The Timur Ruby, weighing some 361 carats, is named after Timur. Irregularly shaped, it bears the etched names of five ...

So his father named him after Ahmad Shah Durrani, an 18th Century king and the founder of modern Afghanistan. Ahmad was the eldest of six children - he leaves behind four sisters and a teenage ...

The Sena (UBT) chief termed Amit Shah as political heir of Ahmad Shah Abdali, who set up the Durrani empire in Afghanistan in 1747 and defeated the Marathas in the third battle of Panipat.

Therefore, Afghanistan is often referred to as the “Land of the Pashtuns.” In 1747, Ahmad Shah Durrani unified the Pashtun tribes and laid the foundation of modern Afghanistan. Pashtun society ...