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The Dreaded Devil’s Spiral: Treaties & Events leading to the 1979…
From the October - December 1999 of Afghan Magazine | Lemar-Aftaab
“I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarette…
A Tomb in Kabul: The Fate of the Last Amir of Bukhara and his country’s…
In addition to the last Amir of Bukhara’s former garden, on which we reported some days ago, there is another landmark in Kabul…
Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening Part 1
While sorting through family papers, I discovered that my grandmother Gertrude Dimmock had written a book about Mermanjan, an…
Railways of Afghanistan
Afghan railroads, past, present and future
In the August 1928 report The Locomotive1 said "Following King Amanullah’s visit to…
Lawrence of Arabia in Waziristan
The Jandola Mess acquired a reputation for hospitality and served numerous guests. Among the earliest in 1924, were a party of…
Abdul Ali Akhundzada
A renowned scholar, Abdul Ali Akhundzada was born in Khanozai, Pshin, Balochistan in 1872. His father name was Mulana Abdul khaliq…
ZAMAN SHAH – THE LAST GREAT DURRANI RULER
After Timur’s death in 1793 there followed a period of badshahgardi or palace revolutions, as his sons fought each other in a…
ARG (Presidential Palace)
Kabul, a city of ancient history, had been a home for kings and crowns. In the past, a wall, which still its remainders exist,…
Khūshāl Khān Khaṭṭak
Khushal Baba was an Afghan and Pashtun warrior-poet, chief, and freedom-fighter of the Khattak tribe of the Pashtuns. Khushal…
How a veteran of Abdali’s Indian invasions laid the foundations of…
Most of the princely states which acceded to Pakistan at the time of Partition have their roots in tribal chiefdoms that emerged…