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Jalal and Jalalabad

I was telling someone about what I got to know about Jalalabad. That Jalal was Changez Khan's son who was killed in Afghanistan.  Changez Khan was not interested in occupying Afghanistan, he learnt that his son had been killed there, he wanted to know exactly where he was buried, so that he could arrange a proper funeral for him. It took some doing after some battles, Changez Khan prevailed, the Afghans who surrendered told him about where Jalal was buried. After the funeral, Changez Khan left. The place then on became known as Jalalbad.The person whom I was telling this story,  reaction was this "Oh so Jalal's name was Jalal because he had converted to Islam" I had to explain to him that that was not the case. The Mongols accepted Islam much later.  There are semi-educated people mix up historical information with religious data. They cannot tell the difference. There was talk about how Arabs do not support Pakistan. I had my opinion let them go on with their dis...