by Ahmed Rashid
Herat highway
Islamic Supreme Court
jail
opium
Pashtuns
province
Shura
Talibans
warlords
Kaplan, Robert
Karamat, General Jehangir
Karimov, President Islam
Karmal, Babrak
Karshi-Khanabad (K2) airbase, Uzbekistan
Karzai, Hamid
assassination attempts
election campaign
Peace and Reconciliation Commission
Kashmir
jihad
Mujaheddin
Muslims
Kashmiri militants
Kazakhstan
Tashkent meeting
Keimar oil field
Kenya, US embassy bombing
Khadid bin Walid camp
KHAD (intelligence agency)
Khalil, Fazlur Rehman
Khalili, Karim
Khalilzad, Zalmay
Khalis, Maulvi Younis
Khalis, Younis
Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali
Khan, Agha
Khan, Chaudry Nisar Ali
Khandahar, Afghanistan
Khan, Genghis
Mongol warriors
Khan, Ismael
forces
foreign investment
Khan, King Dost Mohammed
Khan, Mahtab Ahmed
Khan, Mohammed Daud
Khan, Mohammed Qurban Junaid
Kharrazi, Kamal
Khatami, Sayed Mohammed (President of Iran)
Khin Jan, Supreme Council for the Defence of the Motherland
Khomeini, Ayatollah
Khost
Khyber Pass
Kipling, Rudyard
Kissinger, Henry
Kochi nomads
Koran
Kuliab airbase
Kunar province
Kunduz province
Kurds
Kyrgyzstan
Labour Day
Laghman province
Lalai, Amir
Lebanon, Hezbollah
Lebed, Alexander
Leghari, President Farooq
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Leno, Jay
Leno, Mavis
Lewinsky, Monica
Lifschultz, Lawrence
Logar province
Loya Jirga
Macedonian Greeks
Mackenzie, Richard
madrassas
Mahaz-e-Milli, National Islamic Front of Afghanistan
Maimana
Majedi, Ali
Majid, Abdul (Mayor of Kabul)
Makhtab
Manichaeanism
Mansur, Saifur Rahman
Marks and Spencer
Marx, Karl
Mashal, Mohammed
Masud, Ahmad Shah (Mujaheddin leader)
anti-Taliban alliance
Arab-Afghans
Hikmetyar
Iranian Intelligence
Ismael Khan
Jabal ul Seraj
Kabul
attacks on Hazaras (1993)
Kuliab airbase
massacre of the Hazaras (1995)
Mullah Omar
Pashtuns
pipeline
President Rabbani's troops
support from Iran
Tajikistan
troops
uprising against President Daud
Maududdi, Abul-Ala (1903–1978)
Maulvizada, Attorney General Maulvi Jalilullah
Mazar-e-Sharif (capital of Northern Alliance)
(1997)
battle (1988)
Dostum, General
fall in (1998)
Hazaras
Iranian diplomats death
Talibans
Mazari, Abdul Ali
McChrystal, General Stanley
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Medina
Mehmood, Maulana Mufti
Mehmoud (Acting Governor)
Mehsud, Baitullah
Meshad
Mestiri, Mehmoud (UN Special Representative)
military Shura
Miller, Marty
Milosevic, Slobodan
Mobil
Mogul dynasty
Mohammed, Bakht
Mohammedi, Mawalana Mohammed Nabi
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, Maulana Sufi
Mohammed, Mullah Dost
Mohammed, Mullah Fazil
Mohammed, Nek
Mohammed, Qari Din
Mohammed, Sayed Shari
Mongols
Mongol warriors
Monument Oil
Moscow
Mossad (Israel's intelligence agency)
Mothercare
Muawia camp
Mujaddedi, Sibghatullah
Mujaheddin
interim government
ISI
leaders
parties
Shura
support of Iran and Saudi Arabia
US support
warlords
warriors
Mullen, Admiral Mike
Musharraf, President Pervez
Muslim-Arab civilisation
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslims
female aid-workers
internationalism
Muttaqi, Mullah Amir Khan
Nagarhar province
Nagorno-Karabakh, conflict
Najibullah, Fatana
Najibullah, President
collapse of regime
murder
Namangani, Juma
Nanautawi, Mohammed Qasim (1833–77)
Naqshbandi brotherhood
Naqshbandiyah (Sufi order)
Naquib, Mullah
Nasa Space Centre
National
Bank of Pakistan
Islamic Front
Logistics Cell (NLC)
Security Council (NSC)
NATO
command of ISAF in Kabul
ground combat operations in Afghanistan
Nawai, Ali Sher
Nawaz, General Asif
Nawaz, Haq
Nazarbayev, President Nursultan (Kazakh)
Nazdjanov
neo-Taliban militants
Nestorian Church
New Delhi
New York, bombs
NGOs see non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
Niazi, Mullah
