له ۱۹۷۳ راهیسې

27 April 1978

Communist coup in Kabul

Daud is killed and Nur Mohammad Taraki heads the new Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

له دې لیکنې څخه: Pashtun history: from the first records to the present

27 December 1979

Soviet intervention

The Soviet army enters Afghanistan; refugees pour into Pakistan.

له دې لیکنې څخه: Pashtun history: from the first records to the present

20 January 1988

Death

Dies in Peshawar and is buried at his home in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

له دې لیکنې څخه: Bacha Khan and the Khudai Khidmatgar movement

Jalalabad په نقشه کې وګورئ

1996–2001

Taliban ban on music

Drums and other music are banned, which affects the singing of landays.

له دې لیکنې څخه: Pashto literature and oral poetry: from the Roshani writers to the landay

1996

Taliban take Kabul

The Taliban, who had taken Kandahar in 1994, capture the capital.

له دې لیکنې څخه: Pashtun history: from the first records to the present

Kabul په نقشه کې وګورئ

5 March 2009

Shrine bombed

Explosives damage the mausoleum and grave in the early hours. No one is killed.

له دې لیکنې څخه: Rahman Baba: the Pashto Sufi poet

Peshawar په نقشه کې وګورئ

June 2013

Poetry magazine landay issue

Poetry magazine devotes its June issue to landays collected by Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy.

له دې لیکنې څخه: Pashto literature and oral poetry: from the Roshani writers to the landay

31 May 2018

FATA merged into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

President Mamnoon Hussain signs the 25th Constitution Amendment.

له دې لیکنې څخه: Pashtun history: from the first records to the present

16 January 2019

Pakistan Supreme Court judgment

The court rules that jirgas and panchayats may not act as courts but may mediate civil disputes where both parties consent.

له دې لیکنې څخه: The jirga: the Pashtun council of elders

15 August 2021

Taliban return to Kabul

Taliban fighters enter Kabul as President Ashraf Ghani leaves the country.

له دې لیکنې څخه: Pashtun history: from the first records to the present

Kabul په نقشه کې وګورئ