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Kandahari (other)
Kandahari may refer to: *something or someone of, from, or related to Kandahar, a city in Afghanistan * Southern Pashto, or Kandahari, a language of Afghanistan * Kandahari rupee, former currency of Afghanistan * Kandahari Begum (1593–?), Indian queen consort * Kako Kandahari, Aghan detainee at Guantanamo See also * Kandari (other) * Kandhari, a surname * Qandahari, village in Baghlan, Afghanistan * Boz Qandahari, village in Kunduz, Afghanistan, site of the Battle of Boz Qandahari * Haji Dost Muhammad Qandhari Khwaja Haji Dost Muhammad Qandhari (Pashto: ) was an Afghan Sufi master in the Naqshbandi tradition in the 19th century (1801–1868). Biography Dost Muhammad was born and received his early education in Kandahar in Afghanistan. While still a you ...
(1801–1868), 19th-century Afghan Sufi saint {{Disambiguation ...
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Kandahar
Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a List of cities in Afghanistan, city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the capital of Kandahar Province as well as the de facto capital of the Taliban, formally known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. It also happens to be the centre of the larger cultural region called Loy Kandahar. In 1709, Mirwais Hotak made the region an independent kingdom and turned Kandahar into the capital of the Hotak dynasty. In 1747, Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the Durrani dynasty, made Kandahar the capital of the Durrani Empire, Afghan Empire. Historically this province is considered as important political area for Afghanistan revelations. Kandahar is one of the most culturally significant cities of the Pashtun people, Pashtuns and has been their traditional seat of power for more than 300 years. ...
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Southern Pashto
Southern Pashto ( ps, جنوبي/سهيلي پښتو) comprises the South Western (Pashto: ) and South Eastern () dialects. South Western Kandahārí Pashtó ( ps, کندهارۍ پښتو), also known as, Southwestern Pashto, is a Pashto dialect, spoken in southern and western Afghanistan, including the city of Kandahar. Kandahari Pashto is spoken in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, most of Urozgan, Farah, and Nimruz, southeastern Ghor, the districts of Murghab, Ghormach, Muqur, and Jawand in Badghis, and parts of Zabul, Paktika, and Herat provinces of Afghanistan. It is also spoken in parts of the provinces of Razavi Khorasan and South Khorasan in Iran, where they numbered roughly 120,000 (in 1993). It is one of the most archaic varieties of Pashto: the Kandahari dialect retains archaic retroflex sibilants, and (in other dialects, they have shifted to ʃ/x and ʒ/g). Kandahari also has the affricates and . Lexical Variation According to the "Pashto Dialectal Diction ...
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Kandahari Rupee
The Afghan 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. In 1891, a new currency was introduced, based on the Kabuli rupee. The rupee was subdivided into 60 ''paisa'', each of 10 ''dinar''. Other denominations issued included the ''shahi'' of 5 paisa, the ''sanar'' of 10 paisa, the ''abbasi'' of 20 paisa, the ''qiran'' of rupee and the ''tilla'' and later the ''amani'', both of Rs. 10/-. The rupee was replaced in 1925 by the Afghani, which is the currency today, but continued to be in circulation until 1978. The rupee itself was first issued by Pashtun monarch Sher Shah Suri during his rule of northern India in the sixteenth century; India still uses its own variant of the rupee (along with Pakistan - ''see'' Pakistani rupee The Pakistani rupee ( ur, / ALA-LC: ; sign: Re (singula ...
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Kandahari Begum
Kandahari Begum (''also spelled Qandahari Begum''; 1593 – ?; also known as ''Kandahari Mahal''; Persian, ur, ; meaning "Lady from Kandahar") was the first wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and the mother of his first child, Princess Parhez Banu Begum. Family and early life Kandahari Begum was born a princess of the prominent Safavid dynasty, the ruling dynasty of Iran (Persia) and one of its most significant ruling dynasties. She was the daughter of decreased Persian dignity from the northern mountains at Kandahar, Sultan Muzaffar Husain Mirza Safavi, of the royal house of Persia, who was the son of Sultan Husain Mirza, the son of Bahram Mirza, the son of Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty. He was the ancestor of Shah Abbas I and also cousin to the Persian ruler. Mirza Muzzaffar having some problems with the Safavid ruling authorities and perceiving the Uzbek pressure to capture Kandahar was forced to capitulate on terms to surrender it to the Mughals. Therefo ...
