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• Ahmad Shah Durrani
  Ahmad Shah Durrani
  Ahmad Shah Durrani , also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī and born as Ahmad Khān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan.Ahmad Khan enlisted as a young soldier in the military of the Afsharid kingdom and quickly rose...
  
   - founding father of Afghanistan
• Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani
  Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani
  Dr. Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani is a politician in Afghanistan. He was the spokesperson for President Hamid Karzai during the interim administration. Subsequently, he was appointed as Water and Energy during the transitional period of Afghan government. In January 2005, he became First Deputy Minister of...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Ahmad Zahir
  Ahmad Zahir
  Ahmad Zahir was a singer, songwriter, and composer from Afghanistan. He is considered an icon of Afghan music and is sometimes called the "King of Afghan music"...
  
   - famous Afghan musician
  Music of Afghanistan
  The music of Afghanistan has existed for a long time, but since the late 1970s the country has been involved in constant wars and people were less concerned about music...
  
  
• Anwar Kamal Khan
  Anwar Kamal Khan
  Anwar Kamal Khan Marwat Mina Khel is a Pakistani politician.He is a senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League He is the son of Justice Khan Habibullah Khan and elder brother of a senior Pakistani Civil Servant Akhter Munir Khan Marwat...
  
  
• Abbas Khattak
  Abbas Khattak
  Air Chief Marshal Abbas Khattak, NI, SBt, , is a retired four-star general and air-force officer in the Pakistan Air Force who served as the 14th Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force from 8 November 1994 to 7 November 1997...
  
  
• Alauddin Khilji
  Alauddin Khilji
  Ali Gurshap Khan better known by his titular name as Sultan Ala-ud-din Khilji was the second ruler of the Turko-Afghan Khilji dynasty in India.He was a well and capable ruler. He belonged to the Afghanized Turkic tribe of the Khiljis...
  
  
• Abdul Ahad Mohmand
  Abdul Ahad Mohmand
  Abdul Ahad Momand is a former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first Afghan in space when he spent nine days aboard the Mir space station in 1988 as a Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut...
  
   - the first Afghan comsonaunt
• Abdul Aziz Hotak
  Abdul Aziz Hotak
  Abdul Aziz Hotak , was the second ruler of the Ghilzai Hotaki dynasty of Kandahar, in what is now the modern state of Afghanistan. He was crowned in 1715 after the death of his brother, Mirwais Hotak. He is the father of Ashraf Hotaki, the fourth ruler of the Hotaki dynasty...
  
   - the second ruler of the Afghan Hotaki dynasty
• Abdul Ghani Khan
• Abdul Hai Habibi - prominent historian and politician in Afghanistan
• Abdul Haq
  Abdul Haq (Afghan leader)
  Abdul Haq was an Afghan Pashtun mujahideen commander who fought against the Soviets and Afghan communists during the Soviet-Afghan War...
  
   - political figure in Afghanistan who was killed by the Taliban in late 2001
• Abdul Jabbar Naeemi
  Abdul Jabbar Naeemi
  Abdul Jabbar Naeemi is an Afghan diplomat and politician. He is the current Governor of Khost Province in Afghanistan. At one time he served as a representative from Kandahar Province to the Loya Jirga...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Abdul Wahid Durrani
  Abdul Wahid Durrani
  Abdul Wahid Khan Durrani born in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan on 30 June 1917, was a former Pakistani international footballer.He has had an illustrious and exemplary career as one of the greatest footballers of the South Asia...
  
  
• Abdur Rab Nishtar
  Abdur Rab Nishtar
  Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar was a Muslim League stalwart, Pakistan movement activist and later Pakistani politician.-Education:...
  
  
• Abdul Rasul Sayyaf
  Abdul Rasul Sayyaf
  Ustad Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf is an Afghan Islamist politician. He took part in the war against the PDPA government in the 1980s, leading the Mujahedin faction Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan....
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Abdul Wahid Khan
• Abdur Rahman Khan
  Abdur Rahman Khan
  Abdur Rahman Khan was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.The third son of Mohammad Afzal Khan, and grandson of Dost Mohammad Khan, Abdur Rahman Khan was considered a strong ruler who re-established the writ of the Afghan government in Kabul after the disarray that followed the second...
  
   - monarch of Afghanistan in the late 19th century
• Abdul Rahman Pazhwak
  Abdul Rahman Pazhwak
  Abdul Rahman Pazhwak was an Afghan poet and diplomat. He was educated in Afghanistan and started out his career as a journalist, but eventually joined the foreign ministry. During the 1950s he became ambassador to the United Nations, and served as president of the UN General Assembly from 1966 to...
  
  
• Abdul Salam Azimi
  Abdul Salam Azimi
  Abdul Salam Azimi Abdul Salam Azimi Abdul Salam Azimi (Pashtu:عبدالسلام عظیمی (born: 1936, in Farah Province) is the Chief Justice of Afghanistan and, as such, the head of the Afghan Supreme Court since May 2006....
  
   - Chief Justice of Afghanistan
  Chief Justice of Afghanistan
  The Chief Justice of Afghanistan is the head of the Afghan Supreme Court. The incumbent chief justice is Abdul Salam Azimi.-List of Chief Justices, 2001-present:*Faisal Ahmad Shinwari , was member of the Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan...
  
  
• Abdul Qadir
  Abdul Qadir
  Abdul Qadir is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Qadir. The name means "servant of the powerful", Al-Qādir being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names....
  
   - politician in Afghanistan until his death in 2002
• Abdul Waheed Kakar
• Abid Ullah Jan
  Abid Ullah Jan
  Abid Ullah Jan is a prolific writer and community development specialist. He has conceptualized and implemented a model of crime prevention through social development in South East Ottawa, called No Community Left Behind . The program won several Awards, including Community Builder of the Year...
  
  
• Abdul Rahim Wardak - Defense Minister of Afghanistan
• Abdul Zahir - politician in Afghanistan during the 1970s
• Afrasiab Khattak
  Afrasiab Khattak
  Afrasiab Khattak or Afrasayab Khattak is a politician from Kohat, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. He is currently a member of the Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Pakistan and the provincial president of the Awami National Party in North-West Frontier Province.Afrasiab Khattak...
  
