- Abdul Rahman
Abdul Rahman was the aviation and tourism minister of Afghanistan until February 14, 2002. He was killed in what appeared to be a mob attack on his plane at Kabul's airport by pilgrims angry that they had been unable to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Witnesses and officials said pilgrims beat the minister to death and tossed his body to the tarmac. However, Prime Minister Hamid Karzai accused six senior government officials of the murder, … - Abdul Rashid Dostum
General Abdul Rashid Dostum (also Abdurrashid Dostum, born in 1954) is the Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Afghan Armed Forces and a powerful warlord. His role as the Chief of Staff, however, is often viewed as ceremonial. He is the principal leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community. Dostum was born in Khvajeh Do Kuh, Afghanistan. In 1970 he began to work in a state-owned gas refinery in Sheberghan, Jowzjan Province, … - Akbar Khan
Mohammed Akbar Khan (1839-1842) was an Afghan general. He was active in the First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839-1842. He is prominent for his siege of Kabul from 1841-1842, and of Gandomak near Jalalabad in 1842. Akbar was the son of Dost Mohammed Khan, and he led a revolt in Kabul against the British mission of William McNaughten, Alexander 'Sekundar' Burnes and their garrison of 4,500 men. - Abdul Salam
American intelligence analysts assert a Taliban leader named Abdul Salam "(or alternatively Abdul Salaam)" was one of the Taliban's commanders on the Kabul front, during the Taliban's collapse, during late 2001. - Babrak Karmal
Babrak Karmal (January 6, 1929 - December 3, 1996) was the third President of Afghanistan (1979 - 1986) during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He is best known of the Marxist leadership. Having been restored to power with Soviet support, he was unable to consolidate his power and, in 1986, he was replaced by Dr. Mohammad Najibullah. He left Afghanistan for Moscow, but returned to Kabul in 1989. He died in Moscow. - Åsne Seierstad
Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist that has written a bestseller and her work has been translated into 38 languages. She studied Russian, Spanish, and the history of Philosophy at Oslo University She worked as a correspondent in Russia between 1993 and 1996. She then worked as a correspondent in China in 1997. 2001 She followed the Northern Alliance into Kabul after the fall of the Taliban government. - Celina Jaitley
Celina Jaitley was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on 9th June 1981.. She was crowned Miss India in 2001. She has appeared in several movies and music videos (including the Bombay Vikings' "Zara Nazron Se Kehdo" video). She was born to an Afghan mother and a Kashmiri father in Kabul, Afghanistan. However she grew up in different cities and mostly spent her time in Kolkata, India. Her father is an army officer and her mother, Meeta Jaitley, is a former beauty queen. - Amanullah Khan
King Amanullah Khan or simply Amanullah Khan (June 1, 1892 - April 25, 1960) was the ruler of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929. He led Afghanistan to independence over its foreign affairs from the United Kingdom, and his rule was marked by dramatic political and social change. Amanullah khan was the son of the King Habibullah Khan. When Habibullah was assassinated on February 20, 1919, … - Mohammed Zahir Shah
Mohammed Zahir Shah (born 16 October 1914) was the last King ("Shah") of Afghanistan, reigning for four decades from 1933 to 1973. - Zakia Zaki
Zakia Zaki (d. June 6, 2007) was an Afghan female journalist. She was the director and owner of Afghan Radio Peace, which broadcast out of Parwan province, north of the capital of Kabul, Afghanistan. Zaki was assassinated on June 6, 2007, by gunmen in front of her 8 year old son. Her murder was seen as part of a series of recent attacks against high profile Afghan women. Her killing was condemned by First Lady Laura Bush. - Afshin Ellian
Afshin Ellian (born 27 February, 1966 in Tehran, Iran) is a Dutch professor of law, philosopher, and poet. He's an expert in international criminal law. - Bismillah Khan
General Bismillah Mohammadi Khan is the Chief of Staff of the National Army of Afghanistan. Before the fall of the Taliban, he was the Northern Alliance's Deputy Minister of Defence, under Ahmad Shah Masood and later Mohammed Fahim. He is an ethnic Tajik from the Panjshir Valley. - Brent Bennett
Brent Bennett is a former U.S. Army paratrooper who was convicted by an Afghan court on September 15, 2004 for participating in torture and kidnapping, and for running a private jail in Kabul. Bennett and his associate Jonathan Idema had been operating as independent security contractors in Afghanistan, but had been representing themselves the American and international media, members of the U.S. military, … - Shah Shuja
Shāh Shujā was the second son of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and empress Mumtaz Mahal. Emperor Shah Jahan appointed Shah Shuja as the "Subahdar" or governor of Bengal in 1639. In 1642, Shuja was also given the charge of the province of Orissa. He ruled the provinces for more than twenty years, from 1639 to 1660. During the period there were two short breaks: first in 1647-1648, … - Habiba Sarabi
Dr. Habiba Sarabi (born 1956) is a hematologist, politician, and reformer of the post-Taliban reconstruction of Afghanistan. In 2005, she was appointed as governor of Bamyan Province by President Hamid Karzai - the first woman to ever be a governor of any province in the country. She previously served in Karzai's government as Minister of Women's Affairs as well as Minister of Culture and Education. She was instrumental in pushing for women's rights and representation. - Jamie Murphy
