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Daykundi Province
Daykundi ( prs, دایکندی) also spelled as Daikundi, Daykondi, Daikondi or Dai Kundi, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the central part of the country. It has a population of about 516,504, and is a Hazara Province. Daykundi Province was carved out of the northern part of Uruzgan Province in 2004, becoming a separate province. It falls into the traditionally ethnic Hazara region known as the Hazaristan (Hazarajat) and the provincial capital is Nili. It is surrounded by Bamyan Province in the northeast, Ghazni Province in the southeast, Uruzgan Province in the south, Helmand Province in the southwest, and Ghor Province in the northwest. History Daykundi was established on March 28, 2004, when it was created from the isolated Hazara-dominated northern districts of neighboring Uruzgan Province. Development and security The province maintains its own security through the Afghan police and military. While the Government of Afghanistan, NGOs, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajran District
Kijran, also spelled as Kajran ( fa, کجران), is a district in Daykundi province in central Afghanistan. It has an area of about 1,886 square kilometres. Demographics The population of the district was reported in 2004 at about 26,259 people. Gallery Additional images of Kajran District available in Wikimedia Commons. AH-64 Apache in Daykundi-2012.jpg, An AH-64 Apache helicopter shoots flares over a valley to support members of the 8th Commando Kandak and coalition special operations forces during a firefight near Nawa Garay village, Kajran district, Daykundi Province, Afghanistan. 120403-N-MY805-260_(6966737976).jpg, Members of the 8th Commando Kandak and coalition Special Operations Forces patrol though a valley near Nawa Garay village, Kajran district, 2012. An_Afghan_Local_Police_officer_patrols_a_checkpoint_in_Kajran_district,_Daykundi_province,_Afghanistan,_Jan_120127-N-JC271-221.jpg, An Afghan Local Police officer patrols a checkpoint in Kajran district, 2012. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Afghanistan
Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces (, '' wilåyat''). The provinces of Afghanistan are the primary administrative divisions. Each province encompasses a number of districts or usually over 1,000 villages. Provincial governors played a critical role in the reconstruction of the Afghan state following the creation of the new government under Hamid Karzai. According to international security scholar Dipali Mukhopadhyay, many of the provincial governors of the western-backed government were former warlords who were incorporated into the political system. Provinces of Afghanistan Regions of Afghanistan UN Regions Former provinces of Afghanistan During Afghanistan's history it had a number of provinces in it. It started out as just Kabul, Herat, Qandahar, and Balkh but the number of provinces increased and by 1880 the provinces consisted of Balkh, Herat, Qandahar, Ghazni, Jalalabad, and Kabul. * Southern Province – dissolved in 1964 to create Paktia Provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. It is the world's largest and most familiar international organization. The UN is headquarters of the United Nations, headquartered on extraterritoriality, international territory in New York City, and has other main offices in United Nations Office at Geneva, Geneva, United Nations Office at Nairobi, Nairobi, United Nations Office at Vienna, Vienna, and Peace Palace, The Hague (home to the International Court of Justice). The UN was established after World War II with Dumbarton Oaks Conference, the aim of preventing future world wars, succeeding the League of Nations, which was characterized as ineffective. On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for United Nations Conference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarwar Sarkhosh
Sarwar Sarkhosh (Dari-Persian: ) was a singer and one of the Hazara nationalists in Afghanistan. He is the elder brother of Dawood Sarkhosh, a famous singer of the Hazara people. Early life Sarwar Sarkhosh was born in 1942, in Urozgan Province (now in Daykundi Province), Afghanistan. He completed his elementary and secondary education in his home town. In the same years, with the imprisonment of his father due to ethnic prejudice against the Hazaras, the family's responsibility fell on him because he was the eldest son of his family, in this reason he was not able to continue his studies. Death In 1983 he traveled from his hometown Uruzgan to Badghis and visited some Hazara people there, after returning from the trip on 1983 he was killed in a terrorist operation. See also * Dawood Sarkhosh * List of Hazara people Hazara people make up the second or third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan with 8–12 million population, making 20%–25% of the total population of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asadullah Saadati
Asadullah Sa'adati ( prs, اسدالله سعادتی) is an ethnic Hazara politician in Afghanistan. He was the representative of this province during the 16th term of Afghanistan Parliament. Early life Asadullah Saadati was born on 2 April 1974 in Shahristan District of Daykundi province. He completed his school education in his city in Daikundi and obtained a bachelor's degree in (Dari-Persian) language from Kabul University in 2005. See also * List of Hazara people Hazara people make up the second or third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan with 8–12 million population, making 20%–25% of the total population of Afghanistan (Some suggest the real population might reach 30%) where they mainly inhabit the ... Notes Living people 1974 births Hazara politicians Hezbe Wahdat politicians People from Daykundi Province Kabul University alumni {{Afghanistan-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadiqi Zada Nili