  
• Aftab Ahmad Sherpao
• Afzal Bangash
  Afzal Bangash
  Muhammad Afzal Bangash was born on April 16, 1924 in Kohat, Pakistan and died on October 28, 1986. Son of advocate Muhammad Akbar Khan Bangash, he was a Pashtun marxist political activist serving as the president of Pakistan Mazdoor Kisan Party, and also as an officebearer in the National Awami...
  
  
• Akhtar Mohammad Osmani
  Akhtar Mohammad Osmani
  Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani or Usmani was a senior leader of the Taliban, treasurer for the organization, and close associate of Osama bin Laden and Mohammed Omar. He was involved in the demolition of the Buddhas of Bamyan. He was considered a potential successor to Mullah Omar...
  
  
• Akram Khan Durrani
  Akram Khan Durrani
  Akram Khan Durrani was born to Ghulam Khan in 1958 in Village Mewa Khel, Surrani, Bannu. He studied at Sikander Khel Primary and High Schools. He completed his FA from Government Degree College, Bannu. His clan members inhabit in Mewa Khel, Duri Khel, Allah Dodi kala, Ahmad Khon kala and Bazidi.He...
  
  
• Ali Mohammed Khan
  Ali Mohammed Khan
  Ali Muhammad Khan was a rohilla chief who founded the Pathan state of Rohilkhand in the northwestern region of the Uttar Pradesh state of India. He succeeded rohilla Sardar Daud Khan and helped develop Rohilkhand into a powerful nation, which became independent in 1721...
  
  
• Ali Ahmad Jalali
  Ali Ahmad Jalali
  Ali Ahmad Jalali is an Afghan American and a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the United States' National Defense University. He is also a former Interior Minister of Afghanistan, serving in that position from January 2003 to September 2005.Jalali...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Amanullah Khan
  Amanullah Khan
  Amanullah Khan was the King of the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, first as Amir and after 1926 as Shah. He led Afghanistan to independence over its foreign affairs from the United Kingdom, and his rule was marked by dramatic political and social change...
  
   - Ghazi of the Third Anglo-Afghan War
  Third Anglo-Afghan War
  The Third Anglo-Afghan War began on 6 May 1919 and ended with an armistice on 8 August 1919. It was a minor tactical victory for the British. For the British, the Durand Line was reaffirmed as the political boundary between the Emirate of Afghanistan and British India and the Afghans agreed not to...
  
   and King of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929
• Amanullah Khan Jadoon
  Amanullah Khan Jadoon
  Amanullah Khan Jadoon is a Pakistani politician served as the Federal Minister for Petroleum & Natural Resources during 2002 to 2007 and political rival of Mehtab Ahmed Khan.-Political career:...
  
  
• Amirzai Sangin
  Amirzai Sangin
  Amirzai Sangin is a politician in Afghanistan, currently serving as the Minister of Communications. An ethnic Pashtun, he was born in the Urgun District of Paktika Province in Afghanistan.-Early life and education:...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi
• Amir Kror Suri
  Amir Kror Suri
  Amir Kror Suri , also known as Jahan Pahlawan, is a legendary character in Pashtun national history and is claimed to have become the governor of Mandesh in Ghor.- Description in Pashtun folklore :...
  
   - 8th century folk hero
  Folk hero
  A folk hero is a type of hero, real, fictional, or mythological. The single salient characteristic which makes a character a folk hero is the imprinting of the name, personality and deeds of the character in the popular consciousness. This presence in the popular consciousness is evidenced by...
  
   and a king from the Ghor region in Afghanistan
• Amjad Khan
  Amjad Khan
  Amjad Khan was an acclaimed Indian actor and director. He worked in over 130 films in his film career spanning nearly twenty years. He enjoyed popularity for his villainous roles in Hindi films the most famous being the unforgettable Gabbar Singh in 1975 classic Sholay...
  
  
• Anwar Saifullah Khan
  Anwar Saifullah Khan
  Anwar Saifullah Khan is a politician of Pakistan and is currently a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He hails from District Lakki Marwat and has remained a Federal Minister under the Premiership of Benazir Bhutto. Anwar Saifullah Khan has remained federal Minister three...
  
  
• Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi
  Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi
  Anwar ul-Haq Ahady is a prominent academic and politician in Afghanistan, who served as the nation's Finance Minister from December 2004 to February 5, 2009. Prior to that he served as head of Da Afghanistan Bank, the central bank of Afghanistan...
  
  
• Anwar Kamal Khan
  Anwar Kamal Khan
  Anwar Kamal Khan Marwat Mina Khel is a Pakistani politician.He is a senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League He is the son of Justice Khan Habibullah Khan and elder brother of a senior Pakistani Civil Servant Akhter Munir Khan Marwat...
  
   (Marwat-Mina Khel
  Marwat
  Marwat مروت, refers to a Pashtun tribe, located primarily in Lakki Marwat District in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan as well the districts of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan...
  
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• Arbab Jehangir Khan
  Arbab Jehangir Khan
  Arbab Jehangir Khan Khalil regarded as chief of the Khalil tribe, was a Pakistani politician hailed from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He served as the 14th Chief Minister from April 7, 1985 to May 29, 1988 and then as the Leader of opposition in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly from 1989-1990...
  
  
• Asadullah Khan
  Asadullah Khan
  Asadullah Khan is a former Afghan cricketer. Khan is a right-handed batsman who bowls right arm medium pace. He has previously represented the Afghanistan national cricket team.-Playing career:...
  
   - member of the Afghanistan national cricket team
• Asadullah Khalid - politician in Afghanistan
• Assadullah Wafa
  Assadullah Wafa
  Assadullah Wafa is the former governor of the Afghan province of Helmand, and formerly governor of Kunar Province of Afghanistan and a previous governor of the Paktia Province where he was succeeded by Hakim Taniwal. His first name is sometimes spelled "Asadullah"...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Asfandyar Wali Khan
  Asfandyar Wali Khan
  Asfandyar Wali Khan is a democratic socialist and the current the President of the Awami National Party in Pakistan.His father, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, was the party's first President...
  
