Kandahār

The Kandahār region is a sparsely populated part of southern Afghanistan. The Durrānī Pashtun, who have formed the traditional nucleus of Afghanistan’s social and political elite, live in the area around the city of Kandahār itself, which is located in a fertile oasis near the Arghandāb…

…a Shiʿi Muslim and return Kandahār, an important frontier town and commercial center, to Iran in the event of his successful acquisition of that fortress.