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  Amanullah Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amanullah Khan was the son of the Amir Habibullah Khan.
When Habibullah was assassinated on February 20, 1919, Amanullah was already the governor of Kabul and was in control of the army and the treasury.
Amanullah Khan died in Zurich, Switzerland in 1960.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amanullah_Khan   (467 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Reforms of Amanullah Khan and civil war   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mahmoud Beg Tarzi, Amanullah's father-in-law, encouraged the monarch's interest in social and political reform but urged that it be gradually built upon the basis of a strong army and central government, as had occurred in Turkey under Kemal Atatürk.
Amanullah's minister of war, General Muhammad Nadir Khan, a member of the Musahiban branch of the royal family, opposed these changes, preferring instead to recognize tribal sensitivities.
Amanullah faced another threat as well: in addition to the Pashtun tribes, forces led by a Tajik tribesman were moving toward Kabul from the north.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Reforms-of-Amanullah-Khan-and-civil-war   (2659 words)

  
 Amanullah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan (June 1, 1892 - April 25, 1960) was the ruler of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929.
Mullah Amanullah is a brother-in-law of Mohammad Omar.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amanullah   (95 words)

  
 Afghanistan Country Study
Although Amanullah's reign ended in tragedy, he achieved some notable successes, and the failure of his efforts can be traced as much to the centrifugal forces in tribal Afghanistan and the machinations of Russia and Britain as to political folly on his part.
Amanullah's domestic reforms were no less dramatic than his initiatives in foreign policy, but the king's achievement of complete independence was not matched by equally permanent gains in domestic politics.
Although Amanullah has been accused of neglecting the army and of trying to strip it of its power, the foremost scholar of this period, Poullada, concludes that the king was simply trying to cast the army in a different mold.
www.gl.iit.edu /govdocs/afghanistan/ReignofKingAmanullah.html   (2181 words)

  
 Afghanan Dot Net
King Amanullah (he assumed the title of king in 1926) was an ardent reformer and contemporary of like-minded rulers, Muhammad Reza in Iran and Kemal Ataturk in Turkey.
Amanullah's domestic reforms were no less dramatic than his foreign policy initiatives, but those reforms could not match his achievement of complete, lasting independence.
Amanullah's Turkish advisers suggested the king retire the older officers, men who were set in their ways and might resist the formation of a more professional army.
www.afghanan.net /afghanistan/amanullahkhan.htm   (1732 words)

  
 Amanullah Khan biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan (June 1, 1892 - April 25, 1960) was the ruler of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1921.
An uprising in Jalalabad culminated in a march to the capitol, and much of the army deserted rather than resist.
In early 1929, Amanullah abdicated and was exiled.
amanullah-khan.biography.ms   (407 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Amanullah's forces submitted to a U.S.-brokered cease-fire after sweeping into several governmental areas including the Shindand airbase south of Herat city.
Amanullah, who has agreed to obey a summons to Kabul by President Hamid Karzai, was not immediately available for comment.
Amanullah like Karzai and many of the Taliban are Pashtuns, the traditional rulers of Afghanistan.
www.sabawoon.com /newsnew/miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=18856   (435 words)

  
 THE AMEER
Prince Amanullah was in the city of Kabul at the time and vehemently stated he would seek out, and bring to justice, the assassin whoever he might be.
Prince Amanullah proclaimed himself the new Ameer of the Kingdom of Afghanistan in Kabul while his uncle Sardar Nasrullah Khan stated in Jalalabad that he would replace his martyred brother on the Kabul throne.
Amanullah the Ameer, brought that goal and that dream to reality when he drew up a constitution for Afghanistan and had members of an Afghan Loya Jarga (Grand Assembly) discuss and pass it.
users.tns.net /~mroashan/MKRBook/Chapters/Ch9.htm   (3954 words)

  
 Index Am-Aq
When the latter was assassinated in February 1919, Amanullah was governor of Kabul and in possession of the arsenal and the treasury.
Amanullah was hailed momentarily at home as a liberator, and within the next two years signed treaties with the Soviet Union, Turkey, France, Italy, Germany, and Iran.
Amanullah was forced to abdicate in January 1929 and went into exile in May, settling in Italy and later in Switzerland.
www.rulers.org /indexa3.html   (7891 words)

