During the reign of Amir Habibullah they received the title of Companions of the King ( Musahiban ).

Among his Iranian contemporaries Amir Kabir received praise from several poets of the age, notably Sorush and Qaʾani, but his services to Iran remained generally unappreciated in the Qajar period.

Amir Khan agreed to sell his guns to the British and received a land grant at Tonk in Rajuptana.

In 1877, Amir Sher Ali received a Russian mission in Kabul, but refused to accept one from India.

Quebec Solidaire received 3. 8 % of the vote provincewide and David's co-leader Amir Khadir won the party's first seat in the National Assembly of Quebec in the neighbouring riding of Mercier.

Amir Abdullah Khan Rokhri received the award for Tehrik-i-Pakistan from the then Governor of Punjab, Makhdoom Sajjad Hussain Qureshi.

He was respectfully received by the Amir Ul-Umara and confined at Salimgarh where he died in 1723.

Begumpet is named after the daughter of the sixth Nizam, Basheer Ul-Unnisaa Begum, who received it as part of her wedding dowry was married to the second Amir of Paigah The Shums ul Umra Amir e Kabir 1.

Gilan: In Gilan, in northwestern Persia, a group of Shi ' i shaikhs received help from the Mazandarani dervishes, and gained control of the region under Shaikh Amir Kiya.

On the 16th of December, 1971, Lt. General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, the commander of the Eastern Command of Pakistan received Lt. General Jagjit Singh Aurora, the commander of the Eastern Command of India and the GOC-in-chief of the Indian and Bangadeshi forces at the Dhaka airport with a small military salute.

Ruler of Badakhshan to furnish suitable contingent in difficulty and to aid Amir of Kabul and to give annual presents.

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 1895, the Amir found himself unable, by reason of ill-health, to accept an invitation from Queen Victoria to visit England ; but his second son Nasrullah Khan went instead.

Princes as people who got a title from the King are called " Mirza ", diminutive of " Amir Zadeh " ( King's Son ).

The protest letter said that the spotlight on Tel Aviv was part of " the Israeli propaganda machine " because it was supported in part by funding from the Israeli government and had been described by the Israeli Consul General Amir Gissin as being part of a Brand Israel campaign intended to draw attention away from Israel's conflict with the Palestinians.

Like other middle eastern ethnic groups, the Baluch claim Arabian extraction, asserting that they are descendant of Amir Hamza, a paternal uncle of Islamic Prophet Muhammad and from a fairy ( Pari ).

He had a hand in translating or editing a number of books in Urdu, Persian and Arabic, including a translation of Mir Amman's Urdu Bagh o Bahar, or Tales of the Four Darweshes, ( which is itself a translation from the Persian of Amir Khusro ), and of the Persian Adventures of Hatim Tai.

Legend decreed that whoever could retrieve the cloak from the chest would be the great Leader of the Muslims, or " Amir al-Mu ' minin ".

* Amir Hajj or ' Amer Hajj ' — from Iraq, these are soft with a thin skin and thick flesh, sometimes called " the visitor's date " because it is a delicacy served to guests.

He is a knight who, after unwittingly killing Charlot, the son of Emperor Charlemagne, is given a reprieve from death on condition that he fulfill a number of seemingly impossible tasks: he must travel to the court of the Amir in Babylon and return with a handful of the amir's hair and teeth, kill the Amir's mightiest knight, and three times kiss the Amir's daughter, Esclarmonde.

As the Afghan state weakened, uprisings broke out in the Hazarajat, freeing the region from state rule for the first time since the death of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan.

Amir, meaning " chieftain " or " commander ", is derived from the Arabic root, " command ".

* In addition to being an Arabic name, Amir is also a common Muslim male name for both Arab and non-Arab Muslims, taken from Arabic just as the Western name Rex (" king ") is borrowed from Latin while Amira is a common Muslim female name.

Abdur Rahman Khan, List of monarchs of Afghanistan | Amir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.

