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List Of Taliban Provincial Governors
This is a list of provincial governors of the Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001), Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) from 1996 to 2001. Much of the information is drawn from a United Nations list of senior Taliban leaders. {, class="wikitable sortable" , + Taliban provincial governors , - ! Honorific , , Name , , Province , , Notes , - , Mullah , , Mohammad Hasan Rahmani , , Kandahar Province , , , - , Maulavi , , Abdul Kabir , , Nangahar Province , , * Second Deputy, Council of Ministers * Head of Eastern Zone , - , Maulavi , , Abdul Jabbar Omari , , Baghlan Province , , Guarded Mullah Omar, Mohammed Omar in the years after the US invasion. , - , Maulavi , , Norullah Noori , , Balkh Province , , * Head of Northern Zone , - , , , Muhammad Islam , , Bamiyan Province , - , Mullah , , Janan , , Faryab Province , - , Mullah , , Dost Mohammad (Taliban Governor of Ghazni), Dost Mohammad , , Ghazni Province , - , Maulavi , , Khair Mohamma ... [...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] |
Dost Mohammad (Taliban Governor Of Ghazni)
Dost Mohammad ( Urdu/ Dari: دوست محمد), Dost Mohammad, Dost Mahomet and other variants is a male Muslim given name meaning ''friend of Muhammad''. Notable bearers of the name include: *Dost Muhammad (Moghul Khan) (1445–1468/9), Khan of Aqsu in Moghulistan *Dost Mohammad of Bhopal (1657–1728), founder of the Bhopal State in central India * Dost Mohammad Khan (1793–1863), Amir of Afghanistan, founder of the Barakzai dynasty * Haji Dost Muhammad Qandhari (1801–1868), Afghan Sufi master *Dost Mahomet (1873–1909), Australian cameleer *Dost Mohammad Khan Baloch (died 16 January 1930), ruler of Western Baluchistan until 1928 *Dost Muhammad Khan (judge) (born 1953), judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan * Dost Muhammad Khosa (born 1973), Pakistani politician *Dost Muhammad Rahimoon (born 1976), Pakistani politician, former Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh *Dost Muhammad Mazari, Pakistani politician, Deputy Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab *Dost Muh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Azadi
Radio Azadi (formerly Radio Free Afghanistan) is the Afghan branch of the U.S. government's Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL) external broadcast services. It broadcasts 12 hours daily as part of a 24-hour stream of programming in conjunction with Voice of America (VOA). Radio Free Afghanistan first aired in Afghanistan from 1985 to 1993 and was re-launched in January 2002. Radio Azadi produces a variety of cultural, political, and informational programs that are transmitted to listeners via shortwave radio, satellite and AM and FM signals provided by the International Broadcasting Bureau. According to Radio Azadi, their mission is "to promote and sustain democratic values and institutions in Afghanistan by disseminating news, factual information and ideas". Present The U.S. Congress appropriated funding for broadcasting to Afghanistan in December 2001 as part of an effort to build a peaceful and democratic country, following the U.S.-led ouster of the Taliban regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhtar Mohammad Mansour
Akhtar Mohammad Mansour (1960s21 May 2016) was the second Supreme Leader of Afghanistan, supreme leader of the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan. Succeeding the founding leader, Mullah Omar, he was the supreme leader from July 2015 to May 2016, when he was killed in a drone strikes in Pakistan, US drone strike in Balochistan, Pakistan. United States president of the United States, president Barack Obama stated that Mansour was killed because he was planning attacks on US targets in Kabul. Obama hoped Mansour's death would lead to the Taliban joining a Afghan peace process, peace process. Personal life Mansour was born sometime during either 1960, 1963, 1965 or 1968. According to the Taliban, he is thought to have been born either in a village named Kariz or another village named Band-i-Taimoor, both of which are situated within the Maiwand District of Kandahar Province in southern Kingdom of Afghanistan, Afghanistan. The biography released by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabul Province
Kabul (Persian: ), 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 and largest city. The population of the Kabul Province is over 5 million people as of 2020, of which over 85 percent live in urban areas. The current governor of the province is Qari Baryal. It borders the provinces of Parwan to the north, Kapisa to the north-east, Laghman to the east, Nangarhar to the south-east, Logar to the south, and Wardak to the west. Geography Kabul is located between Latitude 34-31' North and Longitude 69-12' East at an altitude of 1800 m (6000 feet) above sea level, which makes it one of the world's highest capital cities. Kabul is strategically situated in a valley surrounded by high mountains at crossroads of north-south and east-west trade routes. One million years ago the Kabul region was surrounded from south-east between Lowgar and Paghman Mountains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manan Nyazi
