Shekh Ali District
| Shekh Ali شیخعلی | |
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| District | |
  Shekh Ali شیخعلی Location in Afghanistan | |
| Coordinates: 34°56′47″N 68°31′08″E / 34.9463°N 68.5188°ECoordinates: 34°56′47″N 68°31′08″E / 34.9463°N 68.5188°E | |
| Country |
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| Province | Parwan Province |
| Population | |
| • Ethnicities | Hazara people |
| • Religions | Islam |
| Time zone | + 4.30 |
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Sheikh Ali is a district in Parwan Province in Afghanistan which is inhabited with ethnic Hazaras. The Sheikh Ali Hazara tribe in Sheikh Ali district are: Daikalan, Naiman, Qarlugh, Karam Ali and Babur.
Sheikh Ali also has a small minority of Ismaili Hazara at the Bamiyan border of Shibar Pass.
The main villages of shekh ali are:[1]
- Jarf, Kajak, Jaukool, Bed: Daikakalan People - Jarf is the hometown of a well known disability rights advocate and anti-disarmament campaigner Firoz Alizada, who leads campaign branch of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in Geneva
- Nerkh Naiman people
- Nawi: the hometown of Sayed Hussein Anwari - the ex-minister of agriculture and ex-governor of Herat province. Nawi is the village Siad shii'it's.
- Qarlugh
- Karam Ali
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