Soraya Tarzi
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Soraya Tarzi was the first queen consort of Afghanistan as the wife of King Amanullah Khan. She played a major part in the modernization reforms of Amanullah Khan, particularly in regard to the emancipation of women.
Queen Soraya in Berlin in 1928.
Soraya Tarzi and Amanullah with Kemal Ataturk.
Queen Soraya and her husband King Amanullah are buried at this mausoleum in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
Durrani
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The Durrānī, formerly known as Abdālī (ابدالي), are one of the largest tribes of Pashtuns. Their traditional homeland is in southern Afghanistan, straddling into Toba Achakzai in Balochistan, Pakistan, but they are also settled in other parts of Afghanistan and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Coronation of Ahmad Shah Durr-i-Durrān by Abdali chiefs at Kandahar in 1747
Graveyard of 19th-century Durrani princes and princesses in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Afghanistan
Ahmad Shah Durrani (1747–1772), founder of the Durrani Empire, belongs to Popalzai
King Amanullah Khan (1919–1929), under whom Afghanistan gained independence over its foreign policy from the British Raj