   - politician in Pakistan
• Ashraf Hotaki - Shah of Persia from 1725 to 1729 and the fourth ruler of the Hotaki dynasty
• Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai - politician in Afghanistan
• Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
• Aslam Khattak
• Ayub Shah
• Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai
  Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai
  Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai was a Pashtun nationalist and political leader from Quetta, Pakistan. Known as "Khan Shaheed", he became the founder and head of Anjuman-i-Watan, Wror Pashtoon and Pakhtunkhwa National Awami Party...
  
  

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• Dadullah
• Daud Shah Saba
  Daud Shah Saba
  Dr. Daud Shah Saba is a politician in Afghanistan, who is serving as Governor of Herat Province since August 2010 when his predecessor Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani had resigned from the post.-Early years and education:...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Daud Khan Rohilla
• Daulat Khan Lodhi
  Daulat Khan Lodhi
  Daulat Khan Lodi was the governor of Lahore during the reign of Ibrahim Lodi, the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty. Due to disaffection with Ibrahim, Daulat invited Babur to invade the kingdom.-Background:...
  
  
• Dil Jan Khan
  Dil Jan Khan
  Dil Jan Khan is a former President of International Narcotics Control Board of UNODC. Ethnically, he is a Marwat and was born in Dirstrict Lakki Marwat of Pakistan. He joined Police Service of Pakistan on 21 January 1961...
  
  
• Din Mohammad
  Haji Din Mohammad
  Hajji Din Mohammad is a politician in Afghanistan, who first served as the Governor of Nangarhar Province followed by Governor of Kabul Province. He comes from a distinguished Pashtun family which has served the Afghan nation for more than 150 years. His great-grandfather, Wazir Arsala Khan, served...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Delbar Jan Arman - politician in Afghanistan
• Dilip Kumar
  Dilip Kumar
  Dilip Kumar , is an Indian actor and a former Member of Parliament.He lives in Pali Hill, Bandra in Mumbai, India. He is commonly known as "Tragedy King",and is described as "the ultimate method actor" by Satyajit Ray....
  
  
• Dost Mohammad Khan
  Dost Mohammad Khan
  Dost Mohammad Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan between 1826 and 1863. He first ruled from 1826 to 1839 and then from 1843 to 1863. He was the 11th son of Sardar Pāyendah Khan who was killed by Zaman Shah Durrani in 1799...
  
   - Monarch of Afghanistan in the 19th century
• Dr. Kabir Stori

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• Faqir of Ipi
  Faqir of Ipi
  Faqir of Ipi born Mirza Ali Khan was a Pashtun from today's North-Waziristan Pakistan, Federally Administrated Tribal Areas. His followers addressed him as 'Haji Sahib'...
  
  
• Fardeen Khan
  Fardeen Khan
  Fardeen Khan is an Indian Bollywood actor.-Early life:Fardeen Khan was born to actor turned director Feroz Khan and mother Sundari. Grandson of Sadiq Ali Khan and Fatima Khan. He is the nephew of actors Sanjay Khan and Akbar Khan. He is the cousin of Suzanne Khan and actor Zayed Khan. He lived in...
  
  
• Farhad Darya
  Farhad Darya
  Farhad 'Darya' Nasher is an Afghan singer and composer, as well as a highly acclaimed music producer, and Good Will and Peace Ambassador for Afghanistan to the United Nations. Widely popular, he has earned affection for not only his music but also patriotism...
  
   - Afghan musician
• Farhatullah Babar
  Farhatullah Babar
  Farhatullah Babar is a Pakistani politician and Parliamentarian from Pakistan People's Party to the Parliament. He is a senior member of the Pakistan Peoples Party and served in the Pakistani Senate from 2003 to 2006. He was an outspoken critic of the former Pakistani administration headed by...
  
  
• Faryadi Sarwar Zardad
  Faryadi Sarwar Zardad
  Faryadi Sarwar Zardad is a former Afghan warlord. In 2005 he was convicted in the United Kingdom where he was living, for conspiring to take hostages and conspiring to torture during the 1990s in Afghanistan.-War crimes:Born circa 1963, Faryadi Sarwar Zardad is Pashtun and a former Mujahideen...
  
  
• Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman
• Feroz Khan
  Feroz Khan
  Feroz Khan was an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director in the Hindi film industry...
  
  

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• Gul Agha Sherzai
  Gul Agha Sherzai
  Gul Agha Sherzai is the current Governor of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan.He previously served as Governor of Kandahar province, in the early 1990s and from 2001 until 2003.-Biography:...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Ghulam Farooq Wardak - politician in Afghanistan
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan
  Ghulam Ishaq Khan
  Ghulam Ishaq Khan , abbreviated as GIK, was the seventh President of Pakistan from August 17, 1988 until July 18, 1993 and a career statesman from the start to the end of cold war...
  
  
• Ghulam Muhammad
• Gohar Ayub Khan
  Gohar Ayub Khan
  Gohar Ayub Khan is a Pakistani politician and a son of the late Pakistani dictator, President General Ayub Khan. A Tareen/Tarin Afghan/Pathan, he was born in village Rehana, Haripur, Hazara region. Khan studied at Army Burn Hall College, Abbottabad, and Saint Mary's Academy, Rawalpindi,...
  
  
• Gul Hassan Khan
  Gul Hassan Khan
  Lieutenant-General Gul Hassan Khan , was a former three star general and the last Army Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Army from December 20, 1971 – March 3, 1972...
  
  
• Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
  Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
  Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is an Afghan Mujahideen leader who is the founder and leader of the Hezb-e Islami political party and paramilitary group. Hekmatyar was a rebel military commander during the 1980s Soviet war in Afghanistan and was one of the key figures in the civil war that followed the...
  
   - politician and warlord from Afghanistan

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• Mian Hayaud Din
• Habibullah Khan
• Hayat Sherpao
• Khan Habibullah Khan
  Khan Habibullah Khan
  Habibullah Khan Marwat was a politician and former Peshawar High Court judge. In 1937, Habibullah Khan joined the Khaksar movement and worked in the North West Frontier Province...
  
