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Wazir (other)
Wazir often refers to: * Vizier or wazir, a high-ranking political advisor or minister Wazir may also refer to: Places * Wazirabad, a City in Punjab, Pakistan * Waziristan, a region in tribal belt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan * Wazir Akbar Khan (Kabul), a neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan * Wazir, Nangarhar, a village in Khogyani District, Afghanistan Other uses * Wazir (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves one space in an orthogonal direction * ''Wazir'' (film), a 2016 Bollywood film starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar * Wazir (Pashtun tribe), a tribe in Waziristan, Pakistan * Wazir (Khogyani clan), a tribe in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan * Waziri language, a dialect of the Pashto language spoken in Waziristan region of Pakistan * Wazir Khan Mosque, a mosque in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan * Wazir, a class for viziers in Brunei. People with the name * Wazir Khan (Lahore), 17th-century court physician to Shah Jahan * Wazir Khan (Sirhind) (died 1710), governor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vizier
A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was at first merely a helper but afterwards became the representative and successor of the ''dapir'' (official scribe or secretary) of the Sassanian kings. In modern usage, the term has been used for government ministers in much of the Middle East and beyond. Several alternative spellings are used in English, such as ''vizir'', ''wazir'', and ''vezir''. Etymology Vizier is suggested to be an Iranian word, from the Pahlavi root of ''vičir'', which originally had the meaning of a ''decree'', ''mandate'', and ''command'', but later as its use in Dinkard also suggests, came to mean ''judge'' or ''magistrate''. Arthur Jeffery considers the word to be a "good Iranian" word, as has a well-established root in Avestan language. The Pahlavi ''viči ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wazir Akbar Khan
Wazīr Akbar Khān (Pashto/Dari: ; 1816-1847), born Mohammad Akbar Khān () and also known as Amīr Akbar Khān (), was an Afghan prince, general, emir for a year, and finally wazir/heir apparent to Dost Mohammad Khan until his death in 1847. His fame began with the 1837 Battle of Jamrud, while attempting to regain Afghanistan's second capital Peshawar from the Sikh Empire. Wazir Akbar Khan was militarily active in the First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839 to 1842. He is prominent for his leadership of the national party in Kabul from 1841 to 1842, and his 1842 retreat from Kabul, massacre of Elphinstone's army at the Gandamak pass before the only survivor, the assistant surgeon William Brydon, reached the besieged garrison at Jalalabad on 13 January 1842. Wazir Akbar Khan became the list of monarchs of Afghanistan, emir of Afghanistan in May 1842, and ruled until Dost Mohammad Khan's return in 1843. In 1847 Wazir Akbar Khan died of cholera. Early life Akbar was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usman Wazeer
Usman Wazeer (; born 16 April 2000; commonly known as Usman ‘The Asian Boy’ Wazeer) is a Pakistani professional boxer who currently holds the Asian Boxing Federation Welterweight title. He is the first Pakistani to win the title. Early life Usman Tajwar was born on the 16 April 2000 in the Astore District of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. After spending his youth in Astore, Wazeer and his family shifted to Islamabad in 2009 after which he joined the Army Public School Chinar Campus in Murree. In 2015, Wazeer accidentally stumbled upon boxing while playing football in the Islamabad Sports Complex when a local boxing group motivated him to take up the sport because of his boxer like physique and looks. Amateur career Usman Wazeer began his amateur boxing career in April 2015. He joined the Army Camp GHQ where Wazeer began his training with former Olympian Boxer Ahmed Ali Khan. Quickly rising through the ranks, Wazeer started competing at club level, then Islamabad level ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safiya Wazir
Safiya Wazir (; born 1991) is an Afghan-American community activist and politician. She served as a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Wazir is the first former refugee to serve in the New Hampshire State House. Early life and education Wazir and her family lived in Baghlan Province in Afghanistan prior to Taliban rule. Her family left during her childhood, and they spent ten years in Uzbekistan before immigrating to Concord, New Hampshire. She knew little English upon her arrival and studied the dictionary to learn. Her family was unable to communicate in English shortly after their arrival but received assistance from a Lutheran organization and often ate only rice. She was forced to restart her secondary school education and thus graduated from high school at age 20. She enrolled in the New Hampshire Technical Institute, where she took night classes so she could support her family. She graduated from the community college with a degree in busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alam Ara
''Alam Ara'' () is a 1931 Indian Hindustani-language historical fantasy film directed and produced by Ardeshir Irani. It revolves on a king and his two wives, Navbahaar and Dilbahaar, who are childless; soon, a '' fakir'' (Muhammad Wazir Khan) tells the king that the former wife will give birth to a boy, later named Qamar (Master Vithal), but the child will die following his 18th birthday if Navbahaar cannot find the necklace he asks for. Meanwhile, the king finds out that Dilbahaar falls for the ''senapati'' Adil (Prithviraj Kapoor), leading the king to arrest him and evicts his pregnant wife, who later gives birth to Alam Ara (Zubeida). Irani was inspired to make ''Alam Ara'', after watching the 1929 American part-talkie ''Show Boat''. The story was adapted from the Bombay-based dramatist Joseph David's play of the same name. Made on a budget of , principal photography was handled by Adi M. Irani within four months in Bombay (present-day Mumbai). Because the studio was locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghan Detainees At Guantanamo Bay
