Kandahar’s Pylochan

About the Book

The story of Pylochan, or the Barefooted, is that of a courageous people of Kandahar whose story has never been told before. They were given the name Pylochan by the Farsi-speaking people as they attacked the enemy camps during the night barefooted so as not to make a sound. These young warriors gave hope to the oppressed people of Kandahar by the Persian Empire of independence and victory. This book tells the story of some of the Pylochan that lived many years after the independence from Persian Empire.

About the Author

Mahmud Nazari (born in 1955, Kandahar, Afghanistan) is the author of more than fifty books in the Pashto and Dari language in horticulture, satire, short stories, novels, and research. He obtained his BS in 1980 from University of Kabul and MSc in 1989 from Agriculture Institute of Tajikistan in horticulture. After graduating, he worked as a lecturer in Nangarhar University of Afghanistan until 1992 and then went on to work with nongovernmental organizations to manage horticulture development projects in Afghanistan for several years and is currently living in United Kingdom.