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	PPF - Media Files Details
		Opening of a single-room press club was a good beginning for journalistic activities in Landi Kotal and assured the local newsmen of all his efforts for the establishment of the promised press club in Landi Kotal.
		He urged the tribal journalists to depict true picture of events in the region which was in the focus of the world media due to the ongoing army operation against suspect terrorists and their supporters in the tribal belt.
		He said this opening of a single-room press club was a good beginning for journalistic activities in Landi Kotal and assured the local newsmen of all his efforts for the establishment of the promised press club in Landi Kotal.
	www.pakistanpressfoundation.org /userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=4690 (257 words)

	Khyber Pass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The summit is at Landi Kotal, followed by a steep decline to Michni Kandao, Landi Khana and Torkham.
		Jamrud is at an elevation of 491 m (1610 feet), while the summit at Landi Kotal is 1070 m (3509 feet).
		A road was built by the British through the Pass in 1879 and a railroad in the 1920s (the previous railhead was at Jamrud).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khyber_Pass (525 words)

	KHYBER PASS - LoveToKnow Article on KHYBER PASS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Kabul River breaks through this northern spur, of the Safed Koh; and in breaking through it is forced to the northward in a curved channel or trough, deeply sunk in the mountains between terrific cliffs and precipices, where its narrow waterway affords no foothold to man or beast for many miles.
		Then comes the Loargi Shinwari plateau, some seven miles in length and three in its widest part, ending at Landi Kotal, where is another British fort, which closes this end of the Khyber and overlooks the plains of Afghanistan.
		After leaving Landi Kotal the great Kabul highway passes between low hills, until it debouches on the Kabul River and leads to Dakka.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KH/KHYBER_PASS.htm (1047 words)

	KHYBER PASS - Online Information article about KHYBER PASS
		The Kabul River breaks through this northern spur of the Safed Koh; and in breaking through it is forced to the northward in a curved channel or trough, deeply sunk in the mountains between terrific cliffs and precipices, where its narrow waterway affords no foothold to man or beast for,many miles.
		To reach the Kabul River within Afghan territory it is necessary to pass over this water-divide; and the Khyber stream, flowing down from the pass at Landi Kotal to a point in the plains opposite Jamrud, 9 M. of Peshawar, affords the opportunity.
		From Shadi Bagiar on the east to Landi Kotal on the west is about 20 M. in a straight line.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /KHA_KRI/KHYBER_PASS.html (1171 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		About 10 miles west of Ali Masjid lies Landi Kotal fort and cantonment (3,518 feet); this is the highest point in the pass and is also an important market centre with an alternate route back to Peshawar.
		The main pass, however, descends from Landi Kotal through Shinwari territory to Landi Khana, where it runs through another gorge and enters Afghanistan territory at Towr Kham (Torkham; 2,300 feet), winding another 10 miles down the valley to Lowyah Dakkah.
		The railway (opened 1925) through the pass connects Jamrud with Landi Khana, near the Afghan frontier; the line, with its 34 tunnels and 94 bridges and culverts, revolutionized transportation in the area.
	www.sabawoon.com /afghanpedia/KhyberPass.shtm (669 words)

	Pakistan Railway
		Before the stoppage of train operation early in eighties, 131 Up from Peshawar to Landi Kotal and 132 Down, which is the same P.R. train in the reverse direction runs on Sundays only and it carries second-inter-third-class passengers only.
		Light years later, another survey, this time in the Khyber Pass itself, was made for a railway either metre gauge or narrow as far as Landi Kotal, the summit of the Pass.
		Landi Kotal was opened on 3 November 1925, and on down to Landi Khana, just two miles short of the actual frontier post, on 3 April 1926.
	www.pakrail.com /khybers1002.htm (996 words)

	LANDI KOTAL: Season's first snowfall in Landi Kotal -DAWN - Local; 10 February, 2004
		LANDI KOTAL, Feb 9: Landi Kotal and its adjoining areas received on Monday first snowfall of the winter season, while other parts of the Khyber Agency received widespread rains.
		The last time Landi Kotal received snowfall was on Feb 7, 2002.
		Heavy rains, however, affected the holding of free medical camps in the Bazaar, Brag and Karamna areas of Landi Kotal.
	www.dawn.com /2004/02/10/local24.htm (255 words)

