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	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		- Hakim Taniwal, Afghan minister of labor and social affairs with additional portfolio for mineral and mining industries, said today in Ashgabat that he sees bright chances for Trans-Afghan Pipeline project, a proposed pipe connection that would pump Turkmen natural gas to Pakistan and possibly India through Afghanistan.
		Speaking of the audit report of Daulatabat gas field, Taniwal said, "I know from them [Turkmen authorities] it will be ready for the January meeting [of the steering committee]," he told.
		Taniwal said that Turkmen arrangements for supply of gas to Gazprom should not affect the TAP project.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allPrintDocs/F9DB7033E1FCB4D587256F4F0048DC64?OpenDocument (240 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Two killed as Afghan warlord ambushes officials
		Hakim Taniwal, governor of Khost province, told Reuters the soldiers were killed when they tried to return small-arms fire on the convoy from fighters loyal to his rival, Padshah Khan Zadran, in the Nadir Shah Kot area, 15 km (10 miles) west of Khost city on Monday afternoon.
		Taniwal said his forces had captured eleven of Zadran's fighters during Monday's clash, including one Pakistani military officer from northwestern Pakistan.
		Taniwal said top officials of Khost had been told to avoid travelling by road to Paktia or Kabul after the attack.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/738d3be7e7fd0517c1256c4c00399f1c (469 words)

	Why War? Afghan Warlord Muddles Interim Government's Plans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hakim Taniwal, the soft-spoken sociology professor sent to unseat him, remains in the governor's official guest house a mile away.
		Taniwal, an Afghan exile who left his wife and children and a comfortable teaching position in Melbourne, Australia, to take on Mr.
		Taniwal is mounting a two-pronged effort to show local residents and local gunmen that he has the funds from international donors to pay salaries.
	www.why-war.com /news/read.php?id=1627&printme (819 words)

	ab_socialprob_sprsite_1\|Problem Area: General Sociology, Applied\|Copy of eThemes\|Threats and Responses: The Warlords
		KHOST, Afghanistan -- This spring, Hakim Taniwal, a former sociology professor, returned to this lawless corner of southeast Afghanistan vowing to use persuasion to oust a bandoleer-wearing warlord with a habit of lobbing rockets into cities.
		Taniwal borrowed about $125,000 from local businessmen tired of turmoil and did what warlords do: he raised an army.
		Taniwal said, "I am a teacher, not a commander," and vowed to use consensus to rid Afghanistan of the "Kalashnikov culture," the rule by gun.
	wps.ablongman.com /ab_socialprob_sprsite_1/0,7829,773944-,00.html (885 words)

	TechnoChitlins: From Afghanistan
		Sometime back he met a Hakim Taniwal, an Afghan who had formerly been a sociology professor in Australia, seemingly bent on a suicide mission.
		Taniwal had a commission in his pocket from President Karzai appointing him governor of a province.
		Taniwal was nevertheless determined to take possession and Baker never expected to see him alive again.
	www.technochitlins.com /archives/2005/10/from_afghanista.html (325 words)

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		The last time I saw Hakim Taniwal, I thought he was a dead man walking.
		A slight, aging sociology professor with gentle manners, Taniwal returned to his homeland from exile in Australia after the fall of the Taliban to help build a new Afghanistan.
		I reminded Taniwal of our first meeting, when he could not even get into the governor's house because it was occupied by the warlord's family and dozens of his thuggish guerrillas, bristling with Kalashnikovs and grenade launchers.
	iranandworld.com /showarticle.asp?id=1591 (1807 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		But provincial Gov. Hakim Taniwal said the attack had been repulsed and calm had returned to the volatile town, which lies 120 miles southeast of Kabul near the border with Pakistan.
		The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press said Monday Taniwal's people were in control and were urging people to reopen their businesses and remain calm.
		Taniwal's forces had said they took control of key government buildings, including the governor's office, which Zadran had been occupying illegally for months.
	uttm.com /stories/2002/09/11/attack/printable521525.shtml (864 words)

