* 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.

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.

Map of the situation in Afghanistan in late 1996 ; Ahmad Shah Massoud | Massoud ( red ), Abdul Rashid Dostum | Dostum ( green ) and Taliban ( yellow ) territories.

After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on September 27, 1996, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Rashid Dostum, two former archnemesis, created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

Ahmad Shah Massoud withdrew his forces from Kabul to the northern regions of Afghanistan where he and his former enemy Abdul Rashid Dostum created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

* SMK Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah ( SAAS )

After the fall of Najibullah's regime in 1992, private militias were formed and the nation began to witness a civil war between the various warlords, including Ahmad Shah Massoud, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Abdul Ali Mazari, Ismail Khan, and many others.

Afghan Ministry of Defense | Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghan National Army | ANA Chief of Staff | Chief of Army Staff Sher Mohammad Karimi, and Colonel | Col. Shah Mahmood Rauf Wardak.

In the early 1990s, after the Soviet withdraw from Afghanistan, control of Mazar was contested by the Hazara milita Hezbe Wahdat, led by Hajji Mohammed Mohaqiq, the Tajik militia Jamiat-e Islami, led by Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, and the Uzbek militia Jumbesh-e Melli led by Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Rashid Dostum, former enemies, created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

Ahmad Shah Massoud ( right ) with Pashtun anti-Taliban leader Abdul Qadir ( brother of Abdul Haq ) ( left ) as part of the pre 9 / 11 2001 grand Pashtun-Tajik-Hazara-Uzbek alliance against the Taliban

From 1999 onwards a renewed process was set into motion by the Tajik Ahmad Shah Massoud and the Pashtun Abdul Haq to unite all the ethnicities of Afghanistan.

* September 20 – The term of Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, ends.

In 1402, after the death of Sultan Muhammad Shah, his son Abdul Majid Hasan ascended the throne.

In fact Badakhshan was now contested by again by Mir Yar Beg, Sikandar Shah, Shahzada Mahmud, Abdul Ghazi Khan and Shah Suliman Beg who were in exile at Tashkurghan under protection of Mir Wali.

* A ' la Hadrat Maulana Shah Abdul Wahab ( Founder of Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat, Vellore, Tamilnadu )

The ground breaking ceremony for Kuala Lumpur International Airport ( KLIA ) took place on 1 November 1991 when the government decided that the existing Kuala Lumpur International Airport, officially then known as Subang International Airport ( now Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport ) could not handle future demand.

Its current name was chosen by the then state Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, after his late father Sultan Alam Shah.

With the consent of 8th Duli Yang Maha Mulia Sultan of Selangor, Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj, Shah Alam was proclaimed the capital of Selangor on 7 December 1978 with an area of 41. 68 square km, and administrated by a municipal council.

Zahir Shah is seated at the far right during the oath ceremony of Hamid Karzai on 7 December 2004.

However he was obliged to publicly step aside at the behest of the United States as many of delegates to the Loya Jirga were prepared to vote for Zahir Shah and block the US-backed Hamid Karzai.

Zahir Shah attended the 7 December 2004 swearing in of Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan.

A longtime associate of former Afghan King Mohammad Zahir Shah, Shahryar represented the government of Hamid Karzai, who became Afghanistan's new president in the summer of 2002.

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, AC, CH ( Jawi: تونكو عبدالرحمن ڤوترا الهاج ابن المرحوم سلطان عبدالحميد حاليم شه, Chinese: 東姑阿都拉曼 ) ( February 8, 1903 – December 6, 1990 ) was Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955, and the country's first Prime Minister from independence in 1957.

Tunku was the 7th son of Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, the 24th ruler of Kedah.

# Sultan Badlishah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah ( Sultan of Kedah ; 1943 – 1958 );

History shows that many Afghan rulers were from Kandahar, such as Ahmad Shah Durrani, Abdur Rahman Khan, Nadir Khan, Zahir Shah, Hamid Karzai, etc.

