Ahmad Shah Durrani ( c. 1722 – 1773 ) ( Pashto /), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī ( Pashto / Persian: احمد شاه ابدالي ) and born as Ahmad < u > Kh </ u > ān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire ( Afghan Empire ) in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan .</ poem >

Nowadays, " Afghan " is usually not used as an ethnic term, but as a national demonym for all citizens of Afghanistan, while " Pashtun "-the native ethnonym of this people-is largely used in a linguistic sense to refer to native speakers of Pashto.

The military of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان پوځ, Dari: ارتش افغانستان ) is composed of the Afghan National Army and the Afghan Air Force.

** Rahman Baba, legendary Afghan Pashto Sufi poet ( d. 1711 )

He previously served with the Voice of America for over 20 years covering Afghanistan, South and Central Asia, and the Middle East, including assignments as Director of the Afghan Radio Network Project and chief of the Pashto and Persian services.

Afghan hip hop is mostly sung in Dari ( Persian ), Pashto, and English.

The flag of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان بيرغ, Persian: بيرق افغانستان ) was adopted by the Afghan Interim Administration on December 22, 2001.

Article 20 states that the Afghan National Anthem ( Wolesi Tarana ) " shall be in Pashto with the mention of " God is Great " as well as the names of the tribes of Afghanistan.

However, the Hindko and the archaic Dardic, Kohistani dialects and Pothohari dialect, derived from the local Indo-Aryan Prakrits, are still spoken, though the Afghan Pashto language is the most dominant language of the region today.

In 2003 he was commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme to prepare a report on the computer locale requirements for the major languages of Afghanistan ( Pashto, Dari, and Uzbek ), co-authored by Roozbeh Pournader, which was endorsed by the Ministry of Communications of the Afghan Transitional Islamic Administration.

The language spoken by the Afghan characters is Pashto.

The Khattak (, ), or Khatak, are a Pashtun Afghan tribe, which speaks a variant of the softer Kandahari Pashto.

It is the base for Buraq films which was established by Gittoes with Afghan filmmakers to produce high quality Pashto language films.

* Ahmed Shah Durrani founded the last Afghan empire in 1747 with the title ' Pādshah-i Afghanistan ' in Persian and ' Badcha Da Afghanistan ' in the Pashto language.

The Jadoon ( Hindko / Pashto /), also called Gadoons (), is a Pashtun Afghan tribe in Pakistan, partly in Gadoon in Swabi, and partly in Abbottabad and Haripur districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Many speak neither Pashto nor Dari Persian, Rabbi Jacob Nasirov leads the Orthodox congregation of Anshei Shalom, the only Afghan synagogue in the United States.

Classic Persian and Pashto poetry plays an important role in the Afghan culture.

Farhad ' Darya ' Nasher ( Pashto: فرهاد دریا b. September 22, 1962, from Kunduz, Afghanistan ) is an Afghan singer and composer, as well as a highly acclaimed music producer, and Good Will and Peace Ambassador for Afghanistan to the United Nations.

His father, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ( Bacha Khan ), was a prominent Afghan ( Pashtun ) Nationalist and founder of the pacifist Khudai Khidmatgar (" Volenteer " in Pashto ) movement.

Tents of Afghan nomad s in Badghis Province who are known in Pashto language as Kuchi people | Kuchans.

Afghan Canadians are from various ethnic groups from Afghanistan and are able to fluently speak one or both of Afghanistan's official languages, Dari Persian and Pashto.

GSM / GPRS mobile phone services in the city are provided by Afghan Wireless, Etisalat, Roshan and MTN.

Following 9 / 11, Mazar Sharif was the first Afghan city to fall to the Northern Alliance ( United Front ).

# The merging of " majhul " vowels " ē " / " ī " and " ō " / " ū " into " ī " and " ū " respectively in Iranian Persian, whereas in Afghan Persian, they are still kept separate.

TF Hammer consisted of a large force of Afghan militia led by Zia Lodin and the Special Forces A-teams Texas 14 / ODA 594 and Cobra 72 / ODA 372.

< http :// afghanistandl. nyu. edu / books / adl0009 / index. html ></ ref > In 1895, the Panj River was defined as part of the border between Afghan and Russian Badakhshan.

Rahman built a strong rapport with bin Laden during the Afghan war against the Soviets, and following Azzam ’ s murder in 1989 Rahman assumed control of the international jihadists arm of MAK / Al Qaeda.

