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Dr. Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani is a former politician from Afghanistan. He served as governor of Herat province from January 2009 to August 2010. In September 2018, President Ashraf Ghani appointed Nuristani to the Meshrano Jirga, the upper body of parliament in Afghanistan. From 2005 to 2008 he was the 1st Deputy Defense Minister, Government of Afghanistan. He was recently convicted in the United States and in Afghanistan.
The Nuristanis are an ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. Their languages comprise the Nuristani branch of Indo-Iranian languages.
Nuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It is divided into seven districts and is Afghanistan's least populous province, with a population of around 167,000. Parun serves as the provincial capital. Nuristan is bordered on the south by Laghman and Kunar provinces, on the north by Badakhshan province, on the west by Panjshir province.
The Nuristani languages, also known as Kafiri languages, are one of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, alongside the much larger Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups. They have approximately 130,000 speakers primarily in eastern Afghanistan and a few adjacent valleys in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Chitral District, Pakistan. The region inhabited by the Nuristanis is located in the southern Hindu Kush mountains, and is drained by the Alingar River in the west, the Pech River in the center, and the Landai Sin and Kunar rivers in the east. More broadly, the Nuristan region is located at the northern intersection of the Indian subcontinent and the Iranian plateau. The languages were previously often grouped with Indo-Aryan or Iranian until they were finally classified as forming a third branch in Indo-Iranian.
Colonel General Abdul Kadir Dagarwal was an Afghan politician, diplomat, and a military officer in the Afghan Air Force who participated in the coup d'état that created the Republic of Afghanistan under the President Dawood Khan, and later directed the Afghan Air Force and Army Air Corps squadrons that attacked the Radio-TV station during the Saur Revolution.
Abd al-Qadir or Abdulkadir is a male Muslim given name. It is formed from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Qadir. The name means "servant of who can do everything", Al=The. Al-Qādir being one of the names of Allah in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.
Afghanistan is a multiethnic and mostly tribal society. The population of the country consists of numerous ethnolinguistic groups: mainly the Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and Uzbek and minorities of Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashai, Nuristani, Gujjar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Pamiri, Kyrgyz, Sadat, and others. Altogether they make up the Afghan people.
Watapur District is situated in the central part of Kunar Province in Afghanistan. It was split from Asadabad district. The district is mountainous with 60 large and small villages. The population is around 60,000. Degan, Safi, Ragakhel, Sharbekhel, Nanekhel, Doshakhel, Kohestani, Saidan are the few tribes living in this beautiful place. Watapur District has a high school located in south part of the district. The villages are located in the valleys or in the high mountains, with difficult or no road access to the center - Asadabad, and it takes one day to reach some of them. There was a medical clinic north of Qatar Kala, built by ISAF, until it was destroyed by local militants.
Sāfī are Pashtun and Dardic people who speak Pashayai in addition to Pashto.
Mohammad Tamim Nuristani is a businessman and politician from Nuristan Province of Afghanistan. Mohammad Tamim was the previous governor of Nuristan Province and replaced by Hafiz Abdul Qayyum.
Abdul Qadir Nuristani was an Afghan Minister of the Interior during the Republic of Afghanistan.
Ahmad Jahan Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player who played for the national team. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, playing in all three of his team's matches.
Mohammad Jahan Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player and a member of the national team. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics, playing in one field hockey match against Great Britain.
Abdul Kadir Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player who played for the national field hockey team.
Din Mohammad Nuristani is an Afghan former field hockey player who was a member of the national field hockey team. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games and the 1956 Summer Olympic Games. He played in all six of Afghanistan's field hockey matches in the two Olympics.
Jahan Gulam Nuristani is an Afghan former field hockey player.
Mohammad Amin Nuristani is an Afghan field hockey player, who was a member of the Afghan national team. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games and the 1956 Summer Olympic Games. He played in four matches, two in each Olympics.
Noor Ullah Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player who played for the national team. Nuristani competed at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games, playing in all three of his team's matches.
Ramazan Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player and a member of the national team. He played in two of Afghanistan's three field hockey matches at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
The following is the list of squads that took place in the men's field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
