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    Kāfiristān, or Kāfirstān (Pashto: کاپیرستان; Persian: کافرستان; lit. 'Land of Infidels'), is a historical region that covered present-day Nuristan Province...
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    Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was first published in The Phantom...
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    period of time, Emir Abdur Rahman Khan conducted a military campaign in Kafiristan and followed up his conquest with forced conversion of the Kafirs to Islam;...
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  • The Journey to Kafiristan (German: Die Reise nach Kafiristan) is a 2001 drama film written and directed by Donatello and Fosco Dubini. The film follows...
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  • 19th century British India in search of adventure and end up in faraway Kafiristan, where one is taken for a god and made their king. In 1885 in India, while...
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  • The Prefecture Apostolic of Kafiristan and Kashmir (Latin: Praefectura Apostolica de Kafiristania et Caspira) was a Roman Catholic missionary division...
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    centuries. Before their conversion, the Nuristanis or Kafir people of Kafiristan practiced a form of ancient Hinduism infused with locally developed accretions...
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    Christianity is the third largest religion in Pakistan, making up about 1.27% of the population according to the 2017 Census. Of these, approximately half...
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    best known for his arduous journey to the remote and rugged region of Kafiristan in what is now northeastern Afghanistan and for his overall command of...
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    13 August 1889) was a British surveyor, the first British explorer of Kafiristan (now Nuristan). Details of McNair's life up to the time of his 1883 journey...
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