Qargha (Dari: قرغه; Pashto: قرغې) is a town located to the west of Kabul, Afghanistan, where many people go for recreation and entertainment purposes.
[1] Located east of the town sits the former Camp Qargha of the larger National Military Academy of Afghanistan.
[3][4] On 27 August 1986, there were large explosions in an army ammunition depot in the town, with flames that rose more than 1,000 feet high.
On 22 June 2012, twenty people including security personnel were killed in the area during a terrorist attack.
[6] On 23 August 2014, a gang of criminals pretending to be police raped four women on the main Paghman-Qargha road.