	Pakissan.com; Shalman water supply scheme to cost Rs 350 million
		Talking to a tribal jirga comprising elders of Zakha Khel tribe of Tehsil Landi Kotal, Khyber Agency here on Tuesday at the Governor House, he further assured the jirga that whatever resources required would be made available to complete the project, saying the completion of the project would solve the problem once for all.
		Appreciating the resolve of the tribesmen of Landi Kotal regarding completely avoiding poppy cultivation in their respective areas, he said, "it is a big decision for which they are praise worthy." "Narcotic is a curse," he said, adding, "the sooner we get rid of it the better it would be for us individually and collectively."
		While welcoming the written agreement on the matter between the tribal elders and the political administration, he said, "it is quite appreciable" and hoped the tribesmen of other areas would also follow the same line to curb the menace of poppy cultivation.
	www.pakissan.com /english/news/2003/sep/shalman.water.shtml (589 words)

	A unique train ride through the legendary Khyber Pass
		April 1926 the line was finally opened as far as Landi Kotal just 2 miles short of the Durand Line.
		The track then drops 872 feet in four and a half miles to Landi Khana, the route steeping to a gradient of 1 in 25.
		The line between Landi Kotal and Landi Khana has been closed since 1932 on the insistence of the Afghan Government.
	www.gerrystravel.com /gtours/kpasssteam.html (466 words)

	KHYBER PASS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Beyond Landi Kotal the road falls rapidly in a zigzag path to Landi Khana, whence following the course of a nullah, it reaches Torkham, and continuing further it emerges on the plain on the right bank of the Kabul river, where Dhakka, and afghan art, is situated.
		Down in the valley there is a modern mosque and in the narrow gorge there is an upright standing stone with the impression of the palm.
		Just before Landi Kotal we see from a distance the Sphola Stupa standing on the top of a hillock opposite the modern village of Zarai.
	imran.yusafzai.tripod.com /pesh/khyber_pass.html (1626 words)

	LANDI KOTAL: Press club opens in Landi Kotal -DAWN - Local; 04 October, 2004
		LANDI KOTAL: Press club opens in Landi Kotal -DAWN - Local; 04 October, 2004
		LANDI KOTAL: Press club opens in Landi Kotal
		LANDI KOTAL, Oct 3: Khyber Agency MNA Allama Noorul Haq Qadri inaugurated the press club here on Sunday.
	www.dawn.com /2004/10/04/local22.htm (267 words)

	AFGHANISTAN - LoveToKnow Article on AFGHANISTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thus a small and highly elevated portion of the state extends eastwards from its extreme north-eastern corner, and is attached to the great Afghan quadrilateral by the thin link of the Panja valley.
		From the abutment of the Hindu Kush on the Sarikol in the Pamir regions to Landi Kotal, and throughout its eastern and southern limits, the boundary of Afghanistan touches districts which were brought under British political control with the formation of the North-West Frontier Provinces of India in IQOI.
		From the neighborhood of Landi Kotal the boundary is carried to the Safed Koh overlooking the Afridi Tirah, and then, rounding off the cultivated portions of the Kurram valley below the Peiwar, it crosses the Kaitu and passes to the upper reaches of the Tochi.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AF/AFGHANISTAN.htm (16152 words)

	Afgha.com - 150 refugee families to return home
		LANDI KOTAL, June 16: At least 150 Afghan refugees' families would be repatriated to their homeland from the Shalman refugee camp in the Khyber Agency.
		Agency administrator for Afghan refugees Humayun Kukikhel told Dawn on Monday that the voluntary repatriation would start on June 17 and hoped that another hundred or so families would be repatriated in near future.
		The returning families, after going through scrutiny procedure, would be shifted to Landi Kotal for their onward journey to Afghanistan via the Torkham border.
	www.afgha.com /?af=article&sid=34283 (219 words)

