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		Amanullah Khan Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan (Britain, and his rule was marked by dramatic political and social change.
		Khan was born in World War II he served as a captain and later as a major.
		Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan was a Afghanistan.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/khan.html (1439 words)

	Warlord handed over to Kabul -DAWN - Top Stories; 06 February, 2004
		Elmi said Padsha Khan had led an armed revolt against the government and was considered a criminal.
		Padsha Khan and his brother are being kept in an unknown "guest house" run by the Ministry of Frontier and Tribal affairs, he said.
		Padsha Khan, an anti-Taliban warlord who helped the United States-led forces during an operation against the extremist Islamic regime, was briefly governor of southeastern Khost province following the toppling of the Taliban in late 2001.
	www.dawn.com /2004/02/06/top10.htm (235 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Forces led by Padsha Khan Zadran, loyal to the interim administration in Kabul, are battling Afghan tribesmen who have controlled the city since the Taliban fled in late November.
		Opponents of the appointment of Padsha Khan say he is responsible for the fatal bombing of a convoy of elders that was on its way to attend the appointment of the interim government in Kabul last month.
		Zadran's brother, the minister of frontier affairs, continues to assert that Al-Qaeda members are still active in Paktia.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/01/31012002103108.asp (712 words)

	IWPR'S AFGHAN RECOVERY REPORT, No. 15 / Diplomatic Observer
		Despite the local strife, Zadran still enjoys support in his province, with some delegates from the region claiming that they would also have boycotted the Jirga had they known he was leaving.
		Zadran is one of many local commanders who have been equipped with new weapons in recent months to assist in that fight.
		Zadran fought the Taleban in the eastern provinces as the student militia's regime collapsed under the weight of American bombing.
	www.diplomaticobserver.com /news_read.asp?id=675 (3510 words)

	Afghan power brokers \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Khan – a Tajik who prefers to be known as a Farsifan, a Persian speaker – basically regained control of the jugular vein of Afghanistan's economy.
		Badsha Khan was the first of the country's many military bosses to challenge Hamid Karzai outright, despite enjoying a key cooperative relationship with US-led forces in the war against Al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives – or perhaps emboldened by it.
		The Zadrans are the largest tribe in southeastern Afghanistan – important enough that last December Karzai appointed one of Khan's younger brothers, Amanullah Zadran, as his minister of borders and tribal affairs.
	www.thechristiansciencemonitor.org /2002/0610/p01s03-wosc.htm (5091 words)

	Khaleej Times - Online
		Karzai supported Khan for governor but was strongly critical of the Pashtun tribal strongman after he tried to take up his post in Gardez by force two weeks ago, leading to bloody street fighting with the forces of a rival warlord.
		Khan Wednesday warned that any backtracking by Karzai would lead to further trouble in the war-ravaged country, if provinces were able to challenge or ignore decrees by the interim administration.
		Khan also claimed his opponents and some shura members belong to terror suspect Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and the Taliban, which he has previously said was "regrouping" in the eastern mountains.
	www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/140202/subcont.htm (10601 words)

	Afghanistan timeline February 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Khost, Major Mohammed Isa Khan, the deputy intelligence director of Khost province, Afghanistan, was assassinated in his car by gunman Hafez Elal.
		Police arrested the owner of a taxi used in a suicide bombing that killed a British soldier in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 28.
		At a border crossing, renegade warlord Bacha Khan Zadran and his brother Amanullah Khan Zadran were handed over from Pakistani to Afghan officials.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_February_2004 (1541 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		A visit to Ismail Khan's fiefdom in the ancient city of Herat is enough to explain why he decided not to join Karzai in Kabul.
		It was Khan who led his troops in the latest clashes against commander Amanullah Khan.
		Amanullah Khan in the West, for example, is demanding a share of power near the Iranian border before he lays down his weapons.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allArticles/62D283B32F98360787256C8F0060E7B3?OpenDocument (1167 words)

