Ghaznī is now a chief commercial and industrial centre of Afghanistan, dealing in livestock, furs, silk, and agricultural products. Pop. (2006 est.) 48,700; (2020 est.) 69,000. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Zeidan.

It was founded by Mahmud of Ghazni in 998-1030 CE. Sabuktigin lived as a mamluk, Turkic slave-soldier, [11] [c] [12] during his youth and later married the daughter of his master Alptigin, [13] who fled to Ghazna following a failed coup attempt, and conquered the city from the local Lawik rulers in 962. [14]