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Parent topics
- Provinces of Afghanistan [r]: There are 34 Provinces of Afghanistan. [e]
Subtopics
- Kandahar [r]: A city in the southeastern part of Aghanistan, the capital of Kandahar Province (the largest in the country), and, during the Taliban rule, their headquarters [e]
Geography
- Arghandab River [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Helmand River [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Registan Desert [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Afghan Ring Road [r]: Add brief definition or description
Neighbors
- Helmand Province [r]: A province of southern Afghanistan, on the border with Pakistan; largest land area of any province but relatively small population [e]
- Uruzgan Province [r]: A province of south-central Afghanistan, with major security problems and little development; a major opium growing area; Dutch and Australian forces help provide security [e]
- Tarin Kowt [r]: Capital of Uruzgan Province in eastern Afghanistan [e]
- Zabul Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pakistan [r]: Country in southern Asia, established as a Muslim state split from India in 1947, bordering the Arabian Sea to the south, India to the east, Iran and Afghanistan to the west, and China to the north. [e]
- Balochistan Province [r]: The largest province of Pakistan (also written Baluchistan); relatively autonomous like the Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas; capital is Quetta; borders Iran and Afghanistan. [e]
- Quetta [r]: Capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. It is believed to be the headquarters of the Taliban Quetta shura governing body under Mullah Muhammad Omar. [e]
- Balochistan Province [r]: The largest province of Pakistan (also written Baluchistan); relatively autonomous like the Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas; capital is Quetta; borders Iran and Afghanistan. [e]
Individuals
- Tooryalai Wesa [r]: Add brief definition or description Governor
- Matiullah Qateh [r]: Add brief definition or description Chief of police
- Gul Agha Sherzai [r]: Governor of Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan, formerly more controversial as governor of Kandahar Province; a Pashtun who fought the Soviets [e]
- Muhammad Omar [r]: Salafist cleric and leader of the Taliban [e]
- Abdullah Abdullah [r]: Candidate in the 2009 Afghanistan presidential election; former Foreign Minister; ophthalmologist; half Tajik and half Pashtun but tends to be regarded as Tajik [e]
Religious and ethnic groups
- Taliban [r]: Salafist Islamic militia, governing Afghanistan 1996–2001; still fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [e]
- Pashtun people [r]: An Eastern Iranian ethnic group primarily located in Southern Afghanistan in the Northwest Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Area and Balochistan Province of western Pakistan; language is Pashto [e]
- Durrani [r]: One of the two major tribes of the Pashtun people [e]
- Ghilzai [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tajik [r]: Add brief definition or description