   (Marwat
  Marwat
  Marwat مروت, refers to a Pashtun tribe, located primarily in Lakki Marwat District in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan as well the districts of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan...
  
  ) (Former Chairman of the Senate, Pakistan
  Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan
  The current Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan is Farooq Naek since 12 March, 2009.The first Chairman of the Senate was Justice Khan Habibullah Khan Marwat.-History:...
  
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• Hayatullah Khan Durrani
  Hayatullah Khan Durrani
  Hayatullah Khan Durrani is a Pakistani cave explorer, mountaineer, environmentalist, organizer, and a rescuer. He is also a part-time sports anchor actor in Pakistani Television shows. He played a significant role in the promotion of mountaineering and caving adventure sports in Pakistan,...
  
  
• Hafiz Rahmat Khan
  Hafiz Rahmat Khan
  Hafiz Rahmat Khan was Regent of Rohilkhand in North India, from 1749 to 1774. He was a Pashtun by background, ruling over Rohillas ....
  
  
• Hafizullah Amin
  Hafizullah Amin
  Hafizullah Amin was the second President of Afghanistan during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan....
  
  
• Hakim Taniwal
  Hakim Taniwal
  Hakim Taniwal was the Governor of Paktia province in Afghanistan until he was killed by a suicide bomber on 10 September 2006, at the age of 63...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Hamid Karzai
  Hamid Karzai
  Hamid Karzai, GCMG is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001...
  
   - President of Afghanistan since late 2001
• Hamidullah Qalandarzai
  Hamidullah Qalandarzai
  Hamidullah Qalandarzai was born in Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. He is the current governor of Khost Province, replacing Arsala Jamal.-Early life:...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Hashim Khan
  Hashim Khan
  Hashim Khan is a former squash player from Pakistan. He won the British Open seven times between 1951 and 1958.Hashim Khan was born in Nawakille , a small village near Peshawar, in British India to an ethnic Pashtun family. The year of his birth is usually reported as 1916, though this has been...
  
  
• Hedayat Amin Arsala - politician in Afghanistan who previously worked for World Bank
  World Bank
  The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
  
  
• Hiddy Jahan
  Hiddy Jahan
  Hidayet "Hiddy" Jahan is a squash player who was ranked among the top-6 players in the world from 1970 through to 1986.A serious accident almost killed him in 1967...
  
  
• Hussain Hotaki - the last ruler of the Hotaki dynasty at Kandahar

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• Ibrahim Lodhi
  Ibrahim Lodhi
  Ibrahim Lodi was one of the ruler of the Lodi dynasty who became the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate in India. He was an Afghan who ruled over much of northern India from 1517 to 1526, when he was defeated by Babur's army.Lodi attained the throne upon the death of his father, Sikandar Lodi,...
  
  
• Imran Khan
  Imran Khan
  Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics...
  
  
• Imran Ullah Khan
  Imran Ullah Khan
  Lieutenant General Imran Ullah Khan is a retired Pakistan Army general. He remained the Governor of Balochistan province in PPP-led government from May 1994 to May 1997.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Inayatullah Khan
  Inayatullah Khan
  Inayatullah Khan Seraj was the King of Afghanistan from 14 January 1929 to 17 January 1929. He was the son of former Afghan King, Habibullah Khan...
  
  
• Iqbal Khan Jadoon
  Jadoon
  The Jadoons are one of the largest Pashtun tribes in Pakistan. They originate from Jallalabad and are now located in the southern Hazara Division area of Khyber Pakhtoonkhuwa, Pakistan, partly in Gadoon area in Swabi on the southern slopes of Mahaban Mountains, and partly in Abbottabad District...
  
  
• Ishaq Khan Khakwani
  Ishaq Khan Khakwani
  Ishaq Khan Khakwani was born in Multan, Punjab province of Pakistan in April 1949. The former Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunications Division and Railways.-School and College:...
  
   (Khugyani
  Khugyani
  The Khogyani tribe is a Pashtun tribe of the Karlani or "Hill Tribes" branch. The tribe originated from the Khogyani District along the Koh-i-Safed mountain range in Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan...
  
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• Irfan Khan Pathan

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• Jalaluddin Haqqani
  Jalaluddin Haqqani
  Mawlawi Jalaluddin Haqqani is the leader of the Haqqani network, an insurgent group fighting against US-led NATO forces and the government of Afghanistan. He also fought in the 1980s Soviet war in Afghanistan, including in the Operation Magistral...
  
  
• Jamal Shah
  Jamal Shah
  Jamal Shah is an actor, a director, a painter, and a social worker. He was born in 1956 in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.-Education and career:...
  
  
• Jan Mohammad Khan - politician in Afghanistan until his death in 2011
• Juma Khan Hamdard
  Juma Khan Hamdard
  Juma Khan Hamdard is the current governor of Paktia Province, Afghanistan. He formerly served as governor of Baghlan and later Jowzjan.-Biography:...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan

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• Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed
• Karzais
• Kader Khan
  Kader Khan
  Kader Khan is an Indian film actor, comedian, script and dialogue writer. He graduated from Ismail Yusuf College affiliated to Mumbai University .-Early life:...
  
  
• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was an Afghan, Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India...
  
  
• Khan Muhammad Sarwar Khan Kakar
  Khan Muhammad Sarwar Khan Kakar
  Muhammad Sarwar Khan Kakar was a former politician and head of the Pashtun Kakar tribe in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. He was from the Barshore and Toba Kakar Ranges area of Pishin District. He was born in 1942 and studied at St. Michael's School, Quetta. His political career began in...
  
  
• Khan Abdul Wali Khan
• Khan Habibullah Khan
  Khan Habibullah Khan
  Habibullah Khan Marwat was a politician and former Peshawar High Court judge. In 1937, Habibullah Khan joined the Khaksar movement and worked in the North West Frontier Province...
  
   (Marwat
  Marwat
  Marwat مروت, refers to a Pashtun tribe, located primarily in Lakki Marwat District in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan as well the districts of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan...
  
  )
• Khatir Afridi
  Khatir Afridi
  Khatir Afridi was born as Misree Khan in 1929, at Landi Kotal, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan near the border of Afghanistan, and died on August 24, 1961. Misree Khan was born to Afridi parents of the Zakka Khel clan. He was a prominent poet of the Pashto language but died young...
  
