In the 19th century there was a province in Afghanistan named Turkestan Province until abolished by Abdur Rahman, and was centred on Mazari Sharif and included territory in the modern provinces of Balkh, Jowzjan, Faryab and Sar-e Pol.

There are also a number of VSAT stations in major cities such as Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazari Sharif, and Jalalabad, providing international and domestic voice / data connectivity.

In the following decade, Dost Mohammad concentrated his efforts on reconquering Mazari Sharif, Konduz, Badakhshan, and Kandahar.

An alarmed Sher Ali attempted to appeal in person to the tsar for assistance, but unable to do so, he returned to Mazari Sharif, where he died on 21 February 1879.

Among those killed in Mazari Sharif were several Iranian diplomats.

The Mazari Sharif Airport in the city has been heavily used during the 1980s Soviet war and the latest 2001-present war in Afghanistan.

Mazari Sharif means " Noble Shrine ", a reference to the large, blue-tiled sanctuary and mosque in the center of the city known as the Shrine of Hazrat Ali or the Blue Mosque.

Some Muslims believe that the tomb of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, is at this mosque in Mazari Sharif.

According to tradition, the city of Mazari Sharif owes its existence to a dream.

During the 1980s Soviet war, Mazari Sharif was a strategic base for the Soviet Army, as they used its airport to launch air strikes on Afghan mujahideen.

The climate in Mazari Sharif is very hot during the summer with daily temperatures of over 40 ° C or 104 degree Fahrenheit in June and July.

The population of Mazari Sharif is around 375, 000, which is a multiethnic and multilingual society.

The dominant language in Mazari Sharif is Dari ( Persian ) followed by Pashto, both of which are the official languages of Afghanistan.

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Aided by U. S. bombing and massive defections, they captured Mazari Sharif on 9 November.

Game of Buzkashi in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan

The Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres took place near Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan in 1998, and involved hundreds of victims massacred by the Taliban.

It is linked by highways with Mazari Sharif to the west, Kabul to the south and Tajikistan's border to the north.

From his power base in Mazari Sharif, Dostum continues to control a virtually independent northern Afghanistan.

The pass crosses the Hindu Kush but is now bypassed through the Salang tunnel, built by the Soviet Union in 1964, which runs underneath it at a height of about 3, 400 m. It links Charikar and Kabul with Mazari Sharif and Termez.

Rawze-e-Sharif, the Blue Mosque, in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan – Where a minority of Muslims believe Ali ibn Abu Talib ibn ‘ Abd al-Muttalib | Abu Talib is buried

* Mazari Palm ( Nannorrhops richtiana )-This palm, native to the dry, mountainous terrains of Afghanistan and surrounding regions, is also thought to be extremely cold hardy ( perhaps to about ), though also requiring hot summers and dry soils.

Mazari Palm is not easy to grow, perfect drainage and full sun are required for this palm to survive.

Sardar Mir Balakh Sher Mazari is the Chieftain ( Tumandar ) and the Paramount Sardar of the Mazari tribe, which is situated on the tri-border area of Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan.

Mir Balakh Sher Mazari is the twenty second Sardar and the seventh Mir of Mazaris.

He has one surviving brother Sherbaz Khan Mazari who has played a prominent role in Pakistan politics. His grandson Mir Dost Mohammed mazari is a Pakistan peoples party parliamentarian MNA from Na 175 Rajanpur.

On the issue of terrorism, Mr. Mazari stated that Pakistan is committed to combating international terrorism, and called on the OIC to condemn strongly all forms of terrorism.

Sheberghan is located along the Safid River banks, about west of Mazari Sharif on the national primary ring road Herat-Kandahar-Kabul-Mazari Sharif-Sheberghan-Maymana-Herat.

Rojhan Mazari Where the Mazari Chief Estate is located and it is situated in District Rajanpur of Punjab at the foot of the Sulaiman Range, near the inter-provincial borders of Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab.

This city is the Capital Seat and headquarters of the Mazari Baloch tribe who have held this territory since 1632.

The City of Rojhan Mazari is spread over a large area and is connected by road and railway to Kashmore in the South West and Rajanpur in the North West.

The main forces involved during that period in Kabul, northern, central and eastern Afghanistan were the Hezb-i Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar directed by Pakistan, the Hezb-i Wahdat of Abdul Ali Mazari directed by Iran, the Ittehad-i Islami of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf supported by Saudi Arabia, the Junbish-i Milli of Abdul Rashid Dostum backed by Uzbekisten, the Harakat-i Islami of Hussain Anwari and the Shura-i Nazar operating as the regular Islamic State forces ( as agreed upon in the Peshawar Accords ) under the defense ministry of Ahmad Shah Massoud.

* In Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan faction leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar joined the anti-Taliban Afghan Northern Alliance formed by ousted president Burhanuddin Rabbani and northern militia leader General Abdul Rashid Dostum.

* Saturday, November 10-The Taliban and Northern Alliance fighters both claimed that the strategic northern Afghan city of Mazari Sharif was taken by Northern Alliance fighters.

Spann was killed during a riot at the Qala-i-Jangi compound near Mazari Sharif in northern Afghanistan according to CNN reporter Robert Young Pelton.

Juma Khan Hamdard, an ethnic Pashtun of the Wardak tribe from Mazari Sharif, was born in 1954 in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.