Paghman, a small village at the bottom of the Hindu Kush became a holiday retreat with villas and chalets as well as the summer capital.
This action led to the arrest of the Hazrat, the execution of some of his followers and finally the rebellion of 1929 -- led at a famous stage by the Bacha-i-Saqao "Son of the Water Carrier" -- that overthrew the King (Poullada 1973).
The locality was traditionally the family seat of the Paghman saadat most noted for its famous descendant Idries Shah (Saira Shah 2003).
On 1st July 2006, hundreds of people from the Paghman district of Kabul demonstrated against Rasul Sayyaf, a fundamentalist leader of the Itehad-e-Islami party and a current member of the Afghan parliament.
The demonstrators told the media that the land in the area of Chunghar, which is owned by 40,000 people of Shahguzar, (a village in Paghman) has been occupied by Sayyaf and his gunmen by force, though the people of the village legally own the land by order of the court.
Saying they were residents of the Chonghar village, the protestors gathered in front of the district headquarters and chanted slogans against Sayaf and his commanders alleging they had forcefully seized their farms.
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