  
• Khushal Khan Khattak
  Khushal Khan Khattak
  Khushal Khan Khattak was a prominent Pashtun malik, poet, warrior,A charismatic personality and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote a huge collection of Pashto poems during the Mughal Empire in the 17th century, and admonished Pashtuns to forsake their divisive tendencies and unite...
  
  
• Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
  Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
  Mian Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri is a Pakistani politician and diplomat. He was the Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 2002 to 2007.- Family background :Khurshid M. Kasuri belongs to one of the old political families of Pakistan...
  
  

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• Mahmud Hotaki - Shah of Persia from 1722 to 1725 and the third ruler of the Hotaki dynasty
• Mahmud Tarzi
  Mahmud Tarzi
  Mahmūd Bēg Tarzī was one of Afghanistan's greatest intellectuals. He is known as the father of Afghan journalism...
  
   - politician and pioneer of journalism in Afghanistan in the early 20th century
• Mahmud Shah Durrani
  Mahmud Shah Durrani
  Mahmud Shah Durrani was born Prince and ruler of the Durrani Empire between 1801 and 1803, and again between 1809 and 1818...
  
   - monarch of Afghanistan in the 18th century
• Mahmood Khan Achakzai
  Mahmood Khan Achakzai
  Mahmood Khan Achakzai is a Pakistani politician and chairman of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, an Afghan Pashtun nationalist party based in the pashtun belt of Pakistan. The son of activist Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai, Achakzai remained a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan three times...
  
   - politician in Pakistan
• Malik Saad
  Malik Saad
  Additional Inspector General of Police Malik Muhammad Saad Khan Shaheed , was two-star rank senior police officer, engineer, and former Chief Capital City Police Officer of Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. He was in charge of security in the provincial capital of Peshawar...
  
  
• Maulana Kausar Niazi
  Maulana Kausar Niazi
  Kausar Niazi, commonly known as Maulana Kausar Niazi , was a Pakistani politician and a religious leader in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party . Niazi, in Bhutto's premiership cabinet, was a most powerful federal minister in Pakistan during 1974 till 1977...
  
  
• Maulana Mohammad Ali
  Maulana Mohammad Ali
  Maulana Mohammad Ali Jouhar was an Indian Muslim leader, activist, scholar, journalist and poet, and was among the leading figures of the Khilafat Movement....
  
  
• Mian Ghulam Jilani
  Mian Ghulam Jilani
  Major General Mian Ghulam Jilani was a two-star general officer in the Pakistan Army who, as British Army officer, was a World War II Japanese POW camp survivor at Singapore, who subsequently rose to help negotiate Pakistan’s membership in the Baghdad Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization...
  
  
• Mirwais Ahmadzai
  Mirwais Ahmadzaï
  Mirwais Ahmadzaï, more commonly known as Mirwais, is a Paris based record producer and songwriter. He was born in Switzerland to an Afghan father and an Italian mother. He is a leader in the French style of progressive electronic dance music and progressive electronica...
  
   - Afghan-Italian pop musician in Europe
• Mirwais Hotak - founder of the Afghan Hotaki dynasty in Kandahar
  Kandahar
  Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...
  
  
• Misbah Ul-Haq
• Mohammad Akbar Barakzai
  Mohammad Akbar Barakzai
  Hajji Mohammad Akbar Barakzai is a politician in Afghanistan, serving as the governor of Baghlan Province.-Biography:Mohammad Akbar was born in Baghlan Province of Afghanistan. He graduated from Baghlan's Agriculture school in 1989...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Mohammad Akbar Khan
  Akbar Khan
  Amir Akbar Khan Amir Akbar Khan Amir Akbar Khan (1816 – 1846;, born as Mohammad Akbar Khan and famously known as Wazir Akbar Khan, was an Afghan Prince, a general, a tribal leader and Emir. He was active in the First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839 to 1842...
  
  
• Mohammad Asef Rahimi
  Mohammad Asef Rahimi
  Mohammad Asef Rahimi is a politician in Afghanistan, currently serving as Minister of Agriculture. An ethnic Pashtun, he was born in 1959 and raised in Kabul, and obtained a degree from Kabul University before completing post-graduate studies at Omaha University in Nebraska...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Mohammad Ayub Khan - monarch of Afghanistan in 19th century
• Mohammad Ashraf Naseri
  Mohammad Ashraf Naseri
  Mohammad Ashraf Naseri replaced longtime Zabul governor Delbar Jan Arman Shinwari in late March, 2009.An ethnic Pashtun from Paktia Province, Naseri separated from the Ittihad-e Islami under Abdul Rasul Sayyaf in 1992 or 1993 and is now politically unaffiliated.He has a BA in science from Kabul...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Mohammed Daoud Khan
  Mohammed Daoud Khan
  Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan or Daud Khan was Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and later becoming the President of Afghanistan...
  
   - President of Afghanistan from 1973 to 1978
• Mohammad Dawran
  Mohammad Dawran
  Major General Mohammad Dawran Masoomi is Commander of the Afghan National Army Air Force, which is the sixth corps of the Afghan National Army. He was promoted to the post in 2005 by Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and the Afghan Commander-in-Chief, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi...
  
   - Commander of the Afghan Air Force
  Afghan Air Force
  The Afghan Air Force , formerly the Afghan National Army Air Corps and Afghan National Army Air Force , is one of seven "corps" of the military of Afghanistan, responsible for air defense and air warfare. It was officially established in 1924 and for most of its history has functioned as a small...
  
  
• Mohammad Gulab Mangal - politician in Afghanistan
• Mohammad Nadir Shah - King of Afghanistan from 1929 to 1933
• Mohammad Yaqub Khan
  Mohammad Yaqub Khan
  Mohammad Yaqub Khan was Emir of Afghanistan from February 21 to October 12, 1879. He was the son of the previous ruler, Sher Ali Khan....
  
   - monarch of Afghanistan in the late 19th century
• Mohammed Najibullah
• Mohammed Omar
  Mohammed Omar
  Mullah Mohammed Omar , often simply called Mullah Omar, is the leader of the Taliban movement that operates in Afghanistan. He was Afghanistan's de facto head of state from 1996 to late 2001, under the official title "Head of the Supreme Council"...
  
