghans " and referred to the territory inhabited by Pashtun tribes south...

- Oruzgan Province

Oruzgan Province

Orūzgān or Urōzgān , also spelled Uruzgan or Rōzgān , is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the center of the country, though the area is culturally and tribally linked to Kandahar in the south. Its capital is Tarin Kowt...

- Osama (film)

Osama (film)

Osama is a 2003 film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak. It is about a girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime who disguises herself as a boy, Osama, to support her family. It was the first film to be shot entirely in Afghanistan since 1996, when the Taliban régime banned the...

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- Pachir Wa Agam District

Pachir Wa Agam District

Pachir Wa Agam is a district in the southeast of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 39,280 in 2002, of whom 15,700 were children under 12. The district centre is the village of Pachir Wa Agam.The district has faced heavy...

- Paghman Gardens

Paghman Gardens

Paghman Gardens is a popular place near Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul. It is a place where people relax and spend the weekends there with friends and relatives...

- Paghman

Paghman

Paghman is a town in the hills near Kabul, Afghanistan. See also Paghman Gardens. It is center of the Paghman District which has a total population of 120,000 people, and another 20,000 returnees are expected , of which 70% are Pashtuns and 30% Tajiks.. Paghman District is situated in the western...

- Paktia Province

Paktia Province

Paktia , is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, in the east of the country. Its capital is Gardez. The population is predominantly Pashtun.- History:...

- Paktika Province

Paktika Province

Paktika is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the south-east of the country. Most of the population is Pashtun. Its capital is Sharan.-Political and military situation:...

- Pakul

Pakul

The Pakol also spelled Pakul or Khapol, from Nurestan is a soft, round-topped men's hat, typically of wool and found in any of a variety of earthy colors: brown, black, gray, or ivory. Before it is fitted, it resembles a bag with a round, flat bottom. The wearer rolls up the sides nearly to the...

- Palace of Ardashir

Palace of Ardashir

Castle of Ardeshir e Babakan , also known as the Atash-kadeh آتشکده, is a castle located on the slopes of the mountain on which Ghal'eh Dokhtar is situated on. Built in AD 224 by Ardashir I of the Sassanian Empire, it is located two kilometres north of the ancient city of Gor, i.e...

- Pamir Airways
- Pamir Mountains

Pamir Mountains

The Pamir Mountains are a mountain range in Central Asia formed by the junction or knot of the Himalayas, Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, and Hindu Kush ranges. They are among the world’s highest mountains and since Victorian times they have been known as the "Roof of the World" a probable...

- Panj River

Panj River

The Panj River , also known as Pyandzh River or Piandj River , is a tributary of the Amu Darya. The river is 1,125 km long and forms a considerable part of the Afghanistan - Tajikistan border....

- Panjdeh Incident

Panjdeh Incident

The Panjdeh Incident or Panjdeh Scare was a battle that occurred in 1885 when Russian forces seized Afghan territory south of the Oxus River around an oasis at Panjdeh . The incident created a diplomatic crisis between Russia and Great Britain...

- Panjshir Province

Panjshir Province

Panjshir is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. Containing the Panjshir Valley, in April 2004 it was created from parts of Parwan Province, which now lies along its southwestern border. Panjshir's population is about 139,000 and covers an area of 3,610 square kilometers...

- Panjshir Valley

Panjshir Valley

The Panjshir Province is a valley in north-central Afghanistan, 150 km north of Kabul, near the Hindu Kush mountain range. Located in the Panjshir Province it is divided by the Panjshir River...

- Panjwaye District

Panjwaye District

Panjwai is a district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It is known as the birthplace of the Taliban. It is located about west of Kandahar city...

- Parcham

Parcham

Parcham was the name of one of the factions of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. The Parcham faction seized power in the country after toppling Hafizullah Amin....

- Parnassius actius

Parnassius actius

Parnassius actius is a high altitude butterfly found in Central Asia. It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus Parnassius of the Swallowtail family.-Range:...

- Parnassius jacquemontii

Parnassius jacquemontii

Keeled Apollo Parnassius jacquemontii is a high altitude butterfly which is found in India and Pakistan. It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus Parnassius of the Swallowtail family...

- Paropamisade
- Parvan Province

Parvan Province

Parwān , also spelled Parvān, once also the name of an ancient town in the Hindu Kush mountains, is today an administrative province in northern Afghanistan, directly north of Kabul Province...

- Parwin Pazwak

Parwin Pazwak

Parween Pazhwak is an Afghan artist from Afghanistan and a modern poet and writer of the Persian language.Parween was born to the Pazhwak literary and political family, her father and mother being Ne'matulla Pazhwak and Afifah Pazhwak, respectively...

- Pashai people
- Pashayi language

Pashayi language

Pashayi - also known as Pashai - is a language spoken by the Pashai people in parts of Kapisa, Laghman, Nuristan, Kunar, and Nangarhar Provinces in Northeastern Afghanistan....

- Pashto language

Pashto language

Pashto , known as Afghani in Persian and Pathani in Punjabi , is the native language of the indigenous Pashtun people or Afghan people who are found primarily between an area south of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan and...

- Pashto media
- Pashtun culture

Pashtun culture

Pashtun culture is based on Pashtunwali, which is an ancient way of life, as well as speaking of the Pashto language and wearing Pashtun dress. The culture of the Pashtun people is highlighted since at least the time of Herodotus or Alexander the Great, when he explored the Afghanistan and...

- Pashtun diaspora

Pashtun diaspora

Pashtuns , also called Pathans have many communities around the world. Pukhtuns have long history to conquer and colonizing several regions especially the ancient regions of Sub-continent in duration of past few centuries...

- Pashtun people

Pashtun people

Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...

- Kahols
- Pashtun tribes

Pashtun tribes

The Pashtun people are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan. Pashtun, tribes are divided into four supertribal confederacies: the Arbanee , Betanee , Gharghasht, and Karlanee .Traditionally, according to folklore, all Pashtuns are said to have descended, at...

- Pashtunistan

Pashtunistan

Pakhtunistan or Pashtunistan, meaning the "land of Pakhtuns" or "land of Pashtuns", is a modern term used for the historical region inhabited by the native Afghans or Pashtun since at least the 1st millennium BC...

- Pashtunwali

Pashtunwali

Pashtunwali or Pakhtunwali is a non-written ethical code and traditional lifestyle which the indigenous Pashtun people from Afghanistan and Pakistan follow. Some in the Indian subcontinent refer to it as "Pathanwali". Its meaning may also be interpreted as "the way of the Pashtuns" or "the code of...

- Peche River

Peche River

The Pech river is located in Afghanistan. The Pech River system is fed from glaciers and snow from the Hindu Kush to its north. The river rises in central Nuristan Province and proceeds south and southeasternly through the center of Kunar Province, joining the Kunar River at the provincial capital...

- People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan was a communist party established on the 1 January 1965. While a minority, the party helped former president of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, to overthrow his cousin, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and established Daoud's Republic of Afghanistan...

- Peroz I

Peroz I

Peroz I Peroz I Peroz I (also Pirooz; Peirozes (Priscus, fr. 33); Perozes (Procopius, De Bello Pers. I. 3 and Agathias iv. 27; the modern form of the name is Perooz, Piruz, or the Arabized Ferooz, Firuz; Persian: پیروز "the Victor"), was the seventeenth Sassanid King of Persia, who ruled from 457...

- Persian Empire
- Persian language

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

- Phrynocephalus reticulatus

Phrynocephalus reticulatus

Reticulated toad-headed agama Phrynocephalus reticulatus is a species of agamid lizard found in Central Asia and West Asia.-Distribution:N Afghanistan, S Kazakhstan, W Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and N Pakistan ....

- Pir of Manki Sharif
- Pir Roshan

Pir Roshan

Bayazid Khan known as Pir Roshan or Pir Rokhan ‎ was a Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual of the Barak/Urmar tribe who wrote in Pashto, Persian and Arabic. His mother tongue was Ormuri and he also spoke Pashto...

- Pirooz
- Policharki Prison
- Politics of Afghanistan

Politics of Afghanistan

The politics of Afghanistan consists of the Council of Ministers and the National Assembly, with a president serving as the head of state and commander-in-chief of the military. The nation is currently led by the Karzai administration under President Hamid Karzai who is backed by two vice...

- Popalzai

Popalzai

Popalzai or Popalzay are Durrani Pashtuns.-Origin:According to Hyat Khan's history of Afghanistan, from their progenitor Bor Tareen, otherwise known as Abdal, are descended two main divisions: the Zirak and the Panjpai...

