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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.
The Katir are a Nuristani tribe in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Dameli (دَميلي), also Damia, Damiabaasha or Gidoj, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic subgroup spoken by approximately 5,000 people in the Domel Town, in the Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Afghanistan sent a delegation to compete at the 1936 Summer Olympics Berlin, Germany, from 1 to 16 August 1936. This was the nation's first appearance at a Summer Olympic Games and saw the nation sent 19 athletes to compete. Most of these athletes competed in the men's field hockey team where they finished runner up in their group and not advancing to the knockout stage. The other two athletes competed in the sport of athletics with Mohammad Khan competing in the 100 meters sprint and long jump, failing to advance to the next stage of either of those events. Abdul Rahim competed in the shot put with him not advancing to the final.
Wasi-wari is the language of the Wasi people, spoken in a few villages in the Pārūn Valley in Afghanistan. It also goes by the name Prasun or Pārūni.
Afghanistan is a linguistically diverse nation, with upwards of 40 distinct languages. However, Dari and Pashto are two of the most prominent languages in the country, and have shared official status under various governments of Afghanistan. Dari, as a shared language between multiple ethnic groups in the country, has served as a historical lingua franca between different linguistic groups in the region and is the most widely understood language in the country. Pashto is also widely spoken in the region; but the language does not have a diverse multi-ethnic population like Dari, and the language is not as commonly spoken by non-Pashtuns. Dari and Pashto are also "relatives", as both are Iranian languages.
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.
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.
Mohammad Kadir Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player who played for the national team.
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.
The following is the list of squads that took place in the men's field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
