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45 unusual facts about Kabul


648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade

They provide Garrison Command, CERP missions, Police Assistance Teams and construction management for the Kabul region.

Afghanistan at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Karim and Hazrat trained at Kabul's National Stadium under Sultan Mahmood, who had participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics as a wrestler.

Alexandros Petersen

He died January 17, 2014 in a Kabul, Afghanistan bombing and shooting rampage that killed a total of 21 people.

Anthony Stack

In January 2004, he deployed with Operation ATHENA to Afghanistan where he served as the Chief of CIMIC Operations for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Kabul.

Aquila Berlas Kiani

Bibi Mehmooda Begum was also the sister of the Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, an Indian-Afghan author and diplomat descended from the Afghan warlord and noble, Jan-Fishan Khan and the Sadaat (descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad) of Paghman near Kabul, Afghanistan.

Åsne Seierstad

There are contradictory accounts regarding Seierstad's legal battles concerning Shah Muhammad Rais (the bookseller portrayed in The Bookseller of Kabul).

The Bookseller of Kabul, her second, bestselling book, is an account of the time she spent living with an Afghan family in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

At Five in the Afternoon

At Five in the Afternoon was the first film to be shot in Kabul after the NATO invasion.

Azerbaijani peacekeeping forces

The Azeri platoon commanded by First Lieutenant Shamil Mammadov performed patrolling duties in the populated district of southern Kabul.

Bhagwant Das

He fought many battles for Akbar including battles in Punjab, Kashmir and Afghanistan, and also remained governor of Kabul.

Cookie pusher

You tell that to Ambassador Khalilzad in Kabul, who spent all of last week and all of last Saturday criss-crossing the country, personal risk to himself, in order to encourage the Afghan people to vote.

Denys Bray

He had a large share in shaping the treaty with Afghanistan negotiated at Kabul by Sir Henry Dobbs in 1921 (which amended the Treaty of Rawalpindi, agreed originally in August 1919, and reaffirmed Britain's recognition of Afghanistan's complete independence, and restored to the Afghans the privilege of importing munitions through India).

Dolaucothi Estate

In 1882 her younger sister Elizabeth went on to marry Lieutenant General Sir James Hills (1833–1919), a Victoria Cross hero of the Indian Mutiny and former military Governor of Kabul.

Habibia High School

Habibia High School is a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, which has educated many of the former and current Afghan elite, including President Hamid Karzai and the country's most famous musician Ahmad Zahir.

Id Gah Mosque

Id Gah Mosque or Eid Gah Mosque is the second largest mosque in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

Izzy Sinclair

In the 2008/2009 Tenth Doctor strip The Stockbridge Child, Izzy is mentioned as having gone travelling around the world by Max who also says she found something "amazing" in Kabul but cannot reveal what before being interrupted by the Doctor's new companion Majenta.

J. J. Benjamin

He then traveled through Syria, Babylonia, Kurdistan, Persia, the Indies, Kabul, and Afghanistan, returning June, 1851, to Constantinople, and then back to Vienna where he stayed briefly before heading to Italy.

January 2010 attack in central Kabul

The January 2010 attack in central Kabul was a suicide attack which occurred in central Kabul, Afghanistan on January 18, 2010 when Taliban gunmen attacked the presidential palace and several government buildings.

Jeffery Hammond

He had previously served as the commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division and of the Multi-National Division in Assistance war Kabul, Afghanistan.

Journal of Irreproducible Results

JIR received attention from American military intelligence when a copy of one of their articles was found among other papers in an abandoned terrorist headquarters in Kabul.

Jund al-Urdunn

During the Fatimid era, the principal cities were Acre, Tiberias, Baysan, Beit Ras, Jadur, Fiq, Tyre, Lajjun, Faradiyya, Kabul and Saffuriya.

Kennedy Fried Chicken

Zia, an Afghan immigrant originally from Kabul, Afghanistan, is known by some as Zia Chicken or "Lau Chicken" and is regarded as the father of Kennedy Fried Chicken.

Kharabat

Kharabat (Kabul), an old district of Kabul Afghanistan close by to "Hinduguzar" (quarter of Hindu and Sikhs)

Laishram Jyotin Singh

Major Laishram Jyotin Singh was an army doctor in the Indian Army Medical Corps, who died fighting a suicide bomber during the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul.

Luqiu Luwei

In 2001, she was the first woman-journalist who headed to Kabul, Afghanistan to broadcast on the events there following the September 11 attacks in the United States.

Manhattan-Kaboul

"Manhattan-Kaboul" is a French song written by Renaud and composed by Jean-Pierre Bucolo, sung by Renaud in duo with Axelle Red, in the album Boucan d'enfer, released in 2002.

Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays

In a response to the disaster, all the adults of Springfield who do not have children (single people, the elderly, couples who do not have children, teenagers, and homosexuals) are up in arms, because Kabul has declared they will no longer be Springfield's sister city and Mayor Quimby forcibly takes $1 million from the audience to cover the damages.

Matthew Zeller

Zeller was instrumental in rallying public support to pressure the US Embassy in Kabul to grant a US visa to his former interpreter in Kabul, Janis Shinwari, as part of the Afghan Allies Protection Act.

Mohammad Omar Daudzai

Mohammad Omar Daudzai was born on October 12, 1957 in the Qarabagh District of the Kabul Province in Afghanistan.

Mohammed Alim Khan

After four days of fighting, the emir’s citadel (Arc) was destroyed, the red flag was raised from the top of Kalyan Minaret, and the Emir Alim Khan was forced to flee to his base at Dushanbe (in present-day Tajikistan), and finally to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he died in 1944.

Müfide İlhan

This time their destination was Kabul, Afghanistan, where her husband, now a professor, had got an invitation to teach in the Medicine school of Kabul University.

Narela

Sarai Narela was important sarai (caravan rest house) on the historic and ever busy Grand Trunk Road, that stretched all the way to Lahore and Kabul and the lifeline of the empire and important trade route.

Rahon

After that period, Rahon began a gradual decline due to epidemics, attacks from foreign invaders, and a reduction in merchant activity when the silk route began to bypass Rahon in favor of Kabul.

Raincliffe School

Victor Harry Moon BEM - lately, security project manager, British Embassy, Kabul

Stewart Wheeler

He served abroad in Washington, D.C., as second secretary, covering congressional relations and energy trade policy; Bogotá, as political counsellor; London, as head of the public affairs team at High Commission; and Kabul, as political program manager at the Canadian embassy in Afghanistan (2010 to 2011).

Surobi

Surobi, Kabul, a town and district centre in Kabul Province, Afghanistan

Task Force 373

The leaked information shows that Task Force 373 uses at least three bases in Afghanistan, in Kabul, Kandahar and Khost.

Teaneck Kebab House

Aqbal Qurbanzada founded the establishment in 2002; he had fled Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1985, and traveled to the United States where he began work in the food industry in New York.

The Afghan Women

In January 2004, Mastrosimone presented a reading of the play to actors in Kabul which is the capital of Afghanistan.

The Noon Gun

In 2006 it was broadcast on Tolo TV, the most popular liberal TV station in Kabul, Afghanistan (and also by the Bhutan Broadcasting Service, the only service to broadcast inside the Bhutanese border).

Timothy J. Kadavy

#April, 2013–Present, Combined Joint Inter Agency Task Force-Afghanistan (CJIATF-A), Kabul, Afghanistan

Tyler Lawlor

Tyler Lawlor (born January 11, 1972 in Kabul, Afghanistan) is a Canadian slalom canoer who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

Type 56 assault rifle

Use of the Type 56 in Afghanistan also continued well into the 1990s and the early 21st century as the standard rifle of the Taliban when Taliban forces seized control of Kabul in 1996 (a majority of the Chinese small arms used by the Taliban were provided by Pakistan).

Wesley Kimler

In that country, the then 20-year old Kimler lived in Herat, Kandahar and Kabul, working as an agent for a dealer in traditional carpets.

Zain Khan Koka

Zain Khan Koka (died 1601) was a leading official in the Mugal Empire under Akbar, including serving for a time as governor of Kabul.


.af

The domain was delegated to an Abdul Razeeq in 1997, this only a year after Taliban fighters had captured Kabul and founded the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

1959 in Afghanistan

The Ariana Afghan Airlines extend their services from Kabul to Frankfurt, Germany, through Ankara, Turkey, and Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Afghan Independence Day

The First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) led to the defeat of the entire British-led Indian invaders by the Afghan National Army (ANA) under Akbar Khan somewhere at the Kabul-Jalalabad Road, near the city of Jalalabad.

Afghan Star

Afghan Star season two started in August 2006 with auditions in Kabul, Mazar, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Peshawar.

Ahmed Gailani

Through his connection with the monarchy, he was able to obtain the Peugeot dealership in Kabul.

Bactria

The Umayyad forces captured the area around Balkh, including Nava Vihara Monastery, causing the Turki Shahis to retreat to the Kabul Valley.

Baha'uddin Jan

He, along with his two sons, was killed following the communist Saur Revolution at the end of the 1970s, by security forces from Kabul who were eliminating political and religious opposition to the new regime.

Bala Hissar, Peshawar

The name was given by the Pashtun King Timur Shah Durrani (1773–1793), who used the fort as the winter capital of the Afghan Durrani Empire, with the summer capital being in Kabul.

