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3 unusual facts about SPLA-Nasir


James Wani Igga

Igga was one of the SPLA's most senior representatives during negotiations with SPLA-Nasir.

SPLA

SPLA-Nasir and SPLA-United, a Sudanese breakaway faction formed in 1991

SPLA-Nasir

Other commanders with whom he initially spoke suggested that he bring in Riek Machar, a well-liked senior commander whose base in Nasir gave him easy access across the Ethiopian border to Gambela and the SPLA rear bases where Lam and Riek could gain political support.


1998 Sudan Air Force crash

The 1998 Sudan Air Force crash was the crash of a Sudan Air Force transport plane at Nasir that killed several of the country's most senior government leaders, including the Vice President Zubair Mohamed Salih.

2009 Sobat River ambush

The convoy was stopped about ten or twenty miles downstream of Nasir by a force of Jikany Nuer tribesmen.

Ahmed Haroun

In June 2011, Haroun defeated Abdelaziz al-Hilu of the SPLA to become the governor of South Kordofan in an election rejected by the SPLA as rigged.

An-Nasir Muhammad

When al-Mutawakkil al-Qasim died in 1727, an-Nasir Muhammad once again claimed the imamate from his base in Zafar, north-west of San'a.

An-Nasir Muhammad bin Abdallah

After the death of a-Mansur in Kawkaban, Izz ad-Din Muhammad was proclaimed as imam under the name an-Nasir Muhammad.

Arok Thon Arok

In late 1992 Arok escaped from SPLA imprisonment, together with Kerubino Kuanyin,

Daniel Awet Akot

Akot also became governor of Bahr el Ghazal and the overall commander of SPLA forces in that region.

Elijah Malok Aleng

The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) forces of Eagle Battalion, whom they were commanding, were largely made up of Dinka elements from Northern Bahr el Ghazal specifically from Abiei, Gogrial and Aweil Counties.

Fangak

In February 2011, forces loyal to the rebel General George Athor attacked three operational outposts of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA).

George Athor

George Athor Deng (1962 – 19 December 2011) was the Sudan People's Liberation Army Lieutenant General and a SPLA dissident who led the South Sudan Democratic Movement and its military wing, the South Sudan Army.

Gordon Muortat Mayen

The weapons were then passed on by Muortat to the SPLA, who later took up arms against Khartoum.

Hajji Washington

Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori is sent to the United States, then under the presidency of Grover Cleveland, to open up the first embassy for Iran by Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar.

Jalsa Salana

Afterwards, the community bought a site "Nasir Bagh" in Groß-Gerau and held their Convention since 1985.

Josephine Apieu Jenaro Aken

She was a senior civil servant in the Government of Southern Sudan who lost her life alongside her husband Minister for SPLA Affairs General Dominic Dim Deng, senior politician Dr. Justin Yac Arop and 18 other Sudan People's Liberation Army/Government officials on a leased CEM Air Beechcraft 1900 that crashed 375 km west of Juba, Sudan on May 2, 2008.

Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi

His several grand children include Tariq Kazi, Farooq Kazi, Mutawakkil Kazi, Rabia Kazi Junejo, Rafiq Kazi, Khalid Kazi, Safia Kazi, Nilofer Kazi Qureshi, Shahnaz Kazi, Nasir Kazi, Safdar Kazi, Salma Kazi Bozdar, Sohail Kazi, Mansoor Kazi, Asma Kazi and Ghulam Nabi Kazi.

Khuddam-ul Ahmadiyya

October 1986 the third European Ijtema was celebrated on the „Nasir Bagh“-Campus in Groß-Gerau (Germany).

Lullubi

Most notably, Ashur-nasir-pal II had to suppress a revolt among the Lullubian / Zamuan chiefs in 881 BC, during which they constructed a wall in the Bazian pass (between modern Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah) in a failed attempt to keep the Assyrians out.

Mankien

In July 1999 SSDN Commander Tito Biel, who had been given ammunition by the SPLA, launched an attack on Paulino Matiep's forces and pushed them back almost to their headquarters in Mankien.

In April 2011 the town was briefly occupied by forces loyal to the renegade general Peter Gadet before being re-taken by troops of the SPLA.

Mian Shakirullah Jan

A seven member panel of Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and consisting of Justice Rana Bhagwandas, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, Justice Raja Muhammad Fayyaz Ahmad, and Justice Ghulam Rabbani, issued an order that declared the declaration of emergency as illegal and prohibited all judges to take oath on any PCO.

Muhammad al-Badr

Meanwhile Sayf al-Islam Ahmad had managed to get away from Taizz and made for Hajjah, where he gathered the tribes around him, proclaimed himself Imam with the title of al-Nasir and within a month of the assassination had easily regained control of Sana'a and executed the principal perpetrators of the rebellion.

