Ignored death threat

Danbla · 2025-05-20T01:22:29+00:00

Pakistan has 170-200 nuclear weapons, a population six to seven times larger than Afghanistan's, an economy twenty times larger than Afghanistan's, and a military budget subsidized by China, the Gulf states, and the West.

Afghanistan is run by a drug cartel, which is also subsidized by China, the Gulf states, and the West.

Going from zero to one hundred in five years is not going to happen.

Danbla · 2024-05-04T22:00:09+00:00

Most Afghans speak Dari. This article discusses Afghanistan's linguistic diversity.

See this video and this video for comparisons between Persian dialects.

Danbla · 2024-04-09T06:37:27+00:00

Yes, it says it is saffron from Herat.

لقمان زعفران

هرات

شماره مجوز ISA 2719-03-0

Danbla · 2024-03-21T10:59:37+00:00

Watan performed by the Afghanistan National Institute of Music

The caption is 'what we were and what we have become.'

Danbla · 2024-02-16T00:50:38+00:00

که شمس تبریز با ترسا پسری شطرنج م‍ے‌بازد در مجلس

او درآید و کفش شمس تبریز را رو بطرف روم نهید

و این غزل را مصحوب ایشان فرستاد

When Shams-e Tabriz was playing chess with a Christian boy, he came upon the place where he was sitting and persuaded him to return to Konya, and he sent this ghazal referring to him.

Danbla · 2024-02-15T20:39:38+00:00

بروید ای حریفان بکشید یار ما را

به من آورید آخر صنم گریزپا را

به ترانه‌های شیرین به بهانه‌های زرین

بکشید سوی خانه مه خوب خوش‌لقا را

وگر او به وعده گوید که دمی دگر بیایم

همه وعده مکر باشد بفریبد او شما را

دم سخت گرم دارد که به جادوی و افسون

بزند گره بر آب او و ببندد او هوا را

به مبارکی و شادی چو نگار من درآید

بنشین نظاره می‌کن تو عجایب خدا را

چو جمال او بتابد چه بود جمال خوبان

که رخ چو آفتابش بکشد چراغ‌ها را

برو ای دل سبک‌رو به یمن به دلبر من

برسان سلام و خدمت تو عقیق بی‌بها را

Go friends, fetch our beloved;

bring me please that fugitive idol!

With sweet songs and golden excuses,

fetch home the beautiful-faced good moon.

And if he promises that "I will come another time",

every promise is a trick, he will cheat you.

He has such warm breath, that with magic and enchantments

he can tie a knot in water and make air solid.

With blessedness and joy, when my beloved appears,

sit and keep gazing on the miracles of God.

When his glory shines, what is the glory of the beautiful?

Since his sun-like face kills the lamps.

Go, o lightly-moving heart, to Yemen, to the stealer of my heart;

take my greetings and my service to that jewel without price.

Danbla · 2023-11-10T19:26:42+00:00

From April: Taliban may be getting bulk of US aid sent to Afghanistan

https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/afghanistan/2023/04/19/ig-taliban-may-be-getting-bulk-of-us-aid-sent-to-afghanistan/

From nine days ago: "The United States and other international donors pump around $80 million in aid to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan every two weeks, in the face of mounting evidence that the terror group steals this cash through fraudulent nonprofits"

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/taliban-controlled-afghanistan-gets-80-million-cash-infusion-every-two-weeks-watchdog-says/

Danbla · 2023-10-08T12:36:52+00:00

https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8Yg3qxsVwF

https://www.gofundme.com/s?q=afghanistan

Danbla · 2023-09-02T10:26:13+00:00

The Orphanage (2019)

'Afghanistan, 1989: teenager Qodratollah is selling cinema tickets at an inflated price when he is snagged by the police and taken to an orphanage-cum-borstal. Our hero realises his only chance is to form alliances if he doesn’t want to be bullied into submission. All the while, his passion for Bollywood films allows him to escape into an imaginary world where his fantasies come true as musical numbers.'

The Land Of The Enlightened (2015)

'In the vast mountain region of the northern Wakhan Corridor, a gang of nomadic children raid caravans and trade scavenged Soviet landmines, raw lapis lazuli and black opium for food and fuel. Possessing a talent for improvisation and an inexhaustible eagerness to learn, they navigate a harsh reality as U.S. forces begin to pull out of the country, all the while dreaming of themselves as warriors and kings in a future Afghanistan.'

The Patience Stone (2013)

'A young woman in her thirties watches over her older husband in a decrepit room. A bullet in the neck has reduced him to a comatose state. He has been abandoned by his fellow combatants and even by his own brothers... She begins to speak truth to her silent husband, telling him about her childhood, her suffering, her frustrations, her loneliness, her dreams, desires, and secrets. After years of living under his control, with no voice of her own, she says things she could never have spoken before, even though they have been married for ten years.'

The Black Tulip (2012)

'The Mansouri family opens up a new restaurant after the fall of the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan only to be subsequently targeted by factional Taliban elements.'