Catherine Wheels Theatre Company

Other productions include Caged, Pobby and Dingan (TMA 2010 award winner for Best Show for Children and Young People), The Book of Beasts, Something Wicked This Way Comes (with National Theatre of Scotland), The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk, Hansel and Gretel, Kes, The Lion of Kabul, The Book of Beasts, Cyrano, Snow Baby, and The Story of the Little Gentleman.

Central Pashto

Central Pashto has been developed by the National Radio & Television of Afghanistan and the Academy of Sciences of Kabul.

Charlotte Eagar

Whilst working for a variety of British newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Spectator, The Mail on Sunday and Tatler, she has written stories from such diverse places as Sarajevo, Moscow, Baghdad, Kabul and Rome.

Ghōr Province

In his 2004 travel book, The Places in Between, Rory Stewart travels by foot from Herat to Kabul and on his way, he provides a riveting portrait of Ghor Province as well as much historical information about the region.

Glocal Forum

The WAF program is active in six pilot cities: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Asmara, Eritrea; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Kabul, Afghanistan; Kigali, Rwanda; and Nablus, Palestine and additional cities are expected to join in the coming years.

Hanif Baktash

Mohamad Hanif Baktash, an ethnic Pashtun of the Amarkhel tribe, was born on 9 May 1961 in Maidan Shar (30 km far from Kabul).

Henry Dobbs

Dobbs was the British Representative on the Kabul Mission in January 1921, during which he met with Afghan Foreign Minister Mahmud Tarzi to discuss Anglo-Afghan friendship.

Hezbi Islami

On 16 May 2013 Hezbi Islami claimed responsibility for another attack in Kabul in the form of an explosive-loaded Toyota Corolla that was rammed into a pair of American military vehicles in which 16 people were killed.

Izzatullah

Mullah Ezat or Ezatullah, Afghan commander from Paghman district in Kabul Province and ally of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf who participated in the Afshar Operation

Jorge Scientific Corporation

The company made international headlines in October 2012 when two former employees leaked a video to ABC News showing key personnel at the company drunk or under the influence of narcotics during parties that were allegedly thrown “every other day” at the Jorge Scientific operations centre in Kabul.

Maidan Wardak Province

Maidan Wardak province is located in the Central (or Central East) region of Afghanistan; bordering Parwan to the Northeast, Kabul and Logar to the east, Ghazni to the south and Bamyan to the west.

Manija Dawlat

A recent poll conducted in Kabul named Manija (among Persian speakers) and Nazia Iqbal (among Pashto speakers) as the most popular female singers in that country.

Mohammad Hashem Cheshti

Ustad Hashem was born and raised in an extremely musical family, which originally came from Kasur in Punjab, but settled in the 19th century in Kabul as court musicians.

Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam

From November 2004 to November 2008 he worked as Culture Advisor and Linguist for the US forces in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) and from January 2004 to November 2004 he served as a Main Awareness Trainer, Admin and Logistic Officer and Medical Assistant at the Demobilization Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) project of the United Nations in Kabul.

Norma Fleck Award

Deborah Ellis, Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War

Qazi Mohammad Obaidullah Alvi

He spent four years there and then went to Afghan Capital Kabul as a lecturer of Mass Communication in Journalism Department of Kabul University.

Ram Singh Thakur

Imprisoned at the Kabul Lines of the Delhi Cantonment, Singh was released later as most of the INA troops were released without charge.

Romain Poirot-Lellig

From early 2008 to end of 2010, Romain Poirot-Lellig worked in Kabul, Afghanistan mostly as political advisor to two successive European Union Special Representatives.

Saad Mohseni

Mohseni was born on 23 April 1966 in London, United Kingdom, where his father, Yassin Mohseni, was serving as an Afghan diplomat who throughout a 25 year career served in Kabul, Washington DC, London, Islamabad and Tokyo.

Turquoise Mountain Foundation

Murad Khane is a historic quarter of Kabul on the banks of the Kabul River, home to a multi-ethnic community and a thriving bazaar that attracts 10,000 visitors a week.

William Nott

On 30 August he routed the Afghans at Ghazni, and on 6 September occupied the fortress, from which he carried away, by the governor-general's express instructions, the gates of the temple of Somnath ; on the 17th he joined Pollock at Kabul.

Zaranj

A new highway called Route 606 was built between Zaranj and Delaram in Farah province by the Indian Government's Border Roads Organization at a cost of about US $136 million to open up a link between the deep sea port at Chabahar in Iran to Afghanistan's main ring road highway system which connects Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz.

Zeenat Karzai

Born and raised in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the daughter of a civil servant, Zenat Quraishi moved to Kabul after high school to attend Kabul University.