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Ahmad Shah Massoud was born on September 2, 1953 in Bazarak, Panjshir, Afghanistan.

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The Durrani Empire (, also referred to as the Last Afghan Empire ) was founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani with its capital at Kandahar, Afghanistan.

With the support of various tribal leaders, Ahmad Shah Durrani extended Afghan control from Mashad in the west to Kashmir and Delhi in the east, and from the Amu Darya in the north to the Arabian Sea in the south.

Ahmad Shah then set out westward to take possession of Herat, which was ruled by Shahrukh Afshar.

Ahmad Shah and his forces invaded India four times, taking control of the Kashmir and the Punjab region.

After the death of Ahmad Shah in about 1772, his son Timur Shah became the next ruler of the Durrani dynasty who decided to make Kabul the new capital of the empire, and used Peshawar as the winter capital.

The Durrani Empire is considered the foundation of the modern state of Afghanistan, with Ahmad Shah Durrani being credited as " Father of the Nation ".

In October 1747 a loya jirga ( grand council ) concluded near the city of Kandahar with Ahmad Shah Durrani being selected as the new leader of the Afghans, thus the Durrani dynasty was founded.

Despite being younger than the other contenders, Ahmad Shah had several overriding factors in his favor.

In 1749, the Mughal ruler was induced to cede Sindh, the Punjab region and the important trans Indus River to Ahmad Shah in order to save his capital from Afghan attack.

Having thus gained substantial territories to the east without a fight, Ahmad Shah turned westward to take possession of Herat, which was ruled by Nader Shah's grandson, Shah Rukh of Persia, and then Mashhad ( in present-day Iran ).

Hamid Karzai standing next to Faisal Ahmad Shinwari and others after winning the Afghan presidential election, 2004 | 2004 presidential election.

After being declared sane, Nazari, whose name was also reported as being Hassan Ali al-Baadani or Muhammad Ahmad al-Naziri, was sentenced to death the next day for killing a headmistress, a teacher, a cafeteria worker, a bystander and two students and executed with five shots in the chest in an empty lot between the two schools on April 5, 1997.

A fellow guest at a hotel in Cairo asked if she wanted to be an extra in a movie, and the next day she found herself in a crowd scene cheering for an American boxer losing to an Egyptian in the film Kaboria, starring the Egyptian actor Ahmad Zaki.

Before returning to Syria, where he is now buried next to Ibn Arabi at Jabal Qasioun Shami initiated, trained and deputized the son of the local emir, Abu Ahmad Abdal.

They found themselves sitting next to Moutaba Mehrnavard, who was there to consult Ahmad Dadgar, the embassy's medical adviser, and Ali Aghar Tabatabal, who was collecting a map for use in a presentation he had been asked to give at the end of a course he had been attending.

The raids by Nadir Shah and repeated incursions of Abdali resulted in quick disposal of the next two emperors Ahmad Shah and Alamgir II until in 1759 Shah Alam II ascended the throne.

After the release of " Open Your Eyes ", Peter Gabriel offered Salman Ahmad to record a complete album with his Real World Records label next year.

Leaving Kabul under good terms with Babur, Malik Ahmad returned home, but the next year ( 1518 ) Babur invited him back to Kabul.

Cherno Alieu Dem's work was later revealed in the next generation by his grandson Shieck Ahmad Tijan Dem of ' casaville ' Kaolack Senegal.

It is named after Ahmad Sirhindi, who was " the Mujaddid or Reformer of the next 1000 years ".

The death of his political patron Chabui Khatun in 1281 made the situation critical ; Ahmad was assassinated in the next year and his faction fell from power.

Adjacent to the mosque is the tomb of Ahmad Shah Durrani, the founding father | founding father of Afghanistan, and next to it is the Shrine of the Cloak.

This battle ended when Imam Ahmad was wounded in the leg by a chance shot ; seeing his banners signal retreat, the Portuguese and their Ethiopian allies fell upon the disorganized Muslims, who suffered losses but managed to reform next to the river on the distant side.

