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- Afghani: Afghanistan’s currency: (65,000 Afghanis = US$1 )
- Amro bil mahroof: Religious police, Taliban department of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. According to UN "The ministry of vice and virtue is the most misogynist department in the whole world."
- Burqa: Veil (a voluminous head-to-toe covering with a mesh grid over the eyes)
- Eid: Annual Islamic festival
- Hajj: Annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
- Harram: Religiously forbidden
- Hejab or purdah: Islamic veil
- Hezb-e-Islami (Hekmatyar): (Party of Islam), led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the former darling of Pakistani militarist circles
- Hezb-e-Islami (Khalis): Led by Yunus Khalis, a splinter group from Hezb-e Islami (Hekmatyar)
- Hezb-e-Wahdat Islami: (Party of Islamic Unity), led by Karim Khalili, supported by Iran.
- ISI: Inter Services Intelligence, Pakistan
- Ittehad-e-Islami: (Islamic Alliance), led by Abdul Rasool Sayyaf, supported by the Saudis until they found a new darling in the Taliban.
- Jamaat-e-Islami: (Society of Islam), a Pakistani party led by Qazi Hussain Ahmad, main fundamentalist supporter of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and some other fundamentalist groups in Afghanistan.
- Jamiat-e-Islami: (Society of Islam), led by Burhanuddin Rabbani.
- Jehadi: A partisan of Jehad (Islamic holy war). After the wave of crimes and atrocities perpetrated by the Jehadis subsequent to the coming to power of their fundamentalist military-political entities in April 1992, for the ordinary people "Jehadi" denotes the most abhorrent criminals who commit the most heinous crimes and brutalities including gang-rape, willful destruction, carnage, looting, etc. in the name of Islam. This epithet is also used to differentiate fundamentalist criminals from Taliban ultra-fundamentalists.
- KHAD: Khademat-e-Attela’at-e Dowlati (State Intelligence Services), dreaded secret police of the Russian puppet regimes or Afghanistan branch of KGB
- Khalq and Parcham ("The People" and "The Banner"): Fractions of the pro-Soviet People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan installed in power through a bloody coup on 27 April 1978. Overthrown by the fundamentalists on 28 April 1992.
- Mahram: close male relative such as a father, brother or husband.
- Maulavi: A title for senior members of the Sunni Muslim clergy.
- Mujahideen: Those who participate in Jehad (Islamic Holy War) "Soldiers of Islam ".
- Northern Alliance (or United Front): A military alliance comprised of some so-called Jehadi fundamentalist groups that committed hair-raising crimes when they entered Kabul after the fall of the puppet regime of Dr.Najib in 1992. They killed and raped thousands of girls/ women and men. More importantly they were the first who imposed numerous restrictions on women including wearing the veil. MORE...
- Payam-e-Zan (Women's Message): RAWA bilingual (Persian/Pashtu/Urdu) magazine published since 1981 - ISSN 1563-8456
- Qazi: Judge, especially under Islamic Sharia law
- Ramadan: The ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar, month of fasting throughout hours of daylight.
- Shariat or Sharia: Islamic law
- Shura-e-Nezar (Supervisory Council) a military-political semi-autonomous sub-group within Burhanuddin Rabbani's Jamiat-e Islami, led by top gun Ahmad Shah Masoud who was killed in Sep.9, 2001.
- Shura Council
- Taliban (Religious students), an Afghan fundamentalist force supported by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the US. (USA=planning agency; Saudi Arabia=funding agency; Pakistan=implementing agency).