Kalakan , is a village located in the center of Kalakan District,

Kabul Province Kabul (Dari/Pashto: ), situated in the east of the country, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. The capital of the province is Kabul city, which is Afghanistan's capital and largest city. The population of the Kabul Province is ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

Notable People of Kalakan

* Habibullāh Kalakāni, Afghan revolutionary leader who deposed the

Barakzai Dynasty The Barakzai dynasty (, "Sons of Barak"), also known as the Muhammadzai dynasty ("the ruling sub-clan of the Barakzai"), ruled what is now Afghanistan from 1823 to 1978, when the monarchy ended de jure under Musahiban Mohammad Zahir Shah and ...

and captured vast swathes of Afghanistan, including the city of

Kabul Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province. The city is divided for administration into #Districts, 22 municipal districts. A ...

, as the commander of the rebel forces during the 1928-1929 Afghan Civil War, becoming the King and Emir of

Majid Kalakani Abdul Majid Kalakani (; 1939 – 8 June 1980) also known as Majid Agha was an Afghan communist politician. He was the founder and leader of the Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan (SAMA). Biography Majid Kalakani was born in 193 ...

, Afghan S.A.M.A. Maoist resistance leader in the 1980s

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Populated places in Kabul Province {{Kabul-geo-stub

Notable People of Kalakan

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