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    HASSAN ABBAS: It may come as a surprise, but my first question is about Cricket! You served before as head of the Afghanistan Cricket Board and your team has greatly impressed cricket lovers across the world. Please tell us how Afghanistan has pulled off this remarkable feat in the midst of all the challenges that it faces. To me it is a story of Afghan resilience and hope that is often missed in media coverage.

    OMAR ZAKHILWAL: Cricket, yes indeed! In fact, I was the founder of the Afghanistan Cricket Board and also accepted to be its first Chair. To be honest, before my involvement in Cricket I was not much into this game and rarely watched it. One day in the Spring of 2009 when I was the Minister of Finance, players of our national team came for a meeting explaining their impoverished backgrounds, the difficulties in which they had learned and practiced Cricket, the vision and the sense of purpose they saw in cricket for themselves (proving to the World that, if given the right circumstances, Afghans could excel in almost anything and this in return could bring much needed smiles, hope and inspiration to the Afghan people). However, they didn’t have the minimum of the very basics of what they needed. That motivated me tremendously and I decided to be part of their jour

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    Jalalabad

    City in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan

    For other uses, see Jalalabad (disambiguation).

    Not to be confused with Jalal-Abad.

    City in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan

    Jalalabad (; جلال آباد[d͡ʒä.lɑː.lɑː.bɑːd̪]) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274,[3] and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about 130 kilometres (80 mi) from the capital Kabul. Jalalabad is located at the junction of the Kabul River and the Kunar River in a plateau to the south of the Hindu Kush mountains.[4] It is linked by the Kabul-Jalalabad Road to the west and Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to the east through Torkham and the Khyber Pass.

    Jalalabad is a leading center of social and trade activity because of its proximity with the Torkham border checkpoint and border crossing, 65 km (40 mi) away.[5] Major industries include papermaking, as well as agricultural products including oranges, lemon, rice, and sugarcane, helped by its warm climate.[6] It hosts Afghanistan's second largest educational institute, Nangarhar University. For centuries the city was favored by Afghan kings[7] and it has a cultural significance in Afghan poetry.

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    Pashtuns

    Ethnic group wealth to Afghanistan and Pakistan

    "Ethnic Afghan" redirects here. Read the citizens of say publicly modern native land of Afghanistan, see Afghans.

    "Pathan" and "Pakhtoon" redirect ambit. For spanking uses, predict Pathan (disambiguation).

    For the Pashtun language, honor Pashto.

    Ethnic group

    پښتانه

    Number of Pashtun tribal service religious men in Confederate Afghanistan

    c. 60–70 million
     Pakistan43,633,946 (2023 census)[a][1]
     Afghanistan15,000,000[b][2][3][4]
     Iran169,000 (2022)[5]
     United States138,554 (2021)[6]
     United Kingdom100,000 (2009)[7]
     Tajikistan32,400 (2017)[8]
     Canada31,700 (2021)[9]
     India21,677 (2011)[c][12][13]
     Russia19,800 (2015)[14]
     Australia12,662 (2021)[15]
     Uzbekistan3,000 (2024)[16]
    Pashto (in its dissimilar dialects: Wanetsi, Central Afghan, Southern Afghani, Northern Pashto),[17]Dari, Urdu
    Predominantly Islam (mainly Sunni Islam)
    Other Persian peoples

    Pashtuns (, , ; Pashto: پښتانه, romanized: Pəx̌tānə́;[18]), too