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  Afghanland.com Afghanistan Amir Amanullah Khan Ghazi
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 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.
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.afghanland.com /history/amanullah.html   (1740 words)

  
  Amanullah Khan
Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan (June 1, 1892 - April 25, 1960) was the ruler of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929.
Amanullah Khan was the son of the Amir Habibullah Khan.
Amanullah Khan died in Zurich, Switzerland in 1960.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amanullah_khan.html   (528 words)

  
 Amanullah Khan
Amanullah Khan var sønnen til emiren Habibullah Khan.
Amanullah klarte til og med å stable på bena et begrenset luftforsvar av sovjetiske fly.
Tidlig i 1929, abdiserte Amanullah og gikk i foreløpig eksil i India.
www.all2know.com /no/wikipedia/a/am/amanullah_khan.html   (399 words)

  
 The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders -
Presently, Dr. Khan holds numerous leadership positions including: member of the Texas Health Care Information Council, member of the Texas Board of Health, and member of the Governor’s Task Force on Homeland Security.
Khan is also a very active member of the community having served as a Trustee of the St. Paul Medical Foundation, a Board Member of the Kindness Foundation, President of the American Muslim Caucus, and a Board Member of the Multi-Ethnic Heritage Foundation.
Khan received his medical training at the West Pakistan Medical School and the King Edward Medical College before receiving a Ph.D. at Baylor University.
www.aapi.gov /advisory.htm   (1712 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Amanullah 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 enjoyed quite a bit of early popularity within Afghanistan and he used his influence to modernize the country.
Emulating Reza Shah of Iran, Amanullah created new cosmopolitan schools for both boys and girls in the region and overturned centuries-old traditions such a strict dress codes for women.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Amanullah_Khan   (598 words)

  
 Amanullah Shah Summary
Amanullah Shah (June 1, 1892 - April 25, 1960) was the ruler of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929.
Amanullah Shah was the son of the King Habibullah Shah.
Amanullah Shah died in Zurich, Switzerland in 1960.
www.bookrags.com /Amanullah_Shah   (731 words)

  
 Kabul Press: Rise to Power
Nadir Khan and his Mahsibeen family, who were the former servants of Amanullah Khan, not only betrayed their former boss but they went beyond what was necessary to prove their disloyalty towards him by massacring anyone who spoke even a good word about Amanullah Khan.
Amanullah Khan had massive support among the Hazara people, which is one of the reasons why Nadir Khan hated the Hazaras so much.
The former ruler, Amanullah Khan, was a secular open-minded king.
kabulpress.org /English_letters29.htm   (4602 words)

  
 Kabul Press: Rise to Power
Nadir Khan and his Mahsibeen family, who were the former servants of Amanullah Khan, not only betrayed their former boss but they went beyond what was necessary to prove their disloyalty towards him by massacring anyone who spoke even a good word about Amanullah Khan.
Amanullah Khan had massive support among the Hazara people, which is one of the reasons why Nadir Khan hated the Hazaras so much.
The former ruler, Amanullah Khan, was a secular open-minded king.
www.kabulpress.org /English_letters29.htm   (4602 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Amanullah Khan
King Amanullah Khan or simply Amanullah Khan (June 1, 1892 - April 25, 1960) was the ruler of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929.
Amanullah khan was the son of the King Habibullah Khan.
Amanullah Khan recognized the opportunity to use the situation to gain Afghanistan's independence over its foreign affairs.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Amanullah_Khan   (525 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)

  
 Amanulla Khan: Betrayal of Nadir Khan
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.
So far Amanullah Khan was not completely aware of the inauspicious purposes and selfish plans of Nadir, therefore in his return from Paktia he was appointed as the minister of war.
Amanullah Khan was not aware of the underground activities of Nadir and his brothers.
afghana.com /SocietyAndCulture/amanula.htm   (16105 words)

