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Afghan Interior Minister
The Ministry of Interior Affairs ( fa, وزارت امور داخله افغانستان, ps, د افغانستان د کورنیو چارو وزارت) is the cabinet ministry of Afghanistan responsible for law enforcement, civil order and fighting crime. The ministry's headquarters is located in Kabul. The current minister of Interior Affairs is Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is also the first deputy leader of Afghanistan and the leader of the Haqqani network. List of ministers The first Islamic Emirate period During the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001), Abdul Samad Khaksar (also referred to as Mohammad Khaksar in some news reports) was a Taliban deputy Minister of the Interior, who is notable because he offered to help the US deal with al-Qaeda and became an informant for the Northern Alliance. Khaksar was assassinated on January 14, 2006 by Taliban gunmen. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counterterrorism analysts described Khairullah Khairkhwa as a former T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran border, west, Turkmenistan to the Afghanistan–Turkmenistan border, northwest, Uzbekistan to the Afghanistan–Uzbekistan border, north, Tajikistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, northeast, and China to the Afghanistan–China border, northeast and east. Occupying of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains Afghan Turkestan, in the north and Sistan Basin, the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. , Demographics of Afghanistan, its population is 40.2 million (officially estimated to be 32.9 million), composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks. Kabul is the country's largest city and ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Qadir Nuristani
Abdul Qadir Nuristani (died 29 April 1978) was an Afghan Minister of the Interior during the Republic of Afghanistan. Abdul Qadir had previously been a Chief of Police noted for his strict adherence to his principles and beliefs. He replaced minister Faiz Mohammad, a purged Parchamite, in September 1975. Abdul Qadir Nuristani is a well-known Afghan politician who worked with Dawood Khan in the 1970s. Dawood Khan, also known as Mohammad Doud Khan, was the President of Afghanistan from 1973 to 1978. Nuristani and Dawood Khan worked together during a tumultuous time in Afghanistan's history. The 1970s were marked by political instability and economic challenges, and Nuristani and Dawood Khan worked together to address these issues and stabilize the country. During this time, Nuristani served as a close advisor to Dawood Khan and played a key role in shaping the country's economic and political policies. He worked to improve relations with other countries and to attract foreign inves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Younis Qanooni Senate Of Poland
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. He is believed to be the Seal of the Prophets within Islam. Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity, with the Quran as well as his teachings and practices forming the basis of Islamic religious belief. Muhammad was born approximately 570CE in Mecca. He was the son of Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib and Amina bint Wahb. His father Abdullah was the son of Quraysh tribal leader Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim, and he died a few months before Muhammad's birth. His mother Amina died when he was six, leaving Muhammad an orphan. He was raised under the care of his grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib, and paternal uncle, Abu Talib. In later years, he would periodically seclude himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdur Razzaq (Taliban Interior Minister)
Mullah Abdur Razzaq Akhundzada (born 1958), an ethnic Pashtun, is a former interior minister in the Afghan government who is believed to be a member of the Taliban leadership. He is rumoured to belong to the Achakzai tribe, from a family of Jalaludin village, Spin Boldak District, Kandahar Province; it is also claimed that he is in fact not an Afghan, but is a Pakistani national. Razzaq traveled to Pakistan in mid-May 2000 to discuss the extradition of criminals, terrorism, drug trafficking and the Afghanistan–Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement. Pakistan demanded the closure of 18 Afghan training camps, where Pakistani militants were believed to be receiving training. The British paper ''The Scotsman ''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its par ...'' reported that Razzaq was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khairullah Khairkhwa
Khairullah Said Wali Khairkhwa ( ps, خیرالله سید ولي خیرخواه ; born 1967) is the current Afghan Minister of Information and Culture and a former Minister of the Interior. After the fall of the Taliban government in 2001, he was held at the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba for 12 years. He was released in late May 2014 in a prisoner exchange that involved Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban five. Press reports have referred to him as ''"Mullah"'' and ''"Maulavi"'', two different honorifics for referring to senior Muslim clerics. Claims from analysts at Guantanamo that Khairkhwa was directly associated with and Taliban Supreme Commander |
Qari Ahmadullah