- Postage stamps and postal history of Afghanistan

Postage stamps and postal history of Afghanistan

thumb|right|15-poul imperf stamp of 1927, first use of Roman letters.thumb|right|Parliament House on the 15p of 1939.This is a survey of the Postage stamps and postal history of Afghanistan.-First postal service:...

- Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan

Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan

Archaeological exploration of the pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan began in Afghanistan in earnest after World War II and proceeded until the late 1970s when the nation was invaded by the Soviet Union. Archaeologists and historians suggest that humans were living in Afghanistan at least 50,000...

- President of Afghanistan

President of Afghanistan

Afghanistan has only been a republic between 1973 and 1992 and from 2001 onwards. Before 1973, it was a monarchy that was governed by a variety of kings, emirs or shahs...

- Prime Minister of Afghanistan

Prime Minister of Afghanistan

The Prime Minister of Afghanistan is a currently defunct post in the Afghan Government.The position was created in 1927, and was appointed by the king, mostly as an advisor, until the end of the monarchy in 1973...

- Prince Saiful Malook and Badri Jamala

Prince Saiful Malook and Badri Jamala

Prince Saiful Mulook and Badi-ul- Jamal is a classic fable from the Hazara region of Pakistan. It tells the story of a Prince's love for a fairy; the name Saiful Malook refers to a lake in northern Pakistan. -Poetry:...

- Prostitution in Afghanistan

Prostitution in Afghanistan

Prostitution in Afghanistan is illegal, with punishments ranging from 5 to 15 years imprisonment. Despite being deeply religious and one of the most conservative countries in the world, where sex outside marriage is against the law, some prostitution activities are reported in the capital Kabul as...

- Protestants in Afghanistan

Protestants in Afghanistan

In Afghanistan there was a congregation in Kabul but it was demolished by King Mohammed Zahir Shah. There are unconfirmed reports that two native Afghan converts were hanged in 1998 by the Taliban...

- Provinces of Afghanistan

Provinces of Afghanistan

The provinces of Afghanistan are the primary administrative divisions of Afghanistan. As of 2004, there are thirty-four provinces in the country. Each province is further divided into smaller districts....

- Provincial reconstruction team

Provincial reconstruction team

A Provincial Reconstruction Team is a unit introduced by the United States government, consisting of military officers, diplomats, and reconstruction subject matter experts, working to support reconstruction efforts in unstable states. PRTs were first established in Afghanistan in late 2001 or...

- Psammophis schokari

Psammophis schokari

Schokari Sand Racer is a species of snake found in parts of Asia and Africa.-Distribution:NW India, Afghanistan , Pakistan, S Turkmenistan, Western Sahara ?, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sinai, Israel, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Syria,...

- Pul-e Khishti Mosque

Pul-e Khishti Mosque

Pul-e Khishti Mosque is the largest mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. Located in the center of old Kabul , the Pul-e Khishti Mosque can be identified by its large blue dome. The mosque originally was erected in the late 18th Century, but largely rebuilt under Zahir Shah in the late 1960s...

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- Pul-e-Charkhi prison

Pul-e-Charkhi prison

Pul-e-Charkhi , also known as Afghan National Detention Facility, is the largest prison in Afghanistan east of Kabul. Construction of the jail began in the 1970s by order of former president Mohammed Daoud Khan and was completed during the 1980s...

- Puli Khumri
- Purchaman District

Purchaman District

Pur Chaman is a mountainous district in Farah Province, Afghanistan. Its population is approximately 95% Tajik with a Pashtun minority...

- Purdah

Purdah

Purdah or pardeh is the practice of concealing women from men. According to one definition:This takes two forms: physical segregation of the sexes, and the requirement for women to cover their bodies and conceal their form....

- Purple Heron

Purple Heron

The Purple Heron is a wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, breeding in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Asia. The European populations are migratory, wintering in tropical Africa; the more northerly Asian populations also migrate further south within Asia...

- Pusht Rod District
- Pusht-e-Koh District

Pusht-e-Koh District

Pusht-e-Koh is a district in Farah Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 70% Pashtun and 30% Tajik, was estimated at 35,000 in January 2005.-References:* , compiled December 2004–January 2005, accessed 2006-06-19 ....

- Pushto literature

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- Qabili Palau
- Qais Abdur Rashid

Qais Abdur Rashid

Qais Abdur Rashid Khan , also known as Kesh, Kish, Qesh and Imraul Qais is a legendary ancestor of the Pashtun race, claimed to be the first ethnic Pashtun who travelled to Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia during the early days of Islam.) He is believed to be the 37th descendent of King Saul .He...

- Qaisrani

Qaisrani

Qaisrani Also spelled as is a Baloch tribe in Balochistan, Pakistan. The Qaisranis claim their ancestry from Qaiser Khan who was the nephew of Mir Chakar Khan Rind.-Location:...

- Qala i Naw District
- Qalat (Zabul)

Qalat (Zabul)

Qalat is a town in southern Afghanistan and the capital of Zabul Province. It is linked by a highway with Kandahar to the west and Ghazni to the east. In 2006, Zabul's first airstrip was built near Qalat. It is also home the U.S...

- Qawm

Qawm

Qawm is an Arabic protean term used in Afghanistan to refer to any form of solidarity. It may be based on kinship, residence or occupation. It is sometimes referred to as one’s “tribe.”...

- Qutaibah bin Muslim

Qutaibah bin Muslim

Qutayba ibn Muslim was an Arab commander of the Umayyad Caliphate army in the East, and made his greatest gains during the reign of Caliph Al-Walid I. Qutayba belonged to the Bahila tribe. He was appointed as Governor of Khurasan at the request of Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, Governor of Iraq...

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- Raba (Talmud)
- Rabatak inscription

Rabatak inscription

The Rabatak inscription is an inscription written on a rock in the Bactrian language and the Greek script, which was found in 1993 at the site of Rabatak, near Surkh Kotal in Afghanistan...

- Radio Free Afghanistan

Radio Free Afghanistan

Radio Free Afghanistan is the Afghan branch of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s broadcast services. It broadcasts 12 hours daily as part of a 24 hour stream of programming in conjunction with Voice of America . RFA first aired in Afghanistan from 1985 to 1993 and was re-launched in January 2002...

- Radio Kabul

Radio Kabul

Radio Kabul is the official radio station of Afghanistan. The name Radio Kabul has been given to many different incarnations of the state-run radio station since the first radio transmitters were installed in Kabul in the 1920s....

- Radio Shariat

Radio Shariat

Radio Shariat was the ruling Taliban's mouthpiece, broadcasts religious programs and official decrees and announcements. The broadcasts were carried over twenty transmitting towers. It was the foreign media's main source of information from the Taliban.Early in the United States war in...

- Rafi Ud-Daulat

Rafi Ud-Daulat

Rafi- ud- Daulah also known as Shah Jahan II was Mughal emperor for a brief period in 1719. He succeeded his short-lived brother Rafi Ul-Darjat in that year, being proclaimed Badshah by the Syed Brothers. Despite this, he was never allowed to venture out of the Red Fort...

- Rafi Ul-Darjat

Rafi Ul-Darjat

Rafi-ul Darjat , the youngest son of Rafi-us-Shan and the nephew of Azim ush Shan, was the 11th Mughal Emperor. He succeeded Furrukhsiyar on 28 February 1719, being proclaimed Badshah by the Syed Brothers....

- Rahija

Rahija

Rahija is a clan of the Baloch tribe Bugti and is settled in the Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan. The hero of Baloch history the late Sardar Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti also belonged to the Rahija clan.-External Links:**...

- Rahimullah Yusufzai
- Rahman Baba

Rahman Baba

Abdul Rahman Baba is popularly known as Rahman Baba , was a Pashtun Muslim poet from Peshawar in modern-day Pakistan who remains the most popular poet among the Pashtuns...

- Rahmatullah Raufi

Rahmatullah Raufi

Major General Rahmatullah Raufi is a former governor of Kandahar from August 2008 until he was sacked on December 4, 2008. Before that he was a senior military commander of the Afghan National Army presently commanding the 205th Corps, which is responsible for Afghanistan's restive southern provinces...

- Rais

Rais

Raees, Raeesha, is a title used by the rulers of Muslim states in the Middle East and South Asia. It is translated as president in Arabic and wealthy in Persian...

- Rangeen Dadfar Spanta
- Rangin Dadfar Spanta

Rangin Dadfar Spanta

Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta was the foreign minister of Afghanistan.He was appointed to that position by Hamid Karzai during a cabinet reshuffle on March 21, 2006 and approved by the 249-seat lower house on April 20, 2006. He was previously the Senior Advisor on International Affairs to President...

- Rasool Sayyaf
- Ravan A. G. Farhâdi

Ravan A. G. Farhâdi

Professor Abdul Ghafoor Ravan Farhâdi is a retired leading Afghan diplomat who was Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 2006. Farhadi is a linguist, researcher and translator....

