Sentence examples for afghani from inspiring English sources

No wonder the money-changers in the bazaar reported a mini-run on the local currency, the afghani, after its value had soared in the wake of the liberation.Influential friends are urging Mr Khan to share power, not something he cared to do during his first stint as Herat's overlord.

An ill-timed suggestion by an IMF official visiting Kabul at the end of January that the country could do worse than to adopt the dollar temporarily as its official currency severely weakened the afghani.

The printing of new afghani banknotes has been stopped, at least for the present.The heroes of the currency whirlwind are the traders, calmly sipping sweet green tea as they manage the afghani's dizzying fluctuations.

When the Taliban abandoned the capital in November, the afghani strengthened to 23,000 to the dollar.

Qal-e-Naw is one of 47 centres where Afghani notes have been arriving from remote villages, sometimes travelling through snowy mountains for several days.

The afghani is traded not just in Kabul but also over the Pakistani border in the Chowk Yadgar district of Peshawar.

Despite his name, and despite a tomb in Kabul restored at America's expense, al-Afghani was born in Persia in 1838.

—Kipling, "The Dawn Wind: the Fifteenth Century"AS IT happens, a Muslim called Jamal al-Din al-Afghani said more than a century ago that Islam needed its own Martin Luther, in order to break free from the dead hand of the scholars.

One, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, was like most of them "neither an unthinking Westerniser, nor a devout traditionalist".

Take away the context of the cinema and it would be quite easy to believe the film's conceit that the tapes were found by Northern Alliance troops somewhere near the Afghani-Pakistani border.

Back in 1896, the Persian radical Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani wrote: "The Islamic states today are pillaged and their property stolen.