It is not finished with any varnish, filing / sanding of any kind, and as with all other Afghan instruments there is some decoration.

A reporter for RFE / RL's Afghan Service interviews a citizen in Helmand, Afghanistan.

In 2008 Afghan president Hamid Karzai urged his government to provide assistance to a rape victim after listening to her story on Radio Azadi, RFE / RL's Afghan service.

According to REF / RL in 2009, Radio Azadi was the most popular radio station in Afghanistan, and Afghan listeners mailed hundreds of hand-written letters to the station each month.

During Operation Cyclone, the ISI with full support / funding from the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) and the White House in the United States recruited huge numbers of mujahideen militant groups on the Pakistani side of the Durand line to cross into Afghanistan's territory for missions to destroy the Soviet-backed Afghan government.

On July 17, 2009, in an article published by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Dostum, recently reappointed to his government job by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, again described Doran's film as a " fake story ", saying that the whole number of prisoners of war captured by his troops was less than the number Doran's film claimed had been killed, and denying there could have been any abuse of prisoners.

Cincinnati's indie rock scene produced much-admired groups, such as the Ass Ponys, Quiet Tree, Wolverton Brothers, and the Afghan Whigs, all active in the 80s / 90s as well as current indie rock bands Heartless Bastards and The National.

During and after the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and subsequent arrival of millions of Afghan refugees to Pakistan, much of the Afghan ( Dari / Persian ) music industry was kept alive by performances and recordings made in Pakistan.

Roots of Peace has raised the necessary funds to remove landmines in the Shomali Plains and empowered the Afghan farmers to harvest / export over 90, 000 metric tons of fresh grapes and raisins to India, Pakistan, Dubai, Ukraine, and Russia.

The system has been tested and has also proven to be a useful tool to consolidate / collect data for the Afghan Country Stability Picture ( ACSP, see info box 3 ).

Firstly, L / Sgt Tobie Fasfous who died whilst taking part in a reassurance foot patrol alongside the Afghan National Army in the vicinity of Forward Operating Base Keenan, north east of Gereshk in Helmand province, when he was killed in an explosion.

Traveling through the South -- over 16,000 miles -- with two Great Danes, an Afghan, and a Persian kitten, we've worked up a regular routine for acceptance at motels.

The invasion of Persia was completed five years after the death of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, and all of the Persian territories came under Arab control, though pockets of tribal resistance continued for centuries in the Afghan territories.

The year 1747 marks the definitive appearance of an Afghan political entity independent of both the Persian and Mughal empires.

From 1710 to 1713, the Afghan forces defeated several large and powerful Persian armies that were dispatched from Isfahan ( capital of the Safavids ), which included Qizilbash and Georgian troops.

Mahmud led an Afghan army into Persia in 1722 and defeated the Persian army at the Battle of Gulnabad.

However, the current Afghan military dates back to when the Pashtun Hotaki dynasty rose to power in Kandahar and decisively defeated the Persian Safavid Empire at the Battle of Gulnabad in 1722.

Dari (, Darī, pronounced ) or Fārsī-ye Darī (, ) refers to the dialects of modern Persian spoken in Afghanistan, and is hence also known as Afghan Persian in some Western sources.

It is the term officially recognized and promoted in 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language.

The Iranian and Afghan dialects of Persian are highly mutually intelligible, with differences found primarily in the vocabulary and phonology.

The differences in pronunciation of Iranian and Afghan Persian can be considerable, on par with Scottish and Cockney English, although educated speakers generally have no difficulty understanding each other ( except in the use of certain lexical items or idiomatic expressions ).

The principal differences between standard Iranian Persian, based on the dialect of the capital Tehran, and Afghan Dari, as based on the Kabul dialect, are:

For instance, the identically written words شیر ' lion ' and ' milk ' are pronounced the same in Iranian Persian as, but for ' lion ' and for ' milk ' in Afghan Persian.

Dari, on the other hand, is more archaic, e. g. نوروز ' Persian New Year ' is realized as in Iranian, and in Afghan Persian, and نخیر ' no ' is uttered as in Iranian, and as in Afghan Persian.

# The pronunciation of the labial consonant و, which is realized as a voiced labiodental fricative, but Afghan Persian still retains the ( classical ) bilabial pronunciation.