...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men.
province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said a group of snuffies were looking to detonate a Motorcycle-borne Improvised Explosive Device in Alingar district on Saturday.
The source further added that the explosives went off before the
Accordingto the local officials, the two
The officials further added that the explosives went off prematurely as they were busy planting it, leaving two people dead, including a local leader of the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
identified as Sayeda Gul.
According to the officials, the