- Rawze-e-Sharif (Mazari Sharif)
- Rebab

Rebab

The rebab , also rebap, rabab, rebeb, rababah, or al-rababa) is a type of string instrument so named no later than the 8th century and spread via Islamic trading routes over much of North Africa, the Middle East, parts of Europe, and the Far East...

- Reforms of Amanullah Khan and civil war

Reforms of Amanullah Khan and civil war

Amānullāh Khān reigned in Afghanistan from 1919, achieving full independence from the British Empire shortly afterwards. Before the Treaty of Rawalpindi was concluded in 1921, Afghanistan had already begun to establish its own foreign policy, including diplomatic relations with the Russian Soviet...

- Reigns of Nadir Shah and Zahir Shah
- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan is a women's organization based in Quetta, Pakistan, that promotes women's rights and secular democracy...

- Rhahzadh

Rhahzadh

Razadh, originally Roch Vehan, known in Byzantine sources as Rhazates was a Persian general of Armenian origin under Sassanid king Khosrau II ....

- Rind (tribe)

Rind (tribe)

Rind are a Baloch tribe settled in the Balochistan province of Iran, and the Balochistan Province of Pakistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan....

- Robert D. McChesney

Robert D. McChesney

Robert Duncan McChesney is a scholar of the social and cultural history of Central Asia, Iran, and Afghanistan.-Academic career:Robert D...

- Rodat District

Rodat District

Rodat is a district in the center of Nangarhar Province, 25 km away from Jalalabad city. Afghanistan, south of Jalalabad...

- Rohilla

Rohilla

The Rohilla are a community of Hindi-speaking Pashtun also known as Pathan, historically found in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in North India. Most are now also found in Pakistan where they are now part of the Mohajir community. At one time, they form one of the largest Pashtun diaspora community...

- Roman Catholicism in Afghanistan

Roman Catholicism in Afghanistan

The Roman Catholic Church in Afghanistan is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome. There are very few Catholics in this overwhelmingly Muslim country — just over 200 attend mass in its only chapel — and freedom of religion has been...

- Roman relations with the Parthians and Sassanids
- Roshan (telco)

Roshan (telco)

Roshan is Afghanistan's leading telecommunications provider, serving approximately 3.5 million active subscribers.In January 2003, Roshan was awarded the second GSM license in Afghanistan at a time when there was virtually no telecommunications infrastructure in place; national calls were...

- Roshan (Telecom)
- Roshaniya

Roshaniya

Roshaniya was a 16th century Sufi reformation/enlightenment movement which conspiracy theorists have been quick to liken to everything from being remnants of the Assassins to having influenced the creation of the Illuminati in Bavaria in the 18th century to the "New World Order" etc. etc. ad nauseam...

- Rostam Farrokhzād

Rostam Farrokhzad

Rostam Farrokhzād was the Ērān Spāhbod of the Sāsānian Empire under the reign of Yazdgird, r. 632 - 651...

- Rulers of Kabul

Rulers of Kabul

List of Afghan Rulers in present-day Afghanistan with capital at Kabul:...

- Rulers of Peshawar

Rulers of Peshawar

List of Afghan Rulers in present-day Afghanistan with capital at Peshawar...

- Russian Tortoise

Russian Tortoise

The Russian tortoise, Horsfield's tortoise or Central Asian tortoise is a species of tortoise that is a popular pet...

- Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo

Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo

Ruy González de Clavijo was a Castilian traveller and writer. In 1403-05 Clavijo was the ambassador of Henry III of Castile to the court of Timur, founder and ruler of the Timurid Empire...

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- Saba TV Network

Saba TV Network

Saba TV Network is an Afghan satellite television network featuring two television channels. They are Saba TV and Saba World. It is owned by Saba Media Organization. It is being broadcast throughout Afghanistan...

- Sabzawar

Sabzawar

Sabzawar is a town in Afghanistan, situated at an elevation of 3550 ft on the left bank of the river Harud, 93 miles south of Herat. Sabzawar was once a city of considerable size, and still possesses a fortress with sides of about 200 or 250 yards...

- Sabzvari

Sabzvari

Sabzwari is a family name that denotes people from Sabzwar, a city in Iran. The Sabzwari family name is found in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. In Pakistan, Shah Shamsuddin Sabzwari is the ancestral head of the Sabzwari's, being buried in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan....

- Sabzwar
- Sadozai (Pastun tribe)

Sadozai (Pastun tribe)

Sadozai meaning "kings" are the direct lineage of Ahmad Shah Abdali. All the notable Sadozai Durrani Afghan kings and rulers belonedg to the Sadozai tribe....

- Safdar Tawakoli

Safdar Tawakoli

Safdar Tawakoli is a musician from Afghanistan who focuses on Hazaragi music. He plays regional traditional music on the dambura.-Early life:...

- Safed Koh

Safed Koh

Spin Ghar or Safed Kuh or the Indian Caucasus, also known as the Safīd Mountain Range or Morga Range, is a mountain range on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, up to above sea-level at Mount Sikaram, straight and rigid, towering above all surrounding hills...

- Safid River

Safid River

The Safid River is a river in northern Afghanistan originating in southwestern Sar-e Pol Province. It flows north and is joined by a major tributary from the east just south of the provincial capital, Sar-e Pol. It continues north past the town of Sar-e Pol and into Jowzjan Province. It flows...

- Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan

Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan

Nawab Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum , hailing from Topi, Swabi District, British India, was a distinguished educationist and politician from a notable family...

- Said Tayeb Jawad

Said Tayeb Jawad

Said Tayeb Jawad was appointed Afghan Ambassador to the U.S. on December 4, 2003, by President Hamid Karzai and served as Ambassador until September 22, 2010. He also served as Afghanistan’s non-resident Ambassador to Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. He previously was Chief of Staff to the...

- Saka

Saka

The Saka were a Scythian tribe or group of tribes....

- Sakan Shah

Sakan Shah

Traditional title held by the second prince in the line of succession during the rule of the Sassanid dynasty in Persia....

- Salajeet
- Salang Pass
- Salang tunnel fire

Salang tunnel fire

The Salang tunnel fire occurred on 3 November 1982 in Afghanistan's Salang tunnel during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Details are uncertain, but the incident may have been the deadliest known road accident, and one of the deadliest fires of modern times.- Overview :The Salang tunnel,...

- Salang tunnel

Salang tunnel

The Salang Tunnel , located in Parwan province, is a link between northern and southern Afghanistan crossing the Hindukush mountain range under the difficult Salang Pass....

- Salarzai

Salarzai

Salarzais, along with the Kakazai and Wur, are one of the four clans of Tarkanis. There were around 8,000 members in the Babukarrah and Charmung valleys in Bajaur and 150 members in Bara Banda of Nowshera District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in 1910....

- Salim Saifullah Khan
- Salwar kameez
- Samangan Province

Samangan Province

Samangan is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. The province covers and has a population of approximately 313,211, as of 2006.Its capital, Samangan, is known for its ancient ruins including, notably, the Takht e Rostam...

- Samanid

Samanid

The Samani dynasty , also known as the Samanid Empire, or simply Samanids was a Persian state and empire in Central Asia and Greater Iran, named after its founder Saman Khuda, who converted to Sunni Islam despite being from Zoroastrian theocratic nobility...

- Samma (tribe)
- Sanai

Sanai

Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi was a Afghan Sufi poet who lived in Ghazna, in what is now Afghanistan between the 11th century and the 12th century. Some people spell his name as Sanayee. He died around 1131.-Life:...

- Sandal, Afghanistan

Sandal, Afghanistan

Sandal is a town in Afghanistan. It has a population of about 2,700....

- Sangin District

Sangin District

Sangin is a district in the east of Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was 50,900 in 2005. The district centre is the town of Sangin.-References:* , dated 2002-12-01, accessed 2006-08-04 .-External links:*...

- Sangin

Sangin

Sangin is a town in Helmand province of Afghanistan, with population of approximately 14,000 people. It is located on in the valley of the Helmand River at 888 m altitude, 95 km to the north-east of Lashkar Gah. Sangin is notorious as one of the central locations of the opium trade in the...

- Sanglakh Range

Sanglakh Range

The Sanglakh Range is an offshoot of the Hindukush, just west of Kabul. Its main peak is the Unai; Both the Helmand River and the Kabul River rise in the Sanglakh Range, separated by the Unai Pass....

- Sanjrani

Sanjrani

Sanjrani is a Baloch tribe settled in Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan and also in Afghanistan and Iran.Sanjrani tribe living in Sindh speak Sindhi, Seraikis and Balochi....

