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Ustad Muhammad Akbari
Ustad Muhammad Akbari () known as Ustad Akbari, is a former Afghan jihadist commander in Afghanistan, who has held various political affiliations during periods of conflict in Afghanistan. He was the representative of Bamyan during the fifteenth and sixteenth sessions of Afghanistan's parliament, and a member of the House of Elders from 2017 onward. Early life Muhammad Akbari was born in 1945 in Afghanistan in Waras District of Bamyan Province. Akbari studied primary education in Islamic schools in Bamyan, Afghanistan from 1961 to 1971, later studying more in Iraq. In 1976 he earned the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in religious studies from a university in Iraq, later acquiring a Ph.D-level education. Relations with the Taliban Prior to the Taliban's takeover of Kabul, Ustad Akbari was a senior member in Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan, the primary Hazara party of Afghanistan. Due to conflicts with the leader of the party's central leadership under Abdul Ali Maz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of The People (Afghanistan)
The House of Representatives of the People, or Da Afghanistan Wolesi Jirga (), was the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral National Assembly (Afghanistan), National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, alongside the upper House of Elders (Afghanistan), House of Elders. The House of Representatives of the People was the chamber that bore the greater burden of lawmaking in the country, as with the House of Commons in the Westminster model. It consisted of 250 delegates directly elected by single non-transferable vote. Members were elected by district and served for five years. The constitution guaranteed at least 68 delegates to be female. Kochi people, Kuchi nomads elect 10 representatives through a Single National Constituency. The House of Representatives of the People had the primary responsibility for making and ratifying laws and approving the actions of the president. The first elections in decades were held in September 2005, four years after the fall of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taliban
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1945 Births
1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be abbreviated as “WWII” January * January 1 – WWII: ** Germany begins Operation Bodenplatte, an attempt by the ''Luftwaffe'' to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries. ** Chenogne massacre: German prisoners are allegedly killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne, Belgium. * January 6 – WWII: A German offensive recaptures Esztergom, Hungary from the Soviets. * January 9 – WWII: American and Australian troops land at Lingayen Gulf on western coast of the largest Philippine island of Luzon, occupied by Japan since 1942. * January 12 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe, against the German Army. * January 13 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the East Prussia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Tasnim News
Tasnim News Agency () is a semi-official news agency in Iran associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Launched in 2012, its purpose is to cover a variety of political, social, economic and international subjects along with many other fields. Background In Islam, Tasnim (تسنیم) is the name of a spring in Paradise from which those nearest to God are said to be able to drink. Tasnim's stated goal is to " efendthe Islamic Republic against negative media propaganda campaigns and provide our readers with realities on the ground about Iran and Islam." Tasnim is headquartered in Iran's capital Tehran, with reporters across the country and the Middle East. Affiliation The IRGC controls Tasnim, which often magnifies the IRGC's ideology. Tasnim is the IRGC's largest owned media outlet. During a visit to Tasnim's offices in 2023, then-IRGC commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari stated, ''"The faithful and revolutionary media have today a very heavy duty in confr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Qahar Balkhi
Abdul Qahar Balkhi ( ) is an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan official and the current spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 25 September 2021. He was designated as a member of the Taliban's Cultural Commission after the fall of Kabul until his exact role in the Taliban government was determined. He also served the Taliban media office in the early 2010s. Balkhi first appeared publicly at the Taliban's first press conference on 17 August 2021, after the fall of Kabul. During the press conference, he interpreted for the spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. On 22 August 2021, he was interviewed by Charlotte Bellis of ''Al Jazeera'' in the group's first official interview. During the interview, he thanked New Zealand for providing financial support to Afghanistan following the takeover, given their donations to the UN and Red Cross. Video letter to US Congress On 17 November 2021, in an open letter addressed to US Congress, Taliba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khairullah Khairkhwa
