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Dawood Sarkhosh
Dawood Sarkhosh (also spelled as Daud Sarkhosh) (Dari-Persian: ) born 26 April 1971 in Urozgan, Afghanistan, is an ethnic Hazara singer, musician and poet. Early life Sarkhosh's inspiration was his older brother Sarwar Sarkhosh, a nationalist and legendary musician of his times who was killed during the civil war. Sarkhosh learned playing dambura and singing from him at the age of seventeen. After the death of his brother Sarkhosh migrated to Pakistan first to Peshawar city then moved to Quetta, Pakistan. Career Sarkhosh revived his skills by singing and composing songs inspired by a sense of nationalism and suffering in exile. He did not sing for commercial gain, but out of nostalgia and to convey the feelings about refugee life as experienced by refugees of Afghanistan dispersed throughout the world. They went to his concerts in their thousands, marking Sarkhosh's rise as a singer. It was in Quetta that he mastered the harmonium under the Pakistani composer Arbab Ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urozgan
Uruzgan (Dari), also spelled as Urozgan or Oruzgan, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. Uruzgan is located in the center of the country. The population is 436,079, and the province is mostly a tribal society. Tarinkot serves as the capital of the province. In 2004, the new Daykundi Province was carved out of an area in the north. Uruzgan borders the provinces of Kandahar Province, Kandahar, Daykundi Province, Daykundi, Ghazni Province, Ghazni, Zabul Province, Zabul, and Helmand Province, Helmand. Geography Uruzgan province is located in southern Afghanistan, bordering Zabul Province, Zabul and Kandahar Province, Kandahar to the south, Helmand Province, Helmand to the southwest, Daykundi Province, Daykundi to the north, and Ghazni Province, Ghazni to the east. Uruzgan covers an area of . Much of the province is mountainous or semi-mountainous terrain, while the rest of the area is made up of flat land. History The Arabs were first to arrive in Uruzgan in the 7th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Daykundi Province
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian-language Singers
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a derivatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghan Male Singers
Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity **Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pashtun ethnicity **Ethnic groups in Afghanistan, people of various ethnicities that are nationally Afghan *Afghan Hound, a dog breed originating in the mountainous regions of Afghanistan and the surrounding regions of Central Asia *Afghan (blanket) *Afghan coat *Afghan cuisine People * Sediq Afghan (born 1958), Afghan philosopher * Asghar Afghan (born 1987), former Afghan cricketer * Afgansyah Reza (born 1989), Indonesian musician also known as "Afgan" * Afghan Muhammad (died 1648), Afghan khan in modern day Russia * Azad Khan Afghan (died 1781), Afghan Commander and Ruler Places * Afghan, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Other uses * Afghan (Australia), camel drivers from Afghanistan and Pakistan who came to the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Quetta
This is the list of notable people who were born, lived or grew up in Quetta (the provincial capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan) and Quetta District. List is ordered by the professions of people. Civil and military officers * Abdul Qadir Baloch Retd Pakistan Army officer * Yazdan Khan * Musa Khan * Chris Keeble * George Philip Bradley Roberts * Ian Jacob * James Cassels * Patrick Hore-Ruthven * Samad Ali Changezi * Sharbat Ali Changezi Retd officer Pakistan Air Force Film, radio and television people * Abid Ali * Abid Ali Nazish * Avice Landone * Ayub Khoso Actor * Dur Mohammad Kassi TV Producer and Director * Hameed Sheikh Actor * Humaima Malick * Jamal Shah Actor * Merle Tottenham * Nadia Afghan * Neil North * Suresh Oberoi * Veena * Zeba Bakhtiar Journalists, poets and writers * Agha Sadiq * Ali Baba Taj * Alison Plowden * Mohsin Changezi * Muneer Ahmed Badini * Russi Karanjia * Siddiq Baloch * Wajahat Saeed Khan * Zafar Mairaj * Hasrat Mithrvi Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dombra Players
The ''dombra'', also known as ''dombyra'' ( kz, домбыра, uz, dombira, ba, думбыра) is a long-necked Kazakh, Uzbek and Bashkir lute and a musical string instrument. The dombyra shares certain characteristics with the komuz and dutar, such as its long, thin neck and oblong body shape. It is a popular instrument mostly among Turkic communities in Central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. Varieties The instrument differs slightly in different regions. The Kazakh dombyra has frets and is played by strumming with the hand or plucking each string individually, with an occasional tap on the main surface of the instrument. While the strings are traditionally made of sinew, modern dombras are usually produced using nylon strings. One of the greatest dombra players was the Kazakh folk musician and composer Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly, who had a major influence on the development of Kazakh musical culture, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazara Singers
Hazara may refer to: Ethnic groups * The Hazaras, a Persian-speaking people of Afghanistan and Pakistan * Aimaq Hazara, Aimaq's subtribe of Hazara origin * Hazarawals, a Hindko-speaking people of the Hazara region of northern Pakistan * Hazara-i-Karlugh Places Afghanistan * Hazarajat, a historic region of Afghanistan Pakistan * Hazara, Pakistan, a region in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ** Hazara Division, an administrative division ** Hazara District, a former district (until 1976) ** Hazara University, in Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa * Hazara, Swat, a village in Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa * Hazara Town, an area on the outskirts of Quetta, Balochistan * Takht Hazara, a village in Punjab People with the name * Faiz Mohammad Kateb Hazara * General Muhammad Musa Khan Hazara * Abdul Khaliq Hazara (assassin) * Abdul Khaliq Hazara (politician) See also * Hasara, a village in Nepal * Hazara Expedition of 1888, a campaign by British India against rebelling tribes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Births
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom ''All in the Family'', starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS. * January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazara Diaspora
The Hazara people are an ethnic group who are mostly from Afghanistan, primarily from the central regions of Afghanistan, known as Hazarajat, they established a large diaspora which consists of many communities in different countries around the world as part of the later Afghan diaspora. There are currently a million Hazara who live in the Balochistan province of Pakistan mostly in Quetta, Census of Afghans in Pakistan '' Statistical Summary Report'' (retrieved 22 October 2011) many of whom have been settled in the country for generations and are now |
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 Hazaristan region, as well as parts of Pakistan, especially Balochistan and Iran. The Hazaras have immigrated to Iran, Australia, Europe, and North America in the last several decades also as part of these two intertwined diasporan groupings, as part of the Hazara and wider Afghan diaspora. Politicians * Abdul Ali Mazari * Muhammad Yusuf Khan Hazara * Muhammad Ibrahim Khan * Karim Khalili * Sultan Ali Keshtmand * Daoud Naji * Ramazan Bashardost * Mohammad Mohaqiq * Qazi Muhammad Essa * Habiba Sarabi * Sima Samar * Hussain Ali Yousafi * Muhammad Ali Jawid * Maryam Monsef * Abdul Khaliq Hazara * Akram Yari * Ahmad Behzad * Jan Ali Changezi * Qurban Ali Oruzgani * Abdul Haq Shafaq * Sayed Anwar Rahmati * Azra Jafari * Sayyid Ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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