   - the spiritual leader of the Taliban
  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
  The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was founded in 1996 when the Taliban began their rule of Afghanistan and ended with their fall from power in 2001...
  
   (Quetta Shura
  Quetta Shura
  The Quetta Shura is a militant organization composed of top leadership of the Afghan Taliban, that is believed to be based since about 2001 in the city of Quetta in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. The Shura was formed after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was toppled in late 2001 and the...
  
  )
• Mohammad Yunus
  Mohammad Yunus (diplomat)
  Mohammad Yunus was a close associate and advisor to Indira Gandhi. As a member of the foreign service he served as India’s ambassador to Turkey, Indonesia, Iraq and Spain.He promoted Trade between India and the rest of the world through regular Trade Fairs and the establishment of the Pragati...
  
  
• Mufti Mahmood
• Muhammad Muhsin Khan
  Muhammad Muhsin Khan
  Muhammad Muhsin Khan born 1345 Al-Hijri is a contemporary Islamic scholar of ethnic Afghan origin, most notable for his renowned English translations of Sahih Bukhari and the Qur'an, entitled The Noble Qur'an, which he completed along with Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali.-Biography:Muhammad Muhsin...
  
  
• Muhammad Essa
  Muhammad Essa
  Muhammad Essa Khan is a Pakistani footballer playing currently for KRL FC. The striker is also the captain of Pakistan national football team and is one of the most talented football players Pakistan has seen in recent times...
  
  
• Mohammad Ishaq Aloko
  Mohammad Ishaq Aloko
  Mohammad Ishaq Aloko ) is the Attorney General of Afghanistan since Ausgust 2008. He was appointed by President Hamid Karzai after Abdul Jabar Sabit was forced to resign from the post. An ethnic Pashtun, he was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan....
  
   - Attorney General of Afghanistan
• Mullah Powindah
  Mullah Powindah
  Mullah Powindah born Mohiuddin Mahsud was a religious leader in the Pashtun tribe of the Mahsuds. Mullah Powindah led a long standing guerilla insurgency against the British forces in the late 19th century....
  
  
• Muhammad Ali Khan Mohmand
• Mohammed Zahir Shah
  Mohammed Zahir Shah
  Mohammed Zahir Shah was the last King of Afghanistan, reigning for four decades, from 1933 until he was ousted by a coup in 1973...
  
   - the last king of Afghanistan who reigned for 40 years
• Musa Khan Ahmadzai - politician in Afghanistan

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• Naghma
  Naghma
  Naghma is a prominent Afghan singer who started in the early 1970s. She and her ex-husband, Mangal, were a popular musical duo who dominated Afghan music scene during the 1970s and early 1990s. Naghma sings in Pashto and Dari...
  
   - Afghan musician
• Nashenas - Afghan musician
• Naim Popal
  Naim Popal
  Naim Popal is an Afghan singer, songwriter, and composer.He is considered to be an influential artists in Afghanistan's musical history with a career that spans over four decades...
  
   - Afghan musician
• Naseerullah Babar
  Naseerullah Babar
  Major-General Naseerullah Khan Babar , SJ, HJ, was a retired 2-star rank general officer in the Pakistan Army, and later career military officer-turned statesman from the leftist democratic soclialist, the Pakistan Peoples Party...
  
  
• Naser Mestarihi
  Naser Mestarihi
  Naser Mestarihi is a Qatari born Jordanian-Pakistani guitarist based in Doha, Qatar who has been on the Qatari music scene since the age of 15...
  
  
• Nasrullah Khan
• Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes
  Bat for Lashes
  Natasha Khan , also known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, is an English musician. She sings and plays the piano, bass, guitar, harpsichord and the autoharp....
  
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• Najib-ul-Daula
  Najib-ul-Daula
  Najib-ud-daula, also known as Najib Khan, was a noted Rohilla tribal chief in 18th century Rohilkhand, who in the 1740s founded the city of Najibabad in Bijnor district, India, and succeeded Safdar Jang as Nawab Wazir of the Mughal Empire...
  
  
• Nazia Iqbal
  Nazia Iqbal
  Nazia Iqbal is a popular Pashto singer. She was born in Swat valley, Pakistan. She has fan base stretching from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pashtun areas of Balochistan, Pakistan to most parts of Afghanistan, and has achieved much recognition...
  
  

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• Rahim Shah
• Rahimuddin Khan
  Rahimuddin Khan
  Rahimuddin Khan Afridi is a retired four-star general of the Pakistan Army who was the fourth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1984 to 1987. He was also the longest-serving Governor and martial law administrator of Balochistan, from 1978 to when he resigned in 1984...
  
  
• Rahman Baba
  Rahman Baba
  Abdul Rahman Baba is popularly known as Rahman Baba , was a Pashtun Muslim poet from Peshawar in modern-day Pakistan who remains the most popular poet among the Pashtuns...
  
  
• Rasool Sayyaf
• Roedad Khan
  Roedad Khan
  Roedad Khan was Pakistani statesman from the start to the end of the Cold war. During his long career, Khan was one of the most senior civil servants of Pakistan. In 1923, Khan was born in Mardan, North-West Frontier Province, British Indian Empire, to a ethnic working class Pashtun family that...
  
  
• Roohul Amin
  Roohul Amin
  Roohul Amin is a politician in Afghanistan, currently serving as the Governor of Farah Province. He was appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in May 2008. -References:...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan

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• Saeed Khan Rangeela
  Saeed Khan Rangeela
  Saeed Khan Rangeela was a Pakistani Lollywood actor, singer and director.His birthname was Mohammad Saeed Khan and he was born in Nangarhar, Afghanistan...
  
  
• Saleem Khan
  Saleem Khan
  Saleem Khan or Salim Khan is a town and Union Council of Swabi District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. It is located at 34°10'0N 72°28'0E with an altitude of 348 metres ....
  
   (Marwat
  Marwat
  Marwat مروت, refers to a Pashtun tribe, located primarily in Lakki Marwat District in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan as well the districts of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan...
  