Jamie Brendan Murphy (1977 - January 26, 2004) was a corporal of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Battalion Group (3 RCR Bn Gp). While serving with that unit's 3rd Battalion as part of Operation Athena, he was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan by a suicide bomber. Murphy had been serving with the military since the age of 19. His death came about a week before his tour of duty was to end, … - Saad Mohseni
Saad Mohseni is an Afghan Australian who returned to his native Afghanistan along with his brothers Zaid Mohseni and Jahid Mohseni in 2002 and established Afghanistan's most diverse media group - Moby Capital Partner - with interests in television, radio, print, directories and IT&T. Prior to helping establish Moby Capital Partners, Saad Mohseni headed an Australian investment banking entity’s Melbourne Equities and Corporate Finance Divisions. - Mohammad Sharif
Professor Mohammed Sharif “Sharifi ”, son of Mohammad Yousuf, was born in Panjshir Province, Afganistan, north of the capital Kabul, in June 1957. He completed his education in the country and is a Master of Mathematics and Physics. He has written some books in the field of Physics. Beside his professional area, he is an intellectual figure who spends his spare time reading Persian poetry. - Gary Schroen
Gary C. Schroen is a former Central Intelligence Agency field officer who was in charge of the initial CIA incursion into Afghanistan in September 2001 to topple the Taliban regime and destroy Al Qaeda. After earning a Bachelor in Arts degree in history from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Schroen was selected in the Central Intellegence Agency. His experience in the U.S. Marine Corps and high grades in college, made him a perfect candidate for the CIA. - Mortimer Durand
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (14 February1850, Sehore, Bhopal, India - 8 June 1924, Polden, Somerset, England), was a diplomat and civil servant of colonial British India. - Nelofer Pazira
Nelofer Pazira (born 1967) is a Canadian filmmaker, author and journalist of Afghanistani descent. Born in India, from Afghanistani parents, where her father was then studying medicine. Pazira grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she lived through ten years of Soviet occupation before escaping with her family to Pakistan in 1989, from where she immigrated to New Brunswick, Canada, in 1990. - Mohammed Ibrahim
Guantanamo captive Mohamed Rahim requested the testimony of a man named Mohammed Ibrahim. According to Rahim he had worked as a buyer for a Kabul Department store. According to Rahim Mohammed Ibrahim was in charge of the store's senior purchasing department. The factors prepared by Guantanamo intelligence analysts allege that Rahim and his boss were "logistics officers" for a Taliban store. - Massouda Jalal
Dr. Massouda Jalal (born January 5, 1962) was the only woman candidate in the Afghan presidential election of 2004. She is from Kabul and has a background as a paediatrician, teacher at Kabul University, and a UN World Food Programme worker. Born in Gul Bahar in Kapisa Province, one of seven children, Jalal moved to Kabul to attend high school. She later attended Kabul University, where she was a member of the faculty until 1996, when the Taliban government had her removed. - Humayun
Nasiruddin Humayun, was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled modern Afghanistan, Pakistan,and the northern parts of India from 1530-1540 and again from 1555-1556. Like his father, Babur, he lost his kingdom early, but with Persian aid, he eventually regained an even larger one. He succeeded his father in India in 1530, while his half-brother Kamran Mirza, who was to become a rather bitter rival, obtained the sovereignty of Kabul and Lahore, … - Dost Mohammad Khan
Dost Mohammad Khan founded the Barakzai ruling dynasty in Afghanistan. His elder brother, the chief of the Barakzai, Fatteh Khan, took an important part in raising Mahmud Khan to the sovereignty of Afghanistan in 1800 and in restoring him to the throne in 1809. Mahmud repaid Fatteh Khan's services by having him assassinated in 1818, thus incurring the enmity of his tribe. After a bloody conflict, Mahmud was deprived of all his possessions but Herat, … - Lida Abdul
Lida Abdul is an Afghanistani artist and one of the notable figures in Persian modern art. She was born in Kabul in 1973 and fled the country during the Soviet Invasion and went on to live in Germany. She has now moved back to Kabul and currently lives on the United States of America. Her most recent work has been featured at the Venice Biennale 2005, Kunsthalle Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Arnhem Netherlands and Miami Cantral, … - Marina Golbahari
Marina Golbahari (born 1989) is an Afghan actress who was born in Kabul. She gained international fame with her role as the title character in the 2003 film "Osama", playing a girl who had to dress and act as a boy to support her family during the Taliban years. She was working on the streets of Kabul as a beggar, asking passers-by for money when she was casually discovered by famed Afghan director Siddiq Barmak, who cast her as Osama. - Sher Ali Khan
Sher Ali Khan (1825-February 21, 1879) was the Emir of Afghanistan from 1863 to 1866 and from 1868 until his death. He was the third son of Dost Mohammed Khan, who founded the Barakzai Dynasty. Sher Ali initially seized power when his father died, but was quickly ousted by his older brother, Mohammed Afzal Khan. Internecine warfare followed until Sher Ali defeated his brother and regained the title of Emir. - Ahmad Zia Massoud