	Pajhwok Afghan News
		Paktia Governor Hakim Taniwal, addressing a gathering arranged by the newly formed traders' union, said the government was in contact with Afghan companies, donor countries and non-governmental organisations for setting up the industrial estate.
		Taniwal cited the absence of electricity as a big hurdle to industrialisation in the province, saying he had urged President Hamid Karzai to negotiate a power purchase agreement with the Pakistani leadership.
		After his address to the gathering, Governor Hakim Taniwal told this scribe the Karzai government wanted to encourage private sector's involvement in the industrialisation campaign.
	www.pajhwak.com /viewstory.asp?lng=eng&id=13505 (296 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Paktia governor, Hakim Taniwal, said military and civilian flights from the airport will ease the lives of residents of Paktia and its two neighboring provinces - Khost and Paktika.
		An airport terminal will be constructed and the road leading upto it will be widened from the current five meters to 10 metres to make space for the additional traffic.
		It is estimated that 100,000 residents of these provinces live in Gulf countries and send back money to their families in these provinces.
	www.sabawoon.com /news/miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=22171 (261 words)

	Taliban Regrouping In Afghanistan
		(IRIN-AFP) -- Hakim Taniwal, the governor of Afghanistan's volatile eastern province of Khowst, told IRIN on Friday that the country's former hard line Islamist Taliban rulers were regrouping in an effort to step up anti-government militancy.
		There are fears that this could further harm security in the region and impact on aid work and reconstruction.
		He went on to say that most of the projects the government was undertaking were quick impact, only addressing humanitarian relief and recovery, but not tackling reconstruction.
	www.rense.com /general37/tali.htm (524 words)

	Interview with the governor of Khowst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		ISLAMABAD, 2 Sep 2002 (IRIN) - Fifty-six-year-old Hakim Taniwal, the governor of the southeastern Afghan province of Khowst is an unusual administrator in today’s Afghanistan.
		With most provinces controlled by warlords, regional strongmen and militia commanders, Taniwal lacks any such credentials because he was an anthropology professor at Kabul University before going into exile two decades ago.
		In an exclusive interview with IRIN, Taniwal warned that Al-Qaeda and Taliban continued to be a threat to security in southeastern Afghanistan.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=29647 (967 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- Taking it in stride: U.S. troops patrol on the ...
		Zadran and Gov. Hakim Taniwal, both of whose forces have been helping U.S. troops in the hunt for militants, have been feuding for months for domination of the area, and heavy violence has broken out since Sunday.
		Up to 50 people have reportedly been killed and wounded in three days of fighting, though Gorbuz put the casualty toll lower, saying at least five people were killed and 15 injured.
		Taniwal is the governor appointed by Afghanistan's pro-U.S. president, Hamid Karzai.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20020911-0546-sept11-bagram.html (807 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Two Afghan government soldiers were killed in the southeast of the country when a convoy carrying provincial officials was ambushed by the forces of a renegade warlord.
		Hakim Taniwal, governor of Khost province, told Reuters the soldiers were killed when they returned small-arms fire on the convoy from fighters loyal to his rival, Padshah Khan Zadran, in the Nadir Shah Kot area, 15 km (10 miles) west of Khost city on Monday afternoon.
		The attack on the convoy came weeks after Taniwal's forces drove Zadran's out of Khost.
	www.rantburg.com /poparticle.php?ID=7267&D=2002-10-09&HC=1 (323 words)

	Governor claims foiling attack: Evacuate Khost, warlord tells residents -DAWN - International; September 10, 2002
		But provincial Governor Hakim Taniwal said the attack had been repulsed and calm had returned to the town, which lies 220kms southeast of Kabul, near the border with Pakistan.
		On Monday the AIP said Taniwal’s soldiers were in control and were urging people to reopen their businesses and remain calm.
		The fighting began when Taniwal’s forces attacked Zadran’s positions on Sunday after state-run local radio mistakenly reported that the burly, moustachioed Zadran had been arrested by US troops.
	www.dawn.com /2002/09/10/int2.htm (618 words)

