Likes and dislikes of your land, walayat, sooba, area

[torkham]

My ancestors are from southern Afghanistan (zabul) though recently we have lived and joined family in north eastern part (Sarobi-Kabul and Gerdi-nangarhar near torkham)

Zabul has beautiful mountains, it is a high plateau, edging on southern hazarajat, the winters are bitter and snow white.
Parts of nangarhar has great views of the mighty spinghar. The oranges and melons are famous.
So I like the south, especially loya Kandahar, loya paktia.
Before didn't think much of north like baghlan or samangan. Thought it is flat, boring, a big river and then the other 'stans' begin over the border.
Nimruz- where is that, what's in Farah, etc.

Now having travelled, the north is appealing. I have so much love for samangan, ghor, balkh, bamiyan. The landscape is beautiful, the people so poor and austere yet proud. The air of baghlan so clean. Salang, Jabal siraj areas have rugged beauty but the debris of rocks and boulders littered spoil it for me.

Tell me what you see in your areas.

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

My ancestors are from southern Afghanistan (zabul) though recently we have lived and joined family in north eastern part (Sarobi-Kabul and Gerdi-nangarhar near torkham)

Zabul has beautiful mountains, it is a high plateau, edging on southern hazarajat, the winters are bitter and snow white.
Parts of nangarhar has great views of the mighty spinghar. The oranges and melons are famous.
So I like the south, especially loya Kandahar, loya paktia.
Before didn't think much of north like baghlan or samangan. Thought it is flat, boring, a big river and then the other 'stans' begin over the border.
Nimruz- where is that, what's in Farah, etc.

Now having travelled, the north is appealing. I have so much love for samangan, ghor, balkh, bamiyan. The landscape is beautiful, the people so poor and austere yet proud. The air of baghlan so clean. Salang, Jabal siraj areas have rugged beauty but the debris of rocks and boulders littered spoil it for me.

Tell me what you see in your areas.

Urgun district, Paktika province, Southestern Afghanistan.

Urgun is heavily forested as compared to neighboring places like Sarobi (Paktika, NOT Kabul). Urgun's forests are illegally cut down for timber.
Urgun is home to the Kharoti, Zadran and smaller tribes, plus Tajiks and Uzbeks. It was the capital of Paktika until the 80s, when Sharan was developed as a city, mainly due to the highway with Kabul and Kandahar.
We have a very old fort in Urgun which is octagonal in shape. Now it is a market though. We have solar power. Locals trust the military radio, Urgun ghazh over other stations, unfortunately.

I hate other spellings of Urgun like Orgon and Orgun. Urgon is correct.
Some call it Rogun, I calll it Ruhgun. Our Wazir and Bannuchi neighbors say Wargin.


Here are some videos:

chanakhwa orgun paktika afganistan - YouTube


chanakhwa orgun paktika 3 - YouTube


chanakhwa orgun paktika 4 - YouTube


Srike in Orgun against the Governor of Paktika, Muibullah Samim - YouTube


Orgun Paktika - YouTube


Urgun or Orgun is also a Turkish name, from what I can gather.

I also love Khost province and Paktia, but less than I love Paktika.
In the whole world, I only care for Loya Paktia and surrounding provinces.
I like Quetta and neighboring regions, Waziristan, Lakki Marwat, Kurram.
I like regions that speak Pashto more than Pakhto, except Kandahar city itself, because I hate those Kandaharis that think they are superior. I like Zabul and Helmand, Rozgan.

I like Kunduz and Baghlan. I like all the Turkistan regions of Afghanistan. I like Daykundi and Hazara regions like Bamyan.

I hate Farah and Herat, along with the whole of that region except Nimruz.
I am not a big fan of Kandahar itself and I hate Nangarhar as a province. It is too big andf too important for me to like it. I dislike Bajaur and Mardan/Mansehra in KPK. I also don't like a few other places.

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

http://www.altaiconsulting.com/docs/...0-%20Urgun.pdf

This is old, but it will provide you with rare info that is otherwise only known to insiders.

[Tor Gul]

what i like about america, americans
what i dislike about america, AMERICANS



seriously
what I like about the USA, it has almost every kind of environment deserts, rainforests, mountains, plains, huge lakes, mighty rivers, giant swamps, enormous marshes, tundra, & frozen arctic ice
what i don't like is all the environmental damage, covering prime farmlands with houses & shopping centers while existing neighborhoods decay like corpses, coruption of the political system that essentially negates the power of the people to choose their leaders, widespread irreligion/antireligion nonsense, petty selfishness of most people