	Pakistan Water Gateway - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PESHAWAR, Oct 27: The Shalman water supply scheme, being launched to meet the requirement of the people of Landi Kotal from river Kabul, would cost Rs318 million in three phases, NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah was told during a presentation on Monday.
		According to the proposal, water will be lifted from the river at Shalman in the Khyber Agency and pumped to Inzari top, where big reservoirs will be constructed for supply to Landi Kotal and its surrounding areas.
		The governor was told during another briefing that Rs268.79 million had been earmarked for the development of the irrigation sector in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and construction of 12 small dams would be started next month.
	www.waterinfo.net.pk /a_Detail.cfm?ID=2129 (147 words)

	BBC News \| ENGLAND \| Campaigners call for reporter's release
		Amardeep Bassey, 29, from Wolverhampton, is being held in Landi Kotal prison near Peshawar in north-western Pakistan.
		On Wednesday, a journalist who visited Mr Bassey said that he was being held in a lock-up with 56 other temporary prisoners at an army base in Landi Kotal.
		The journalist said that Mr Bassey had received food and fresh clothes from the friends and family of two guides he was travelling with at the time of his arrest.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/england/1990841.stm (358 words)

	HRCP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Landi Kotal, December 21: Patients faced a lot of hardship at the agency headquarters hospital in Landi Kotal as doctors, medical staff and paramedics association of Khyber Agency went on strike on December 21 to protest against prolonged power breakdowns in the hospital.
		Sibbi, November 28: Nine children aged between one and seven have died in Landi Khosa, Bolan, of a mysterious skin disease.
		A local doctor told journalists on Sunday that white pimples emerge on the skin in the initial stage of the disease, which later flen and develop into wounds.
	www.hrcp-web.org /News_archive_list.cfm?CurrentPage=3 (2293 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Today Qazi, or judge, as he's known across the country is heading to Landi Kotal, a town near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
		Today there are neither barricades nor armed police, and the convoy zig-zags up into the mountains watched by crowds of local tribesmen.
		Landi Kotal's rutted streets are jammed with vehicles and pedestrians thronging toward the meeting ground.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/99/0129/nat10.html (745 words)

	BRITISH SINLGE MEDALS - AFGHANISTAN
		Royal Artillery (mountain artillery) which was part of relief force sent from Landi Kotal to join a column for the relief of a unit trapped near the village of Kam Dakka.
		The unit in Kam Dakka was a detachment of the Mhairwarra Battalion under the command of Captain O’Moore Creagh.
		Foot and two mountain guns (under Major Dyce’s command) were ordered to move to Kam Dakka from Landi Kotal on a cross country route and were thus still a few hours away when Strong’s force arrived on the scene.
	www.historikorders.com /afghanistan.htm (1862 words)

	Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A group of 87 Pakistani prisoners who were released from Kabul prison arrived at Landi Kota, Khyber Agency through Torkham gate on 26 November.
		Upon their arrival, authorities took them in custody and shifted them to a lock-up in Landi Kotal.
		On 16 November, the Afghan government freed 15 prisoners; they are being held in Landi Kotal.
	www.smc.org.ph /amnews/amn021130/middleeast/afghanistan021130.htm (261 words)

	BBC News \| ENGLAND \| Diplomatic visit for accused reporter
		The 29-year-old, from Wolverhampton, is being held in Landi Kotal prison near Peshawar after he was arrested for failing to have an exit visa.
		Friends and colleagues of Mr Bassey are hopeful the visit could lead to a breakthrough in the journalist's quest to be released.
		His employers at the Sunday Mercury said Mr Bassey had been moved from the military jail in Landi Kotal where he had been in a lock-up with 55 other inmates since his arrest.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/england/1996601.stm (433 words)

	Pakissan.com; Shelman water supply scheme to complete in three years
		PESHAWAR (October 28 2003): The gigantic Shelman water Supply Scheme is being launched to meet the potable water requirement of the people of Landi Kotal from River Kabal.
		The consultant firm presented two different options for materialisation of the project out of which the first one was approved and the governor give go ahead signal to the concerned authorities.
		According to the proposal the water will be lifted from Shelman point of river Kabal in Khyber Agency and pumped to Inzari Top where big reservoirs would be constructed for onward supply to Landi Kotal and its surrounding areas.
	www.pakissan.com /english/news/2003/oct/shelman.water.supply.shtml (272 words)

