by Ahmed Rashid
Badakhshan province
Baghdis
Bagram airbase
Bahsaryar, Mohammed (WFP)
Baitul Mal (Islamic fund)
Baker, James
Bakiyev, Kurmanbek
Baku-Ceyhan pipeline
Balkh
Airlines
Balkhi, Tomb of Rabia
Baluchistan
Bamiyan Buddha
Bamiyan, King of
Bamiyan province
Bangladeshi militants
Baradar, Mullah Abdul Ghani
Basmachis
Battuta, Ibn (Arab traveller)
Baz, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin
Bedouin tribesmen
Beg, Ulugh (son of Shah Rukh)
Berdymuhammedov, Turkish President Gurbanguly
Berger, Samuel
BHP Petroleum (Australia)
Bhutto, Prime Minister Benazir (1988–90 and 1993–96)
assasination of
ISI power and resources
pipelines
route to Central Asia
Talibans
Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali (Prime Minister)
Biden, Joseph
Bin Laden, Osama (Saudi extremist)
Al'Qaida group
jihad
Mullah Omar
Saudi Arabia
Talibans
US
Embassy bombings
Binori, Jamiat-ul Uloomi Islamiyyah
Binori, Maulvi Mohammed Yousuf
Boardman, Gerald
Bolan Pass
Bonino, Emma (European Commissioner)
Bonn agreement
Borjan, Mullah
Boroujerdi, Alaeddin
Bosnia
Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary General Boutros
Brahimi, Lakhdar (UN Special Representative)
Mullah Omar meeting
UN Security Council
Braudel, Ferdinand
Bridas Corporation (Argentinean oil company)
British India
Brown, Senator Hank
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Buddhas
Buddhism
Buddhist-Greek kingdom
Buenos Aires
Bukhara
Bukhara, Amir of
Bukharan Jews
Bulgheroni, Alejandro
Bulgheroni, Carlos (Chairman of Bridas)
Burma
Bush, President
Calcutta
Cambodia, Khmer Rouge
Care International
Carter, President
Casey, William
Caspian
civil wars
oil and gas
CentGas consortium
Central Asia
anti-US feelings
capitals
civil wars
land routes
network
opening up of
pipelines
Republics (CARs)
communications
oil and gas
relations with Saudi Arabia
Russia
Talibans
Turkey
see also Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan
Central Asian Oil Pipeline Project (CAOPP) see Unocal (US), Central Asian Oil Pipeline Project (CAOPP)
Central Asian Taliban
Chaman, Pakistan
Chechnya
Che Guevera
Chevron (US company)
China
Chishtyia Sufi bortherhood
Chong-Hyun (UN Special Rapporteur)
Chorid dynasty
Christian Crusades
Christopher, Warren
CIA
attacks on Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
budget
ISI
military aid
Mullah Omar
pipeline
plots
Stinger anti-aircraft missiles
Talibans
Unocal project
US Drugs Enforcement Administration
Clinton, Hillary
Clinton, President
pipeline
White House affair
Cold War
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Connolly, Captain
Curzon, Lord
Dadullah, Mullah
Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania
Dashte-e-Mango
Dasht-e-Laili desert
Daud, President Sardar Mohammed
Davies, Glyn
De La Rosa, Henry
Delhi
Delta Oil Company (Saudi company)
Deobandism
dictators
Dilaram
Dostum, General Rashid (Uzbek warlord)
Afghan Uzbeks
Bhutto and Ismael Khan meeting
Hikmetyar alliance
Mazar
military aid from Iran
pipeline
Talibans
Turkey
Uzbekistan
Dubai
Durand line
Durrani, Ahmed Shah
Durrani Pashtuns
Durranis
Dushanbe
Eastern Europe, Talibans
Ebel, Robert
Egypt
Ehsan, Mullah Ehsanullah
Ehsanullah, Mullah
Eikenberry, Lieutenant General Karl
Elieussen, Sofie
Enduring Freedom, Operation
European Commissioner for Human Rights
European Union (EU)
Fahd, King
Faisal, King
Fange, Anders
Faryab province
FATA see Federal Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA)
Fatih, Abu Yahya Mohammed see Jalolov, Najmiddin
Fazlullah, Maulana
FBI
Federal Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA)
Central Asian Taliban based in
Islamic Jihad Union in
as training ground for militants
tribal agencies
Uzbek exiles in
Feminist Majority
Ferghana valley
Ferozi, Qazi Khalilullah
Filipino Moros
France, diplomat
Fraser, George McDonald
Frontier Corps (FC)
Gailani, Pir Sayed Ahmad
Gangohi, Rashid Ahmed (1829–1905)
Gaza and West Bank, Hamas