He initially sent a special corps ( hasam ) under Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hudayr, governor of Écija, to Seville, to obtain their submission.

In an effort to alleviate the situation in East Turkistan, Ahmad Shah sent envoys to Beijing, but the talks did not yield favorable results for the Uyghurs.

Mihdhar's father-in-law, Ahmad Mohammad Ali al-Hada, helped facilitate al-Qaeda communications in Yemen, and in late 2001, Mihdhar's brother-in-law, Ahmed al-Darbi, was captured in Azerbaijan and sent to Guantanamo Bay on charges of supporting a plot to bomb ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

After returning home, Jamal sent his brother Ahmad with the Christian battle-expert Harb Jaush to successfully attack the province of Dawaro.

Instead, Usmani sent Mahmood to join the Nuclear Physics Group working under dr. Naeem Ahmad Khan.

He sent his army, along with the Syrian-backed Palestinian factions of as-Sa ' iqa and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command ( PFLP-GC ) led by Ahmad Jibril to fight alongside the radical right-wing Christian forces against the PLO and the LNM.

* Ahmad ibn Fadlan is sent from Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, on behalf of the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir.

His father's old enemy Kabad Khan whom patronage of Timur Shah Durrani ( successor of Ahmad Shah Durrani ) had elevated to Chiefship of Kunduz sent a force against Muhammad Shah under Kubadcha they wintered at Sang i Mohr and were joined by Kabad Khan in person.

A few days later Mulla Mustafa sent his son, Idris Barzani with a large force to drive Ahmad, Talabani, and their 4, 000 or so followers into exile in Iran.

Beginning in 1770 he sent ambassadors to Abu Hilal Ahmad bin Said in Muscat and Karim Khan in Shiraz, then the capital of Persia, seeking military and economic alliances.

Al-Amin sent Ahmad ibn Mazyad and Abdallah ibn Humayd east, each with an army ( al-Tabari v. 31 p. 100 says each had 20, 000 men ).

To further strengthen his authority Jahandar Shah sent gifts to the Ottoman Sultan Ahmad III.

In September 2002 an aide to Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, the Foreign Minister of the Taliban, claimed he had been sent prior to 9 / 11 to warn the U. S. government of an impending attack and to persuade them to take military action against Al Qaeda's presence in Afghanistan.

* Ahmad Ghabel ( imprisoned, sent to exile )

The advancing Yousafzai stopped and made camp at Lashora while word was sent to Malik Ahmad in Doaba apprising him of the situation.

Babur sent a formal invitation to Malik Ahmad to come and present himself at court.

Malik Ahmad sent his cousin Shah Mansur son of Suleiman Shah in his stead.

In return of their release Israel sent over the medicine which saved his life and freed a dozen of Palestinian prisoners including Sheikh Ahmad Yassin.

In March 1912, Tunku Ismail was sent to England to receive his tertiary education in a boarding school ; his brothers Tunku Abu Bakar and Tunku Ahmad later followed suit.

Abdul Qadir Khan Durrani left Afghanistan and sent his family his wife Zarnaab Bibi, sisters Azer Khela, Unaar Khela, brother Saifullah Khan Durrani, nephews Mohammad Umer Durrani, Basheer Ahmad Khan Durrani and Shams ur Rehman Durrani and two sons, Faizullah Khan Durrani and Abdullah Khan Durrani to Akora Khattak in present day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Ismail's son, Ahmad, sent two military excursions ( 911 & 912-913 ) into Sistan to re-establish Samanid control over the Caspian provinces.

Heir apparent Ahmad Shah Bahadur, Grand Vizier Nawab Qamar-ud-Din and his son Mueen-ul-Mulk, Ghazi Uddin khan and nephew of Sadat Khan later known as Safdarjung were sent with 75, 000 men after the defeat of Shahnawaz Khan in Lahore.

" The petition goes on to say that because torture is not allowed at Guantanamo, " the recommendation is that Mr. Ahmad should be sent to another country where he can be interrogated under torture.