	AM - Warlords retain foothold in Afghanistan
		But they are not where they should be, in the Governor's residence in Khost, but instead at a guest house where the Governor has been forced to live.
		Governor Hakim Taniwal is a long way from the leafy streets of Dandenong, Melbourne, where he has spent the last five years.
		HAKIM TANIWAL: Because we were patient enough not to do it with bloodshed.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s662820.htm (404 words)

	Afghan-Attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the ambush late Friday, rebels fired rockets at the convoy near Lalmi, about five kilometres from Khost, said Hayatullah Taniwal, spokesman for Khost Gov. Hakim Taniwal.
		In the exchange, an Afghan soldier was killed and an American soldier wounded, Taniwal said.
		He didn't know the condition of the American soldier and there was no immediate comment from the U.S. military's Afghan headquarters in Bagram, north of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
	www.cp.org /premium/ONLINE/member/elxn_en/030510/p051001A.html (252 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		The area is one of several flashpoints where local armed factions are vying for power in outlying areas of Afghanistan and is also one of the most active fronts in the U.S.-led war against al Qaeda and the Taliban.
		He said Zadran's gunmen continued to man checkpoints along the roads, extorting money from travelers, and were coming and going in the town of Khost, the area's capital, which Gorbuz claimed otherwise was under Gov. Taniwal's control.
		Reached by The AP late Sunday, a defiant Zadran said of Karzai, "If he wants to attack, I'm ready to defend." The warlord continued to assert his "right" to be regional leader of not only Paktia and Khost, but also the province of Paktika to the southwest.
	uttm.com /stories/2002/07/23/terror/printable515941.shtml (662 words)

	Pajhwok Afghan News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In this connection, an emergency meeting was held here with provincial Governor Hakim Taniwal in the chair.
		However, the returnees refused to move to schools till assurances by the government of provision of plots.
		When contacted by Pajhwok Afghan News, Paktia Governor Hakim Taniwal said government and representatives of the returnees agreed to shift them to houses of their relatives or schools.
	www.pajhwok.com /viewstory.asp?lng=eng&id=11268 (248 words)

	outlookindia.com
		Gov. Hakim Taniwal's car, one of six vehicles in a convoy travelling to Kabul, was not hit in Monday's attack in Dowmanda district, 20 kilometres west of Khost, said Taniwal's spokesman, Mohammad Khan Gorbuz.
		Last month, Zadran's bases in Khost were overrun by fighters loyal to Taniwal in several days of fighting.
		Khost province, which borders Pakistan, is one of the key fronts in the war against terrorism, and US forces have been working with both sides in the hunt for al-Qaida and Taliban holdouts.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=89476 (220 words)

	Reconstructed Gardez Airport inaugurated
		The reconstructed airport was inaugurated after a ceremony attended by Afghanistan’s Public Works Minister Suhrab Ali Safari, Transport and Aviation Minister Enayatullah Qasemi, Paktia Governor Hakim Taniwal and tribal elders.
		The two-kilometre runway, with a width of 23 meters, a small terminal and water and power systems of the airport have also been improved.
		However, Governor Taniwal pointed out the runway - not properly asphalted - was vulnerable to damage in the chilly winter.
	www.kashar.net /complete.asp?id=2675 (291 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The report of the arrest sparked off clashes in Khost between supporters of Khan and forces loyal to Khost governor Mohammad Hakim Taniwal, AIP said.
		Taniwal's spokesman Mohammad Khan Gurbuz, quoted by AIP, said heavy weapons were being used during the fighting.
		The agency said forces loyal to the governor had seized about half of the municipal corporation building although Khan's supporters were resisting in some parts of the premises.
	www.islamonline.net /english/news/2002-09/08/article05.shtml (921 words)