Ningarcho (Saudi company)
Niyazov, President Saparmurad
oil exports
pipelines
Unocal
non-Afghan Mujaheddin
non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
non-Pashtuns
Northern Alliance (NA)
North West Frontier Province (NWFP)
Talibanization of
Nouakchott (capital of Mauritania)
Nuristan province
Oakley, Robert
Oar, Mullah
Obaid, Nawaf
Obama, President Barack
oil barons
Olaciregul, Mario Lopez
Olcott, Dr Martha Brill
Omar, Amir Mullah Mohammed
Bin Laden
CIA
jihad in Kashmir
Kandahari group
Lakhdar Brahimi
Masud
pipeline
poppy cultivation
Prince Turki
Talibans
war budget
Orakzai Agency
Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
Oslo Accords (1993)
Pahlawan, General Malik
Pahlawan, General Rasul
Pahlawan, Ghafar
Pahlawan, Gul Mohammed
Pakistan
Afghan policy
Afghan War
anti-Shia group
Arab-Afghans
Central Asia trade
Ce
ntral Board of Revenue (CBR)
Civil Aviation
Deobandis
diplomatic isolation
diplomats
economy
Frontier Corps
growth of extremism in
Harakat ul Ansar party
International Airlines (PIA)
Interservices Intelligence (ISI)
Afghan Jihad
Afghan policy
analysis
Bin Laden
Mujaheddin
officers
Quetta staff
Talibans
Unocal
Islamic
militants
parties
madrassas
Makran coast
military-bureaucratic-intelligence
military coup
Muslim League
officials
opium production
Pashtun borderlands
Pashtuns
People's Party (PPP)
pipeline and communication routes
Public Works Department
Railways
Revolutionary Guards
Shias
smuggling trade
students
Sunnis
Talibans
gender policies
Taliban-style Islamic revolution
Telecommunications
tribal agencies
UN Security Council Resolution
war fronts
Water and Power Development Authority
Pakistan, Interservices Intelligence (ISI)
training programme for Afghan Taliban
Paktia province
Pamir mountains
Pan-Islamic ideology
Panjshir
Lion of see Masud, Ahmad Shah (Mujaheddin leader)
Panjshiris
Pasanai, Maulvi Said Mohammed
Pashtuns
Afghanistan
bribal structure
bureaucrats
fundamentalism
Hikmetyar
madrassas
Majaheddin, leadership
Musad
Pakistan
rulers, Kabul
Talibans
tribal jirga
tribes
ulema
Wahabbism
Pashtunwali (tribal code of behaviour)
Peace and National Unity party
Peace and Reconciliation Commission
Persia
Persian Gulf ports
Persians
Peshawar
Accord
Ittehad-e-Islami, Islamic Unity
Jabha-i Najat Milli Afghanistan
Mujaheddin leadership
Mujaheddin parties
US Agency for International Development
Peters, Gretchen
Petraeus, General David
pipelines
Polo, Marco
Primakov, Yevgeny
Prophet Mohammed
Cloak of
Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs)
Punjabi jihadi groups
Qadeer, Haji Abdul
Qaderiyah (Sufi order)
Qais
Qalamuddin, Maulvi
Qanuni, Younis
Qazil Abad
Qila-e-Jhangi
Quetta, Pakistan
mafia
Quetta Shura
Rabbani, Mullah Mohammed
meeting with King Fahd
Rabbani, President Burhanuddin
Iran
Masud troops
Pakistan's rivals
Radio
Afghanistan
Kabul
Pakistan
Shariat
Rafsanjani, President Akbar Ali
Rahi, Dr Humera
Rakhmanov, Imomali (President of Tajikistan)
Raphel, Robin
Rashid, Mullah Abdul
Razaq, Mullah Abdul
Reagan, President
Red Cross, International Committee (ICRC)
Rehami, Mullah Mohammed
Rehman, Amir Abdul ‘Iron Amir’ (1880–1901)
Rehman, Dr Abdur
Rehman, Fazlur
Rehman, Flight-Lieutenant Khalilur
Rehman, King Abdul
Rehman, Maulana Fazlur
Rehmen, General Akhtar Abdur
Reuters
Richardson, Bill (US Ambassador to UN)
Rishkor army garrison
Rohrabacher, Dana
Roman Empire
Rostam, Sohrab
Rouzi, Majid
Roy, Olivier
Rubin, Barnett
Rukh, Shah (son of Taimur)
Rumi (Persian poet)
Rumsfield, Donald
Russia
arms supplies
and Britain treaties
Central Asian
Revolution (1917)
Tashkent meeting
troops
Unocal
Safavid dynasty
Sahar, General Saleem
Salang Highway/tunnel
Salim
Samangan province
Samarkand
Santos, Charles
Sarbanar (son of Qais)
Sari Pul province
Sarobi
Saudi Arabia