- Sapadbizes

Sapadbizes

Sapadbizes , also Sapalbizes, was a ruler of western Bactria, sometimes linked to the Yuezhi. He is known only from his coins . Two clues provide an approximate date for this ruler. He is believed to have overstruck the coins of Phraates IV of Parthia, secondly his coins are of good silver...

- Sar-e Pol (city)

Sar-e Pol (city)

Sar-e Pol or Sari Pul is the capital city of the province of Sar-e Pol in northern Afghanistan. It is in Sari Pul District.- Demography and Population :The provincial capital has a population of about 115,463 inhabitants....

- Sar-e Pol Province

Sar-e Pol Province

Sar-e Pol, also spelled Sari Pul , is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Sar-e-Pul Province is situated between the central highlands and the northern Turkmen plains. Sar-e-Pul borders Ghor and Baniyan provinces to the south, Faryab, Jawzjan and...

- Saraghrar

Saraghrar

Saraghrar is the fourth highest independent peak in the Hindu Kush. The entire Saraghrar massif is a huge, irregular stretched plateau at elevation around , lying above vertical granite and ice faces, which protect it all around. Its distinct summits are poorly identified, and information gathered...

- Sarbans

Sarbans

Sarbans or Sarbani are the largest tribal group of Pashtuns. They are situated in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Sarbans include many Pashtun tribes, among whom the most numerous are the Durrani, Tareen and Miani tribes.-Name origin:...

- Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan

Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan

Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan was a senior police officer from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and cabinet minister in Pakistan.Born in Dera Ismail Khan, Sardar Rashid was educated at Islamia College Peshawar...

- Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan

Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan

Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan was a political figure in Afghanistan.He was the uncle of Mohammad Zahir Shah and the elder brother of Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan and Sardar Shah Wali Khan. Hashim put into effect the policies already orchestrated by his brothers...

- Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan

Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan

Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan was the Prime Minister of Afghanistan from May 1946 to 7 September 1953. He was from the Pashtun tribe of Mohammedzai. He was a brother of Nadir Khan, who ousted Habibullah Kalakani , and uncle of Zahir Shah, the King of Afghanistan, from 1933 to 1973, and uncle of...

- Sardar

Sardar

Sardar is a title of Indo-Aryan origin that was originally used to denote feudal princes, noblemen, and other aristocrats. It was later applied to indicate a Head of State, a Commander-in-chief, and an Army military rank...

- Sarkash

Sarkash

Sarkash is the least renowned of the three most influential musicians of the Sassanids. He was the top musician of the Sassanid court just before Barbod. He had the same racial background as Shirin, the wife of king Khosrau II....

- Sarobi
- Sasanian Family Tree

Sasanian Family Tree

The Sasanian dynasty, which reigned over the Second Persian empire or Sassanid Empire in Iran, was founded by Ardashir I after he defeated the last Parthian king, Artabanus IV and ended when the last Sassanid monarch, Yazdegerd III , lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the early Arab Caliphate,...

- Sasooli

Sasooli

Sasooli is a Brahui tribe in Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan. They are ethnically Brahui. Baloch living in Balochistan and Sindh Speak Brahui and Balochi....

- Sassanid architecture

Sassanid architecture

Sassanid architecture refers to the Persian architectural style that reached a peak in its development during the Sassanid era. In many ways the Sassanid dynastic period witnessed the highest achievement of Persian civilization, and constituted the last great Persian Empire before the Muslim...

- Sassanid army

Sassanid army

The birth of the Sassanid army dates back to the rise of Ardashir I , the founder of the Sassanid dynasty, to the throne. Ardashir aimed at the revival of the Persian Empire, and to further this aim, he reformed the military by forming a standing army which was under his personal command and whose...

- Sassanid Empire

Sassanid Empire

The Sassanid Empire , known to its inhabitants as Ērānshahr and Ērān in Middle Persian and resulting in the New Persian terms Iranshahr and Iran , was the last pre-Islamic Persian Empire, ruled by the Sasanian Dynasty from 224 to 651...

- Sassanid music

Sassanid music

Sassanid music refers to the golden age of Persian music that occurred under the reign of the Sassanid dynasty.Persian classical music dates to the sixth century BC; during the time of the Achaemenid Empire , music played an important role in prayer and in royal and national events...

- Sayed Jafar Naderi

Sayed Jafar Naderi

Sayed Jafar Naderi Sayed Jafar Naderi Sayed Jafar Naderi (born 1965 in Kayan, Baghlan, and also known as Sayyid Nadir Shah Husayn or simply Sayyid-i Kayan is an Ismaili Afghan who formerly controlled Baghlan Province during the early 90s...

- Sayed Jaffar
- Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi

Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi

Sayed Rahmatullah Hashmi is a former envoy of the Taliban government in Afghanistan. 'Sayed' is an honorific title that indicates lineage with the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Also known simply as Rahmatullah, he was once enrolled as a non-degree student at Yale University...

- Sebük Tigin

Sebük Tigin

Abu Mansur Sabuktigin , also spelled as Sabuktagin, Sabuktakin, Sebüktegin and Sebük Tigin, is generally regarded by historians as the founder of the Ghaznavid Empire...

- Second Turkish-Hephthalite War

Second Turkish-Hephthalite War

The Second Perso-Turkic War began in 619 with an invasion of Sassanid Persia by the Göktürks and Hephthalites under Tong Yabghu. The war ended with the crushing defeat of the Turks and Hephthalites by the Sassanids under Persian Satrap General Smbat Bagratuni.-Context:Having lost the first war...

- Sediq Afghan

Sediq Afghan

Sediq Afghan is an Afghan philosopher and mathematician, currently head of the International Center for Mathematical Philosophy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is also a political activist...

- Shabdiz

Shabdiz

Shabdiz was the legendary black stallion of Khosrau Parvez, one of the most famed Sassanid Persian kings . Shabdiz, meaning "midnight", was reputedly the "world's fastest horse" according to ancient Persian literature...

- Shah Alam II

Shah Alam II

Shah Alam II , also known as Ali Gauhar, was a Mughal emperor of India. A son of Alamgir II, he was exiled to Allahabad in December 1759 by Ghazi-ud-Din, who appointed Shah Jahan III as the emperor. Later, he was nominated as the emperor by Ahmad Shah.Shah Alam II was considered the only and...

- Shah Jahan III

Shah Jahan III

Shah Jahan III also known as Muhi-ul-millat was Mughal Emperor briefly. He was the son of Muhi-us-sunnat, the eldest son of Muhammad Kam Baksh who was the youngest son of Aurangzeb...

- Shah Jahan

Shah Jahan

Shah Jahan Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan, , Persian: شاه جهان) (January 5, 1592 – January 22, 1666) Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan, , Persian: شاه جهان) (January 5, 1592 – January 22, 1666) (Full title: His Imperial Majesty Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan...

- Shah Rukh (Timurid dynasty)

Shah Rukh (Timurid dynasty)

Shāhrukh Mīrzā was the ruler of the eastern portion of the empire established by the Central Asian warlord Timur - the founder of the Timurid dynasty - governing most of Persia and Transoxiana between 1405 and 1447...

- Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque

Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque

Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque is a yellow two-story mosque in Kabul, just off the Kabul River in the center of the city. It was built during the reign of Amanullah Khan. The Mosque is located next to a tomb of an Arab commander who died in the 7th century when the Arabs entered Kabul....

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- Shah-i-Kot Valley

Shah-i-Kot Valley

The Shah-i-Kot Valley is a valley located in Afghanistan's Paktia province, southeast of the town of Zormat. The terrain in and around the valley is notoriously rugged, located at a mean altitude of...

- Shahanshah
- Shahbaz Khan Bugti

Shahbaz Khan Bugti

Sir Shahbaz Khan Bugti was the father of Nawab Mehrab Khan Bugti, Nawab Sohrab Khan Bugti. He is the grandfather of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Nawabzada Ahmed Nawaz Khan Bugti, Sardar Ghulam Mustafa Khan Bugti. He received the title Knight of the British Empire for fighting for the British Colonial...

- Shahi

Shahi

The Shahi , Sahi, also called Shahiya dynasties ruled one of the Middle kingdoms of India which included portions of the Kabulistan and the old province of Gandhara , from the decline of the Kushan Empire in the 3rd century to the early 9th century...

- Shahnawaz Tanai

Shahnawaz Tanai

Lieutenant General Shahnawaz Tanai is a former communist general. He was chief of Afghanistan's army under the russians-backed Republic of Afghanistan...

- Shahrbanu

Shahrbanu

Shahrbānū , is a personage described to have been one of the daughters of Yazdegerd III, the last Emperor of the Sassanid dynasty of Persia/Iran...