	Afghanistan timeline December 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A review of Afghanistan published by the International Monetary Fund stated that its economy remained threatened by lawlessness and inadequate public safety and urged the Afghan government to ask major creditors to cancel its debts.
		To mark the arrival of a new installment of Indian donated biscuits in Afghanistan, Afghan actor and director Hashmat Khan participated in a ceremony in Kabul that also included Indian Ambassador Vivek Katju, Afghan Deputy Education Minister Ishraq Hussaini and the World Food Programme Country Director Susana Rico.
		Renegade Afghan warlord Bacha Khan Zadran and his brother Amanullah Khan Zadran were arrested at a border checkpoint in Dirdoni, Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_December_2003 (2690 words)

	Afghan govt accused of dividing Pakhtoons -DAWN - National; August 26, 2002
		Talking to Dawn here, Amanullah Khan Zadran, the younger brother of Padshah Khan Zadran, former governor of Paktia province, while legitimising their stance, said that Pakhtoons, who formed 60 per cent of the population of the country, should be given fair representation in the central government.
		Amanullah said that the Karzai government was trying to create rift among the Pakhtoons to weaken them by appointing controversial leaders on key posts and allotting areas to their warlords.
		Padshah Khan Zadran remained the governor of Paktia province during the Taliban rule but was replaced by president Karzai last year which sparked infighting among various aspirants for the post.
	www.dawn.com /2002/08/26/nat9.htm (316 words)

	News Fresh : Article 'Herat Province' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		June 8, 2003 Bacha Khan Zadran, a regional Afghan warlord, said U.S. forces detained his son, Abdul Wali, in an operation in Paktia province June 5 and called for his immediate release.
		This move came in response to accusations that Khan was stymying the advancement of women in the province.
		January 10, 2003 The governor of Herat province, Afghanistan, Ismail Khan, placed further restrictions on women's education by banning women being taught by men in privately run courses and by preventing women from attending classes in a building at the same time that men are being taught.
	www.news-fresh.net /DisplayArticle257077.html (16001 words)

	Escaped Taliban may fight again \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Zadran maintains there's work for the US to do right now: He says there are still key Al Qaeda strongholds in the villages of Sarana and Azmani that the US has yet to attack, although he says he is all but begging for them to strike.
		A good deal of Zadran's information comes from his older brother, Badcha Khan Zadran, a warlord who until a month ago was the governor of Paktia Province.
		Khan and his men have played a role in the ground battles that ensued after Al Qaeda was attacked by air.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0315/p06s01-wosc.htm (1035 words)

	IRVAJ English - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Anti-Ismail Khan Afghans also claimed that Governor Herat was in close liaison with another rebel warlord in eastern Afghanistan, Badshah Khan Zadran and sought each other's cooperation against Kabul government.
		Ismail Khan is under severe criticism from the Pashtuns living in western provinces and blamed him of victimisation and ethnic bias.
		Gen Ismail Khan was arrested by Taliban during fighting and was put in jail in Kandahar before he escaped with the help of the security guard few months ahead of the collapse of the Taliban regime and took refuse in Iran.
	www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news_en.pl?l=en&y=2002&m=7&d=31&a=16 (610 words)

	Afghania Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mr Karzai says he prefers to resolve the problem of Padsha Khan Zadran through traditional means rather than by putting the warlord to trial.
		Padsha Khan was considered a leader of the Zadran tribe in the past and still has some support among his people.
		Padsha Khan, an anti-Taliban warlord who helped US-led forces during an operation against the extremist Islamic regime, was briefly governor of south-eastern Khost province following the toppling of the Taliban in late 2001.
	www.afghania.com /printarticle4975.html (278 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		Zadran was an ally of ATA Chairman Hamid Karzai and the United States, as well as a signatory to the 2001 Bonn agreement, before he went into armed opposition against the central government the following year.
		Amanullah Khan meanwhile told Hindukosh that he has no information about Ismail Khan's commanders and claimed that forces loyal to the Herat governor killed two of his men.
		Radio Afghanistan quoted Oruzgan Governor Jan Mohammad Khan as saying that 11 civilians, including women and children, were killed as a result of the bombing, while it quoted a spokesman for the U.S. forces in Afghanistan reporting only the death of five combatants.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/01/3-230104.htm (4780 words)

