Singesar
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Singesar, also spelt Sangesar and Sangsar (Persian/Pashto: سنگيسار), is a Pashtun village Template:Convert west of Kandahar, Afghanistan, in the Zheray district.
About
The village's name originates from the phrase sang-e-hisar, or stone fort, after an old fort in the area constructed by the British in the 19th century.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
It was the former home of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who lived there between the end of the anti-Soviet jihad in 1989 and the launch of the Taliban movement in 1994. He worked there as a preacher and religious instructor.[1][2]
Notable people
- Abdul Ali Deobandi, pro-Taliban cleric