Nasrullah Sadiqi Zada Nili (Dari: , known as Sadiqi Zada Nili, Dari: ) is an ethnic Hazara politician from Afghanistan. He is the representative of the Daikundi people in the fifteenth and sixteenth parliamentary sessions of the Afghanistan Parliament. Early life Nasrullah Sadiqi Zada Nili, son of the jihadist leader Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili, was born on 1966 in Nili district of Daikundi province. Sadiqi Zada Nili has a bachelor's degree in Islamic sciences. He was a commander in the Nili district and a member of the Hizb-i-Wahdat Party when was a single and united party during the Jihad in Afghanistan. In December 2015, Sadiqi Zada Nili was taken hostage by Taliban during a visit to his own province Daikundi Daykundi ( prs, دایکندی) also spelled as Daikundi, Daykondi, Daikondi or Dai Kundi, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the central part of the country. It has a population of about 516,504, and is a Hazara Pro .... After being 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili
Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili ( prs, محمدحسین صادقی نیلی) was one of the jihadist leaders in Afghanistan. Early life Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili, was born on 1940, in a family of Hazara, in the Nili village of Daykundi. He learned elementary religious knowledge in his hometown, in Nili. Later, in 1970, he went to Najaf, Iraq for advanced religious studies. He is the father of Nasrullah Sadiqi Zada Nili. Death On 15 November 1990, in Nili some of his enemies who were members of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan shot him in his house through the window. In this attack, he and his three-year-old son are killed. See also * List of Hazara people * Nasrullah Sadiqi Zada Nili Nasrullah Sadiqi Zada Nili (Dari: , known as Sadiqi Zada Nili, Dari: ) is an ethnic Hazara politician from Afghanistan. He is the representative of the Daikundi people in the fifteenth and sixteenth parliamentary sessions of the Afghanistan Parl ... Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Sad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarwar Danish
Muhammad Sarwar Danish ( prs, ; born 1961) is an Afghan politician who was the second vice president of Afghanistan, from 2014 to 2021. He was previously the acting minister of justice from 2004 to 2010 and acting minister of higher education from 2010 to 2014. When Daykundi province was carved out of Urozgan province in 2004, Danish became its first governor. Early years and education Danish, the son of Muhammad Ali, was born in 1961 in the Ishtarlay District of Daykundi province in central Afghanistan. He belongs to the Hazara ethnic group. He completed his higher education in Iraq, Syria and Iran, where he earned degrees in law, journalism and Islamic studies. He received a master's degree in Fiqh. From 1982 until 2001, he wrote various publications, including 15 books and 700 academic essays. He became fluent in Dari, Pashto and Arabic language. Karzai administration After the Taliban regime was ousted and the Karzai administration was formed, Danish was involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghanistan Analysts Network
The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) is an independent non-profit policy research and analysis organization. Founded in 2009, it is registered as an association in Germany and Afghanistan, funded in large part by Scandinavian countries, and has a core team based in Kabul, Afghanistan. Up until 2013 when AAN changed its website URL from aan-afghanistan.com to afghanistan-analysts.org, it went under the name Afghanistan Analysts Network.Verified with reference to Archive.org References External links Official website Research institutes in Afghanistan 2009 establishments in Afghanistan {{Afghanistan-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taliban Insurgency
{{Infobox military conflict , partof = the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the Afghanistan conflict , image = 2021 Taliban Offensive.png , image_size = 300px , caption = Map of the 2021 Taliban offensive. , date = 17 December 2001 – 15 August 2021({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=12, day1=17, year1=2001, month2=8, day2=15, year2=2021) , place = Islamic Republic of Afghanistan , result = Taliban victory * Coalition failure to quell the insurgency * Fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan * Reestablishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan , combatant1 = {{flagcountry, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan * Afghan National Security Forces {{collapsible list , bullets= yes , title= {{flagicon image, Flag of the Resolute Support Mission.svg RS (2015 onwards){{cite web, url=http://www.rs.nato.int/troop-numbers-and-contributions/index.php, title=News – Resolute Sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme; it, Programma alimentare mondiale; es, Programa Mundial de Alimentos; ar, برنامج الأغذية العالمي, translit=barnamaj al'aghdhiat alealami; russian: Всемирная продовольственная программа, translit=Vsemirnaya prodovol'stvennaya programma; zh , s = 世界粮食计划署 , p = Shìjiè Liángshí Jìhuà Shǔ (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and the leading provider of school meals. Founded in 1961, WFP is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 80 countries. As of 2021, it supported over 128 million people across more than 120 countries and territories. In addition to emergency food relief, WFP offers technical and development assistance, such as building capacity for emergency preparedness and response, managing supply chains and logistics, promoting social safety progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxfam
Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. History Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics in 1942 and registered in accordance with UK law in 1943, the original committee was a group of concerned citizens, including Henry Gillett (a prominent local Quaker), Theodore Richard Milford, Gilbert Murray and his wife Mary, Cecil Jackson-Cole, and Alan Pim. The committee met in the Old Library of University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, for the first time in 1942, and its aim was to help starving citizens of occupied Greece, a famine caused by the Axis occupation of Greece and Allied naval blockades and to persuade the British government to allow food relief through the blockade. The Oxford committee was one of several local committees for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