  )
• Saifullah Khan Khudiadadzai
  Khudiadadzai
  The Khudiadadzai are a Pashtun tribe in Afghanistan and Pakistan.Khudiadadzai of the Kakar Sunzerkel tribe from Balochistan, a region divided between Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. It consists of many clans, including Mirdadzai, Paizai, and Baigzai.The people of Khudiadzai live in Nasai, Muslim...
  
   (Qilla Saifullah
  Qilla Saifullah
  Qilla Saifullah or Killa Saifullah or Saifullah Qilla is a fort built by Saifullah Khan, an influential personage among the Mirdadzai Khudiadadzai. The Qilla Saifullah District of Pakistan derives its name from this fort...
  
  )
• Saif Ali Khan
  Saif Ali Khan
  Saif Ali Khan is an Indian actor known for his work in Bollywood films. He is the son of the late former Nawab of Pataudi, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, and actress Sharmila Tagore. He has two sisters: Saba Ali Khan and actress Soha Ali Khan....
  
  
• Salim Saifullah Khan
• Sanjay Khan
  Sanjay Khan
  -Career:Khan made his debut in the 1964 Chetan Anand film "Haqeeqat" followed by the Rajshri film Dosti. In the 1960s and 1970s Khan starred in the movies Dus Lakh, Ek Phool Do Mali and Intaqam. He also acted opposite his brother Feroz in three films Upaasna , Mela and Nagin...
  
  
• Samiullah Khan
  Samiullah Khan
  Samiullah Khan Niazi is a former field hockey player from Pakistan, who was nicknamed The Flying Horse because of his great speed...
  
  
• Shahid Khan Afridi
• Sher Mohammad Karimi - Chief of Army Staff
  Chief of Army Staff
  The Chief of Army Staff or Chief of Staff of the Army is the most senior officer in the command structure of many armies. The title comes from the fact that the officer is the chief army aide to the Commander-in-Chief, who is usually the head of state...
  
   of the Afghan National Army
  Afghan National Army
  The Afghan National Army is a service branch of the military of Afghanistan, which is currently trained by the coalition forces to ultimately take the role in land-based military operations in Afghanistan. , the Afghan National Army is divided into seven regional Corps. The strength of the Afghan...
  
  
• Sher Ali Khan
  Sher Ali Khan
  Sher Ali Khan was Amir of Afghanistan from 1863 to 1866 and from 1868 until his death in 1879. He was the third son of Dost Mohammed Khan, founder of the Barakzai Dynasty in Afghanistan....
  
  
• Shahkur Ullah Durrani
  Shahkur Ullah Durrani
  ((Infobox officeholder|name = Shahkir Ullah Durrani|office = Governor State Bank Of PakistanShahkir Ullah Durrani (S.U.) was an Afghan/Pakistani International Banker and Entrepreneur originally from the Pashtun Popalzai tribe...
  
  
• Shah Nawaz Khan
  Shah Nawaz Khan (Chief Justice)
  Justice Shah Nawaz Khan, was a Mina Khel, Marwat, from Lakki Marwat District, Pakistan.He remained the Chief Justice of North-West Frontier Province and later remained Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan from 05-04-1981 to 01-07-1982 .-See also:* Marwat...
  
  
• Shah Rukh Khan
• Sharbat Gula
  Sharbat Gula
  Sharbat Gula is an Afghan woman who was the subject of a famous photograph by journalist Steve McCurry. Gula was living as a refugee in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed...
  
  
• Sher Afzal Khan Barikoti
  Sher Afzal Khan Barikoti
  Sher Afzal Khan Barikoti is a Pashto author and historian born in Swat. He lives in England from where he has published many books on Pashto history and literature. He is published in Pashto & Urdu...
  
  
• Sher Shah Suri
  Sher Shah Suri
  Sher Shah Suri , birth name Farid Khan, also known as Sher Khan , was the founder of the short-lived Sur Empire in northern India, with its capital at Delhi, before its demise in the hands of the resurgent Mughal Empire...
  
  
• Shuja Shah Durrani
  Shuja Shah Durrani
  Shuja Shah Durrani was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809. He then ruled from 1839 until his death in 1842. Shuja Shah was of the Sadozai line of the Abdali group of Pashtuns...
  
   - monarch of Afghanistan in the early 19th century
• Shukria Barakzai
  Shukria Barakzai
  Shukria Barakzai is an Afghan politician, journalist and entrepreneur, and a prominent Muslim feminist.-Early life:She was born in 1972 in Kabul, Afghanistan...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Sikandar Lodhi
  Sikandar Lodhi
  Sikandar Lodi , born Nizam Khan, was the second ruler of the Afghan Lodi Dynasty, who reigned over Sultanate of Delhi from 1489 to 1517.-Biography:...
  
  
• Soraya Tarzi
  Soraya Tarzi
  Soraya Tarzi, known mostly as Queen Soraya, was the Queen of Afghanistan in the early 20th century and the wife of King Amanullah Khan. She is the only woman to appear on the list of rulers in Afghanistan, although wife of King Amanullah Khan...
  
   - Queen of Afghanistan in the 1920s
• Suhaila Seddiqi
  Suhaila Seddiqi
  General Suhaila Seddiqi , often referred to as General Suhaila, is a retired politcian from Afghanistan. She served as the Minister of Public Health from December 2001 to around 2008. Prior to that she worked as a surgeon general in the military of Afghanistan.As a government minister, she is...
  
   - retired politician from Afghanistan. She has served as the Minister of Public Health and as a surgeon general
  Surgeon General
  Surgeon General may refer to:* Surgeon-General * Surgeon General of the United States* State Surgeon General* Surgeon General of the United States Army* Surgeon General of the United States Navy...
  
   in the military of Afghanistan
  Military of Afghanistan
  The military of Afghanistan is composed of the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Army Air Force . Being a landlocked country, Afghanistan has no navy, and the private security forces who are sometimes seen wearing military uniforms are not part of Afghanistan's military...
  
  .

