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INDEX
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Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations
Abbas Mirza, Crown Prince of Persia 151fn
Abdali tribe 38, 39
Abdullah 260–74
execution of 248, 273, 273, 282
family of 262–5, 263
poetry of 266–7
resistance leader 267–70
Abdullah, Dr Abdullah 132
Abdur Rahman, King xxiii, 20, 40, 47, 94, 113, 124, 174, 227, 239
Afghan Airforce 69, 71
Afghan Army 69, 125, 197
Afghan National Bank 95
Afghan Women’s League 31
Afghanistan 2–3, 4, 6, 40
borders 93–5
communist 60, 80, 130–2, 155, 193, 197, 214, 324
coup 111–15, 130, 136
drought 16, 20, 22, 130, 242, 258
empire 41–2
geo-strategic position 128
infant mortality 149
interim government 236
lawlessness 12–13, 89, 127
modernisation 125–6, 228
monarchy 38–42, 112–13, 115–31, 132, 136–7
opium trade 11–12, 256, 287
origins of name 221–3
Soviet-Afghan relations 125
terrain 129
US war on terrorism in 75, 76–7, 83, 107–8, 116
warlords 12–13, 89–90, 196, 204, 231, 238, 240
Afridi tribe 66, 94
Agha, Gul 13, 264, 265, 267, 268, 269–71, 282
Ahmad Shah, Crown Prince 136
Ahmad Shah Abdali Durrani, King xxii, 38–42, 123, 174, 223, 246, 254
Ahmed, Prof. Akbar 102
Akbar, Moghul Emperor 95
Akbar Khan 68, 224
Akora Khattak 96
Alexander the Great 3, 35, 37, 56, 95, 150
Aligarh Muslim University 97
Al-Istakhabara-al-Ama 287
Alkozai tribe 260
Altan, Khwaja 202
al Qaeda 79, 133, 259, 281, 284
Amanullah, King xxiii, 123–7, 220, 228, 232
Amar bil Marouf, see Taliban, Moral Police
Amin, Hafizullah 131
Amir Hanza Division 197–8
Amritsar 41
Andrushkin, Gen. 196
Anglo-Afghan Wars 66, 123–5, 129, 225, 226
Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah 207
Arabs 256
brought in by ISI 44, 290
donations from 98
in Taliban 108, 128, 268, 269, 270, 271, 281, 321
terrorists 32
train Taliban army 27–8
Argandab 56, 59, 80
Ariana Airlines 114, 129–30, 205, 205, 211, 303–4, 310
Army of Retribution 68, 224–5, 226
Army of the Indus 224–5
Assefi, Dr Mohammed Yusuf 241–2
Assefy, Homayoun 95
Asterabad 40
Ataturk, Mustapha Kemal 125
Attock 93, 94, 95
Ayub Khan (ruler of Herat) 227
Ayub Khan, Mohammed (President of Pakistan) 285
Ayubi, Zahir 3, 141–4, 146, 147, 192–4, 203–7
Azim, Mr 67, 6
9
Azim, Maulana Sadar 101
Babar, Gen. Nasirullah 14
Babur, Moghul Emperor 153, 154, 173, 221
Baburnama 153
in Kabul 212, 216, 223, 228
Badakshan 40, 177, 213, 231
Bagram 28, 115
Baiqara, Sultan Hussein 175
Baisanghor, Prince 176
Balkh 19, 40
Balkh Airlines 197
Baluchistan 14, 42, 46, 102, 278, 285
Bamiyan 13, 19, 20, 22–3, 40, 68fn, 280
Buddhas 22, 87, 134, 205, 231, 283
Banderas, Antonio 83
Barakzai tribe 263, 264
Bawalpur 57
BBC 63, 77
Beg, Ibrahim 196
Belquis, Princess 117
Bengal Artillery 184
Bergen, Candice 111
Bhutto, Benazir ix, 14, 91, 95, 103, 290, 291
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali 285–6
Bihzad (court artist) 154
Bin Laden, Osama 203, 304
CIA and 294
fights in Aghanistan 72, 293
as fugitive 104, 129, 270, 281
and Haqqania 85, 99
house in Kandahar 257, 270
and ISI 290, 291
in Kabul 213
and Mullah Omar 26–7
