...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men.
province, leaving at least two hard boyz dead.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the Talibs launched an attack on an army outpost in Kashmand Village in Qarghayi district late on Monday night.
The statement further added that the armed forces effectively responded to the attack leaving two hard boyz dead.
The dead bodies of the two hard boyz were left the area along with an Ak-47 assault rifle, the 201st Silab Corps said, adding that the security forces have not suffer any casualty in the attack.
Laghman is among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but the anti-government armed elements including Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
are active in some of its remote districts and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.