  
 News Headings
ISLAMABAD, Oct 5 (Agencies) — JKLF leader Amanullah Khan was today arrested as security forces in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) fired teargas shells and resorted to lathicharge to thwart an attempt by his party activists to cross the Line of Control (LoC) for the second consecutive day.
Khan, who was injured in the police action, was whisked away from Hajira town, nearly 10 km from the Line of Control (LoC), an eyewitness told PTI over the phone from the scene of action.
A JKLF source confirmed the arrest of Amanullah Khan, who he alleged was injured after security personnel on duty used force to prevent the marchers from proceeding towards the LoC.
www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99oct06/head1.htm   (907 words)

  
 The Jamestown Foundation
Amanullah Khan, his rival, got to within 15 miles of Herat before he was stopped.
Amanullah Khan eventually "agreed" to be taken to Kabul where he remains under house arrest.
Third, Khan is known as one of a handful of Afghan leaders who were instrumental in the resistance's success against the Soviets and consequently the demise of that superpower.
www.jamestown.org /publications_details.php?volume_id=401&issue_id=3070&article_id=2368505   (759 words)

  
 Afghanistan's Government Tries To End Battling Between Warlords In West
Karzai says Khan is the legal governor of the province and that the attacks against him represent an attack on the Afghan state.
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)

  
 Amanullah Khan @AryanaSite.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.aryanasite.com /afghanistan/biographies/amanullahkhan.html   (157 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)

  
 Channelnewsasia.com
Amanullah Khan was detained and was brought to Kabul in handcuffs and later released under unclear circumstances.
Ismail Khan, who has accused his rival of siding with the extremist Taliban, was soon afterwards appointed minister and transferred to the capital Kabul although he still wields considerable influence in Herat.
Amanullah Khan survived an apparent assassination attempt in May this year when a man on a motorcycle threw a hand-grenade at his vehicle as he was travelling to Herat city for an event aimed at persuading commanders to hand in their weapons.
www.channelnewsasia.com /stories/afp_asiapacific/view/237111/1/.html   (623 words)

  
 US mly brings renegade commander to Kabul -DAWN - International; 28 August, 2004
Amanullah Khan, a Pakhtoon, attacked earlier this month the provincial government of Herat province in Afghanistan's far west, bordering Iran.
Amanullah was brought by air with the assistance of the US military to Kabul, but the spokesman declined to say whether he was under some form of arrest.
Ismail Khan was angry that the government forces had played peacemaker instead of destroying an enemy whose forces, he says, were drawn from remnants of the Taliban.
www.dawn.com /2004/08/28/int1.htm   (509 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: U.S. Lands in Middle of Afghan Feuding
Bacha Khan's fighters had been manning unofficial checkpoints on the road, and provincial and central government officials have long complained that the men sometimes demand money from travelers.
Some Afghan officials say they believe that the Americans dropped bombs on Ismail Khan's and Amanullah Khan's forces because their conflict was moving too close to the base.
Amanullah Khan has said that he is adamantly opposed to Iranian influence in western Afghanistan and that he has caught several Iranian officials in his area and turned them over to U.S. authorities.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A39508-2003Mar27?language=printer   (1153 words)

  
 Afghanistan: Government Tries To End Battling Between Warlords In West - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Karzai says Khan is the legal governor of the province and that the attacks against him represent an attack on the Afghan state.
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.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/08/e2e91114-531e-463d-882b-9e03ab5ed539.html   (938 words)

  
 A Comment on Karzai Awarding Ghazi Amanullah Khan Medal to NATO Commander
Amanullah Khan, along with Mahmud Tarzi - a leading politician and writer of the time, as well as Amanullah Khan’s Minister of foreign affairs - vigorously resisted British designs to subdue Afghanistan's newly won independence.
Afghans, including their top intellectuals, are longing for their country's independence, and for leaders similar to Amanullah Khan, Mahmud Tarzi etc, to energetically fight for their rights.
In this context, and because Amanullah Khan is widely regarded as a fighter for Afghan independence, Karzai's move to award the NATO representative the Ghazi Amanullah Khan medal, is enormously saddening and a huge mistake.
afghanobserver.com /Articles/AmanullahKhanAward.htm   (1653 words)