- Shahrbaraz

Shahrbaraz

Shahrbaraz or Shahrwaraz was a general, with the rank of Eran Spahbod under Khosrau II . His name was Farrokhan, and Shahrbaraz was his title...

- Shaima Rezayee

Shaima Rezayee

Shaima Rezayee was a female TV presenter on the Afghan music television channel, Tolo TV. Rezayee was a rising star in the post-Taliban ruled Afghanistan, specially very popular among the youth...

- Shak

Shak

Shak is a 2004 film directed by Shaheer Azizi, depicting events in the life of an Afghan man living in Pakistan....

- Shaka I

Shaka I

Shaka I was one of the last rulers of the Kushan Empire around 325-345.-Notes:-External links:* *...

- Shambhani

Shambhani

Shambhani is the name of a Baloch tribe, found in the provinces of Balochistan and Sindh in Pakistan.There are two distinct tribes with the name Shambhani, one of which of Chandio origin, the other is of Magsi origin. The Shambhani living in Sindh speak both Sindhi and Balochi...

- Shamshad TV

Shamshad TV

Shamshad TV is a satellite television station in Afghanistan, which was launched in early 2006. The channel broadcasts 18 hours a day, providing educational, news, shows, dramas, and entertaining programs to both local areas of Afghanistan as well as other countries via satellite.Shamshad TV...

- Shapur I

Shapur I

Shapur I or also known as Shapur I the Great was the second Sassanid King of the Second Persian Empire. The dates of his reign are commonly given as 240/42 - 270/72, but it is likely that he also reigned as co-regent prior to his father's death in 242 .-Early years:Shapur was the son of Ardashir I...

- Shapur II

Shapur II

Shapur II the Great was the ninth King of the Persian Sassanid Empire from 309 to 379 and son of Hormizd II. During his long reign, the Sassanid Empire saw its first golden era since the reign of Shapur I...

- Shapur III

Shapur III

Shapur III was the eleventh Sassanid King of Persia from 383 to 388. Shapur III succeeded his father Ardashir II in the year 383.- Treaty with Rome :...

- Sharbat Gula

Sharbat Gula

Sharbat Gula is an Afghan woman who was the subject of a famous photograph by journalist Steve McCurry. Gula was living as a refugee in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed...

- Sheberghan

Sheberghan

Sheberghān or Shaburghān , also spelled Shebirghan and Shibarghan, is the capital city of the Jowzjan Province in northern Afghanistan.-Location:...

- Sher Alam Ibrahimi
- Sher Ali Khan

Sher Ali Khan

Sher Ali Khan was Amir of Afghanistan from 1863 to 1866 and from 1868 until his death in 1879. He was the third son of Dost Mohammed Khan, founder of the Barakzai Dynasty in Afghanistan....

- Sher Berinj

Sher Berinj

Sheer berenj is an Afghan rice pudding. Rose water, chopped almonds and pistachios make this dish unique to Afghanistan and neighbouring countries. It is served chilled as a dessert....

- Sher Shah Suri

Sher Shah Suri

Sher Shah Suri , birth name Farid Khan, also known as Sher Khan , was the founder of the short-lived Sur Empire in northern India, with its capital at Delhi, before its demise in the hands of the resurgent Mughal Empire...

- Sherzad District

Sherzad District

Sherzad is a district in the west of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It has a short stretch of border with Pakistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 66,392 in 2002, of whom 26,500 were children under 12...

- Shib Koh District

Shib Koh District

Shib Koh is a district in Farah Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 70% Pashtun and 15% Tajik, along with other ethnic groups, was estimated at 328,000 in January 2005.-References:...

- Shibarghan
- Shighnan

Shighnan

Shighnan is an historic region whose name today may also refer to a town and a district in Badakhshan Province in the mountainous northeast of Afghanistan and also a district in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan...

- Shilmani

Shilmani

The Shilmani or Shalmani شلمانى are a Sarbanri Pashtun tribe who are primarily concentrated in the Shalman valley in Khyber agency near Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, the tribe is also present in different areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.In Pakistan, they live in Swat, Upper...

- Shinwar District

Shinwar District

Shinwar is a district in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It is on the main highway from Jalalabad to the Torkham border crossing. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 40,147 in 2002, of whom 16,000 were children under 12. The district centre is the village of Shinwar...

- Shinwari tribe
- Shirani

Shirani

The Shirani are a Sarbanri Pashtun tribe, living in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They should not be confused with the Baloch Shirani, who live in Iran.-History:...

- Shirin

Shirin

Shirin was a wife of the Sassanid Persian Shahanshah , Khosrau II. In the revolution after the death of Khosrau's father Hormizd IV, the General Bahram Chobin took power over the Persian empire. Shirin fled with Khosrau to Syria where they lived under the protection of Byzantine emperor Maurice...

- Shkin
- Sholgara District

Sholgara District

Sholgara is a district in the southern part of Balkh Province, Afghanistan. It is located at a crossroads between several districts, just south of Mazari Sharif...

- Sholgara

Sholgara

Sholgara is a village in Sholgara District, Balkh Province, Afghanistan....

- Shughni language

Shughni language

Shughni is one of the Pamir languages of the Southeastern Iranian language group. Its distribution is in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan and Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan....

- Shuhada District

Shuhada District

Shuhada District is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan Province in eastern Afghanistan. The district was formed in 2005 from part of Baharak District and is home to approximately 31,000 residents....

- Shuja Shah Durrani

Shuja Shah Durrani

Shuja Shah Durrani was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809. He then ruled from 1839 until his death in 1842. Shuja Shah was of the Sadozai line of the Abdali group of Pashtuns...

- Shumashti language

Shumashti language

Shumashti – also known as Shumasht – is a language spoken in parts of western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan.It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Dardic group of the Indo-Iranian branch....

- Sibghatullah Mojaddedi

Sibghatullah Mojaddedi

Sibghatullah Mojaddedi , served as the first President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan after the fall of the communist regime in 1992. He is also the leader of the Afghan National Liberation Front...

- Siddiq Barmak

Siddiq Barmak

Siddiq Barmak in Panjshir, Afghanistan, is a film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute in 1987.He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films...

- Singesar

Singesar

Singesar is a village near Kandahar, Afghanistan. It is the birthplace of Taliban leader Mullah Omar.- References :*Luke Harding, . Accessed December 26, 2007....

- Siruzkoh

Siruzkoh

Siruzkoh, a city destroyed in 1222 by Genghis Khan, is thought to be the former capital of Afghanistan. Its existence and location have been in dispute, although the international expedition or archeologists, geographs and writers "Expedition Culturelle et Scientifique Sur la Route de la soie"...

- Six-plus-two nations

Six-plus-two nations

The six-plus-two nations describes an informal coalition of the six nations surrounding Afghanistan plus the United States and Russia, from 1999 to 2001...

- Sogdiana

Sogdiana

Sogdiana or Sogdia was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province of the Achaemenid Empire, eighteenth in the list on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great . Sogdiana is "listed" as the second of the "good lands and countries" that Ahura Mazda created...

- Soviet war in Afghanistan

Soviet war in Afghanistan

The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the Afghan Mujahideen and foreign "Arab–Afghan" volunteers...

- Spahbod

Spahbod

Spahbod or Spahbed , is derived from the words Spah and bod ; or "Aspah'Paeity" , and means commander of cavaliers/ knights; alternatively Spah Salar was a rank used in the Parthian empire and more widely in the Sassanid Empire of Persia...

- Sperah
- Spin Boldak District

Spin Boldak District

Spin Boldak is a district in the eastern part of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It borders Daman District to the west, Arghistan District to the north, Qilla Abdullah District Pakistan to the east and Shorabak District to the south. The population was estimated at 100,400 in 2006...

- Spin Boldak

Spin Boldak

Spin Boldak or Spin Buldak is a border town in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, right next to the Durand Line border with Pakistan. It is linked by a highway with the city of Kandahar to the north, and with Chaman and Quetta in Pakistan to the south. Spin Boldak has the second major...

- Spinzar

Spinzar

The Spinzar Cotton Company, situated in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, has branches all over the country. In pre-war Afghanistan it was one of the world's largest providers of cotton. The company also manufactured porcelain and ran luxury hotels and cinemas....

- Subdivisions of Afghanistan
- Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik

Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik

Sulayman bin Abd al-Malik was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 715 until 717. His father was Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, and he was a younger brother of the previous caliph, al-Walid I.-Early years:...

- Sultan Ali Keshtmand

Sultan Ali Keshtmand

Sultan Ali Keshtmand, sometimes transliterated Kishtmand, born May 22, 1935 in Kabul, was an Afghan politician. He served twice as Prime Minister during the 1980s, from 1981 to 1988 and from 1989 to 1990 in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan....