Ahmad Zia Massoud (Born May 1, 1956) is the current vice-president of Afghanistan in the administration of President Hamid Karzai. He is the younger brother of Ahmed Shah Massoud. He was born in Muqur, in the province of Ghazni. He attended Esteqlal College, the French college in Kabul, for his primary and secondary studies, and then entered the Polytechnical School in Kabul. However, he left school in his third year, in 1978, … - Bettina Goislard
Bettina Goislard (11 November 1974 - 16 November 2003) was a French employee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), assigned to its mission in Afghanistan. She was the first United Nations worker to be killed in that country since the fall of the Taliban in December 2001. Goislard, the daughter of career diplomat Bernard Goislard and his English wife, was born in Saumur, France. She took a degree in Arabic in Paris and Cairo and, after graduation, … - Alexander Burnes
Sir Alexander Burnes (1805 - November 2, 1841) was a British traveller and explorer who took part in The Great Game. He was born in Montrose, Scotland. While serving in India in the army of the East India Company which he had joined at the age of sixteen, he learned Hindustani and Persian, and obtained an appointment as interpreter at Surat in 1822. Transferred to Cutch in 1826 as assistant to the political agent, … - Husayn
Husayn (also known as Soltan Hosayn) (1668?-1726) was the last powerful Safavid king of Persia (Iran). He ruled from 1694 to 1722. During his last year of reign, Afghans revolted against his cousin, governor of Kabul. After killing him, they laid siege to Isfahan. He was not informed of the revolt by his courtiers before the siege of Isfahan. He then had to crown the leader of the Afghans, Mahmud, while his son, Tahmasp II continued to claim the throne. - Abdullah Shah
Abdullah Shah (? - April 20, 2004) was an Afghan man was found guilty in Kabul of killing more than 20 people, including his wife. His sanctioned execution was the first in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. Shah served under Zardad Khan, who served under Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Shah earned the nickname Zardad's dog because he was known to attack people like a dog. - Shaima Rezayee
Shaima Rezayee, (1981 - May 18 2005), was a female TV presenter on the Afghan music television channel, Tolo TV. In March 2005, Shaima Rezayee lost her job on the popular show "Hop", an Afghan programme with content similar to the global music video channel MTV, after the programme was criticised by local Islamic clerics. One of the most outspoken critics of "Hop" was Fazl Hadi Shinwari, a chief justice of the Afghan Supreme Court. - Khair Bakhsh Marri
Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri is a politician from Balochistan, Pakistan. He has been leading a nationalist and separatist in the country for the past four decades. He is also the head of his powerful Marri tribe. Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, a Marxist by conviction who believes in “movements of national liberation” went to Afghanistan after the communists took power there in 1979. - Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai
Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai (born 1944) is an Afghan politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1995 to 1996. Ahmadzai was born in Malang village, Khak-e-Jabar district, Kabul province, to the east of Kabul city. He studied engineering at the University of Kabul and then worked in the agriculture ministry. In 1972 he received a scholarship to study in the United States, at Colorado State University. - Pacha Khan Zadran
Pacha Khan Zadran is a powerful militia leader, politician and Pashtun nationalist in the southeast of Afghanistan. He was the ex Soviet-fighter militia leader that drove the Taliban from Paktia Province in the 2001 invasion, with American backing, and he subsequently assumed the governorship of the province. In 2002, he engaged in a violent conflict with rival tribal leaders in the province over the Governorship of the province, … - Hashmat Ehsanmand
Hashmat Ehsanmand, was born into a well educated family in Kabul, Afghanistan on 15th July 1978. He was a young and talented sweet kid, with great hidden potentials. Based on his high level of intelligence he started to learn how to write and read when he was only four years old. When his father found him capable in learning so, he decided to put him in school before the age of six which was the age required for young children to attend school. - Mohan Lal
Mohan Lal was a traveller, diplomat, and author. He played a central role in the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1838–1842. His biography of Dost Mohammad Khan, emir of Kabul, is a primary source on the War. He was born in a Kashmiri Zutshi family of Delhi. His father was Rai Brahm Nath and mother came from the Kaul family of Gwalior. He was amongst the first Indians to receive a Western-Style education at Delhi College. His travels took him to Central Asia, Iran, Khorasan, … - Lyse Doucet
Lyse Doucet (born 24 December, 1958 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada) is a presenter and correspondent for both BBC World Service radio and BBC World television. Occasionally she reports for BBC Radio 4 or BBC television news but is almost unknown to the domestic British audience. She is often deployed to cover special events such as the funeral of Yasser Arafat, reporting of the aftermath of the Tsunami from Tamil Nadu, India in 2004, …
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