Sheikh Ali ( prs, شیخ علی) is a district in
Parwan Province
Parwan (Dari: ), also spelled Parvan, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 751,000. The province is multi-ethnic and mostly rural society. The province is divided into ten districts. The town of Imam Abu Hani ...
in
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 bordere ...
, which is inhabited by ethnic
Hazara.
The
Sheikh Ali Hazara tribe in Sheikh Ali district are Daikalan,
Naiman,
Qarlugh, Karam Ali and
Babur.
Sheikh Ali also has a small minority of
Ismaili Hazara at the
Bamiyan border of
Shibar Pass.
The main villages of Sheikh Ali are:
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* Jarf, Kajak, Jaukool, Bed: Daikakalan People - Jarf is the hometown of a well known disability rights advocate and anti-disarmament campaigner Firoz Alizada, who leads campaign branch of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in Geneva
* Nerkh Naiman people
* Nawi: the hometown of
Sayed Hussein Anwari
Sayed Hussein Anwari ( prs, سید حسین انوری) (1956 – 5 July 2016) was a politician in Afghanistan. He was a Shia and came from Mohammed Asef Mohseni's Harakat-e Islami (Islamic Movement party).
Early life
Anwari, an ethnic Hazara ...
- the ex-minister of agriculture and ex-governor of
Herat province
Herat ( Persian: ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north-western part of the country. Together with Badghis, Farah, and Ghor provinces, it makes up the north-western region of Afghanistan. Its primary city a ...
. Nawi is the village Sayyid Shi'as.
* Qarlugh
* Karam Ali
See also
*
Sheikh Ali (Hazara tribe)
*
Districts of Afghanistan
The districts of Afghanistan, known as ''wuleswali'' ( ps, ولسوالۍ, ''wuləswāləi''; fa, شهرستان, ''shahrestān'') are secondary-level administrative units, one level below provinces. The Afghan government issued its first d ...
References
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Districts of Parwan Province
Hazarajat
Hazara people