Istālif (Persian: استالف‎) is a village about 18 miles northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, situated at 34°50′25″N 69°06′00″E / 34.8403°N 69.1000°E / 34.8403; 69.1000 at 1693 m altitude. It is the center of Istalif District, Kabul Province, Afghanistan. The village was destroyed during the longlasting wars around Kabul. There are a few repaired or newly constructed buildings. The village needs a lot of work to be done to return its previous state. Istalif is famous for its handmade glazed potteries. Its name might derive from Greek staphile 'bunch of grapes' or Parachi estuf 'cow-parsnip'.

Sabine de Bethune (born 16 July 1958) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish.

The daughter of former Kortrijk mayor, Emmanuel de Bethune, Bethune holds a Master of Laws from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 1995. Sabine is also a member of the AWEPA Governing Council. She was vice-president of the Senate between 1999 and 2003, and became the 34th President of the Belgian Senate on 11 October 2011. She became an Officer in the Order of Leopold on 6 June 2010.

Gul Mohammad  pronunciation (help·info), sometimes referred to as Gul Mahomed, (15 October 1921, Lahore – 8 May 1992, Lahore) played Test cricket for India and Pakistan.

Gul Mohammad was a small man who stood only 5' 5, but a brilliant attacking left-handed batsman and fine fielder in the covers. He made his first class debut at the age of 17 and hit 95 in his first match in the Bombay Pentangular. In 1942/43, he scored 144 for Bijapur Famine XI against Bengal Cyclone XI and added 302 with Vijay Hazare. On a slow, flat wicket, the first innings of the two teams added up to 1376 runs.[2]

Gul Mohammad's most famous innings is the 319 that he scored for Baroda against Holkar in the final of the 1946/47 Ranji Trophy [3]. Gul joined Vijay Hazare with the score at 91 for 3 and when he was out 533 minutes later, they had added 577 runs, then a world record for any wicket in first class cricket. Hazare scored 288 in ten and a half hours. During the course of the innings, they bettered the Indian record of 410 between Lala Amarnath and Rusi Modi [4] and the world record of 574* by Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott. [5]