* 1957 – Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Mohammad Ismail Khan ( born 1946 ) is a politician and former mujahideen commander from Afghanistan.

In early 1979 Ismail Khan was a Captain in the Afghan National Army based in the western city of Herat.

The Herat garrison mutinied and joined the revolt, with Ismail Khan and other officers distributing all available weapons to the insurgents.

Ismail Khan escaped to the countryside where he started to assemble a local mujahideen army, which was widely supported by the population of Herat.

In 1992, two years after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the mujahideen captured Herat, and Ismail Khan became Governor.

Ismail Khan was forced to flee to Iran with 8, 000 men and the Taliban took over Herat.

Ismail Khan in 2004

After returning to Herat, Ismail Khan quickly consolidated his control over the region.

As Emir of Herat, Ismail Khan exercised great autonomy, providing social welfare for Heratis, expanding his power into neighbouring provinces, and maintaining direct international contacts.

However, during his tenure as Governor, Ismail Khan was accused of ruling his province like a private fiefdom, leading to increasing tensions with the Afghan Transitional Administration.

Ismail Khan was ultimately removed from power in March 2004 due to pressure by neighbouring warlords and the central Afghan government.

What is known is that Ismail Khan found himself at odds with a few regional commanders who, although theoretically his subordinates, attempted to remove him from power.

Ismail Khan claims that these efforts began with a botched assassination attempt.

Ismail Khan, unpopular with the Herati military class, was slow to mobilise his forces, perhaps waiting for the threat to Herat to become existential as a means to motivate his forces.

Because Ismail Khan was contained by the Afghan National Army, the warlords who opposed him were quickly able to occupy strategic locations unopposed.

Ismail Khan was forced to give up his governorship and to go to Kabul, where he served in Hamid Karzai's cabinet as the Minister of Energy.

On September 27, 2009, Ismail Khan survived a suicide blast that killed 4 of his bodyguards in Herat, in western Afghanistan.

Ismail Khan, like Afghan Minister of Defense Rahim Wardak, was one of the high profile Afghans that those conducting the Tribunals ruled were " not reasonably available " to give a statement on a captive's behalf because they could not be located.

Hekmati had played a key role in helping Ismail Khan escape from the Taliban in 1999.

Carlotta Gall and Andy Worthington interviewed Ismail Khan for a new New York Times article after Hekmati died of cancer in Guantanamo.

Ismail Khan said he personally buttonholed the American ambassador to tell him that Hekmati was innocent, and should be released.

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.

These claims are supported by media reports about the Herat government of Ismail Khan, who has created a religious police that forces women to obey strict dress and behavior codes, as well as many reports by Human Rights Watch.

On May 12, 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD, led by Ahmed Dini Ahmed, an Afar nationalist and former Gouled political ally.

The parliamentary party system is dominated by the People's Rally for Progress and the current President is Ismail Omar Guelleh.

On 12 May 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD.

* Muhammed VI overthrows his brother-in-law, Ismail II, as King of Grenada ( in present-day Spain ); he is in turn overthrown this same year by the former king, Muhammed V.

* July – Ismail I is enthroned as Shah of Azerbaijan, choosing Tabriz as his capital, founding the Safavid dynasty in northern Iran.

* May 28 – victory of the Transoxania amir Ismail Samani at Balkh over Amr Saffari, the latter is captured and sent to the Abassid caliph in Baghdad.

In Genesis 22 as well as the Qur ' an, there is a story about Abraham's binding of Isaac, although in the Qur ' an the name of the son is not mentioned and assumed to be Ismail.

Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh suggested, " This is the moment Sheikh Yassin dreamed about ".

Ismail Ibn Sharif is mentioned in chapter 11 of Voltaire's Candide.

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Karachi is Pakistan's largest city and the country's economic hub ; the Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar Road of the city, often called the " Wall Street of Pakistan ," acts as Karachi's main financial district and is essentially a center of economic and industrial activity.

The meat is usually given as charity to the poor, in commemoration of the Sacrifice of Ismail, in which God tested the faith of Abraham ( Ibrahim ) by ordering him to sacrifice his son Ishmael ( Ismail ).

The only major commentary to have been translated into English so far is entitled Ismail Hakki Bursevi's translation and commentary on Fusus al-hikam by Muhyiddin Ibn ' Arabi, translated from Ottoman Turkish by Bulent Rauf in 4 volumes ( 1985 – 1991 ).

Among Egyptian historians, he, along with his father, Muhammad Ali, his son, Ismail the Magnificent, and his great-grandson Abbas II, is held in far higher esteem than other rulers from the dynasty, who were largely viewed as indolent and corrupt.

The current ruler of the State is Duli Yang Maha Mulia Sultan Muhammad Faris Petra Ibni Sultan Ismail Petra.

Merchant Ivory Productions is a film company founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory.

A fictionalised account of Mehmet Shehu's fall and death is the subject of Ismail Kadare's novel The Successor ( 2003 ).