  
 Afghan News Network {Latest News about Afghanistan} First in Afghan News Worldwide!
Amanullah, a Pashtun warlord who goes by only one name, was brought to Kabul on Friday from the western city of Herat, said Jawed Ludin, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai.
Ludin said Amanullah agreed to the transfer, but officials speaking on condition of anonymity said he had little choice and was essentially being kept under arrest.
At one point, Amanullah's men took a village on a hillside overlooking Herat city, the main population center in the west of the country, the greatest threat yet to Khan's rule.
www.afghannews.net /index.php?action=show&type=news&id=859   (633 words)

  
 Community
This was stated by Dr. Amanullah Khan, a renowned oncologist and President Cancer Center Associates, Texas USA in a lecture delivered at the Shamas Auditorium of the University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lahore.
Amanullah said that a 20-year old girl was identified to have breast cancer, which was unheard of in the West.
Earlier, Dr. Amanullah unveiled the plaque and inaugurated the UHS examination hall dedicated to him in recognition of his role in facilitating collaboration between the University of Health Sciences, Lahore and the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center, Houston (UTHSC-H).
www.pakistanlink.com /Community/2005/Jan05/21/07.htm   (393 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | Top Story: Kin of Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Captured
The man, Mullah Amanullah, was arrested during a pre-dawn raid in the central province of Uruzgan, Omar's home province, they said.
Amanullah was found with money that authorities believed he was planning to distribute to Taliban fighters, who have stepped attacks in the run-up to a presidential election on October-9.
Amanullah would be handed over to central government authorities if that was ordered, Khan said.
pakistantimes.net /2004/07/21/top8.htm   (448 words)

  
 [ www.azadiradio.org ]
Herat police chief Ziauddin Mahmudi claimed on 17 August that when Amanullah's forces reached Adraskan District, they "were bombed by coalition planes." In addition, commanders from both of the warring sides reported that U.S. planes dropped bombs on their respective foes, the AP reported on 17 August.
Commander Amanullah Khan, speaking from Shindand air base located in the south of Herat Province, said on 18 August that his forces have withdrawn from conflict zones around Herat and have been replaced by National Army troops and members of foreign forces, Peshawar-based Afghan Islamic Press reported.
Amanullah Khan's surprising advancement against Ismail Khan's forces may have finally given Kabul a chance, with the permanent deployment of the National Army in the province, to bring Ismail Khan, the self-styled "amir" (ruler) of Herat, under its direct control (see "RFE/RL Afghanistan Report," 25 March 2004 and "RFE/RL Newsline," 17 August 2004).
www.azadiradio.org /en/dailyreport/2004/08/18.ASP   (612 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His comments coincided with the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission saying it suspected that commander Amanullah Khan had been behind the beheading and skinning of several supporters of the governor's men during the four days of fighting in Herat.
Amanullah has been summoned to Kabul to prevent further bloodshed in Herat and also to face justice for what he has done, a Karzai official quoted him as telling a delegation of elders from the city, 700 km west of the capital.
Amanullah agreed to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire after sweeping through several government strongholds including Shindand airbase south of Herat city in August.
www.sabawoon.com /newsnew/miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=18862   (415 words)

  
 FRONTLINE/WORLD Fellows . AFGHANISTAN - Without Warlords . A Secular Politician | PBS
Amanullah's rapid modernization policies limited the rule of Islamic law, which angered rural tribal leaders and mullahs, who ran the king out of the country after 10 years.
Unlike his counterparts, Amanullah did not have a well-trained army and a loyal bureaucracy to implement his large-scale program of political and social reforms.
Amanullah banned the chadaree and motioned for his wife to take hers off before a loya jirga council.
www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/fellows/afghanistan/04.html   (868 words)

