Maiwand
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Maiwand is a village in
Maywand District of Kandahar Province. It is located 50 miles northwest of Kandahar, on the main Kandahar–Lashkargah road.[1][2]
The area is irrigated by the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority.[3]
Maiwand is the birthplace of the 13th-century Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.[4]
The village is notable for the
Malalai Anaa defeated a British brigade under General Burrows.[5] The British commemorated the battle with the Maiwand Lion sculpture at Forbury Gardens
in England.
References
- ISBN 9781616405205. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ^ "The Battle of Khushk-i-Nakud". The Second Angl-Afghan War 1878-1880. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ^ (pdf) The Helmand Valley Project in Afghanistan: A.I.D. Evaluation Special Study No. 18 C Clapp-Wicek & E Baldwin, U.S. Agency for International Development, published December 1983
- ^ "The Sufi in red". www.pakistantoday.com.pk. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 447.
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