They are placed in Kandahar province.

Sitting near the Durand Line border with Afghanistan and close to Kandahar province, Quetta is a trade and communications center between the two countries as well as an important military location which occupies a strategic position for the Pakistani Armed Forces.

During the summer of 2010, the US Military charged five members of the 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment with the formation of a " kill team " which staged three separate murders of Afghan civilians in Kandahar province.

He was fatally shot on March 27, 2003, by gunmen while on assignment with several Afghan colleagues in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province, although another account placed the incident at a Taliban checkpoint in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar.

He obtained Islamic education at home in Pashmol village in Kandahar province, before participating in an Islamic seminary.

The Mughal emperor Humayun had given Abbas ’ grandfather, Shah Tahmasp, the province of Kandahar as a reward for helping him back to his throne.

Zabul became an independent province from neighbouring Kandahar in 1963, with Qalat being named the provincial capital.

He previously served as Governor of Kandahar province, in the early 1990s and from 2001 until 2003.

Sherzai was removed as Kandahar Governor after criticisms of his warlord-style leadership, poor human rights record and suspected involvement in opium trafficking in the province.

The Sulaiman Mountains (; Balochi / Urdu / Persian: کوه سليمان Koh-e Sulaimān ), or the Kesai Mountains (), are a major geological feature of eastern and southeastern Afghanistan ( Zabul, most of Loya Paktia and northeastern Kandahar province ), South Waziristan, and most of northern Balochistan province of Pakistan.

The main inhabitants of Kandahar province are the Pashtuns.

In spring 2010, the province as well as its capital city that are called " Kandahar city " also became a target of American operations following Operation Moshtarak in neighbouring Helmand province.

During the Soviet occupation of 1979 to 1989, Kandahar province witnessed many fights between Soviet and local Mujahideen rebels.

There are also Baloch Tribes living in southern and desert parts of Kandahar province are:

Kandahar province is made up of 17 districts, and each district has its own Chief.

In the 1970s, the provincial capital of the largely undeveloped and remote province of Paktika was moved from the town of Urgun to Sharana due to its proximity with the main highway, connecting it to the larger cities and commercial centres of Kabul, Ghazni and Kandahar.

The story starts with Yama or Jamshid, the father of Garshasp who was overthrown by Zahak and flees to King Ghurang, the king of the country called Zabolistān the region expended from modern Quetta includes province of Zabul, Kandahar, central region Helmand all the way to edge of small Iranian Sistan which still holds the name Zabol, combined as part of Balochistan province.

Spin Boldak or Spin Buldak is a border town in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, right next to the Durand Line border with Pakistan.

Troops from the U. S. 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment and 82nd Airborne Division launched the operation in the Kohe Safi Mountains and surrounding areas in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan near Bagram Air Base.

The Baloch Mujahedeen ( Baloch Holy Warriors ), as they called themselves, entered Afghanistan and encamped at Sarlath in the province of Kandahar.

Across the Durand Line, a large number of the Niazis still lives in parts of Afghanistan, mainly in Qalaye Niazi, Kandahar, Ghazni Province, Gardez, Logar and Paktia province.

Tareens are found in Kandahar, Orzgun, Karabagh ( Ghazni ) ( Laghmani, province of parwan ) and in Helmand in Afghanistan.

According to Tawfiq bin Attash, Omari was one of a group of future hijackers who provided security at Kandahar airport after their basic training at an al-Qaeda camp.

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.

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.

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.

Thus, upon his return to Kandahar in 1757, Ahmad was forced to return to India and face the formidable attacks of the Maratha Confederacy.

Most of his reign was spent fighting a civil war and resisting rebellion ; Timur was even forced to move his capital from Kandahar to Kabul due to insurgency.

He was one of four hijackers believed to be staying at a Kandahar guest house in March 2001, where they were seen by Mohammed Jabarah.

The British demanded that Dost Mohammad sever all contact with the Iranians and Russians, remove Vitkevich from Kabul, surrender all claims to Peshawar, and respect Peshawar's independence as well as that of Kandahar, which was under the control of his brothers at the time.

Urban civilization may have begun as early as 3000 BC, and it is possible that the early city of Mundigak ( near Kandahar ) was a colony of the nearby Indus Valley Civilization.

One of those arrested and imprisoned was Mirwais Hotak who belonged to an influential family in Kandahar.

In October 1772, Ahmad Shah retired to his home in Kandahar where he died peacefully and was buried at a site that is now adjacent to the Shrine of the Cloak.

He was succeeded by his son, Timur Shah Durrani, who transferred the capital of their Afghan Empire from Kandahar to Kabul.

The southern city of Kandahar was a centre of lawlessness, crime and atrocities fuelled by complex Pashtun tribal rivalries.

He even attacked the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, but was repulsed.

The report stated that though illegal, there was a tradition of such relationships in the country, known as " bache bazi " or boy play, and that it was especially strong around Kandahar.

The only major reversal to the expansion came in 1622 when Shahanshah Abbas, the Safavid Emperor of Persia, captured Kandahar while Jahangir was battling his rebellious son, Khurram in Hindustan.

Furthermore, Abbas had, for many years, been trying to recover the city of Kandahar, which Jahangir was not keen to part with, especially to this king whom he did not particularly care for, despite seeing him as an equal.

The loss of Kandahar was due to Prince Khurram's refusal to obey her orders.

When the Persians besieged Kandahar, Nur Jahan was at the helm of affairs.

It was this fear which forced Khurram to rebel against his father rather than fight against the Persians and thereby Kandahar was lost to the Persians.