  
 Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: Mullah Omar's Brother-in-Law Captured   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The spokesman said Mullah Amanullah was held near Deh Rawood in Uruzgan province, over 400km from Kabul.
It is not clear what role Mullah Amanullah had in the Taleban or if he had any contact with Mullah Omar.
Amanullah was found with money that authorities believe he was preparing to distribute to Taliban fighters, who have stepped up attacks in the run-up to a presidential election on Oct. 9.
www.jquinton.com /archives/001315.html   (297 words)

  
 The Agonist: U.S. Says It Is Holding Hekmatyar Ally Accused of Harboring Militant Leaders
The March 31 arrest of Amanullah had been announced previously, but the military had given no details of what he was suspected of doing.
Amanullah "provided safe haven perhaps for the bombers or for people who facilitated the bombers," Hilferty said, adding that he was being questioned at an undisclosed location.
Amanullah, who like many Afghans uses only one name, was a commander in central Wardak province for Hekmatyar's Hizb-e Islami faction during the U.S.-backed war against Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers in the 1980s.
www.agonist.org /archives/015026.html   (332 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Since Amanullah Khan was looking for a symbol for the remembrance of the independence war therefore, he made the mistake and instructed to build a monument in which the name of the mentioned personalities, instead of the names of the martyrs who bravely lost their lives for their land, was inscribed.
Nadir, who was in charge of the running of the plan against Amanullah Khan, because of the dismissing of his brother got angry and pretended that he was sick, and resigned.
In particularly, after the visit of Amanullah Khan to Moscow and the warm and sincere welcome he received, and the agreement on air transportation between Tashkent and Kabul caused the British authorities to engineer the fall of Amanullah Khan, planned originally for a year later in time.
www.geocities.com /afghanistanbooks/reshtia.html   (12250 words)

  
 DKS: Diplomat says Indian pilgrims were blocked from fleeing fire
Based on interviews with survivors, Amanullah gave some of the first accounts Wednesday of the chaos as flames spread among pilgrims' tents.
Overall, most of the dead were crushed in a stampede, and it was unclear whether the Indians - had they been freed from their compound - would have suffered a similar fate.
Forty-six Indian pilgrims are confirmed dead, but Amanullah expects the death toll among his country's pilgrims to top 100.
www.stater.kent.edu /stories_old/97spr/042497/w2b.html   (498 words)

  
 Afghanistan's Government Tries To End Battling Between Warlords In West
One group engaged in the fighting is an outlawed Pashtun militia force led by Commander Amanullah Khan -- a long-time rival of Ismail Khan whose forces control the Shindand District to the south of Herat city.
Amanullah Khan says the root cause of the fighting is widespread dissatisfaction with Ismail Khan over alleged human rights abuses by his mostly ethnic Tajik militia.
Amanullah Khan told RFE/RL that the attack on 14 August that allowed his militia to seize an air base to the south of Herat was coordinated with other militia forces to the north and east of Herat whose commanders also oppose Ismail Khan.
www.payvand.com /news/04/aug/1159.html   (864 words)

  
 Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front
Amanullah Khan's JKLF promotes itself as an outfit conducting the struggle on three fronts —— political, which implies mobilisation of public opinion; diplomatic, which implies lobbying with third countries; and armed struggle against Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir (JandK).
In the Seventies and early Eighties, the JKLF operated mostly from London and PoK, with Amanullah Khan and Hashim Qureshi directing from London unit and Farooq Haider and Mohammed Muzzafar holding fort in PoK.
His successor, Shabbir Siddiqui and 37 remaining members of the Amanullah Khan faction were killed in two incidents in Hazratbal, in March 1996; 11 had been killed on March 24 and the other 26, including Shabbir Siddiqui, on March 29.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/states/jandk/terrorist_outfits/jammu_&_kashmir_liberation_front.htm   (1259 words)

