Fereshta Samah

Fereshta Samah

female
Demographics of Afghanistan, residency, childhood, singer, kabul, Resident
Fereshta Samah is an Afghan singer. She is a resident of Germany now, having spent most of her childhood there. She is the younger sister of...

Mike Edwards

male
kabul, territorial army, basra, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, stv central, Scotland Today
Mike Edwards is a senior reporter on STV Central's news programme, "Scotland Today". Born and bred in Inverness, Mike has been a journalist for...

Parwin Pazwak

female, 42 years old
Afghan expatriate in Canada, Tajiks, tajik, South Asian Canadian, writer, Persian literature…kabul
Parwin Pazwak(Born 1967 Kabul) is a Tajik-Afghanistani artist and a modern Persian poet and writer. Parwin was born to the Pazwak literary and...

Eldred Pottinger

male, deceased (1843)
Shah Shuja, Persian Empire, herat, diplomat, British Empire, khyber pass…kabul
Eldred Pottinger (1811-1843), Anglo-Indian soldier and diplomatist, entered the Bombay Artillery in 1827, and after some years of regimental duty...
Abdul Ahad Mohmand

Abdul Ahad Mohmand

male, 50 years old
afghan, cosmonaut, gmt, kabul, pashtun, Hero of the Soviet Union
Abdul Ahad Mohmand became the first cosmonaut from Afghanistan. He spent nine days in space aboard the Mir space station in 1988. This historical...
Abdul Jabbar Naeemi

Abdul Jabbar Naeemi

male
Politician of Afghanistan, politician, pashtun, taliban, diplomat, opium…kabul
Abdul Jabbar Naeemi is an Afghan diplomat and politician. He at one time served as a representative from Kandahar Province to the Loya Jirga (Grand...

George Pollock

male, deceased (1872)
Massacre of Elphinstone's army, Lord Auckland, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, massacre, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel…kabul
Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCSI, (1786-1872) was a British field marshal. George Pollock entered the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich...

George Trebeck

male, deceased (1825)
kabul, Geographer, ladakh, west bengal, kunduz, calcutta
George Trebeck (1800-1825) was born in Middlesex, England in the year 1800. He moved to Calcutta, West Bengal circa 1815 with his father Charles...

Sher Alam Ibrahimi

male
Politician of Afghanistan, governor, Warlord, taliban, kabul, politician
Sher Alam Ibrahimi is the Governor of Ghazni Province. A former Mujahadeen - warlord figher associated with Rasool Sayyaf, Ibrahmi was a police...
Valentin Varennikov

Valentin Varennikov

male, 86 years old
Russian, Soviet war in Afghanistan veteran, Minister of Defence, Battle of Berlin, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Frunze Military Academy…kabul
Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov is a Soviet/Russian general and politician. Valentin Varennikov was born in a poor Cossack family in Krasnodar. He...