While the Persians were contesting each other in Iran, the 25-year-old Ahmad Khan was busy in Afghanistan calling for a loya jirga (" grand assembly ") to select a leader among his people.

Some of the historical loya jirgas in the history of Afghanistan are:

* June 13, 2002-July 13, 2002, The 2002 loya jirga of Afghanistan elected Hamid Karzai to oversee it.

On July 26, 1949, when Afghanistan – Pakistan relations were rapidly deteriorating, a loya jirga was held in Afghanistan after a military aircraft from the Pakistan Air Force bombed a village on the Afghan side of the Durand Line.

* Mohammed Zahir Shah opened a loya jirga in Afghanistan.

The structure of the Transitional Authority was announced on June 10, 2002, when an emergency loya jirga ( grand assembly ) convened establishing the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan ( TISA ), which had 18 months to hold a constitutional loya jirga to adopt a constitution and 24 months to hold nationwide elections.

He was then chosen for a two year term as Interim President during the 2002 loya jirga ( grand assembly ) that was held in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Karzai appointed as President of the List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel | Afghan Transitional Administration at the June 2002 loya jirga ( grand assembly ) in Kabul, Afghanistan.

On July 26, 1949, when Afghan – Pakistan relations were rapidly deteriorating, a loya jirga was held in Afghanistan after a military aircraft from the Pakistan Air Force bombed a village on the Afghan side of the Durand Line.

Other issues raised by some loya jriga delegates included whether former king Mohammed Zahir Shah should maintain the title " father of the nation ," whether Afghanistan should be a free market economy, and whether higher education should be free.

A 502-delegate loya jirga convened in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 14, 2003, to consider the proposed Afghan Constitution.

A representative of her Kabul neighborhood to the 2002 loya jirga, her name was placed into consideration to lead Afghanistan as interim president, but she placed a distant second to Hamid Karzai, with support from only 171 of the 1575 delegates.

** Following the capture of Kandahar, Ahmad Shah Durrani is chosen by a Loya jirga as first leader of the Durrani Empire, predecessor of Afghanistan.

During the constitutional Loya jirga of 2003, the Party announced its support for a presidential system in the future constitution of Afghanistan.

Hamid Karzai appointed as President of the List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel | Afghan Transitional Administration at the July 2002 Loya jirga | Loya Jirga in Kabul, Afghanistan.

From left to right: Jamaluddin Badar, Nuristan Province | Nuristan governor, Fazlullah Wahidi, Kunar Province | Kunar governor, Gul Agha Sherzai, Nangarhar Province | Nangarhar governor, and Lutfullah Mashal, Laghman Province | Langhman governor, listen to speakers during a regional jirga in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

A jirga ( occasionally jargah ) ( Pashto: جرګه ) is a tribal assembly of elders which takes decisions by consensus, particularly among the Pashtun people but also in other ethnic groups near them ; they are most common in Afghanistan and among the Pashtuns in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan.

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 >

* 1978 – Mir Akbar Khyber was assassinated, provoking a communist coup d ' état in Afghanistan.

Ahmad Shah Massoud ( Aḥmad Šāh Mas ' ūd ; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001 ) was a political and military leader in Afghanistan.

After the Soviet withdrawal, between 1992 and 1996, he was minister of defense in the new government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under president Burhanuddin Rabbani, and acted as its military leader in the civil war against competing militias around Kabul.

He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of al-Qaeda, in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the September 11 attacks that finally caused the US and NATO to intervene in Afghanistan, allying themselves with Massoud's forces.

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

In 1973, Mohammed Daoud Khan was brought to power in a coup d ' état against the Afghan King and the Republic of Afghanistan was established.

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.

Abdur Rahman Khan () ( between 1830 to 1844 – October 1, 1901 ) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.

The Amir Sher Ali marched up against them from Kandahar ; but in the battle that ensued at Sheikhabad on May 10, he was deserted by a large body of his troops, and after his signal defeat Abdur Rahman released his father, Afzul Khan, from prison in Ghazni, and installed him upon the throne as Amir of Afghanistan.

In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.

The British evacuation of Afghanistan was settled on the terms proposed, and in 1881, the British troops also handed over Kandahar to the new Amir.

From that time Abdur Rahman was fairly seated on the throne at Kabul, and in the course of the next few years he consolidated his dominion over all Afghanistan, suppressing insurrections by a sharp and relentless use of his despotic authority.

In 1885, at the moment when the Amir was in conference with the British viceroy, Lord Dufferin, in India, the news came of a skirmish between Russian and Afghan troops at Panjdeh, over a disputed point in the demarcation of the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan.

To one who had been a man of war from his youth, who had won and lost many fights, the rout of a detachment and the forcible seizure of some debatable frontier lands was an untoward incident ; but it was not a sufficient reason for calling upon the British, although they had guaranteed his territory's integrity, to vindicate his rights by hostilities which would certainly bring upon him a Russian invasion from the north, and would compel his British allies to throw an army into Afghanistan from the southeast.

In 1893, Mortimer Durand was deputed to Kabul by the government of British India for this purpose of settling an exchange of territory required by the demarcation of the boundary between northeastern Afghanistan and the Russian possessions, and in order to discuss with Amir Abdur Rahman Khan other pending questions.

