[1] The landscape varies in different parts of the district - deserts in the southwest, plains in the southeast and mountains in the north.

In July 2007, the Taliban carried out the kidnapping of 23 Korean aid workers as their bus was hijacked passing through the district on the road between Kabul and Kandahar.

The district chief was replaced in 2006 by Zabit Salih Gul after his predecessor quit due to frequent threats by the Taliban.

[2] On 22 November 2009 one militant was shot dead in Ali Naizi village in Qarabagh district after an operation by ISAF forces.

[4] The area is poor and traditionally one of out-migration to Kabul, Ghazni, Lashkar Gah, and Quetta, as well as to other countries.