  
 Afghanistan Online: Biography (Amanullah Khan)
Amanullah Khan was crowned the Amir of Afghanistan after his father, Amir Habibullah was assassinated in February 1919.
Amanullah Khan was fiercely anti-British and wanted to destroy an old agreement which gave the British control over Afghanistan's foreign policy.
Afterwards, Amanullah became a national hero, and was given the tile Ghazi.
www.afghan-web.com /bios/yest/amanullah.html   (188 words)

  
 pressrelease   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Amanullah Khan Jadoon has said that the government was giving top priority to the speedy development of NWFP and oil and gas exploration activities in Bannu, DJ Khan, Kohat and Karak Distts.
Amanullah Khan Jadoon today highlighted the new investment opportunities in Pakistan's oil and gas sector at the inaugural session at a 2-day oil and gas conference being organized here by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources says a press release received from London today.
Amanullah Khan Jadoon has said that the Government of Pakistan would encourage and facilitate the Chinese investors in setting up of oil refinery, Steel Mill in Punjab, mining of marble and granite in NWFP and oil and gas exploration activities.
www.mpnr.gov.pk /pressrelease.php   (4601 words)

  
 US-led coalition denies air strikes against Afghan warlord
"Amanullah Khan's troops were bombed by coalition planes," he said.
Amanullah right now is being considered as a rebel commander," he said.
Amanullah's forces captured and briefly controlled Adraskan earlier Tuesday, but lost control of the district in the afternoon after bloody clashes.
www.spacewar.com /2004/040817183045.0ls6ak38.html   (607 words)

  
 Einstein - Aman M. Amanullah, MD, PhD, FACC
Amanullah is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology as well as a member of the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology’s Practice Analysis Task Force and the American Heart Association’s Council on Clinical Cardiology and Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention.
Amanullah obtained his M.D from the Institute of Medicine in Bucharest, and his Ph.D from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Amanullah is a Diplomate of several specialty and subspecialty medical boards including American Board of Internal Medicine, Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology and the National Board of Echocardiography.
www.einstein.edu /yourhealth/heart/article8529.html   (364 words)

  
 Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan
Born in 1892, the son of Amir Habibullah and Sarwar Sultanah, the Ulya Hazrat - queen.
When Amir Habibullah was assassinated in Jalalabad in February 1919, Amanullah Khan was governor of Kabul and in possession of the arsenal and the treasury.
The Khost rebellion (q.v.), a tribal revolt in 1924, was suppressed and Amanullah felt secure enough to travel to Europe in December 1927.
www.afghanan.net /biographies/amanullahkhan.htm   (439 words)

  
 PakDef Forums - Bush appoints Pakistani-American to his advisory panel
In addition to his new appointment, Dr Amanullah is currently serving on the Health Board of Texas State and the newly formed Homeland Security Task Force of Texas under appointment by the State Governor.
Amanullah was also appointed to serve on Health Care Information Council of Texas, when George Bush was elected as Governor of his Texas State.
Slim and humble, Amanullah still takes a lot of medicines from the US for his friends and neighbours in Kasur, whenever he visits his native city Kasur near the Indian border.
www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=2571   (502 words)

  
 Afgha.com - Ethnic tensions evident in new Afghan fighting
A Pashtun official in the central government largely echoed that assessment, contending that Ismail Khan should be removed as governor partly because he had not appointed a Pashtun to any senior post.
Many of Amanullah Khan's fighters were Pashtuns from elsewhere in the province who had been driven from their villages, they said, by persecution by Tajik soldiers loyal to Ismail Khan.
The central government official in Kabul said that Amanullah Khan had "dark, dark" spots, including a possible role in narcotics smuggling and ties with fighters who supported Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers.
www.afgha.com /?af=article&sid=45716&newlang=english   (886 words)

  
 The Agonist | thoughtful, global, timely
At issue is not just how their dispute is resolved locally, but the central government's ability to establish itself as a fair arbiter when it is also sometimes polarized along ethnic lines.
A Pashtun official in the central government largely echoed that assessment, contending that Ismail Khan should be removed as governor partly because he had not appointed a Pashtun to any senior post, although they are a majority in the province.
Many of Amanullah Khan's fighters were Pashtuns from elsewhere in the province who were driven from their villages, they said, by persecution by Tajik soldiers loyal to Ismail Khan.
www.agonist.org /story/2004/9/6/8157/17458   (1394 words)

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