[ɣəlˈd͡ʒi]; Persian: خیلجی, romanized: Xelji) also spelled Khilji, Khalji, or Ghilzai and Ghilzay (غلزی), are one of the largest Pashtun tribes. Their traditional...

Pashto: قلات), and historically referred to as Qalāti Khaljī or Qalat-i Ghilzai, is a city in southern Afghanistan that serves as the capital of Zabul...

Amanullah assembled an army in Kandahar made up of Durrani, Khattak, Ghilzai and Hazara fighters. However, his attempt to march on Kabul was unsuccessful...

Shāh Mahmūd Hotak, (Pashto/Dari: شاه محمود هوتک), or Shāh Mahmūd Ghiljī (شاه محمود غلجي), also known by his epithet, The Conqueror (lived 1697 – April...

Empire from 1730 to 1735. After Ottoman support had failed to keep the Ghilzai Afghan invaders on the Persian throne, the Ottoman possessions in western...

Khorasan, where he became a local warlord. His path to power began when the Ghilzai Mir Mahmud Hotaki overthrew the weakened and disintegrated Safavid shah...

among natives to describe their country. In 1709, Mirwais Hotak, a local Ghilzai tribal leader, successfully rebelled against the Safavids. He defeated...

University Press. p. 322. ISBN 0-691-03006-5. Mirwais Khan Hotak, the Hotaki Ghilzai chieftain and nominal mayor of Qandahar was a much more formidable rival...

525 845 Juwain – Kelat-i-Ghilzai Arachoti Polis – Hortospana 250 230 370 0.4% 2000 230 370 0.4% 231 372 main road Kelat-i-Ghilzai – Kabul Hortospana – Alexandria...

Babur had planned an expedition against Kandahar in 1506, which was governed by Shah Shuja better known as Shah Beg Arghun. Babur had marched towards Shniz...

Qandahar region and because of the predominant position of Abdali and Ghilzai Pashtuns in Qandahar region during and around 14th century, Tajiks, Hazaras...

Taliban are ethnic Pashtuns, more specifically those belonging of the Ghilzai confederation. Until his death in 2013, Mullah Mullah Omar was the supreme...

Ghilji Pashtun tribal confederation. The other branch is the Ibrahimzai. "Ghilzai Tribe". Naval Postgraduate School Program for Culture and Conflict Studies...

a weak ruler. When Soltan Husayn attempted to quell a rebellion by the Ghilzai Afghans in Kandahar, the governor he sent (Gurgin Khan) was killed. Under...

battlefield success of Ahmad Shah Massoud. Hezb-i Islami was overwhelmingly Ghilzai Pashtun, and backed by Pakistan president Zia ul-Haq. Its leader, Hekmatyar...

Afghanized and are believed to be the ancestors of Ghilzai/Ghilji Pashtuns. According to C. E. Bosworth, the Ghilzai, who make up the majority of the Pashtuns...

19 April 1451 (855 AH). Bahlul's grandfather, Malik Bahram Khan Lodi, a Ghilzai tribal chief of the Lodi tribe from Dera Ismail Khan. He later took service...

since the Afghan Ghilzai Dynasty was having a political problem, thus leaving a vacuum to be filled up. But, Ashraf Shah Ghilzai invaded Kerman and...

Kandahar and one of the richest and most influential people among the Ghilzais. At first Mirwais had good relations with the Georgians but it began to...

even as popular resistance grew. They also ceased paying subsidies to the Ghilzais, who controlled the routes between Kabul and Peshawar. A brigade commanded...

intelligence funding, and American CIA funding; traditionally strongest in Ghilzai Pashtun tribal regions in the south-east - aimed for a state similar to...

Economics and Knowledge. Routledge. pp. 217–. ISBN 978-1-134-83668-0. Ghilzai, S.A., and Kanwal, A. (2016) Semiotic Analysis of Evil Eye Beliefs among...

Ahmadzai who are a Waziri tribe and the Sulaimankhel Ahmadzai, part of the Ghilzai confederation. However, the Ahmadzai Khans of Khalat were neither of these...

In 1193, the Nalanda University complex was destroyed by Afghan Khalji–Ghilzai Muslims under Bakhtiyar Khalji; this event is seen as the final milestone...

dominating tribe of Swabi is the Yusufzai, followed by the minor Utmankhel, Ghilzai, Tarakai, Jadoon and Khattak. As of the 2023 census, Swabi district has...

in the western Himalayas, on a spiritual journey Mahbub Ali – a famous Ghilzai Pashtun horse trader and spy for the British Colonel Creighton – a British...

Khan Shaghasi 24. Haji Jamal Khan 12. Sardar Payinda Muhammad Khan 25. a Ghilzai lady 6. Sardar Dost Mohammad Khan 26. Musa Khan Jawansher Qizilbash 13...

The Nasher (or Nashir) (Dari: الناشر, Persian: الناشر) are a noble Afghan family and Khans of the Pashtun Kharoti (Ghilji) tribe. The family is originally...

The 12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment) were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1838, when they...

his Afghan subjects in Qandahar from Sunni to Twelverism. In response, a Ghilzai Afghan chieftain named Mirwais Hotak revolted and killed Gurgin Khan, the...