Gazprom (Russian gas giant)
Geneva Accords
Georgia, conflict
Ghani, Ashraf
Ghaus, Mullah Mohammed
Ghaznavids
Ghazni province
Ghiasuddin, Maulvi Sayed
Ghilzai
Afghan empire
Pashtun tribes
Ghor province
Girishk
Gorbachov, President Mikhail
Gore, Albert
Gorno-Badaskshan
Goutierre, Thomas
Great Game
Gul, Lt General Hameed
Gul, Nasiba
Gupta, Dr Leila
Habibi, Mohammed (UNHCR)
Haig, Alexander
Halim, Ustad
Hamas
Hanifi, Mullah Abdul
Haq, Maulana Abdul
Haqqania
Haqqani, Jalaluddin
Haq, Samiul
Harakat-e-Inquilab Islami (Movement of the Islamic Revolution)
Harkat ul Ansar group
Hassan, Mullah Mohammed
Hazarajat
Hazaras
Afghan Shias
attacks on in Kabul (1993)
bureaucrats
Hizb-e-Wahadat party
massacres
Mazar jail
Shia Islam
Helmand province
Herat
history
Pakistan Consul General
Taliban fiefdom
Taliban capture (1995)
; Heratis
Herodotus (Greek historian)
heroin
Heslin, Sheila
Hikmetyar, Gulbuddin (Mujaheddin leader)
Arab-Afghans
Daud uprising against
Hizb-e-Islami party
ISI support
Kabul
Masud
Najibullah coup against
non-Afghan Mujaheddin
Pashtuns
Saddam Hussein
split with Sayyaf
Talibans
Hindu Kush mountains
Hindu Mahrattas
Hindus
Hizb-e-Islami party
Hizb-e-Wahadat party
Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT)
Holbrooke, Richard
Holl, Norbet
Hotak tribe
HT see Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT)
Hui-chao (Korean monk)
Humayun, Qazi
Hunter, Dr Shireen
Huntington, Samuel
Hussain, Syed Nadir Shah
Hussein, King
Hussein, Saddam
ICRC (Red Cross)
Ikhwan model
Imam, Colonel
Imle, John
improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
IMU see Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Inderfurth, Karl
India
British Governor General
Muslims
Mutiny (1857)
Indian Taliban
Indo-Afghan empires
International
Chamber of Commerce
Islamic Front for jihad against Jews and Crusaders
Women's Day
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
international terrorism
international terrorist organization
Iqbal, Mohammed (Indian poet)
Iran
Afghanistan border
Afghanistan relations
arms supplies
Central Asia
Dostum
drug addicts
economy
Intelligence
isolation policy towards
Mujaheddin support for
non-Muslim Soviet states
Pakistan relations
Rabbani
Revolutionary Guards
revolutionary war (1981–88)
Russia ties
Saudi Arabia relations
Shia sect
Talibans
Unocal
women's rights
Iranians
Iraq
Irfani, Qurban Ali
ISAF see International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
ISI see Pakistan, Interservices Intelligence (ISI)
Islam
Caliph of
challenging
Islamabad
Accord (1993)
Peshawar highway
ulema
US Embassy
Islamic
fundamentalism
history
judges Qazis
leaders
militants
movements
Mujaheddin parties
Palestinian movement
parties
revolution
Salvation Front (FIS)
Supreme Courts
Ummah
Islamic Jihad Union
Islamic militants
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Ismaelis
Ismail, Shah
Italy, UN military officer
Ittehad-e-Islami, Islamic Unity
Jabal ul Seraj
Jabha-i Najat Milli Afghanistan
Jalalabad 21,
Accord (1993)
Nangarhar University
Shura
Jalolov, Najmiddin
Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic party)
Jamiat-e-Ulema
Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI)
Jamiat-ul Uloomi Islamiyyah
Jamil, Mufti
Jan, Mullah Maulvi Ahmed
Jan, Wali
Japan
Jeddah, King Abdul Aziz University
Jerat
Jews
jihadi movements
jihads
Jomhuri Islami newspaper
Jones, General James
Jowzjanis
Jowzjan province
Juber, Sheikh Mohammed Bin
JUI see Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI)
Kabul
(1996)
Bridas
bureaucracy
capture by Mujaheddins (1992)
central Jirga
communist regime (1989)
fell to Mujaheddins (1992)
government
Hazaras attacks (1993)
Mujaheddin government
Pashtun rulers
Polytechnic College
Shura
Supreme Court
Taliban fiefdom
Taliban capture (1996)
University
UN officials
Kabulis
Kakar tribe
Kamal, Ahmad
Kandaharis
Kandahar, Pakistan
(1994)
airport
Brahimi and Omar meeting
capture of
city, electricity supply