Herati

"My sermons are mainly focused on peace, reconciliation, mutual respect and obeying the central government," said Abdul Rauf Nafi, the imam of the government-funded Herati mosque in Kabul.

Afghan imams wage political battle against U.S. Joshua Partlow 2011

On S.nday, U.S. Marines conducted a movement to push Taliban fighters from Herati.

Afghan Villagers Attack Taliban 2009

Sometimes she hears a woman's low-pitched humming of an old Herati song.

A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

There is a Herati rug on the floor, beaded cushions to sit on, and a framed photo of Mecca on the wall They sit by the open window, on either side of an oblong patch of sunlight - Laila hears women's voices whispering from another room.

A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

The already half-mutinous Herati regiments were, as was not unusual in those days, very much in arrears as regards their pay.

The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

It appears that in the ordinary course of the relief of various garrisons several of the Amir's Herati regiments were ordered from Herat to Kabul, and Kabul regiments took their place.

The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

These Herati regiments had seen nothing of the late war: they had never crossed swords with the British; and they were filled with the insensate pride and confidence in their own prowess which abysmal ignorance could alone account for.

The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

Herati troops that they were to receive their pay in full next morning,

The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

Amir's Herati regiments that would have sold the very teeth out of their mouths for turquoises.

Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) Mary [Contributor] Beaumont 1900

Between the lot of 'em they sent me, with forty men and twenty rifles, and sixty men carrying turquoises, into the Ghorband country to buy those hand-made Martini rifles, that come out of the Amir's workshops at Kabul, from one of the Amir's Herati regiments that would have sold the very teeth out of their mouths for turquoises.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900