  
 Salaam Knowledge   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Amanullah Khan, who had declared himself emir, after his father Habibullah Khan, was assassinated in 1919, briefly united a small educated elite with the bulk of the tribes, and won a famous military victory against British arms in the same year.
Amanullah had pushed through measures, like Turkey, which dispensed with the veil, encouraged men to wear Western clothes, sent Afghans to study abroad and authorised mixed education in Kabul schools.
Thus leading tribes were lured by the British to foment religious opposition to the King Amanullah Khan and finally he was toppled with a military coup in 1929.
www.salaam.co.uk /knowledge/biography/viewentry.php?id=349   (278 words)

  
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This claim prompted Britain's third ineffectual intervention in Afghan affairs, though it is Habibullah's son Amanullah Khan who had to deal with the crisis after his father’s assassination in 1919.
Afghanistan Rediscovered in ParisAmanullah Khan, first modern king of Afghanistan, was suspicious of the British, and so invited the French to excavate in his country in 1919.
Afghan women’s quiet revolution hangs by a threadThe first time was in the 1920s, when ruler Amanullah Khan abolished the requirement that women be completely covered in public and encouraged his wife to wear a hat without a veil.
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 Kargil intrusion a Pak blunder: Amanullah   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Castigating Pakistan for its mishandling of the Kargil issue at home and abroad, Khan said it is in its national interest that the Kashmir issue is solved peacefully, cordially, equitably (without harming the legitimate interests of India and Pakistan) and on the basis of the Kashmiri people’s aspirations.
Khan also criticised Kashmiri leaders in the letter, saying, by acting as instruments in the hands of India and Pakistan, Kashmiri leaders...
Khan suggested an International Kashmir Committee comprising representatives of the UN Secretary General, the P-5 countries, Germany, Japan, the Organisation of Islamic Countries and Non-Aligned Movement to resolve the Kashmir issue.
www.jammu-kashmir.com /archives/archives1999/99october02.html   (374 words)

  
 BakuTODAY.net - NATO troops deployed in west Afghanistan after factional fighting kills 32   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Amanullah Khan was detained and was brought to Kabul in handcuffs and later released under unclear circumstances.
Ismail Khan, who has accused his rival of siding with the extremist Taliban, was soon afterwards appointed minister and transferred to the capital Kabul although he still wields considerable influence in Herat.
Amanullah Khan survived an apparent assassination attempt in May this year when a man on a motorcycle threw a hand-grenade at his vehicle as he was travelling to Herat city for an event aimed at persuading commanders to hand in their weapons.
bakutoday.net /view.php?d=28341   (627 words)

  
 US-led coalition denies air strikes against Afghan warlord
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.
Khan has ruled the city with an iron fist bringing peace and prosperity to its streets since the fall of the Taliban, but cracking down hard on his opponents.
www.spacewar.com /2004/040817183045.0ls6ak38.html   (607 words)

  
 The Center for Persian Studies ::
Amanullah Khan initiates a series of ambitious efforts at social and political modernization.
Nadir Khan takes the throne; his tribal army loots government buildings and houses of wealthy citizens because the treasury was empty.
Daoud Khan abolishes the monarchy, declares himself President---Republic of Afghanistan is established.
www.languages.umd.edu /persian/afghanhistory.php   (1744 words)

  
 We never renounced armed struggle   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Amanullah Khan, chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), had long been advocating an independent Kashmir, a demand equally disliked by India as well as Pakistan.
Khan has emerged as one of the few Kashmiri leaders who have vehemently criticized the joint statement by Pakistan and India to resume composite dialogue.
AMANULLAH KHAN: Yes Kashmiris will be the main losers because both countries are bent upon ignoring their aspirations and dreams.
www.jklfworld.org /Interviews/interview2.html   (655 words)

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