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Kako Kandahari
According to the United States Department of Defense, it held more than two hundred Afghan detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006. They had been captured and classified as enemy combatants in warfare following the US and allies' invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and disrupt terrorist networks. Originally, the US held such prisoners in sites in Afghanistan, but needed a facility to detain them where they could be interrogated. It opened the Guantanamo Bay detention camp on January 11, 2002, and transported the enemy combatants there. The United States Supreme Court's ruled in ''Rasul v. Bush'' (2004) that the detainees had the right of ''habeas corpus'' to challenge their detention under the US Constitution. That summer, the Department of Defense stopped transferring detained men to Guantanamo. On September 6, 2006, United States President George W. Bush announced the transfer of 14 high value detainees to Guantanamo, including several Afghans. Other Afghans ...
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Kandari (other)
Kandari is a census town in Jalgaon district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Kandari may also refer to: People * Kandari tribe Surname * Ali Al Kandari (born 1985), Kuwaiti footballer * Anas Al Kandari (1981–2002) * Matbar Singh Kandari See also * Kandari Express The 22897 / 98 Kandari Express is an Express train belonging to Indian Railways South Eastern Railway zone that runs between and in India.
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Kandhari
Kandhari is an Indian ( Khatri) toponymic surname indicating association with Kandahar, Afghanistan. Notable people with the name include: * Harjeev Kandhari (born 1975), Indian entrepreneur * Karan Kandhari, Indian film director * LK Kandhari (1931–1971), Indian cricketer * Rishina Kandhari, Indian TV actress Other uses * Red Kandhari, breed of cattle native to Kandhar, Maharashtra, India * Burj Kandhari, village in Punjab, India See also * Qandhari, a region in Pakistan * Kandahari (other) * Kandari (other) Kandari is a census town in Jalgaon district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Kandari may also refer to: People * Kandari tribe Surname * Ali Al Kandari (born 1985), Kuwaiti footballer * Anas Al Kandari (1981–2002) * Matbar Singh Kan ... * Gandhari (other) References {{Reflist Toponymic surnames Indian surnames Surnames of Indian origin People from Kandahar Khatri clans Khatri surnames Hindu surnames Punjabi-l ...
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Qandahari
Qandahari is a village in Baghlan Province in north eastern Afghanistan. See also *Baghlan Province Baghlan (Dari: ''Baġlān'') is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. As of 2020, the province has a population of about 1,014,634. Its capital is Puli Khumri, but its name comes from the other majo ... References External links Satellite map at Maplandia.com {{Baghlan-geo-stub Populated places in Baghlan Province ...
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Battle Of Boz Qandahari
The Battle of Boz Qandahari occurred on 3 November 2016, in the village of Boz Qandahari, on the western outskirts of the Afghan city of Kunduz, between Afghan National Army Commandos alongside United States Army Special Forces against Taliban insurgents. Background The northern province of Kunduz had in recent times experienced several episodes of heavy fighting, with Taliban insurgents briefly taking control of Kunduz city in the fall of 2015 before retreating. During that battle, a U.S. airstrike hit the Kunduz Trauma Centre, a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières, leaving at least 42 people dead and 30 others injured. The area remained volatile during 2016, with numerous kidnappings and roadside bombings occurring on the outskirts of Kunduz. One month before the Boz Qandahari raid, militants attempted to take control of the city for the second time, forcing a two-day battle in which hundreds were killed. Battle The fighting broke out during a training mission c ...
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