Qari Ahmadullah ( ps, قاری احمدالله) (born 1975) was an Afghan politician and the Taliban's first interior minister in 1996. He was responsible for bribing anti-Taliban commanders to desert the ranks of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan opposition. Ahmadullah also commanded troops fighting on frontlines in the north of the country against the Northern Alliance. Background According to the Official Journal of the European Union and the testimony of Abdul Haq Wasiq, before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Ahmadullah was the Minister of Security and also Minister of Intelligence and Governor of Takhar Province. Abdul Haq described Ahmadullah as an uneducated man. Summarized transcripts (.pdf) from Abdul Haq Wasiq's ''Combatant Status Review Tribunal'' – pp. 13–24 He was supposedly killed in the opening days of 2002 in the American airstrike against Mullah Taha's house in Zadran (though the Pentagon was unable to confirm Ahmadullah's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamism, Islamist, Jihadism, jihadist, and Pashtun nationalism, Pashtun nationalist political movement in Afghanistan. It ruled approximately three-quarters of the country Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001), from 1996 to 2001, before being overthrown following the United States invasion of Afghanistan, United States invasion. It Fall of Kabul (2021), recaptured Kabul on 15 August 2021 after nearly 20 years of Taliban insurgency, insurgency, and currently controls all of the country, although its government has Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, not yet been recognized by any country. The Taliban government has been criticized for restricting human rights in Afghanistan, including the right of women in Afgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Samad Khaksar
Mullah Abdul Samad Khaksar (1960 – 14 January 2006), also referred to as Mohammad Khaksar in some news reports, served as Minister or Deputy Minister of Interior for Afghanistan under the Taliban government. He was born around 1960 in Kandahar. He received a madrasa education and fought under Hezbi Islami commander Mawlawi Abdul Raziq Muhammad Hasan in Kandahar during the 1980s. He was the Taliban Intelligence Minister from 1994 to 1996 and was later appointed as deputy Interior Minister from 1996 to 2001 during the Taliban rule. Khaksar became unhappy with al-Qaeda's influence in Afghanistan. He reportedly met Osama bin Laden in 1998 following US cruise missile strikes on Al-Qaeda bases and told him to leave Afghanistan. He met with US officials in Peshawar in 1999, offering them help in dealing with bin Laden, but his offer was turned down. He also became an informant for the Northern Alliance. He renounced the Taliban following the US-led invasion in 2001 and encouraged p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raz Muhammad Paktin
Raz may refer to: Places France *Pointe du Raz, the western point of the ''commune'' of Plogoff, Finistère, France *Alderney Race (''Raz Blanchard''), a strong tidal current between La Hague and Alderney *Raz de Sein, a stretch of water located between the Ile de Sein and the Pointe du Raz in Finistère in the Brittany region of France Iran * Raz, Iran, a city in North Khorasan Province, Iran * Raz, Ardabil, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran * Raz, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran * Raz, Zanjan, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran * Raz Galleh, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Raz Rural District, an administrative subdivision of North Khorasan Province, Iran * Shiraz, a city in Iran Other uses * Raz (surname) * Given name ** Raz Gal-Or, an Israeli businessperson in China * Razputin, the protagonist of the video game ''Psychonauts'' * RAZ, IATA airport code for Rawalakot Airport See also * Raj (other) * RAS (other) * Razz (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayyed Mohammed Gulabzoi
''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali, sons of Muhammad's daughter Fatima and his cousin and son-in-law Ali (Ali ibn Abi Talib). While in the early islamic period the title Al-Sayyid was applied on all the members of the of banu hashim, the tribe of Muhammad. But later on the title was made specific to those of Hasani and Hussaini descent, Primarily by the Fatimid Caliphs. Female ''sayyids'' are given the titles ''sayyida'', ''syeda'', ''alawiyah'' . In some regions of the Islamic world, such as in Iraq, the descendants of Muhammad are given the title ''amīr'' or ''mīr'', meaning "aristocrats", "commander", or "ruler". In Shia Islam the son of a non Sayyid father and a Sayyida mother claim the title Mirza. In Sunni Islam a person being a descendant of Muhammad, of either maternal or pate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shir Jan Mazdooryar , Israeli singer
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Shir ( fa, شير, "Lion") may refer to: * Shir, Mazandaran, a village in Fereydunkenar County, Iran * Shir, South Khorasan, a village in Sarbisheh County, Iran * Shir, Syria, a village * Shir (Neolithic site), a site in western Syria, near Hama See also * Arslan, a Persian or Turkic word for 'lion' * Asad, an Arabic term for 'lion' * Bernard Shir-Cliff (1924-2017), American editor * Sher (other) * Shir ha-shirim, also known as The Song of Songs, a biblical scroll * Shira (other) * Shira Haas, Israeli actress * Shirabad (other) * Shiri (other) * Shiri Appleby, American actress of Israeli descent * Shiri Maimon Shiri Maimon (or Maymon, he, שירי מימון ; born ) is an Israeli pop/ R&B singer, TV show host and actress, who rose to fame as the runner-up in the TV show ''Kokhav Nolad''. She represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Aslam Watanjar
Mohammad Aslam Watanjar ( ps, محمداسلم وطنجار, 1946 – November 2000) was an Afghan general and politician. He played a significant role in the coup in 1978 that killed the Afghan president Mohammad Daud Khan and started the "Saur Revolution". Watanjar later became a member of the politburo in the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Early life An Andar Ghilzai Pashtun from Zurmula in Paktia, Aslam Watanjar trained as a tank officer in the Soviet Union following his graduation from the Military Academy in Kabul in 1967. The Saur Revolution Watanjar's role in the communist coup of 1978 was important. Instructed by Hafizullah Amin, he initiated the march of tank forces from the motorized forces of numbers 4 and 15 near Pul-e-Charkhi against the government. Colonel Aslam Watanjar was the Army commander on the ground during the Coup, and his troops gained control of Kabul. Colonel Abdul Qadir, the leader of the Air Force squadrons, also launched a major at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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