Ahmad Shah invaded the remnants of the Mughal Empire a third time, and then a fourth, consolidating control over the Kashmir and Punjab regions, with Lahore being governed by Afghans.

On the day of Eid ul-Fitr, Afghans will first offer their Eid prayers and then gather in their homes with their families, greeting one another by saying " Eid Mubarak " and usually adding " Eidet Mobarak Roza wa Namazet Qabool Dakhel Hajiha wa Ghaziha ," which means " Happy Eid to you ; may your fasting and prayers be accepted by God, and may you be counted among those who will go to the Hajj-pilgrimage.

In his proclamation of 15 March 1842, as in his memorandum for the queen, dated the 18th, he stated with characteristic clearness and eloquence the duty of first inflicting some signal and decisive blow on the Afghans, and then leaving them to govern themselves under the sovereign of their own choice.

Babur then turned to the tasks of persuading his Central Asian followers to stay on in India and of overcoming other contenders for power, mainly the Rajputs and the Afghans.

Scholar Olivier Roy describes the background of the hundreds of global ( as opposed to local ) terrorists who were incarcerated or killed and for whom authorities have records, as being surprising for their Westernized background ; for the lack of Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans " coming to avenge what is going on in their country "; their lack of religiosity before being " born again " in a foreign country ; the high percentage of converts to Islam among them ; their " de-territorialized backgrounds " – " For instance, they may be born in a country, then educated in another country, then go to fight in a third country and take refuge in a fourth country "; their nontraditional belief that jihad is permanent, global, and " not linked with a specific territory.

He then spent the following years fighting the Afghans, driving them out of western Punjab, taking opportunity of the Afghans being embroiled in civil war.

He then wrote in 1879 his book Afghanistan and Afghans.

Afghans invaded Iran in 1719 and sacked the then capital of Isfahan and took the Iranian crown jewels as plunder.

Though the Afghans shot them down one by one, they fired steadily until only eleven of their number were left, and the survivors then charged out into the masses of the enemy and perished.

He served with the East India Army in the 1st Bengal Fusiliers and then transferred into political service, becoming Deputy Commisssioner at Peshawar, and was appointed as envoy by the Viceroy Lord Lytton in the 1878 mission to Kabul which the Afghans refused to let proceed.

The Afghans then defeated a twice as large Persian army that had been dispatched from Isfahan ( capital of the Safavids ), one which included Qizilbash and Georgian troops.

At the time of his arrival in Shahr-i Babak, a formal local governor was engaged in a campaign to drive out the Afghans from the city's citadel, and Hasan Ali Shah joined him in forcing the Afghans to surrender.

He was engaged in warfare with the Afghans and the Mughals for most of his reign and died trying to keep the Lodi Dynasty from annihilation.

In recent years, USAID has helped many Afghans in establishing fish farms across the country.

This not only promotes foreign investment but also makes the country less dependant on imports from neighboring countries and helps provide employment opportunity to many Afghans.

The number of Afghans in Germany is about 90, 000 but many others have been deported from there in the last decade.

Ancestors of many of today's Turkic-speaking Afghans settled in the Hindu Kush area and began to assimilate much of the culture and language of the Pashtun tribes already present there.

Gurgīn began imprisoning and executing many of the native Afghans, especially those suspected of organizing a rebellion.

The new flag stirred popular resentment, many Afghans saw it as proof of the PDPA government's secular nature.

In the 1980s, many Afghans were Russian language proficient.

His unpopularity and the likelihood of his victory formed an atmosphere with a kind of national demoralization, which could discourage many Afghans from voting and dash hopes for substantial progress after the election.

British influence in Afghanistan waned, but relations between Afghanistan and the Russians remained equivocal, with many Afghans desiring to regain control of Merv and Panjdeh.

While confronting the most trying and challenging circumstances in the middle eighteenth century, Baba Ala Singh, unlike many of his contemporaries, displayed tremendous courage and shrewdness in dealing with the Mughals, Afghans and Marathas, and successfully established and maintained a state which he had started building up bit by bit from its nucleus Barnala.

Flooded by hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees, Iran had started deporting Afghans, accusing many of drug dealing.

* September 18-Ruud Lubbers, who was serving as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, visited Washington, D. C. to warn the United States Department of State that millions of Afghans had already faced starvation and homelessness and U. S. attacks " might hit additionally " many more.

Hemu marched in excellent order with 30, 000 practiced horsemen composed of Rajputs and Afghans who on many occasions, had by their exploits increased the pride and arrogance.