Manan may refer to: People with the name * Manan Ahmed Asif (born 1971), Pakistani-American historian * Manan Chandra (born 1981), Indian snooker and pool player *Manan Desai (born 1987), Indian actor and comedian * Manan Hingrajia (born 1998), Indian cricketer * M. A. Manan (1930s–2009), Bangladesh politician * Anuar Manan (born 1986), Malaysian cyclist * Bagir Manan (born 1941), Indonesian jurist * K. K. Manan (fl. 2000s–2010s), Indian jurist *Mian Abdul Manan, Pakistani politician *Manan Sharma (born 1991), Indian cricketer who plays for Delhi cricket team in domestic cricket *Suryatati Abdul Manan (born 1953), Malay politician * Manan Trivedi (born 1974), American physician and politician * Manan Vohra (born 1993), Indian cricketer Places * Mānān, a 10th-century town in the Kanem–Bornu Empire in central Africa * Manan-gu, a district (''gu'') of Anyang, South Korea * Manan, Kapurthala, a village in Punjab, India Other uses * Manan (reflection), or manana, in India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jawzjan Province
Jowzjan, sometimes spelled Jawzjan or Jozjan ( Dari: ), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country bordering neighboring Turkmenistan. The province is divided into 11 districts and contains hundreds of villages. It has a population of about 613,481, which is multi-ethnic and mostly agriculturalists. Sheberghan is the capital of Jozjan province. History The province is named after the early medieval region and principality of Juzjan. Between the early 16th century and mid-18th century, the area was ruled by the Khanate of Bukhara. It was conquered by Ahmad Shah Durrani and became part of the Durrani Empire in or about 1750, which formed to the modern state of Afghanistan. The area was untouched by the British during the three Anglo-Afghan wars that were fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Recent history Following a series of changing allegiances and falling out with Uzbek warlord Abdul Malik Pahlawan in 1997, the Taliban withdr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunduz Province
Qunduz (Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northern part of the country next to Tajikistan. The population of the province is around 1,136,677, which is mostly a tribal society; it is one of Afghanistan's most ethnically diverse provinces with many different ethnicities in large numbers living there.Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=senior_seminar The city of Kunduz serves as the capital of the province. It borders the provinces of Takhar, Baghlan, Samangan and Balkh, as well as the Khatlon Region of Tajikistan. The Kunduz Airport is located next to the provincial capital. The Kunduz River valley dominates the Kunduz Province. The river flows irregularly from south to north into the Amu Darya river which forms the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. A newly constructed bridge crosses the Amu Darya at Sherkhan Bandar and the international trade is a large source ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazar Mohammad (Taliban Governor Of Kunduz)
Nazar Mohammad (5 March 1921 – 12 July 1996) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in five Test matches in 1952. He was educated at Islamia College, Lahore. Family His brother Feroz Nizami was a famous music composer while his other brother Siraj Nizami was a writer specializing in Sufism Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, r .... His son Mudassar Nazar also represented Pakistan in cricket for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, and he was the uncle of Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Ilyas. Career In October 1952, in Pakistan's second Test match and first Test victory, he became the first player to score a Test century for Pakistan, and the first player to remain on the ground for an entire Test match. An opening batsman, he carried his bat for his score of '12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmand Province
Helmand (Pashto/Dari: ; ), also known as Hillmand, in ancient times, as Hermand and Hethumand, is one of the 34 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 cr ..., in the south of the country. It is the largest province by area, covering area. The province contains 13 Districts of Afghanistan, districts, encompassing over 1,000 villages, and roughly 1,446,230 settled people. Lashkargah serves as the provincial capital. Helmand was part of the ''Loy Kandahar, Greater Kandahar'' region until made into a separate province by the Politics of Afghanistan, Afghan government in the 20th century. The Helmand River flows through the mainly desert region of the province, providing water used for irrigation. The Kajaki Dam, which is one of List of dams and reservoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Bari (Taliban Governor Of Helmand)
Abd al-Bari ( ar , عبد الباري) is a male given name using the words '' Abd'', '' al-'' and ''Bari'', the name means ''Servant of the Creator''. The name is subject to variable spacing, spelling, and hyphenation. It may refer to: * Abdul Bari Firangi Mahali (1878–1926), Indian author and pan-Islamist *Abdul Bari Nadvi (1886–1976), Indian author and educationalist *Abdul Bari (professor) (1892–1947), Indian freedom fighter, politician and union leader *Muhammad Abdul Bari (academic) (1930–2003), Vice-Chancellor of Rajshahi University and the Chairman of University Grants Commission *Abdul Bari (squash player) (died 1954), Indian squash player *Abdel Bari Atwan (born 1950), Palestinian-British journalist * Muhammad Abdul Bari (born 1953), Bangladeshi-British Muslim author and community leader *Adel Abdel Bari Adel Mohammed Abdel Magid Abdel Bari ( ar, عادل محمد عبد المجيد عبد الباري; born 24 June 1960) is an Egyptian terrorist. He was, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