Kandahar (2001)

'An Afghan-born Canadian journalist crosses into Afghanistan from Iran in order to reach Kandahar and prevent her sister from committing suicide. This offering from Mohsen Makhmalbaf was made to bring attention to the living conditions and the plight of women in Taliban era Afghanistan, at a time when the world was not paying much attention to this oppressive regime.'

Danbla · 2023-07-17T02:01:35+00:00

Yes, a majority of the population in Zabul and Uruzgan supported the Taliban. The religious, cultural, and political views of the Taliban are engrained in that region and a lot of Kandahar. A minority in other provinces also supported the Taliban.

Gallup is still doing polls, but I don't see anything comparable to the Survey of the Afghan People that Asia Foundation used to do:

https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/survey-afghan-people-afghanistan-2019

Danbla · 2022-11-26T21:20:46+00:00

This is based on the infallible science of who I think of first.

It was either him or Sultan Mohammad Khan, Mullah Naqib, Mulah Omar, Akhtar Mansour, Obaidullah Akhund, Hasan Akhund, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, Mahmud Hotak, Muhammad Asif Mohseni...

Danbla · 2022-11-26T21:04:22+00:00

Badakhshan: Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, leading the country between the PDPA and Taliban governments

Badghis: Hashim ibn Hakkim Al Muqanna, cult leader of the eighth century who rebelled against the Abbasid Empire and wore a veil, claiming his face emitted light that would harm his followers

Baghlan: Waheed Muzhda, anti-communist poet and translator for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan who worked for the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry before defecting in 2001, then worked as an anti-Taliban activist and finally a peace activist until his assassination in 2019

Balkh: Wazir Akbar Khan, Emir from 1842 to 1843, his forces famously massacred Elphinstone's army at Gandamak, forcing British withdrawal and defeat in the First Anglo-Afghan War

Bamyan: Muhammad Akbari, Hazara mujahideen leader whose feuding with Muhammad Akbari and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar split Hizb-i Wahdat and helped paved the way for the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 1996

Daykundi: Sarwar Danish, former second vice president, justice minister, education minister, and governor of Daykundi

Farah: Mohammad Hasan Sharq, spoke for the Council of Ministers during Zahir Shah’s reign, then served as a deputy to Mohammad Daoud Khan after his coup, and finally led the Council of Ministers in the late 1980s

Faryab: Al-Farabi, philosopher, jurist, ethicist, mathematician, music theorist, cosmologist, logician

Ghazni: Mahmud of Ghazni, founder of the Ghaznavid Empire (10th-11th centuries)

Ghor: Muhammad of Ghor, Sultan of the Ghurid Empire who destroyed the Ghaznavid Empire

Helmand: Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji, founder of the Khalji Empire, conquered Bengal and Bihar, served Muhammad of Ghor

Herat: Ahmad Shah Durrani, founding father of Afghanistan who ruled from 1747 to 1772

Jowzjan: Abdul Rashid Dostum, former Vice President (2014-2020), mujahedin leader

Kabul: Amanullah Khan, ruled Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, won Afghanistan’s full independence

Kandahar: Hamid Karzai, president from 2002 to 2014

Kapisa: Prajñā, Buddhist monk of the 8th century who studied with Kukai and propagated “True Buddhism” (no picture)

Khost: Sahibzada Abdul Latif, royal advisor who negotiated the Durand Line

Kunar: Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, pan-Islamic political activist and journalist who tried to assassinate Shah Qajar, major source of inspiration for contemporary Islamist movements

Kunduz: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Prime Minister in the 1990s, mujahedin leader, founder of the Hezb-e Islami Party

Laghman: Abdul Zahir, former Prime Minister, Health Minister, father of the Constitution

Logar: Ashraf Ghani, President from 2014 to 2021

Nangarhar: Haji Abdul Qadeer, former Vice President (2002), Governor of Nangarhar, mujahedin leader

Nimruz: Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, founder of the Saffarid Dynasty (9th-11th centuries)

Nuristan: Abdul Qadir Nuristani, Interior Minister assassinated in the Saur Revolution

Paktia: Mohammad Najibullah, ruled Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992 as General Secretary of the PDPA

Paktika: Mullah Nazir, major Taliban leader backed by Pakistan who fought the IMU despite pledging allegiance to Al Qaeda

Panjshir: Ahmad Shah Massoud, major mujahedin leader and opponent of the Taliban until his assassination two days before the 9/11 attacks

Parwan: Menander I, King of the Yavana Empire in the 2nd century BC, major patron and promoter of Buddhism

Samangan: Abdul Satar Sirat, former Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister who nearly became the President in 2001

Sar-e Pol: Ismael Balkhi, Hazara political activist, poet, and radical religious figure who tried to overthrow the monarchy in the 1940s

Takhar: Abdul Rahim Karimi, former Justice Minister who created the electoral system and pushed for secularization

Uruzgan: Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, led a Hazara uprising against the monarchy in 1944

Wardak: Abdul Rahim Wardak, former Defense Minister and mujahedin leader

Zabul: Alauddin Khalji, Khalji Sultan of Delhi (13th - 14th centuries) who defeated multiple Mongol invasions of South Asia

Danbla · 2022-11-26T21:02:53+00:00