	U.S. special forces, Afghans confiscate weapons; prisoners' information said preventing attacks
		Zakim Khan told the agency that he wanted Karzai to send a delegation to mediate the standoff.
		But Amanaullah Zadran, brother of Bacha Khan and the government's minister of border and tribal affairs, said by telephone that his brother's forces were in complete control and that there had been no fighting.
		Amanullah said three tribes had told Khan to leave Khost by Thursday.
	lang.sbsun.com /socal/terrorist/0102/24/terror02.asp (980 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		According to the report, an agreement was reached after negotiations between the son of rogue commander Pacha Khan Zadran and Paktiya Governor Asadullah Wafa.
		Zadran's son, Abdul Wali, said that all of the checkpoints on the Khost-Gardayz highway have been removed and security on that route is being ensured.
		Zadran was an ally of Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai and the United States, as well as a signatory to the 2001 Bonn agreement, before he went into armed opposition against the central government the following year.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/01/6-SWA/swa-140104.asp?po=y (1615 words)

	Daily Excelsior... World
		Another brother, Kamal Khan Zadran, is the de facto ruler of neighbouring Khost province because the man appointed Governor by Karzai does not feel it is safe to go there yet.
		Padshah Khan said he too was a close ally of the Americans and gave them much help during the march battle of Shah-i-Kot, a sweep through the province’s high mountains that was the biggest battle of the war.
		Padshah Khan, like some other warlords, complained that Karzai was imposed on the Afghan people by western powers, including the United States, by the so-called Bonn agreement which Padshah Khan attended in the German city.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /02may18/inter.htm (3430 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		The finger was collectively pointed at Aghi Badshah Khan Zadran, 58, an anti-Taliban commander who controls Khost province and is lobbying the interim government to add Paktia and Paktika provinces to his fief.
		Mr Zadran, also known as Pacha Khan Zadran, was also accused of wiping out rivals by triggering the US blitz of a convoy of elders on December 20, which killed up to 65 people.
		But supporters were confident Mr Zadran would return home this week with his fief expanded to include Paktia and Paktika.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4330175,00.html (956 words)

	PEN-L message, collateral damage continues
		Zadran serves as the minister of frontier in the interim government in Kabul.
		Afghan officials and Khan's forces say he is alive and operating in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
		Zadran said civilians in the region are growing increasingly angry.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/pen-l/2002m01.4/msg00073.htm (1369 words)

	AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE - REVOLUTION IN THE MOUNTAINS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He was deposed in a coup by his brother-in-law Mohammad Daud Khan, who proclaimed Afghanistan a republic with himself as president.
		Badshah Khan Zadran, a former truck driver, was installed as governor of Khost, Gardez and Paktia when the Taliban retreated.
		Badshah Khan retains a mansion near Miranshah, equipped with all the luxuries of life, including the latest DVDs, VCRs, air-conditioners, double-cabin jeeps, and a huge stockpile of ammunition.
	www.americanintelligence.us /index.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1660 (1395 words)

	core dump % (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He had support in 1996, not anymore." Khan Jan tells the governor that two days ago he went to talk to the Americans, and they told him that they had intelligence in the area proving that he (Khan Jan) was the problem.
		Khan Jan is a member of the Alizai - a sub-clan of the Salarzai tribe.
		Bacha Khan Zadran is a powerful warlord with a strong military presence in three key Pashtun belt provinces: Paktia, Paktika and Khost.
	www.harble.blogspot.com (14592 words)