In the agreement, the relations between the British Indian and Afghan governments, as previously arranged, were confirmed ; and an understanding was reached upon the important and difficult subject of the border line of Afghanistan on the east, towards India.

In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan was represented by Sahibzada Abdul Latif and the Governor Sardar Shireendil Khan representing Amir Abdur Rahman Khan.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

Many of the goods that were smuggled into Pakistan have originally entered Afghanistan from Pakistan, where they fell under the Afghan Trade and Transit Agreement ( ATTA ).

The operation was originally called " Operation Infinite Justice " ( often misquoted as " Operation Ultimate Justice "), but as similar phrases have been used by adherents of several religions as an exclusive description of God, it is believed to have been changed to avoid offense to Muslims, who are the majority religion in Afghanistan.

The pistachio, Pistacia vera in the Anacardiaceae family, is a small tree originally from Greater Iran ( Iran and Iraq ) which now can also be found in regions of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Tunisia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Italy ( Sicily ), Uzbekistan, Afghanistan ( especially in the provinces of Samangan and Badghis ), and the United States, specifically in California.

While some scholars believe that the Hazara originally spoke a Mongolic language during the time of the Mongol king Babur, who came to Afghanistan in the 16th century, many well established scholars like Bacon and Schumann believe that the original language of Hazaras was Dari Persian from the beginning.

The Kushan Empire ( c. 1st – 3rd centuries ) originally formed in Bactria on either side of the middle course of the Oxus River or Amu Darya in what is now northern Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan ; during the 1st century CE, they expanded their territory to include the Punjab and much of the Ganges basin, conquering a number of kingdoms across the northern part of the Indian subcontinent in the process.

A treaty ( amending the Treaty of Rawalpindi agreed originally in August 1919 ) between the Britain and Afghanistan is signed at Kabul, on the Afghan government giving written assurances that no Russian consulates will be permitted in the areas adjoining the Indian frontier.

The Kushan Empire (, Kuṣāṇ Rājavaṃśa ; BHS: ; Parthian: Kušanxšaθr ) originally formed in the early 1st century AD under Kujula Kadphises in the territories of ancient Bactria around the Oxus River ( Amu Darya ), and later based near Kabul, Afghanistan.

According to Khan, his paternal grandfather was originally from Afghanistan.

Jackson is currently married to Halima Rashid ( born 1970 ) in November 2004, a wealthy originally Afghanistan native.

The word Cummerband which entered English vocabulary in 1616 via Afghanistan and the use of cummerbands by tribal warriors and later adopted by the languages of the Indian subcontinent such as Hindi and Urdu, is originally a Persian genitive phrase () comprising kamar ( waist ) + band ( band ).

Though originally planned to be up-gunned to the L55 for consistency with the 2A6M CAN, the longer barreled guns ( optimized for tank-vs-tank warfare ) were found to be less than ideal in Afghanistan, therefore it was decided to retain the L44.

The Mohmands originally lived in central Afghanistan between the basins of the Tarnak and Oxus rivers for centuries.

BMD-1 IFVs were not suited for fighting in mountain regions of hot Afghanistan as they were originally developed to provide airborne units with an IFV to give them a chance in engagements with enemy armour and allow them to operate in Nuclear-Biological-Chemical ( NBC ) warfare conditions.

The game was originally supposed to take place in Afghanistan but following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan, the developers changed the Afghanistan levels to the deserts of Georgia, Soviet / Russia instead.

Sultan Shahāb-ud-Din Muhammad Ghori ( also spelled Ghauri, Ghouri ) (), originally called Mu ' izzuddīn Muḥammad Bin Sām ( and also referred to by Orientalists as Muhammad of Ghor ) ( 1150 – March 15, 1206 ), was one of the rulers of the Ghurid dynasty who reigned over a territory spanning present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India.

Part of his family was originally from Paghman, Afghanistan.

The Bangash are said to have originally lived in the Gardez region of Afghanistan, where they were still living as of the Ghaznavids period ( 975 to 1187 ).

The Niazis originally lived in the Salghar area of Afghanistan.

The founder and " Supreme Lord " of Aeterna Lucina was one Paul Baron Neuman ( originally Paul Robert Neuman until he changed it by deed poll ), a German-born pensioner from the northern Sydney beachside suburb of Curl Curl who claimed to have received the title " Baron Neuman of Kara Bagh " from the exiled former King Hassan III of Afghanistan.

Another reconstruction, similar to the previous ones but without references whatsoever to distant China, has that the family originally immigrated from Bactriana ( present northern Afghanistan ) under the reign of Tiridates II of Armenia, likely coinciding with the accession of the Sassanids in Iran.

The Jadoons originally lived on the western slopes of the Spin Ghar range, in the Nangarhar region of Afghanistan.

Mohammad Yahya Maroofi ( or Maroufi ) ( born March 5, 1939 in Kabul, originally his family is from Kandahar, Afghanistan ) was nominated on February 2, 2002, as Special adviser to the Afghan president Hamid Karzai, President of the Interim Government of Afghanistan.