According to the United States US Department of Defense, 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 sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalid Wazir
Syed Khalid Wazir (27 April 1936 – 27 June 2020) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1954. He was selected for the 1954 tour of England after just two first-class matches in which he had made 18 runs and taken 5 wickets. In 16 first-class matches on the tour he made 253 runs at 16.86 as a middle-order batsman and took 9 wickets at 54.90. He played in the first and third Tests, batting in the lower order and not bowling. He played no more first-class cricket after the tour, and is thus the only Test cricketer whose first-class career ended before he turned 19. He played one match as a professional for East Lancashire in the Lancashire League in 1957, taking 5 for 57. Early education and family He was educated at the St. Patrick's High School, Karachi. His father Wazir Ali played Test cricket for India in the 1930s. References External links Khalid Wazir at Cricinfo 1936 births 2020 deaths Pakistani cricketers Khalid Wazir Syed Khalid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalil Al-Wazir
Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir Standardized Arabic transliteration: '' / / '' ( ar, خليل إبراهيم الوزير, also known by his '' kunya'' Abu JihadStandardized Arabic transliteration: ' —"Jihad's Father"; 10 October 1935 – 16 April 1988) was a Palestinian leader and co-founder of the nationalist party Fatah. As a top aide of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat, al-Wazir had considerable influence in Fatah's military activities, eventually becoming the commander of Fatah's armed wing al-Assifa. Al-Wazir became a refugee when his family was expelled from Ramla during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and began leading a minor ''fedayeen'' force in the Gaza Strip. In the early 1960s he established connections for Fatah with Communist regimes and prominent third-world leaders. He opened Fatah's first bureau in Algeria. He played an important role in the 1970–71 Black September clashes in Jordan, by supplying besieged Palestinian fighters with weap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mir Kalam
Mir Kalam Khan Wazir (Pashto/Urdu: ) is a Pakistani politician and a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He is a founding member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). On 30 August 2020, Mir Kalam survived an assassination attempt by two gunmen as he was traveling in his car in Mirali, North Waziristan after participating in a protest. He lamented that the police had not made any progress in investigating the case. Early life and education Mir Kalam was born and raised in Asadkhel, a village about northeast of the hill station of Razmak, in the Dossali Subdivision of North Waziristan, Pakistan. In 2011, he graduated from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Peshawar. Political career Kalam contested 2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election on 20 July 2019 from constituency PK-112 (North Waziristan-II) as an independent. He won the election by the majority of 4,079 votes over the runner up Mir Sadiqullah of Jamiat Ule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arif Wazir
Sardar Muhammad Arif Afghan Wazir ( ps, محمد عارف افغان وزیر; 2 May 1982 – 2 May 2020) was a Pashtun nationalist politician, activist, and one of the leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). He was a member of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP) and its president for the South Waziristan chapter. He also headed the FATA Political Alliance South Waziristan, which campaigned for the rights of the people of former Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Wazir's family was long active in the Pashtun nationalist movement and opposed to the Talibanization of the former tribal areas, earning them the militants' enmity. His father (Saadullah Jan), two brothers (Ibrahim and Ishaq), two uncles (Malik Mirzalam and Feroz Khan) and two cousins (Tariq and Farooq Wazir) were all murdered in targeted killings, and he also survived assassination attempts himself. He spent a significant amount of time in jail in the last few years of his life, especially after joining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Wazir
Muhammad Ali Wazir (Pashto/Urdu: ) is a Pakistani Pashtun politician who is the co-founder of a human rights movement, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. During his student life, he was active in the Pashtun Students Federation (PSF), an allied wing of the Awami National Party (ANP). Wazir's family was long active in the Pashtun nationalist movement and opposed to the Talibanization of the former tribal areas, earning them the militants' enmity. His father (Malik Mirzalam), two brothers (Farooq and Tariq), two uncles (Saadullah Jan and Feroz Khan), and three cousins (Ibrahim, Ishaq and Arif Wazir) were all murdered in targeted killings. On 3 June 2018, Ali Wazir himself survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban in Wanna, South Waziristan, who opened fire on him, killing four supporters of PTM and injuring dozens others (including Arif Wazir). On 16 December 2020, Wazir was arrested on allegations o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haji Wazir (Bagram Detainee)
Haji Wazir is a citizen of Afghanistan who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, and held since then in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Bagram Theater internment facility. He is notable because he is one of the very few detainees in Bagram who has had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf. According to Lal Gul, chairman of the Afghan Human Rights Organization, Haji Wazir: ''"is not a commander, not a member of the Taliban or al-Qaeda. He is a businessman."'' Wazir is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on January 31, 2007. On June 29, 2009 US District Court Judge John D. Bates ruled that Wazir, unlike non-Afghans held in Bagram, was not entitled to pursue his habeas corpus petition. ''The Guardian'' reported that Wazir was apprehended in the United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