- Suri (Pashtun)

Suri (Pashtun)

Sur or Soor is one of the historical names of the Afghan tribes, they are now found primarily among the Pashtun people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They claim to be descendants of Mohammad Sur, one of the princes of the Ghorids, who left his native Ghor region and settled among the Afghan tribes in...

- Suristan

Suristan

Suristan was used as a name in two senses during the Sassanid Persian Empire 226 to 651 AD.It was used to designate the Persian province of Surestan, roughly the same as today's Syria, as opposed to Asuristan, which was a separate province in northern and central Iraq, south east Turkey and north...

- Surkh Rod District

Surkh Rod District

Surkh-Rōd , also spelled as Surkh-Rūd or Sorkh-Rūd, is a district in the north of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The district centre is the town of Sultanpur...

- Swati

Swati (tribe)

The Swatis are a Pashtun tribe based around the Swat valley, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They are the largest tribal group of land owners in the Mansehra and Battagram districts....

- Syed Ahmad Shaheed

Syed Ahmad Shaheed

Not to be confused with Ahmed Raza Khan BarelviSyed Ahmad Shaheed , also called Syed Ahmed Barelvi, was a Muslim activist from Rae Bareli, India. and founder of the "The Way of the Prophet Muhammad" , a revolutionary Islamic movement...

- Syed Ishay Ghalani

Syed Ishay Ghalani

Sayed Ishaq Gailani is a national politician in Afghanistan. He is the founder and chairman of the National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan. He was the first announced presidential candidate for the 2004 Afghan general election...

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- Tabar
- Tajbeg Palace

Tajbeg Palace

Tajbeg Palace or Tapa-e-Tajbeg Palace is a Palace built in the 1920s and located about ten miles outside of the center of Kabul, Afghanistan. The stately mansion sits atop a knoll among foothills where the Afghan royal family once hunted and picnicked...

- Tajiks
- Tajuddin Elduz

Tajuddin Elduz

Tajuddin Yildoz was a Turkic slave of Sultan Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghauri who rose to become ruler of Ghazni after Ghauri's death. Tajuddin Yildoz twice tried to conquer Sindh but Nasir-ud-Din Qabacha defeated him in 1210. During the rule of Iltutmish he also tried to lay his claim on Delhi but was...

- Takhar Province

Takhar Province

Takhār is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It was established in 1964 when Qataghan Province was divided into three provinces: Baghlan, Kunduz and Takhar. It is in the north-east of the country. Its capital is Taloqan. Its salt mines are one of Afghanistan's major mineral resources...

- Takht-i-Suleiman

Takht-i-Suleiman

For the similarly named locations see Takht-e Suleyman Massif in Iran, Taxte Soleymān in Pakistan, and Sulayman Mountain near Osh, Kyrgyzstan.Taxte Soleymān, is an archaeological site in West Azarbaijan, Iran...

- Takur Ghar

Takur Ghar

Takur Ghar is a high mountain located in the Arma Mountains of southeastern Afghanistan. The peak is on the eastern border of the Shah-i-Kot Valley....

- Taliban insurgency

Taliban insurgency

The Taliban insurgency took root shortly after the group's fall from power following the 2001 war in Afghanistan. The Taliban continue to attack Afghan, U.S., and other ISAF troops and many terrorist incidents attributable to them have been registered. The war has also spread over the southern and...

- Taliban
- Talpur

Talpur

Talpur ; is a Baloch tribe settled in Sindh. Talpurs settled in northern Sindh, spoke Sindhi language very soon their descendants and allies formed a confederacy against the Kalhora dynasty. Later, however, they enjoyed good relations with the Kalhoras and were invited by them to help organize...

- Tandoori masala

Tandoori masala

Tandoori masala is a mixture of spices specifically for use with a tandoor, or clay oven, in traditional north Indian, Pakistani and Afghan cooking. The specific spices vary somewhat from one region to another, but typically include garam masala, garlic, ginger, onion, cayenne pepper, and other...

- Tangshewi language

Dari (Eastern Persian)

Dari or Fārsī-ye Darī in historical terms refers to the Persian court language of the Sassanids. In contemporary usage, the term refers to the dialects of modern Persian language spoken in Afghanistan, and hence known as Afghan Persian in some Western sources. It is the term officially recognized...

- Taq-e Bostan

Taq-e Bostan

Taqwasân or Taq-e Bostan or Taq-i-Bustan is a series of large rock relief from the era of Sassanid Empire of Persia, the Iranian dynasty which ruled western Asia from 226 to 650 AD. This example of Sassanid art is located 5 km from the city center of Kermanshah in western Iran...

- Tareen

Tareen

The Tareen are a prominent Sarbanri Pashtun tribe residing in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. They are one of the largest Pashtun tribes.-History:...

- Tarin Kowt

Tarin Kowt

Tarinkot or Tarin Kowt is the capital of Orūzgān province in southern Afghanistan in Tarin Kowt District. It is a town of about 10,000 people, with some 200 small shops in the city's bazaar...

- Tarkani

Tarkani

The Tarkani are a Pashtun tribe located in Kunar province of Afghanistan and Bajaur near Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan...

- Tarnak Farms

Tarnak Farms

Tarnak Farms refers to a former Afghan training camp near Kandahar.The camp is very near the Kandahar airport.The Al-Qaeda camp is alleged to have offered training constructing bombs, using poisons, urban warfare, and assassination...

- Task Force Uruzgan

Task Force Uruzgan

The Netherlands Army Task Force Uruzgan was part of NATO's Regional Command South, International Security Assistance Force, in Afghanistan. The Dutch lead one of the four Provincial Reconstruction Teams in the southern region of the country...

- Template:Afghanistan-stub
- The Afghan Street Working Children and New Approach (ASCHIANA)
- The Bahlikas

The Bahlikas

The Bahlikas were the inhabitants of Balikha, mentioned in Atharvaveda, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas, Vartikka of Katyayana, Brhatsamhita, Amarkosha etc. and in the ancient Inscriptions...

- The Bookseller of Kabul

The Bookseller of Kabul

The Bookseller of Kabul is a non-fiction book written by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad, about a bookseller, Shah Muhammad Rais , and his family in Kabul, Afghanistan...

- The Great Game

The Great Game

The Great Game or Tournament of Shadows in Russia, were terms for the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813...

- The Turkish-Hephthalite War

The Turkish-Hephthalite War

The First Perso-Turkic War was fought during 588-589 between the Sassanid Persians and Hephthalite principalities and its lord the Western Turkic Khaganate...

- Third battle of Panipat

Third battle of Panipat

The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14 January 1761, at Panipat , about 60 miles north of Delhi between a northern expeditionary force of the Maratha Confederacy and a coalition of the King of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Abdali with 2 Indian Muslim allies—the Rohilla Afghans of the Doab, and the...

- Timeline of the history of Afghanistan
- Timur Shah Durrani

Timur Shah Durrani

Timur Shah Durrani , was the second ruler of the Durrani Empire from October 16, 1772, until his death in 1793. An ethnic Pashtun, he was the second and eldest son of Ahmad Shah Durrani.- Early life :...

- Timur

Timur

Timur , historically known as Tamerlane in English , was a 14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until...

- Timurid Dynasty

Timurid Dynasty

The Timurids , self-designated Gurkānī , were a Persianate, Central Asian Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turko-Mongol descent whose empire included the whole of Iran, modern Afghanistan, and modern Uzbekistan, as well as large parts of contemporary Pakistan, North India, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the...

- Tirich Mir

Tirich Mir

Tirich Mir is the highest mountain in the Hindu Kush region and the highest mountain outside of the Himalaya-Karakoram range, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The mountain was first climbed in 1950 by a Norwegian expedition consisting of Arne Næss, P. Kvernberg, H...

- Tokharistan
- Tolo TV

Tolo TV

Tolo TV , is a television station, being one of the first commercial ones to operate in Afghanistan. Launched in October 2004 by MOBY Group, it laid the foundations for an accessible media outlet offering a big library of shows...

- Tora Bora

Tora Bora

Tora Bora , known locally as Spīn Ghar , is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, approximately west of the Khyber Pass and north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan...

- Tora Ghar District

Tora Ghar District

Tora Ghar is a district in Afghanistan, also known as the Black Mountains, and is located approximately six miles north of Kandahar. Several skirmishes between American troops and Taliban fighters have occurred in Tora Ghar....

- Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline

Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline

The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank. The pipeline will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India. The abbreviation comes from the first letters of those...

- Transoxiana

Transoxiana

Transoxiana is the ancient name used for the portion of Central Asia corresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, southern Kyrgystan and southwest Kazakhstan. Geographically, it is the region between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers...