Muhammad al-Nasir

Because of his father's victories against the Christians in the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus), he was temporarily relieved from serious threats on that front and able to concentrate on combating and defeating Banu Ghaniya attempts to seize Ifriqiya (Tunisia).

Muhammad Mushtaq Ali Khan

1887-1889: His Highness 'Ali Jah, Farzand-i-Dilpazir-i-Daulat-i- Inglishia, Mukhlis ud-Daula, Nasir ul-Mulk, Amir ul-Umara, Nawab Muhammad Mushtaq 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Mustaid Jang, Nawab of Rampur, KIH

Muhammad Shah

On 29 September 1719, Prince Roshan Akhtar was given the title Abu Al-Fatah Nasir-ud-Din Roshan Akhtar Muhammad Shah and enthroned in the Red Fort.

Muliaage

Famous guests who stayed at Muliaa’ge include Queen Elizabeth II during Nasir’s presidency and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India under president Maumoon.

Nabu-apla-iddina

Although Aššur-nāṣir-apli claimed to have conquered the border fortresses Hirimmu and Harutu in his own inscriptions, this may be a restatement of his father, Tukulti-Ninurta II’s campaigns.

Later in his reign Nabu-apla-iddina agreed to a treaty with Aššur-nāṣir-apli II’s successor Šulmānu-ašarēdu III.

Nasir Baig Chughtai

Nasir Baig Chughtai said that if Sonia Gandhi becomes the prime minister, India would move four steps forward for nurturing and strengthening the friendship with Pakistan.

Nasir Chinyoti

Nasir Chinyoti has acted with a number of other comedy actors including Babu Baral, Sohail Ahmad, Iftikhar Thakur, Anwar Ali, Tariq Teddy, and Sakhawat Naz.

Nasir Imanguliyev

In 1942, during the World War II, Nasir Imanguliyev was sent to the Crimean Front as a young worker and worked as an executive secretary of “Vuruşan Krım” (Fighting Crimea) newspaper and as a translator in a military unit.

Nuer White Army

However, it was not until a major defeat in May 2006 near Motot, in Jonglei's Uror County, in which 113 White Army fighters were reportedly killed for the loss of a single Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier, that the fighters gave up their attempts at resistance, according to the Small Arms Survey.

The declaration marked an escalation in the ongoing clashes between the SPLA, the Murle, and the Lou Nuer in Jonglei and Upper Nile, which began when armed Murle fighters under the influence of George Athor's South Sudan Democratic Movement launched a cattle raid against the Lou Nuer in Jonglei state.

Pakok

When that regime collapsed in May 1991, the SPLA began moving hundreds of thousands of refugees back to Sudan, many of them temporarily settled at Nasir, Pochalla, and Pakok (the new name for Khor Shum).

Several thousand unaccompanied boys were trained by the SPLA, then used to help prop up the Mengistu regime.

Paulino Matip Nhial

In May 2009 Paulino was promoted to the rank of 1st Lieutenant General while Major General James Hoth Mai was promoted to Lieutenant General and appointed the SPLA’s Chief of Staff.

Pyar Ka Mausam

The song is a key part of the movie like the key songs in later movies of Nasir Hussain (Yaadon Ki Baraat and Hum Kisise Kum Naheen).

Sayed Zahid Hussain

A seven member panel of Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Chief Justice Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and consisting of Justice Rana Bhagwandas, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, Justice Raja Muhammad Fayyaz Ahmad, and Justice Ghulam Rabbani, issued an order that declared the declaration of emergency as illegal and prohibited all judges to take oath on any PCO.

Sufi saints of Aurangabad

Shah Nasir ud din or Shah Nasir Alla Kadar was instructed by Said ud din of Delhi to accompany Burhan ud din to the Dakhan on a religious mission.

Shah Nasir erected the earliest mosque in Jalna on the site " tekri" or mound not far from the "ashaba", .

Malik raja the founder of the Faruki dynasty of Kandesh became one of Zainu-d din's disciples, and when the next sovereign Nasir ud din Nasir Khan Faruki captured Asirgarh in A.D. 1399, Zainu-d din went expressly from Daulatabad to Asirgarh, to tender his congratulations.

Tankiz

Tankiz was appointed Viceroy of Syria (Na'ib al-Saltana al-Sham) by al-Nasir Muhammad, the Mamluk sultan of Cairo, in 1312.

United Nations Flight 544 shootdown

The crash site was near the front of ongoing fighting between the SPLA and Murle rebels led by David Yau Yau.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1591

In the preamble of the resolution, the Council welcomed of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Nairobi, Kenya, by the Sudanese government and Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M).

We Are Robin Hood!

The Sheriff and Gisborne meet their Saracen allies: a mercenary thug, Karim, and a twisted schemer, Nasir, who is to masquerade as Saladin’s messenger and convince King Richard that Saladin wants peace.

William Nyuon Bany

While he worked as a commander of the SPLA he lived in Itang, a small Ethiopian town in the Gambela Region.


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