Balkh Airlines was a short-lived airline headquartered in

Mazar-i-Sharif Mazar-i-Sharīf ( ; Dari and ), also known as Mazar-e Sharīf or simply Mazar, is the fifth-largest city in Afghanistan by population, with the estimates varying from 500,000-680,000. It is the capital of Balkh province and is linked by highway ...

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. From 1996 to 1997, it operated passenger flights out of Mazar-e-Sharif Airport using a single

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, competing with Ariana Afghan Airlines. The company had been founded to serve the needs of General Dostum, the Uzbek warlord ruling the north of Afghanistan at that time.Vogelsang, Willem. (2002). ''The Afghans''. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. . Page 220.

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