	Afgha.com - 67 Afghan families seek to return home
		LANDI KOTAL, March 8: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has started assisting around 67 Afghan families residing at the Shalman refugee camp in their return to Afghanistan and relocating other families to the Kotkai refugee camp in Bajaur Agency.
		The return of 67 families, comprising over 400 individuals, who made a request in this regard on Sunday, was being taken place under the UNHCR voluntary repatriation programme.
		According to a UNHCR press release, 47 per cent out of 10,347 refugees of Shalman camp, situated about 25km north of Landi Kotal, wanted to return to their homeland.
	www.afgha.com /?af=article&sid=41801 (406 words)

	Our correspondent visited Amardeep Bassey in prison - Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of the journalist ...
		After spending only a few hours in Peshawar, Amardeep Bassey and his two guides were again transferred to the Landi Kotal prison on 16 May. Police in Peshawar said that they did not have enough investigators to interrogate the journalist and his two Pakistani guides.
		A Landi Kotal police official told RSF that the three prisoners would be again transferred to Peshawar as soon as the investigators were available.
		The Sunday Mercury reporter confirmed that he was in good health, but had undergone extensive questioning and was being harassed by the security services, who suspect him of spying for India.
	www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=2195 (848 words)

	[Cyberclub] Historic Khyber Steam Safari resumes service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first special train left the Peshawar Cantt station for its onward journey to Landi Kotal, Khyber Agency, on Monday morning, with a BBC TV crew, officials of the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation and representatives of various tourism and heritage organizations on board.
		After arriving at Landi Kotal at noon, the guests of the Sarhad Tourism Corporation were taken to the Michni Post near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border where they witnessed a splendid view of Afghanistan.
		They were given a briefing by a protocol officer, who gave an overview of the pass and explained its historical importance.
	lists.isb.sdnpk.org /pipermail/cyberclub/2003-May/003145.html (289 words)

	Karachi News
		LANDI KOTAL: 18 held for firing on army camp
		LANDI KOTAL, Feb 29: The political authorities have arrested 18 people, including Afghans, on charges of firing on the army camp here, sources said on Sunday.
		The assistant political agent and political tehsildar of Landi Kotal were also not available to clarify the situation.
	www.karachipage.com /news/Mar_04/030104.html (4207 words)

	Afghanistan - Drugs
		His massive house in Landi Kotal is famous for its opulence.
		I was offered a job as one of his gunmen, but figured that 2000 Pakistani rupees a month (about $65) and a new Kalashnikov were not an upward career move.
		Ayub has about 100 gunmen and was forced to move to Jalalabad from Landi Kotal after the U.S. pressured Pakistan to "clean up the drug trade."
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/afghanis/dthing1.htm (506 words)

	Guardian \| British journalist faces further questioning in Pakistan
		Amardeep Bassey, the investigations editor of the Birmingham newspaper, was seized last week near the border with Afghanistan.
		He has been moved from the military jail in Landi Kotal, where he had been in a "lock-up" with 55 other inmates since his arrest, and is now being held in custody in Peshawar, where he will face questioning by the Pakistan special branch.
		A friend who visited the journalist in Landi Kotal told the Sunday Mercury he had been interrogated on arrival at the jail.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4417133-103595,00.html (389 words)

	Amir Hamza Shinwari
		He spent last decade of life shifting between his adopted hometown, Peshawar and the native village Landi Kotal.
		This must have been the greatest pleasure for him as he had been extremely miserable throughout his school life, not because he was a duffer or a blockhead but because of an earlier bitter experience when one day he was mercilessly beaten by the insensible primary teacher at Landi Kotal, for an apparently innocent mistake.
		He was also called upon to be assisting his father at a contract work on the Landi Kotal, Torkham railway line.
	www.afghanan.net /biographies/hamzababa.htm (3081 words)

	Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As of 16 January, water supply to a refugee camp in Durma Kalel remained suspended after a row between the political administration and local residents over the construction of new rooms in the refugee camp.
		The residents also blocked the Shalman-Landi Kotal road to protest the arrest of their elders by the authorities.
		The row was yet to be resolved when residents of Wali Mamad Korona demanded royalty of water being supplied to the refugee camp.
	www.smc.org.ph /amnews/amn030131/Middleast/Afghanistan030131.htm (300 words)

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