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• Taj Mohammad Wardak
  Taj Mohammad Wardak
  Taj Mohammad Wardak is an Afghan politician, from the Pashtun ethnic group.He spent some of the period of the Taliban's administration in the United States of America, and became an American citizen.-Early political career:...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Tam Khan
  Tam Khan
  Tam Khan also known as the "Brown Bomber, is a British mixed martial artist of Afghan descent who fights for Team Sure Grip Vale Tudo. Khan has fought in multiple promotions including ADFC, UWC, Cage Rage and Extreme MMA Championships...
  
  
• Tarzi
  Tarzi
  The Tarzi family is a branch of the Pashtun, Mohamedzai tribe of Afghanistan . Although a smaller branch of the Barakzai ruling dynasty, the Tarzi family has produced some of the most famous and affluent members...
  
  
• Timur Shah Durrani
  Timur Shah Durrani
  Timur Shah Durrani , was the second ruler of the Durrani Empire from October 16, 1772, until his death in 1793. An ethnic Pashtun, he was the second and eldest son of Ahmad Shah Durrani.- Early life :...
  
   - monarch of Afghanistan, the second ruler of the Durrani Empire
  Durrani Empire
  The Durrani Empire was a Pashtun dynasty centered in Afghanistan and included northeastern Iran, the Kashmir region, the modern state of Pakistan, and northwestern India. It was established at Kandahar in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani, an Afghan military commander under Nader Shah of Persia and chief...
  
  
• Toryalai Wesa - politician in Afghanistan

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• Yahya Khan
  Yahya Khan
  General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan Qizilbash, H.Pk, HJ, S.Pk, psc was the third President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation of Ayub Khan...
  
  
• Younis Khan
  Younis Khan
  Mohammad Younus Khan is a Pakistani cricketer and former captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. Younus' name is often spelled Younis Khan, but he has been quoted as saying, "My name is Younus Khan...
  
  
• Yousef Pashtun
  Yousef Pashtun
  Mohammad Yousef Pashtun is the Minister of Urban Development and Housing for Afghanistan. He previously served as Governor of Kandahar province, in 2003 replacing Gul Agha Sherzai.-Biography:...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Y.Misdaq

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• Zabihullah Mojaddidy
  Zabihullah Mojaddidy
  Dr. Zabihullah Mojaddidy is a politician in Afghanistan. He served as the Governor of Kabul Province between July 2009 and until resigning in March 2011. His resignation was due to a lack of support from development ministries and the Presidential Palace in regards to his ideas for the...
  
   - politician in Afghanistan
• Zalmay Khalilzad
  Zalmay Khalilzad
  Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and president of Khalilzad Associates, an international business consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush...
  
   - United States Ambassador to the United Nations
  United States Ambassador to the United Nations
  The United States Ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The position is more formally known as the "Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador...
  
  , Iraq
  United States Ambassador to Iraq
  This is a list of United States ambassadors, or lower-ranking heads of a diplomatic mission to Iraq.* Alexander K. Sloan - Chargé d'Affaires* Paul Knabenshue - Minister* Thomas M. Wilson - Minister* Loy W...
  
   and Afghanistan
  United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
  The United States Ambassador to Afghanistan is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Afghanistan....
  
  
• Zalmai Rassoul
  Zalmai Rassoul
  Dr. Zalmai Rassoul is a politician in Afghanistan, serving as the Foreign Minister since January 2010 after receiving the confidence vote of the Afghan National Assembly. He previously served as National Security Advisor of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which he held since June 2002...
  
   - Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Afghanistan)
  The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs - MFA - is the Government of Afghanistan Cabinet officer responsible for managing the Foreign relations of Afghanistan.-Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan:-External links:*...
  
  
• Zaman Shah Durrani
  Zaman Shah Durrani
  Zaman Shah Durrani , , was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1793 until 1800. He was the grandson of Ahmad Shah Durrani and the fifth son of Timur Shah Durrani...
  
   - monarch of Afghanistan
• Zahira Zahir
  Zahira Zahir
  Zahira Zahir is a Washington barber and cosmetologist.Zahira's salon is in the Watergate hotel. She is known for cutting the hair ofUnited States PresidentGeorge W. Bush. The President's nickname for her is Z.-Early life:Zahira is the daughter of...
  
   - famous Afghan-American
  Afghan American
  An Afghan American refers to an American with heritage or origins in Afghanistan.-History and population:Afghan Americans have a long history of immigrating to the United States, as they may have arrived as early as the 1920s...
  
   hairstylist and cosmetologist
• Zakir Hussain (politician)
  Zakir Hussain (politician)
  Dr. Zakir Hussain , was the third President of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. He was the first elected Muslim president of India....
  
  
• Zeba Bakhtiar
  Zeba Bakhtiar
  Zeba Bakhtiar is a Pakistani film and television actress and director. She made her television debut with a PTV Karachi centre play, Anarkali. She gained a lot of fame through her Bollywood debut, Henna...
  
  

See also

• Pashtun diaspora
  Pashtun diaspora
  Pashtuns , also called Pathans have many communities around the world. Pukhtuns have long history to conquer and colonizing several regions especially the ancient regions of Sub-continent in duration of past few centuries...
  
  
• Pashtun tribes
  Pashtun tribes
  The Pashtun people are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan. Pashtun, tribes are divided into four supertribal confederacies: the Arbanee , Betanee , Gharghasht, and Karlanee .Traditionally, according to folklore, all Pashtuns are said to have descended, at...
  
  
• Pashto language
  Pashto language
  Pashto , known as Afghani in Persian and Pathani in Punjabi , is the native language of the indigenous Pashtun people or Afghan people who are found primarily between an area south of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan and...
  
  
• Pashtun culture
  Pashtun culture
  Pashtun culture is based on Pashtunwali, which is an ancient way of life, as well as speaking of the Pashto language and wearing Pashtun dress. The culture of the Pashtun people is highlighted since at least the time of Herodotus or Alexander the Great, when he explored the Afghanistan and...
  
  
• Pashtunistan
  Pashtunistan
  Pakhtunistan or Pashtunistan, meaning the "land of Pakhtuns" or "land of Pashtuns", is a modern term used for the historical region inhabited by the native Afghans or Pashtun since at least the 1st millennium BC...