History shows that many Afghan rulers were from Kandahar, such as Ahmed Shah Durrani, Abdur Rahman Khan, Nadir Khan, Zahir Shah, Hamid Karzai etc.

* Abdul Hamid Lahori ( died 1654 ), Indian traveller and court historian of Shah Jahan

Significant events held here included the handing back of Perlis and Setul ( now Satun ) to Kedah by the Siamese in May 1897 ( both provinces were separated from Kedah since 1821 ) and a 90-day festival from June to September 1904 to celebrate the wedding of the five children of Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah.

It supported Hamid Karzai in the 2004 presidential election despite its previous support for the former King Zahir Shah.

Finally, when Alam Shah retired to Badaun in 1448, a minister of Alam Shah, Hamid Khan invited him to occupy the throne of Delhi.

" Hamid Karzai, who sat next to Zahir Shah at the press conference called Zahir Shah the " father of the nation " and thanked him for the " confidence His Majesty has put in me.

His son, Hamid Mirza Qajar continued as pretender to the throne and was favoured by the British as a potential successor to Reza Shah Pahlavi after the latter was deposed during World War II.

Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah or ' Sultan Abdu ' l Hamid Halim Shah II ibni Ahmad Taj ud-din al-Mukarram Shah KCMG, ( 4 June 1864 – 13 May 1943 ) was the 25th Sultan of Kedah.

A close relationship developed between Hasan Ali Shah and the British, which coincided with the final years of the First Anglo-Afghan War ( 1838 – 1842 ).

Shah Mir was the First Muslim ruler of Kashmir and the founder of the Swati dynasty named after him.

Zahir Shah provided aid, weapons and Afghan fighters to the Uighur and Kirghiz Muslim rebels who had established the First East Turkestan Republic.

First, Shah Tahmasp had the Baghdad governor loyal to Suleiman killed and replaced with an adherent of the Shah, and second, the governor of Bitlis had defected and sworn allegiance to the Safavids.

It was with these thoughts in mind that in 1838 the British launched the First Anglo-Afghan War and attempted to impose a puppet regime on Afghanistan under Shuja Shah.

Regarding modernization Reza Shah continued processes that had been started by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, but which had been halted because of difficulties presented to the country during the First World War.

He also re-established the Sultanate of Rum after the death of Malik Shah I of Great Seljuq and soundly defeated the Crusaders in three separate battles during the Crusade of 1101 which arose as a well-managed response to the First Crusade.

He advised Lord Auckland to support Dost Mahommed on the throne of Kabul, but the viceroy preferred to follow the opinion of Sir William Hay Macnaghten and reinstated Shah Shuja, thus leading to the disasters of the First Afghan War.

Following the First Afghan War, Ludhiana became the residence of the exiled family of Shah Shuja.

On 1 March 1946, Sultan Alam Shah officiated the First Malay Unity Congress at the Sultan Sulaiman Club in Kuala Lumpur which was instrumental in creating UMNO.

Kundan Shah won the 1984 Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director for his work.

* 1984 Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director: Kundan Shah

First 6 of the total 8 illustrations in the manuscript of Kulliyat-i-Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah ( c. 1590 – 1600 ) in Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad are masterpieces.

Once order was restored in Afghanistan, the British became obsessed with idea that Emir Dost Mohammed Khan of Afghanistan was conspiring with Imperial Russia and launched the First Anglo-Afghan War to replace him with the compliant Shuja Shah Durrani.

First series of 5 Rials banknote of Reza Shah era

Abul-Fath Khan Javanshir, was one of the sons of the Ibrahim-Khalil Javanshir, that through his sister brother-in-law of Fath-Alī Shah Qajar. In the First Russo-Persian War Abul-Fath Khan supported the Iranians and fought on the side of the crown prince Abbas Mirza. After Karabakh was ceded to Russia ; and even before it, Abul-Fath Khan withdrew from Karabakh along with his fellow tribesmen, and Abbās Mirza made him governor of Dezmār.

He suffered similarly in India and the West Indies, and following England's dismissal for 51 in the First Test, Bell was dropped in favour of Owais Shah.