	i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - 18 Former Rebel Commanders Sign Afghanistan Loyalty Pledges
		After meeting with Taniwal and coalition representatives from the Gardez provincial reconstruction team, they had the program explained to them by Afghan government representatives and then all 18 signed statements pledging loyalty to the elected government.
		Part of that loyalty statement included an agreement not to possess heavy weapons or take up arms against the Afghan government or coalition forces.
		After getting photographed and filling out personal information forms for their new reconciliation identification cards, the former rebel commanders were greeted and physically embraced by Taniwal to welcome them back into Afghan society.
	i-newswire.com /pr34748.html (513 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / U.S. presses on rebuilding Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bearded American soldiers in civilian clothes moved in and out of the heavily guarded base in dust-caked Humvees and pickup trucks, betraying how the war continues.
		At the ceremony, Khost Gov. Hakim Taniwal pleaded for international aid groups and the United Nations to return to his province.
		But officials acknowledge that aid workers spooked by the deadly shootings of mine clearers and well-diggers still don't believe the border areas are safe.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/03/25/us_presses_on_rebuilding_afghanistan (694 words)

	A show of force in Afghanistan \| csmonitor.com
		Taniwal, a former Kabul University lecturer in sociology and anthropology, was heralded by the chants of schoolboys and the embraces of tribal elders as a man who could bring peace and security to one of the most troubled corners of Afghanistan.
		The two men – almost the same age – knew each other from the time when all Afghans were united against a common enemy, the Soviets; their fathers were friends too.
		Taniwal's Tanis tribe, also a part of the broader Pashtun ethnic group, is much smaller than the Zadrans.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0503/p06s01-wosc.html (1291 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| US begins new Afghan operation
		His rival, the governor of Khost, Hakim Taniwal, says that is nonsense and that his forces are still in complete control of the city and that the situation is now calm.
		The bloody feud for control of the city of Khost has been going on for months, ever since Padshah Khan was evicted by governor by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and replaced with Hakim Taniwal.
		To make matters even more complicated, Khost is one of the main forward bases for US troops searching for al-Qaeda fighters, and both Padshah Khan and the new governor have at one time or another been allies in the US operations.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/south_asia/2249268.stm (306 words)

	Article
		Zadran forces shoot it out with Taniwal's men...
		Fighting erupted Wednesday in the troubled eastern province of Khost when militiamen backing renegade warlord Bacha Khan Zadran attacked several checkpoints manned by men loyal to Gov. Hakim Taniwal, according to Taniwal's spokesman, Mohammad Khan Gorbuz.
		Taniwal's forces, numbering 800, had surrounded Zadran's positions in Nadir Shahkot.
	www.rantburg.com /poparticle.php?D=2002-10-17&ID=7366&HC=1 (134 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		A child, a woman and an elderly man froze to death in a camp in the southeastern Paktia province last week, said refugee representative, Murad Khan.
		Also, last week, 500 families living in tents in the 203 Military Corps, area, south of the city, were moved into school buildings in Logar and Gardez after the governor, Hakim Taniwal, assured them that they would be allotted plots in the spring.
		Paktia governor Taniwal expects that many more will come back in the next few years.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=31748 (882 words)

	APAN \| Terrorism \| Press Summaries and Special Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At least three people were reportedly killed when clashes broke out between rival factions in eastern Afghanistan.
		According to local Afghan officials, fighting erupted on Wednesday (October 16) at Nadir Shahkot district (some 10 miles west of Khost town) in the eastern province of Khost when fighters loyal to renegade warlord Bacha Khan (also spelled Padsha Khan) Zadran attacked several checkpoints manned by troops loyal to provincial governor Hakim Taniwal.
		A spokesman for Taniwal told the Associated Press that some 800 of their troops had surrounded Zadran's positions in Nadir Shahkot and the fighting was continuing.
	www.apan-info.net /terrorism/terrorism_press_summary_detail.asp?id=121 (770 words)

	Former Afghan commanders lay weapons down, head home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Upon meeting with Governor Abdel Hakim Taniwal, Provincial Reconstruction Team or PRT Soldiers, and government representatives, who explained the provisions of the program to them, the commanders pledged their loyalty to the Karzai government by signing statements.
		Talking through an interpreter, Taniwal said today is another important step toward bringing complete peace to the province.
		Stephen Tableman, commander of the Gardez PRT in Paktia, said this province demonstrates how a community comes together to restore its government and quality of life by overcoming the memories of war and conflict.
	www.armedforces.net /Detailed/22107.html (466 words)

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