Jaghatu District, Maidan Wardak

Jaghatu is a district in Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan, 20 km northwest of Ghazni.

Demographics

According to 2019 data, the population is 50,792. The district is mostly populated by the Wardak tribe of Pashtuns.

Notable people

• Mohammad Jan Khan (1835–1880), Afghan military commander
• Abdul Hamid Bahij (born 1979), medical doctor, writer, translator and dictionary writer
• Rahmatullah Nabil (born 1968), politician

See also

• Jalrez District

Notes