Badghis province is one of the thirty_four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located on the northwest of Afghanistan, between the Murghab and Hari Rud rivers, extending as far northward as the edge of the desert of Sarakhs. Its name is from Persian بادخیز Bâdkhiz meaning "where the winds arise" or "home of the winds".
Badghis is one of Afghanistan's most remote and poorest regions.
Pashtuns are in the minority in the north and have suffered various abuses at the hands of local commanders seeking revenge against the mainly Pashtun Taliban regime.
Singh called the violations a serious threat to peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan, which the government of Hamid Karzai is struggling to unify after 23 years of foreign interference and civil war.
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