- Transport in Afghanistan

Transport in Afghanistan

Transportation in Afghanistan, which serves a population of about 29 million people, is limited and still in the developing stages. Landlocked Afghanistan has no seaports but the Amu Darya River, which forms part of the nation's border with Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, does have barge...

- Trapelus agilis

Trapelus agilis

The Brilliant ground agama Trapelus agilis is a species of agama found in Central Asia and South Asia.-Distribution:Iran, Pakistan, India , Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, China, Iraq and Afghanistan *Race khuzistanensis: Type locality: Iran, Khuzistan Province,...

- Treaty of Gandamak

Treaty of Gandamak

The Treaty of Gandamak officially ended the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Afghanistan ceded various frontier areas to Britain to prevent invasion of further areas of the country....

- Treaty of Rawalpindi

Treaty of Rawalpindi

The Treaty of Rawalpindi was an armistice made between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan during the Third Anglo-Afghan War...

- Tregami language

Tregami language

Tregami, Trigami or Gambiri is a language spoken by the Tregami people in the villages of Gambir and Katar in the Watapur District of Kunar Province in Afghanistan....

- Turangzai

Turangzai

Turangzai is one of the eight villages of Hashtnagar area in Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is located at a distance of 32 km from Peshawar and lies to east of it at 34°12'53N 71°44'46E bordering Umarzai, Utmanzai and Tarnab on either sides.....

- Turkmen language

Turkmen language

Turkmen is the national language of Turkmenistan...

- Turkmen people

Turkmen people

The Turkmen are a Turkic people located primarily in the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and northeastern Iran. They speak the Turkmen language, which is classified as a part of the Western Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages family together with Turkish, Azerbaijani, Qashqai,...

- Tuzk-e-Jahangiri

Tuzk-e-Jahangiri

Tuzk-e-Jahangiri or Tuzk-i-Jahangiri is the autobiography of Mughal Emperor Nor-u-Din Muhammad Jahangir . Also referred to as Jahangirnama , Tuzk-e-Jahangiri is written in Persian, and follows the tradition of his great-grandfather, Babur , who had written the Baburnama; though Jahangir went a...

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- Uar

Uar

The Uar were the largest of three ethnic components constituting the confederation known to the west as the Hephthalites and to the Chinese as Yanda and the dominant ethnicity of Khwarezm...

- Ulugh Beg

Ulugh Beg

Ulugh Bek was a Timurid ruler as well as an astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His commonly-known name is not truly a personal name, but rather a moniker, which can be loosely translated as "Great Ruler" or "Patriarch Ruler" and was the Turkic equivalent of Timur's Perso-Arabic title Amīr-e...

- Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi

Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi

Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba....

- Umar II

Umar II

Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 717 to 720. He was also a cousin of the former caliph, being the son of Abd al-Malik's younger brother, Abd al-Aziz. He was also a great-grandson of the companion of the Prophet Muhammad, Umar bin Al-Khattab.-Lineage:Umar was born around...

- Umar Khel
- Umarzai

Umarzai

Umarzai or Omarzai is a relatively small Pashtun tribe in Pakistan. A large group used to live in Jaranwala, Pakistan and Nakuru, Kenya but now most reside in Chacch . A few still reside in Jaranwala, but all the members from Nakuru have now left. The Umarzais are the richest tribe in Chacch...

- Umayyads
- Umrani

Umrani

The 'Umrani' is a Baloch tribe, originating in the Pakistani provinces of Balochistan and Sindh. Umrani tribe is mostly settled in Nasirabad District and Jafarabad District, the southeastern districts of Balochistan, but some of them also settled in Kalat District, Khuzdar District and Awaran...

- Unai Pass

Unai Pass

Unai Pass traverses the Sanglakh Range, an offshoot of the Hindukush, west of Kabul. It is the main road connection of Kabul with Hazarajat....

- UNHCR Afghan repatriation programs
- United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan

United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is a political UN mission established at the request of the Government of Afghanistan to assist it and the people of Afghanistan in laying the foundations for sustainable peace and development....

- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 37/37

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 37/37

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 37/37 stated that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan. It was the fourth time in three years that the General Assembly had called for Soviet withdrawal from that country.-External links:...

- United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan

United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan

United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan was established in May 1988, during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, to assist in ensuring the implementation of the agreements on the settlement of the situation relating to Afghanistan and investigate and report possible violations of...

- United States Ambassador to Afghanistan

United States Ambassador to Afghanistan

The United States Ambassador to Afghanistan is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Afghanistan....

- University of Parwan

University of Parwan

Parwan University is located in Charikar, capital of Parwan province, northern Afghanistan. As of May 2006, it has two departments....

- US-Afghanistan relations

US-Afghanistan relations

United States – Afghanistan relations can be traced to 1921 but the first contact between the two occurred further back in 1830s when the first recorded person from the United States was visiting Afghanistan.- History :...

- Ustad Mohammad Hashem Cheshti

Ustad Mohammad Hashem Cheshti

Mohammad Hashem Cheshti, also known with surname Chishti and as Ustad Hashem , was a contemporary classical musician and composer born in Kharabat area of Kabul, Afghanistan, who died in 1994 in Germany under unclear circumstances....

- Ustarana

Ustarana

Ustarana is a Pashtun tribe inhabiting the outer hills opposite the extreme south portion of the Dera Ismail Khan district of North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. They live today on the eastern side of Suleiman Mountains . Their chief village is Khoi Bahara...

- Uzbek language

Uzbek language

Uzbek is a Turkic language and the official language of Uzbekistan. It has about 25.5 million native speakers, and it is spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia...

- Uzbeks

Uzbeks

The Uzbeks are a Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Pakistan, Mongolia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China...

- Uzbek

Uzbeks

The Uzbeks are a Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Pakistan, Mongolia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China...

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- Vahriz

Vahriz

Vahriz was a Deylamite spahbod in the service of the Sassanid Empire. He was the head of a small expeditionary force of low ranking Azatan nobility, numbering around 700, sent by Khosrau I to Yemen....

- Vakak Group

Vakak Group

The Vakak Group is a small volcanic field located WSW of Kabul, Afghanistan. It consists of 18 dacitic and trachytic volcanoes including lava domes and possibly an old caldera....

- Varanus griseus

Varanus griseus

The Desert Monitor, Varanus griseus, is a species of monitor lizard of the order Squamata found living throughout North Africa and western Asia. Varanus griseus is divided into three distinct subspecies: Varanus griseus griseus , Varanus griseus caspius , and Varanus griseus koniecznyi...

- Vashishka

Vashishka

Vashishka was a Kushan emperor around 232-246 AD....

- Vasi-vari language

Vasi-vari language

Vasi-vari is a language spoken by the Vasi in a few villages in the Prasun Valley in Afghanistan. The most used alternative names are Prasuni or Prasun, which derive from Pashto....

- Vasudeva I

Vasudeva I

Vasudeva I was a Kushan emperor, last of the "Great Kushans." Named inscriptions dating from year 64 to 98 of Kanishka's era suggest his reign extended from at least 191 to 225 CE....

- Vasudeva II

Vasudeva II

Vasudeva II was a Kushan emperor who ruled c. 275–300 AD. He was probably the successor of Kanishka III and may have been succeeded by a king named Shaka Kushan.-External links:* See: * *...

- Vice and Virtue Ministry

Vice and Virtue Ministry

The Vice and Virtue Ministry was a government department during the reign of the Taliban in Afghanistan. It set and enforced the moral standards required to be followed in society. Utilizing a squad of over 30,000 men, shopkeepers were forced to close during prayer time, video and cassette tapes...

- Vida Samadzai

Vida Samadzai

Vida Samadzai is Miss Afghanistan 2003. Although, the Republic of Afghanistan never recognized Samadzai as Miss Afghanistan...

- Vima Kadphises

Vima Kadphises

Vima Kadphises was a Kushan emperor from around 90–100 CE. As detailed by the Rabatak inscription, he was the son of Vima Takto and the father of Kanishka.-Rule:...

- Vima Takto

Vima Takto

Vima Takto or Vima Taktu was a Kushan emperor reigned c. 80–90 CE.-Rule:Vima Takto was long known as "The nameless King", since his coins only showed the legend "The King of Kings, Great Saviour", until the discovery of the Rabatak inscription helped connect his name with the title on the...

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- Wakhan Corridor

Wakhan Corridor

Wakhan Corridor is commonly used as a synonym for Wakhan, an area of far north-eastern Afghanistan which forms a land link or "corridor" between Afghanistan and China. The Corridor is a long and slender panhandle or salient, roughly long and between wide. It separates Tajikistan in the north...

