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	Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Office of the President
		On December 23, President Hamid Karzai received a number of influential personalities and elders from Duab, Mandol and Nur Karam districts of Nurestan province at the Gul Khana Palace.
		Hawa Alam Nurestani and Abdul Fatah Nurestani, on behalf of others, asked the Government for more reconstruction in Nurestan province and said, âWe want the Government to concentrate resources on the most run-down districts of Nurestan province through providing better education, building roads and clinics, and creating more jobs for locals.â
		The President enquired about the living conditions of the people in Nurestan province and said, âNurestan is one of the most beautiful provinces of our country.
	www.president.gov.af /english/news/231206_Nurestan_Province.mspx (0 words)

	News: Afghanistan, Afghanistan: Focus on the forgotten province of Nurestan
		Nurestan, meaning ‘land of light’, lies on the southern slopes of the Hindu Kush.
		The inhospitable region used to be known as Kafiristan, or ‘land of the infidels’ because it was inhabited by an ethnically distinctive people, who practiced animism until their forcible conversion to Islam at the end of the nineteenth century.
		He added that eastern Nurestan has several connecting border points with the neighbouring Pakistan and extremists easily cross the border after launching attacks in Afghanistan.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MMQD-69EMGT?OpenDocument (1671 words)

	3 U.S. Soldiers Die in Afghan Attack
		U.S. troops used artillery to repel the attack in Nurestan province Friday, and helicopters rushed the wounded soldiers to medical care, said Col. Tom Collins.
		U.S. forces in recent weeks have been pushing to their northernmost points along the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, including Nurestan, opening military bases in one of the wildest regions in the country.
		Their mission is to crush fighters loyal to the Hezb-e-Islami group of renegade Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the toppled Taliban and remnants of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/12/AR2006081200992_pf.html (406 words)

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		Land of the InfidelKafiristan or Kafirstan ("Land of the Infidel" in Persian) was a historic name of Nurestan (Nuristan), a province in the Hindukush region of Afghanistan.
		By the end of 2000, the Taliban were able to capture 95% of the country, aside from the opposition (Afghan Northern Alliance) strongholds primarily found in the northeast corner of Badakhshan Province.
		Nurestan Province Trivia Trivia Nuristan is the subject of the book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by the British travel writer Eric Newby.
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	Informat.io on Nurestan Province
		Located on the southern slopes of the Hindu Kush mountains in the northeastern part of the country, Nurestan spans the basins of the Alingâr, Pech, Landai Sin, and Kunar rivers.
		The region was renamed Nurestan, meaning Land of the Enlightened, a reflection of the "enlightening" of the pagan Nuristani by the "light" of Islam.
		Nurestan was the scene of some of the heaviest guerrilla fighting during the 1979-89 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet forces.
	www.informat.io /?title=nurestan-province (231 words)

	Nuristani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nuristani are a religious/ethnic group in the Nurestan Province of Afghanistan.
		They were known as the "Red or Black Kafirs", and the Nurestan province as Kafiristan, before they converted to Islam in 1895.
		The Nuristani, particularly the Kalasha clan, are known for their typical Indo-European characteristics like fair skin, light eyes, and blonde hair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuristani (266 words)

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