orders assassination of Zahir Shah 122fn
and September 11th 6, 91, 281–2
and Taliban 82, 87, 282, 283
as Wahhabi 101
Blair, Tony 77
Bonn 179, 236, 237
Bor Jan 58–9, 61, 80, 81, 252, 253
Bradley, Carolyn 118
Brahimi, Lakhdar 133
Brezinski, Zbigniew 286
Britain 19, 44, 96
Afghan border set by 93–4
Anglo-Afghan Wars 41, 66, 68, 123–5, 129, 224–7
British in Herat 174, 184
Empire 3, 97
Foreign Office 133
Great Game 3, 142, 151, 173, 184
madrassas in 89
and war on terrorism 92, 240
Zahir Shah in 135
Brydon, Dr William 68
Burki, Mullah 18
Burnes, Sir Alexander 19–20, 223, 224, 226, 235
Cabool 19–20
Travels into Bokhara 19
Bush, George Snr 291, 294
Bush, George W. 77, 85, 92
Byron, Robert:The Road to Oxiana 145, 150, 172–5, 218
Camp X-ray 284
Caroe, Sir Olaf 2, 35, 94
Carter, Jimmy 286
Cavagnari, Sir Louis 226
CBS 249
Central Television News 36
Chaman 91
Chatwin, Bruce 145
Chechens 321
Chechnya 89
Chelmsford, Lord 124
China 92, 128, 286, 287, 293
Christie, Capt. Charles 151
Churchill, Winston:The Story of the Malakand Field Force 102
CIA 44, 53, 268, 285, 286–7, 294
Cogan, Chuck 287
Daoud, Mohammed 251–2
Daoud Khan, Prince Mohammed xxiii, 112, 114, 130, 136, 204
Darra 59, 103
Dar-ul Aman, Kabul 219, 219, 220–1, 228–9, 237
Darul Uloom Deoband 97
Darul Uloom Haqqania, see Haqqania
Darya, Farhad 139
Deans Hotel, Peshawar 126
Delhi 39, 40, 97, 223
Dost Mohammed, Amir xxiii, 19, 68, 224, 225, 264
Dostum, Gen. Rashid 13, 20–1, 81, 196–7, 199, 200, 268, 298, 323
Dubs, Adolph 212
Dunbar, Charles 130
Dupree, Louis 40, 186
Dupree, Nancy Hatch 216, 220
Durand, Sir Mortimer 94
Durand Line 93–4, 123
Durrani dynasty xxii–xxiii, 39, 42, 43, 45, 123, 132
East India Company 37, 151
Ehsan, Ehsanullah 60, 80, 81
Eid Gaha Mosque, Kandahar 256, 258
Eighth Orang 155
Eisenhower, Dwight 115
Elizabeth II, Queen 135, 135
Elphinstone, Mountstuart 37, 224
Account of the Kingdom of Caubul 223, 325
Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia 118
Fahim, Gen. 179, 238
Farah province 198
Firdosi 169
Shahnama, Book of Kings 168
Fleming Hotel, Rome 119, 120, 133, 136
Ford, Gerald 289
Frontier Scouts 123
Gardez 197, 275, 282
Gaulle, Charles de 115
Genghis Khan 3, 19, 151, 153, 181
Ghani, Abdul 91
Ghaziabad 68
Ghazni 18, 19, 20, 231
Ghilzai tribe 24, 39
Ghiyas-ad-Din, King of Ghorids 190
Ghor 20
Gilani, Hamid 5, 324–6
Gilani, Iftikhar 103–5, 289
Golden Crescent 12
Golden Needle Sewing Circle 156–60, 157, 163
Gowhar Shad, Queen 153, 154, 164
mausoleum of 173–7
Greens hotel, Peshawar 2, 3
Guantanamo Bay 284
Gul, Agha 261
Gul, Gen. Hamid 44, 284–5, 288–95, 288
Gul, Khadi Mohammed 53, 55
Gul, Pari 23
Gul, Sardar 261
Habibullah (Abdullah’s father) 263–4
Habibullah, King xxiii, 47, 113, 123, 124, 127, 228
Haghighi, Ahmed Said 154–8, 159, 160, 162, 168
Hakim (driver) 251, 258
Hamid, Mohammed 303, 305–6, 310–12
Hamidy, Sultan 189, 189, 190–2
Haq, Abdul (Kabul commander) ix, 6, 45, 71, 83, 287–8, 295
Haq, Maulana Abdul 96
Haq, Gen. Fazle 286
Haq, Ijaz-ul 287
Haq, Osama 96
Haq, Rashid 93, 96–101
Haq, Sami-ul 85–91, 86, 92, 96, 98, 283
Haqqani, Jalaluddin 87, 101
Haqqani, Kabir 101
Haqqania 84–91, 93, 96–101
prospectus 90
