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Dawood Sarkhosh
Dawood Sarkhosh (also spelled as Daud Sarkhosh) (Farsi: ) is an ethnic Hazara people, Hazara singer and musician. Early life Dawood Sarkhosh was born on 26 April 1971 in Urozgan (now Daykundi), Afghanistan. Sarkhosh's inspiration was his older brother Sarwar Sarkhosh, a nationalist and legendary musician of his times who was killed during the civil war. Sarkhosh learned playing dambura and singing from him at the age of seventeen. After that Sarkhosh migrated to Pakistan first to Peshawar city then moved to Quetta, Pakistan. Career Sarkhosh revived his skills by singing and composing songs inspired by a sense of nationalism and suffering in exile. He did not sing for commercial gain, but out of nostalgia and to convey the feelings about refugee life as experienced by refugees of Afghanistan dispersed throughout the world. They went to his concerts in their thousands, marking Sarkhosh's rise as a singer. It was in Quetta that he mastered the Pump organ, harmonium under the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urozgan
Uruzgan (Pashto: ; Dari: ), also spelled as Urozgan or Oruzgan, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. Uruzgan is located in the center of the country. The population is 436,079, and the province is mostly a tribal society. Tarinkot serves as the capital of the province. Uruzgan borders the provinces of Kandahar Province, Kandahar, Daykundi Province, Daykundi, Ghazni Province, Ghazni, Zabul Province, Zabul, and Helmand Province, Helmand. Geography Uruzgan province is located in southern Afghanistan, bordering Zabul Province, Zabul and Kandahar Province, Kandahar to the south, Helmand Province, Helmand to the southwest, Daykundi Province, Daykundi to the north, and Ghazni Province, Ghazni to the east. Uruzgan covers an area of . Much of the province is mountainous or semi-mountainous terrain, while the rest of the area is made up of flat land. History The Arabs were first to arrive in Uruzgan in the 7th century when they brought Islam to the region followed by the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History''. Polity, 2010. pp. 9, 25–30; especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining its sovereignty ( self-governance) over its perceived homeland to create a nation-state. It holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity, and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power. It further aims to build and maintain a single national identity, based on a combination of shared social characteristics such as culture, ethnicity, geographic location, language, politics (or the government), religion, traditions and belief in a shared singular history, and to promote national unity or solidarity. There are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Daykundi Province
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian-language Singers Of Afghanistan
Persian ( ), also known by its endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, respectively Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964), and Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivative of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Quetta
This is the list of notable people who were born, lived or grew up in Quetta (the provincial capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan) and Quetta District. List is ordered by the professions of people. Civil and military officers * Abdul Qadir Baloch * Yazdan Khan * Musa Khan (general), Musa Khan * Chris Keeble * George Philip Bradley Roberts * Ian Jacob * Gul Hassan Khan * James Cassels (British Army officer), James Cassels * Patrick Hore-Ruthven * Sharbat Ali Changezi Film, radio and television people * Abid Ali (actor), Abid Ali * Abid Ali Nazish * Avice Landone * Ayub Khoso Actor * Hameed Sheikh Actor * Jamal Shah Actor * Merle Tottenham * Neil North * Suresh Oberoi * Veena (actress), Veena * Zeba Bakhtiar Journalists, poets and writers * Agha Sadiq * Ali Baba Taj * Alison Plowden * Mohsin Changezi * Muneer Ahmed Badini * * Russi Karanjia * Siddiq Baloch * Wajahat Saeed Khan * Zafar Mairaj Musicians * Dawood Sarkhosh * Faiz Mohammad Faizok * Rabi Peerzada Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dombra Players
The dombra, also known as dombyra (; ) is a long-necked musical string instrument used by the Kazakhs, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Nogais, Bashkirs, and Tatars in their traditional folk music. The dombra shares certain characteristics with the komuz and dutar instruments, such as its long, thin neck and oblong body shape. It is a popular instrument mostly among Turkic communities in Central Asian countries. Varieties The instrument differs slightly in different regions. The Kazakh dombyra has frets and is played by strumming with the hand or plucking each string individually, with an occasional tap on the main surface of the instrument. While the strings are traditionally made of sinew, modern dombras are usually produced using nylon strings. One of the greatest dombra players was the Kazakh folk musician and composer Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly, who had a major influence on the development of Kazakh musical culture, including music for the dombra; his musical composition "Adai" is po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazara Singers
Hazara may refer to: Places and ethnic groups Afghanistan * Hazaras, an ethnic group and a principal component of the population of Afghanistan ** Hazarajat, or Hazaristan, a historic region of Afghanistan ** List of Hazara tribes Pakistan * Hazara region in northern Pakistan, administratively in Hazara Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ** Hazarewal, the multi-ethnic community inhabitants of the Hazara region ** Hazara Division, of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ** Hazara District, a former district of Peshawar Division in the North-West Frontier Province ** Hazara University * Hazara, Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa * Hazara Town, Quetta, Balochistan * Takht Hazara, a village in Punjab India * Hazara, Punjab * Hazara, Sultanpur Lodhi, Punjab People with the name * List of Hazara people * Abdul Khaliq Hazara (assassin) (1916–1933), assassinated the King of Afghanistan in 1933 * Abdul Khaliq Hazara (politician) (fl. from 2010), Pakistani politician * Haji Sayed Huss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1971 Births
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclipse, February 10, and August 1971 lunar eclipse, August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 1971 Ibrox disaster: During a crush, 66 people are killed and over 200 injured in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Hazara People
Hazara people make up the second or the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, making about 20%–25% of the total population of Afghanistan (Some suggest the real population might reach 30%) where they mainly inhabit the Hazaristan region, as well as parts of Pakistan (especially Balochistan) and Iran. The Hazaras have immigrated to Iran, Australia, Europe, and... in the last several decades also as part of these two intertwined diasporan groupings, as part of the Hazara and wider Afghan diaspora. Politicians * Abdul Ali Mazari * Muhammad Yusuf Khan Hazara * Qazi Muhammad Isa * Muhammad Ibrahim Khan * Abdul Karim Misaq * Karim Khalili * Rawnaq Naderi * Ramazan Juma Zada * Abdul Khaliq Hussaini * Sadat Mansoor Naderi * Sayed Jafar Naderi * Farkhunda Zahra Naderi * Khushnood Nabizada * Sultan Ali Keshtmand * Daoud Naji * Ramazan Bashardost * Muhammad Mohaqiq * Habiba Sarabi * Sima Samar * Hussain Ali Yousafi * Muhammad Ali Jawid * Maryam Monsef * Abdul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarzamin Man
Dawood Sarkhosh (also spelled as Daud Sarkhosh) (Farsi: ) is an ethnic Hazara singer and musician. Early life Dawood Sarkhosh was born on 26 April 1971 in Urozgan (now Daykundi), Afghanistan. Sarkhosh's inspiration was his older brother Sarwar Sarkhosh, a nationalist and legendary musician of his times who was killed during the civil war. Sarkhosh learned playing dambura and singing from him at the age of seventeen. After that Sarkhosh migrated to Pakistan first to Peshawar city then moved to Quetta, Pakistan. Career Sarkhosh revived his skills by singing and composing songs inspired by a sense of nationalism and suffering in exile. He did not sing for commercial gain, but out of nostalgia and to convey the feelings about refugee life as experienced by refugees of Afghanistan dispersed throughout the world. They went to his concerts in their thousands, marking Sarkhosh's rise as a singer. It was in Quetta that he mastered the harmonium under the Pakistani composer Arbab A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
