Qari Ziauddin
Qari Ziauddin (died October 5, 2010) was a local militia leader in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province, the province in the extreme Northeast. According to Pakistan's ''Daily Times'' Qari Ziauddin and five of his men were captured on February 12, 2004 following a gun-battle over the drug trade. Police commander General Sayed Akbar Sayedi said that Qari Ziauddin had engaged with Musadeq, another powerful local militia leader and the mayor of Ordo. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies 20 civilians were killed during the fight. Musadeq was not taken into custody. '' CTV'' quoted Deputy Interior Minister Hilalludin Hillal, who stated the two militia leaders had clashed many times in the past. Several hundred troops from the central government were sent to quell the fighting, which broke out February 5, 2004. The central government's own army only numbered 7,000 troops. The ISAF International Security Assistance Force had 200 German troops stationed in ...
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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 ...
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