- Wakhan

Wakhan

Wakhan or "the Wakhan" is a very mountainous and rugged part of the Pamir and Karakoram regions of Afghanistan. Wakhan District is a district in Badakshan Province.-Geography:...

- Wakhi language

Wakhi language

Wakhi is an Indo-European language in the branch of Eastern Iranian language family and is intimately related to other Southeastern Iranian languages in the Pamir languages group.-Classification and Distribution:...

- Wakhi people

Wakhi people

The Wakhi people, or Khik , are an ethnic group originating in the Wakhan of today's Afghanistan. They also live in adjacent areas of Tajikistan and Xinjiang and in Pakistan . They speak the Wakhi language.-Population and demographics:A very rough estimate puts the population of Wakhis at about...

- Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil

Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil

Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil was the last Foreign Minister in the Taliban government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.Prior to this he served as spokesman and secretary to Mullah Mohammed Omar, leader of the Taliban. After the Northern Alliance accompanied by U.S...

- Wali Khan Amin Shah

Wali Khan Amin Shah

Wali Khan Amin Shah was a man who had a role in the foiled Bojinka plot. He was convicted of terrorism, and has been imprisoned on these charges since 1995....

- War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The War in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Afghan United Front launched Operation Enduring Freedom...

- War rugs

War rugs

The war rug tradition of Afghanistan has its origins in the decade of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979, and has continued through subsequent military, political and social conflicts. Afghan rug-makers began incorporating the apparatus of war into their designs almost immediately after the...

- Wardak Province

Wardak Province

Maidan Wardak Province is one of thirty four provinces of Afghanistan located in the central east region of Afghanistan. It has a population of approximately 540,100. The capital of the province is Maidan Shar...

- Wardak tribe

Wardak tribe

The Wardak Pashtun are a Pashtun tribe mainly found in Wardak Province, Afghanistan.The various Wardak sub-tribes live in each of the province’s districts except for Hesa Awal Behsood and Markazi Behsood...

- Wasef Bakhtari

Wasef Bakhtari

Wasef Bakhtari is a renowned Persian poet, literary figure and intellectual.-Life and education:Even though his father was from Kabul, he spent most of his childhood in Mazari Sharif. He attended Bakhtar School for his primary and for most of his secondary education. After his family moved to...

- Washir District

Washir District

Washir is a district in the west of Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun and Noorzai tribe, was 13,300 in 2005...

- Wazir (tribe)

Wazir (tribe)

Wazirs or Waziris are a Pashtun tribe settled in the North Waziristan and South Waziristan agencies of Pakistan as well in the urban cities of Tank, F.R Bannu,i.e Domel and adjacent villages, Karachi and Lahore. Across the border, they can also be found in Paktia, Khost and Paktika provinces of...

- Waziri language

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- Yadigar Muhammad

Yadigar Muhammad

Yadigar Muhammad was the Timurid ruler of Herat in opposition to Husayn Bayqarah for a portion of 1470.Yadigar Muhammad was born to Sultan Muhammad, who was a grandson of Shah Rukh. It was his family ties that caused Uzun Hasan, sultan of the Ak Koyunlu confederation, to hand over to him Abu...

- Yahya Maroofi

Yahya Maroofi

Mohammad Yahya Maroofi was nominated on February 2, 2002, as Special adviser to the Afghan president Hamid Karzai, President of the Interim Government of Afghanistan...

- Yazdegerd I

Yazdegerd I

Yazdegerd I, or Izdekerti , was the thirteenth Sassanid king of Persia and ruled from 399 to 421. He is believed by some to be the son of Shapur III and by others to be son of Bahram IV...

- Yazdegerd II

Yazdegerd II

Yazdegerd II was the fifteenth Sassanid King of Persia. He was the son of Bahram V and reigned from 438 to 457....

- Yazdgerd III

Yazdgerd III

Yazdegerd III or Yazdgerd III was the twenty-ninth and last king of the Sassanid dynasty of Iran and a grandson of Khosrau II . His father was Shahryar, whose mother was Miriam, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Maurice...

- Yazid I

Yazid I

Yazīd ibn Mu‘āwiya ibn Abī Sufyān , commonly known as Yazid I, was the second Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate . He ruled for three years from 680 CE until his death in 683 CE. Many Muslims condemn Yazid's rule as contentious and unjust...

- Yazid II

Yazid II

Yazid bin Abd al-Malik or Yazid II was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 720 until his death in 724.According to the medieval Persian historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Yazid came to power on the death of Umar II on February 10, 720. His forces engaged in battle the Kharijites with whom Umar...

- Yazid III

Yazid III

Yazid ibn al-Walid ibn 'Abd al-Malik or Yazid III was an Umayyad caliph. He reigned for six months, from April 15 to October 3 or 4, 744; and died in that office....

- Yegobi District

Yegobi District

Yegobi is a district in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan....

- Yousafzai

Yousafzai

The Yūsufzai is one of the largest Pashtun tribes...

- Yuezhi

Yuezhi

The Yuezhi, or Rouzhi , also known as the Da Yuezhi or Da Rouzhi , were an ancient Central Asian people....

- Yunus Qanuni

Yunus Qanuni

Yunus Qanuni is a politician in Afghanistan. An ethnic Tajik from the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan, Qanuni is the leader of the Afghanistan e Naween political party and former Speaker of the House of the People .-Pre Election...

- Yusaf Khel
- Yusuf Khan and Sherbano

Yusuf Khan and Sherbano

Along with Adam Khan and Durkhanai, Yusuf Khan and Sherbano is considered a famous Pashtun folktale on par with Romeo and Juliet.- Story :The story, written by the pashtun poet from Ismaila Ali Haider Joshi, goes as follows:...

- Yusuf Khattak

Yusuf Khattak

Muhamad Yusuf Khan Khattak was a Pakistan movement activist. A scion of one of the most influential families in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, he was a son of Khan Bahadur Kuli Khan Khattak, and brother to former Governor Aslam Khattak, Lt Gen Habibullah Khan and Kulsom Saifullah Khan, Yusuf Khattak was a...

- Yusuf Nooristani

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- Zablon Simintov

Zablon Simintov

Zablon Simintov is a Turkmen-Afghan carpet trader and the caretaker of the only synagogue in Kabul. , he is believed to be the sole remaining Afghan Jew still residing in Afghanistan...

- Zabul Province

Zabul Province

Zabul is a historic province of Afghanistan. Zabul became an independent province from neighbouring Kandahar in 1963, with Qalat being named the provincial capital. It should not be confused with the city Zabol, on the Iranian side of the border with Afghanistan.- Political and security situation...

- Zabulistan

Zabulistan

Zabulistan , also spelled Zabolestan, is a historical region in the border area of today's Iran and Afghanistan.-History of Zabulistan:...

- Zaimukhts

Zaimukhts

The Zaimukhts are a Pashtun tribe living on the northwest frontier of Pakistan, to the south of the Orakzais on the Kohat border of the North-West Frontier Province. The Zaimukhts inhabit the hills to the south of the Orakzais between the Miranzai and Kurram valleys...

- Zalmay Khalilzad

Zalmay Khalilzad

Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and president of Khalilzad Associates, an international business consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush...

- Zaman Shah Durrani

Zaman Shah Durrani

Zaman Shah Durrani , , was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1793 until 1800. He was the grandson of Ahmad Shah Durrani and the fifth son of Timur Shah Durrani...

- Zamindawar

Zamindawar

Zamindawar is a historical district of Afghanistan, situated on the right bank of the Helmand River to the northwest of Kandahar bordering the road which leads from Kandahar to Herat via Farah....

- Zaranj

Zaranj

Zaranj or Zarang is a border town in south-western Afghanistan, with a population of approximately 49,851 people as of 2004. It is the capital of Nimruz province and is situated next to Milak, Iran. It is linked by highways with Lashkar Gah to the east, Farah to the north and Zabol in Iran to the...

- Zazi

Zazi

Zazi is a Karlanri Pashtun tribe. Zazi is the plural of Zazai, pronounced pronounced .Zazi is a sub-tribe of Khugyani which falls under the Karlanri tribe of the Pashtuns. They are primarily found in Paktia and Khost provinces of Afghanistan, but they have a big population in Kabul city and...

- Zebak

Zebak

Zebak is the capital of the Zebak District in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. The city is based in the delta of the Sanglich river....

- Zhari District

Zhari District

Zhari is a new district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.Alternate spellings include Zheley or Zharey. The district was created from territories taken from Maywand and Panjwai districts...

- Zorkul

Zorkul

Zorkul is a lake in the Pamir Mountains that runs along the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It extends east to west for about 25 km. The Afghan-Tajik border runs along the lake from east to west, turning south towards Concord Peak , about 15 km south of the lake. The lake's northern...

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