Khairullah Said Wali Khairkhwa ( ; born 1967) is a member of the militant Taliban organization currently in control of Afghanistan, who has previously been called one of the "moderate" Taliban. He is the Taliban Ministry of Information and Culture (Afghanistan), Minister of Information and Culture and a former Ministry of the Interior (Afghanistan), Minister of the Interior. After the Fall of Kabul (2001), fall of the Taliban government in 2001, he was held at the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba for 12 years. He was released in late May 2014 in a prisoner exchange that involved Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban five. Press reports have referred to him as ''"Mullah"'' and ''"Maulavi"'', two different honorifics for referring to senior Muslim clerics. Claims from analysts at Guantanamo that Khairkhwa was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Persian
BBC Persian () is the Persian language broadcast station and subsidiary of BBC World Service which conveys the latest political, social, economical and sport news relevant to Iran and the world. Its headquarters are in London, United Kingdom. Persian language, Persian has one of the fewest native and total speakers in the BBC World Service, with 35 million native speakers (in Iran), 12 million native speakers (in Afghanistan) and 9 and 5 million native speakers in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan respectively. The total native and secondary speakers of Persian language, Persian is approximately 120 million. This is in contrast with BBC Urdu, Hindi/Urdu, which has around 1.5 billion native speakers and more than 2 billion total speakers. Radio The BBC first started a Persian radio service during World War II on 29 December 1940, encouraged by the Foreign Office (UK), Foreign Office, as part of its Empire Service. The government reasons for prioritising this was concern that the Iranian k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jafar Mahdavi
Jafar Mahdavi () is an Afghan politician. He was the representative of Kabul province during the 16th term of Afghanistan Parliament in 2010 and a member of the Enlightenment Movement of Afghanistan. Early life Jafar Mahdavi was born in 1978 in Lal wa Sarjangal, Ghor, Afghanistan. He completed his university education up to his doctorate in sociology from University of Tehran in Tehran, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ... in 2005. References Living people 1978 births Hazara politicians People from Ghor Province {{Afghanistan-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Taliban Offensive
The 2021 Taliban offensive was a Offensive (military), military offensive by the Taliban insurgent group and allied militants that led to the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the end of the nearly 20-year War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), War in Afghanistan that had begun following the United States invasion of Afghanistan, United States invasion of the country. The Taliban victory had widespread domestic and international ramifications regarding human rights and proliferation of terrorism. The offensive included a continuation of the bottom-up succession of negotiated or paid surrenders to the Taliban from the village level upwards that started following the United States–Taliban deal, February 2020 US–Taliban deal. The offensive began on 1 May 2021, coinciding with the 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, withdrawal of the United States's 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, and those belonging to Resolute Support Mission, other international allies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War In Afghanistan (2001–2021)
The war in Afghanistan was a prolonged armed conflict lasting from 2001 to 2021. It began with United States invasion of Afghanistan, the invasion by a Participants in Operation Enduring Freedom, United States-led coalition under the name Operation Enduring Freedom in response to the September 11 attacks carried out by al-Qaeda. The Taliban and its allies were quickly expelled from major population centers by US-led forces supporting the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, thus toppling the Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001), Islamic Emirate. Three years later the US-sponsored Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Islamic Republic was established, but by then the Taliban had reorganized under their founder, Mullah Omar, and began Taliban insurgency, a widespread insurgency against the new Afghan government and coalition forces. The conflict finally ended decades later as the 2021 Taliban offensive reestablished the Islamic Emirate. It was the List of the lengths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan (1996–2001)
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (), also referred to as the First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, was a totalitarian Islamic state led by the Taliban that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. At its peak, the Taliban government controlled approximately 90% of the country, while remaining regions in the northeast were held by the Northern Alliance, which maintained broad international recognition as a continuation of the Islamic State of Afghanistan. The Taliban referred to the government as interim throughout the entire period of its existence, despite the strong and permanent role of Mullah Omar in the government. After the September 11 attacks and subsequent declaration of a " war on terror" by the United States, international opposition to the regime drastically increased, with diplomatic recognition from the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan being rescinded. The Islamic Emirate ceased to exist on 7 December 2001 after being overthrown by the Northern Alli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
