Paghman Arc

After his 1927 – 1928 tour of Europe, India and Iran, King Amanullah brought in foreign experts to redesign Paghman. 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. Image File history File links Paghman. ... Image File history File links Paghman. ... King Amanullah Khan was the bravest Afghan who defeated British Forces and Kicked them out of our great Afghanistan in 1919. ... Paghman is a town in the hills near Kabul, Afghanistan. ... The Hindu Kush or Hindukush (هندوکش in Persian) is a mountain range in Afghanistan as well as in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. ...

The new royal gardens were opened to the public under the proviso -as a matter of reform- that western dress was adopted there, as in the royal residential areas of nearby Kabul. A view of the old city Kabul Kabul (, Kâbl, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million. ...

On September 1, 1928 King Amanullah convoked the Loya Jirga to Paghman to the puzzlement of many delegates who found themselves at odds with the dress-code. On September 7, 1928 the Hazrat of Shor Bazaar -an influential political figure in Kabul- presented the King with a petition signed by some four hundred religious leaders opposing many of Amanullah's reforms. 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.(ref: Poullada 1973) King Amanullah Khan was the bravest Afghan who defeated British Forces and Kicked them out of our great Afghanistan in 1919. ... Loya Jirga (June 13, 2002) Loya jirga, occasionally loya jirgah, is a large meeting held in Afghanistan, originally attended by Pashtun groups but later including other ethnic groups. ... Bacha i Saqaos real name was Habibullah Kalakani from kalakan in Shomali area from Parwan region. ...

After becoming a Mujaheddin battleground at the close of the 20th century, little remains of "Paghman Gardens" save for an Arc de Triomphe style arch. In the summer though, Paghman is popular as someplace to go for a break from the city and maybe a picnic. The locality was traditionally the family seat of the Paghman saadat most noted for its famous descendant Idries Shah.(ref.Saira Shah 2003) Mujahideen (مجاهدين; also transliterated as mujāhidīn, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin, mujaheddin, etc. ... Saadat of Paghman:(Saadat=Arabic plural for Sayyid). ... Idries Shah (16 June 1924 - 23 November 1996), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayyid Idris al-Hashimi, was an author and lyricist in the sufist tradition. ...

References

• Leon B.Poullada: "Reform and Rebellion in Afghanistan, 1919-1929 -King Amanullah's failure to modernize a tribal society" Cornell University Press/Ithaca and London 1973
• Saira Shah: "The Storytellers Daughter" Michael Joseph ed. 2003