Harakat 59
Harris, Sir Arthur Travers (‘Bomber’) 124fn
Hassani, Khalil Ahmed 10, 11, 35, 84
as Mullah Omar’s bodyguard 24–7, 255
in Taliban secret police 12, 15–19, 21, 200
Hazarajat 19, 20
Hazaras 12, 13, 19–24, 40, 218, 219
Hekmatullah 200–1
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin 13, 294
attacks Kabul 299, 311
battles against Northern Alliance 75, 80, 219, 231
forces of 10, 12, 209, 264, 279
ISI protégé 44, 291
Helmand 28, 80, 232
Herat 5, 6, 145–77, 181–5, 187–99
anti-Soviet uprising 131, 151–2, 198, 199
Bin Laden in 281
citadel 150–1, 182–5, 198
as cultural centre 18, 153–5, 164, 168–9
fall of Taliban 144, 201
history of 19, 40, 150–1, 174
under Ismael Khan 12, 198
Literary Circle 153–5, 160, 162, 163, 166
minarets 141, 143, 150, 172–7
mosques 189–90
Sewing Circle 156–60, 163
under Soviets 125, 188, 198, 207
under Taliban 15, 18–19, 21, 80, 81, 142, 146–7, 152–3, 155–65, 169–72, 199, 280
Herat Academy 154
Herat Museum 162
Herat University 158, 160, 162
Herodotus 148
Hezb-i-Islami 44, 279
Hindu Kush 12, 20, 40, 95, 228
Homaira, Queen 135, 136
Humayun (cook) 249–50
Hussein, Saddam 6
Husseini, Zare 161
Inayatullah, King 126
India 94, 102, 151
British 97, 125, 126
cinema 165
Moghul 39–40
Indus River 93, 95, 123
Inter-Servi
ces Intelligence (ISI) x, 25, 54fn, 66, 67, 72, 83, 278
brings Arabs to Afghanistan 44
controls Afghan policy 286–90
headquarters 285
history 285–7
and Taliban 14, 82, 198, 281, 293, 294
US and 284, 286–7, 294
Iran 53, 128, 129, 132, 142, 155, 161, 167, 197, 200–1; see also Persia
Iran, Shah of 118, 132, 184, 286, 325
Ishaq, Gen. 26
Islah 127
Islam 88–9, 91, 97, 282
deobandi movement 97, 102
Wahhabi sect 101
Islamabad 5, 66, 80, 85, 285, 286
Israel 92, 286, 293
Italy 115–21, 126, 131
Jalalabad 5, 13, 95, 295
British in 226
mujaheddin battle for 65–6, 69–72, 80, 145, 197, 291
revolt in (1929) 126
under Taliban 80
Jamal, Qadratullah 230, 279
Jami, Abdur Rahman 141, 153
Jamiat-e-Ulema Islami (JUI) 91, 101
Jamiat Islami 204
Jan, Ahmed 259–60
Jan, Mohammed 52
Jan, Mullah Wali 272
Jan, Wali 13, 14, 15
Jari Dasht 27
Jawzjani militia 13
Jinnah, Muhammed Ali 102
Kabul 65, 205, 211–42, 215, 217, 243–4, 310–11, 314–15
airport 75, 211, 304
Bala Hissar fort 223, 226–7
bombing of 124, 133
British in 68, 129, 224–7
Central Prison 115
city walls 318–19
coup in 111–15
Dar-ul Aman 219, 219, 220–1, 228–9, 237
Four Arcades Bazaar 225
Hishai Durrani School 29, 308
history 20, 202, 223
Microrayon 29, 30, 107, 298–309, 314
under monarchy 125–8
mujaheddin in 132, 219, 231, 237, 298–9
National Gallery 240–2
origin of name 221–3
post office 315–17
Presidential Palace 114, 117, 222, 236, 239, 243, 282, 283
Soviet occupation 219, 286
under Taliban 20, 30, 80, 81, 108, 132, 156, 230–2, 239–40, 307
Taliban ousted 139, 144, 212
under warlords 12, 20, 307
Kabul Hotel 212
Kabul Museum 222, 229–35, 232, 234, 283
Kabul Radio 130
Kabul River 95, 215, 298
Kabul University 204, 275, 299
Kabul Times 120
Kandahar 5, 10, 28, 35–9, 45, 46, 245–59
Arabs in 268, 269, 270
bazaars 254, 270
bombing of 154, 254
British in 226, 227
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