The next month, Labor announced its withdrawal from Sharon's governing coalition following its election of the left wing Amir Peretz as leader.

His family was originally from the al-Asbahi tribe of Yemen, but his great grandfather Abu ' Amir relocated the family to Medina after converting to Islam in the second year after hijra ( 623 ).

The first time was when Dost Mohammad, the Amir of Kabul, killed members of Gardner's delegation in Afghanistan forcing him to flee from Kabul to Yarkand through west Kafiristan.

Among the famous personalities who hailed from Feni district are Famous saint Shah Syed Amir Uddin Pagla Miah / Baba ( RA ) who is regarded as founder of feni and sultanul awlia feni, Saint Mamu Fakir ( RA ), Begum Khaleda Zia ( former Prime Minister ), Sir A. F. Rahman ( the first Muslim Vice Chancellor of University, Dr. Mustafa Chowdhury ( former Public Service Commission Chairman ), Prof. Ahmed Shafee ( Vice-Chancellor of East West University ), Former Politician and Businessman Mowlana Abdul Wadud, Abdul Awal Mintu, Saber Hossen Chowdhury, Mosarraf Hossen, Economist Abu Ahammed, journalists

The W ’ ali of the city of Ashkelon, Al Amir Sayf al Mamlaka Tamim along with the custodian of the Mashhad, Qazi Mohammad bin Miskin, took out the buried casket of Raas al Imam al Husayn from the Mashhad, and with due respect and great reverence, on Sunday 8 Jumada al-Thani, 548 ( 31 August 1153 ) carried the head from the city of Ashkelon to Qahera, Egypt.

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.

At the durbar on July 22, 1880, Abdur Rahman was officially recognized as Amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he align his foreign policy with the British.

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.

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.

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 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.

Mirza Atta Ullah Khan, Sardar Bahadur s / o Khan Bahadur Mirza Fakir Ullah Khan ( Saman Burj Wazirabad ), a direct descendent of Jarral Rajput Rajas of Rajauri was selected and approved by the Amir to be the British Envoy to Kabul.

The Second Anglo-Afghan War ( 1878 – 1880 ) was sparked by Amir Shir Ali's refusal to accept a British mission in Kabul.

It was re-organized by the British in 1880, when the country was ruled by Amir Abdur Rahman Khan.

His grandfather Mohammad Yahya Khan ( father in law of Amir Yaqub Khan ) was in charge of the negotiations with the British leading to the Treaty of Gandamak.

** Amir Khan, British boxer

In 1839 the occupation of Afghanistan by British drove Amir Dost Muhammad Khan into exile.

In 1893, as part of a way for fixing the limit of their respective spheres of influence, the Durand Line Agreement was signed between Afghan " Iron " Amir Abdur Rahman and British Viceroy Mortimer Durand.

It was formally established after the 1893 Durand Line Agreement between a representative of colonial British India and Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman Khan for fixing the limit of their respective spheres of influence.

The single-page agreement which contains seven short articles was signed by H. M. Durand and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, agreeing not to exercise interference beyond the frontier line between Afghanistan and the adjoining regions of what was then colonial British India ( now Pakistan ).

In 1893, Mortimer Durand was dispatched to Kabul by the government of British India to reach an agreement with Amir Abdur Rahman Khan for fixing the limit of their respective spheres of influence.

He worked with Manny Pacquiao for a week before his fight with Ricky Hatton and worked with British lightweight Amir Khan for his fight against Marco Antonio Barrera but was asked to leave shortly after joining due to personality conflicts with both fighters

The last Battle of Amir Talpor and British took place in this city in 1843.

The Talpur Amir signed a peace agreement that gave significant concessions to the British.

The peace agreement with Talpur Amir was of no consequence compared to the strategic interests of the British colonial empire.

His father was a hired barrister for the British Government, a learned man and an autodidact who wrote and published the biography of Amir Abdur Rahman, an Emir of Imperial Afghanistan.

The British plan was to normalize relations with the Shinde, Holkar, and Amir Khan.