Hanif named the restaurant "Ariana Halal Kitchen," for the 1,000-year-old state that makes up modern-day Afghanistan. "'Halal' means 'permissible' in Arabic," he said. He put his son Yasar Abid, 15, ...

‘Great Games’ was used to describe the fierce fight by rival powers for spheres of influence in the unforgiving swathes of South-Central Asia (modern day Afghanistan), at the crossroads of ...