In 1870s Chitral was threatened by Afghans Maharaja Ranbir Singh was firm in protecting Chitral from Afghans the Mehtar of Chitral ask for help, In 1876 Chitral accepted the authority of Jammu Clan and in reverse get the protection from the Dogras who have in the past took part in many victories over Afghans during the time of Gulab Singh Dogra.

Despite the fact that most Afghans are now Muslim, they too had embraced their past and many were appalled by the destruction.

From the early eighties to the late nineties, many Afghans and Iranians settled in the area.

He subdued many of the local leaders and sent Mirwais Khan Hotak, a powerful chieftain of the Ghilzai Afghans ( Pashtuns ), in chains to Isfahan.

There is a controversy whether the Tanolis are Pashtun Afghans or Barlas Turks, because sometimes they are acknowledged as a Barlas Turkic tribe related to the Mongols, who are Pashtunified to an extent and have assimilated many Pashtun cultural features.

However, the troops faced resilient resistance from the Afghans and suffered many losses.

Afghans enjoy music by playing many types of instruments.

In the cities, many Afghans live in modern style houses or apartments.

Throughout the book Rais is depicted as a fairly nonpartisan intellectual who has suffered greatly under different regimes and worked hard all his life, but no different from many Afghans in his horrendous and selfish treatment of women.

Between 600, 000 to 2 million Afghans were killed during the various 1979 – 2001 wars, majority of them during the Soviet war in the 1980s.

The Iranian Georgian contribution in wars against the invading Afghans was crucial.

After the Battles of Plassey ( 1757 ) and Buxar ( 1764 ) which established British dominion over East India, the Anglo-Mysore wars ( 1766-1799 ), the Anglo-Maratha Wars ( 1775-1818 ), and finally the Anglo-Sikh Wars ( 1845-1849 ) consolidated the British claim over South Asia, resulting in the British Empire in India, though resistance among various groups such as the Afghans and the Burmese would last well into the 1880s.

In the invasions and wars between the Turks, Persians, Dagestanis and Afghans, thee-fourths of the population of Georgia were destroyed ; and Vakhtang, after having wandered a long time with his most faithful adherents in the mountains, sought again protection from Peter the Great, who invited him to Russia.

Afghans with two captured artillery field guns in Jaji, 1984.

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.

In return, the British government intimated that it would ask Ranjit Singh to reconcile with the Afghans.

The pre-2003 smuggling trade provided undocumented jobs to tens of thousands of Afghans and Pakistanis, but also helped fuel the black economy, often intertwined with the drug cartels, of both countries.

The capital of Kabul symbolizes the spirits of all Afghans and international cooperation, sets at the heart of this highly resourceful region, with great potential to turn into a business hub.

They were also overwhelmingly Pashtun and were accused of not sharing power with the approximately 60 % of Afghans who belonged to other ethnic groups.

The Afghan capital Kabul, symbolizing the spirits of all Afghans and international cooperation, sets at the heart of this highly resourceful region, with great potential to turn into a business hub for all.

When the Afghans took the power they tried to legitimize their power with such a Jirga.

The 2004 presidential election was held on October 9, with over 10 million Afghans being registered to vote.

" These Arabs, together with their foreign supporters and the Taliban, destroyed miles and miles of homes and orchards and vineyards ," he told BBC, " They have killed Afghans.

In 1885 he was appointed professor in the Collège de France, and was sent to India in 1886 on a mission to collect the popular songs of the Afghans, a translation of which, with a valuable essay on the Afghan language and literature, he published on his return.

The national unity government would share power with the Pakistan-based government-in-exile, guerrilla commanders, Afghans living in exile, and the deposed king, Zahir Shah.

* January 5-In Patras, Greece, while attempted to board a ship bound for Italy, more than 20 Iraqi Kurds clashed with 15 Afghans.

* To date, Afghans made up the single biggest refugee group in the world with more than 2. 6 million in exile, mainly in Pakistan and Iran.

Ghezali stated that: " I lived a simple life, playing with the children and seeing how Afghans lived.

" I lived a simple life, playing with the children and seeing how Afghans lived.

The commission wanted more time to consult with Afghans.

A slight collision takes place between the forces of the Khan of Nawagai, whose territory was threatened by the Afghans at Mittai, and the Khan of Pashat, and the Afghan force moves down the Kunar River about fifteen miles ( 24 km ) from Asmar to protect their communications with Jalalabad, but nothing more serious happens, and the final solution of the frontier question is in a fair way of settlement.