	Hi Pakistan
		Tribal leaders from Padsha Khan’s native south-eastern Afghanistan had been invited to Kabul to decide his fate and they decided to ask the president to release and forgive him, the spokesman said.
		Rather than put Padsha Khan on trial and gain the enmity of the large Zadran tribe, Karzai decided to allow him to face a traditional system in which leaders from Padsha Khan’s native region formed a council to decide what to do with him.
		Elmi said that Padsha Khan and his brother Amanullah Khan Zadran would be handed over to the elders of their tribe in "two or three days".
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/02/08/cache/58593.html (199 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Pakistan hands over Afghan rebel
		Afghan officials say Mr Zadran was driven from the frontier to Jalalabad airport, where a helicopter whisked him away to Kabul.
		Mr Zadran's son, Abdul Wali, confirmed his father and his uncle, Amanullah Khan Zadran, had been handed over to Afghan authorities.
		Mr Zadran has claimed he was denied his due reward after helping in the US-led attack on the Taleban.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/02/07/cache/57967.html (336 words)

	Afghanistan Politics
		And the self-proclaimed "amir" of western Afghanistan, Herat Governor Mohammad Ismail Khan, was battling Pashtuns in his own province and in neighboring Badghis Province.
		The warlords were brought in as vice-presidents, but a couple of them refused the vice-presidential posts because they wanted to retain their regional authority uncontested.
		Whereas individuals such as Ismail Khan in the past have been essentially positive forces, two leaders seen as posing serious dangers to the authority and effectiveness of the Karzai government were Dostum, the ethnic Uzbek commander in the north, and ethnic Tajik Atta Mohammad of Jamiat-e Islami.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/politics.htm (2780 words)

	Afghanistan Human Rights
		In October Pacha Khan Zadran, a warlord in Khost/Paktia, fled from Khost after months of instigating attacks on forces loyal to the Karzai Government and refusing to yield the governor's residence to a Karzai appointee.
		Instability in the southeast, where Taliban and al-Qa'ida remnants remained at large and where local warlord Pacha Khan Zadran openly attacked forces loyal to the central Government, limited delivery of assistance to this sector.
		For example, in November Ismail Khan reportedly ordered an attack on a village near Shindand that precipitated an exchange of rocket fire with rival Pashtun commander Amanullah Khan, killing at least seven persons including four children.
	www.nationbynation.com /Afghanistan/Human.html (9331 words)

	Khaleej Times Online
		Amanullah Zadran, newly appointed Deputy Minister of Frontier and Tribal Affairs, attributes much of the unrest in the southeast provinces to two terror masterminds - Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Jalaluddin Hakkani - who had once based themselves in Paktia.
		But Zadran, who is the younger brother of Commander Pacha Khan Zadran, former governor of Paktia and an ardent supporter of former King Zaher Shah, believes that these terrorist elements are "losing their power every day", and they have now been reduced to "small bands of troublemakers".
		An initiative by the ministry to fortify the porous border with Pakistan was to intersperse the Afghan army patrolling the area with tribal militias, who are indigenous to the area.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2004/August/subcontinent_August658.xml§ion=subcontinent&col= (1227 words)

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		The Zadran clan which controls Khost comprises seven brothers between the ages of 58 to 17 and they control the key positions including the governorship of Paktia and Paktika.
		Amanullah Khan Zadran, one of the seven Zadran brothers of Khost, who is Karzai's Minister of Tribul Affairs and Border Questions, admits that Khost has traditionally helped Kabul retain control over the area.
		To protect family and friends, says Minister Amanullah, his brother Pachakhan will need the support of Americans ($30,000 a day); if the support is not forthcoming their old rival Jamaluddin Haqqani, a former.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /02mar02/edit.htm (4871 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: News -- Standing Their Ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Seven brothers from the Zadran clan, aged from 17 to their late fifties, control the key positions of power in Khost and the whole of the two surrounding provinces of Paktia and Paktika.
		One brother, Amanullah Khan Zadran, looks after the family's affairs in Kabul where he is Minister of Tribal Affairs and Border Questions in the new Cabinet—a position that traditionally has gone to someone from Khost as a way of trying to keep the area more or less under Kabul's control.
		The youngest of the family, an engaging 17-year-old named Wazir Khan who was born in exile in Pakistan and who set foot in Afghanistan for the first time a few months ago, liaises with U.S. special forces.
	www.time.com /time/asia/news/printout/0,9788,195398,00.html (825 words)

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