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	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
		Nuristan means "the land of light." Yet it is one of the darkest places in Afghanistan.
		Nuristan has become a sad example of an Afghanistan where local and foreign radicals have managed to scare aid and government workers away and force people to live according to their orthodox views.
		Infidel Nuristan was only forcibly converted to Islam at the end of the 19th century — when its name changed from Kafiristan (the land of the infidels) to Nuristan.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=3163 (709 words)

	social & political background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nuristan, is a forested and mountainous region, located in north eastern of Afghanistan.
		In Nuristan, there is a separate working class with special skills of carving wood and making different wood arts, still a few of them are available such as temples, furniture which strongly represent the glory and culture of old Kafiristan.
		The elders of Nuristan requested the Afghan government and international community to provide them with the basic rights of their life; such as education, health and transport facility, but unfortunately it was forgotten for decades more.
	www.geocities.com /classna/socailpolitical.html (667 words)

	Khalilullah Nuristani
		His father had been one of the most important people in Nuristan and was regarded as their leader.
		Khalilullah was styled as the "Foreign Minister of Nuristan".
		Although Nuristan, which was then known as Kafirstan, was to some extent part of Chitral, it was left in Afghanistan when the Durand Line was drawn.
	www.ishipress.com /khalil.htm (1951 words)

	Greek Echoes at Himalayas
		Nuristan and Chitral are situated on the southern slopes of the Hindukush range and are separated by the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
		Up to the end of the 19th century, Nuristan and part of Chitral were united and known as Kafiristan - the land of the infidels- a name given by the Islamic surrounding, marking it as the land where the people still believed in an ancient Paganistic religion.
		The dances of Nuristan and the Kalash as well, are very similar to those of Thrace and Pontos in Greece.
	www.myrtos.org /lalo2.html (1451 words)

	The Daily Star - Arts & Culture - Afghanistan's 'land of light' hopes for tourism but darkness remains
		Tucked away in Afghanistan's far northeast, Nuristan is trying to overcome a special reputation for insecurity and backwardness in a country that is already one of the poorest and most volatile on earth.
		In the villages of Nuristan, they denounce the "propaganda" coming from the authorities in Kabul and what they say is a destabilization campaign orchestrated by the neighboring provinces of Kunar and Laghman.
		Nuristan's police chief, Abdul Baqi Nuristani, admits there are problems in Kamdesh: "But there are no problems with the other five districts of the province," he says.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&Article_id=18145 (1012 words)

	Afghan News Network - Printer Friendly Version
		JALALABAD (Pajhwok Afghan News) - Blocked roads and shortage of medicines have contributed to the death of 25 children in the eastern province of Nuristan.
		Alam Shah Safai, an official of the public health department of Nuristan, who came to Jalalabad, told Pajhwok Afghan News that most of the victims were very young or newborn babies.
		"The roads connecting Nuristan to other provinces and the capital are blocked due to massive snow and the local hospitals face a shortage of medicines and equipments to treat the children," he said.
	www.afghannews.net /printer.php?action=show&type=news&id=1869 (152 words)

	Afghani women face misery in Nuristan
		NURISTAN, 24 February (IRIN) - The wooden hut of Zulaikha, a 45-year-old midwife, remains the only ray of hope for destitute women in the Nuristan valley, in northeastern Nuristan province.
		She and two male TB technicians are the only health workers serving the province's two heavily populated and troubled border districts.
		Nuristan has one of the highest rates of maternal and child mortality in the country due to a lack of healthcare centres, as well as inaccessibility to many parts of the mountainous valley.
	afghani.forumactif.com /ftopic103_.htm (723 words)

	Interview with governor of isolated Nuristan province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mohammad Tamim Nuristani, the newly-appointed governor of Nuristan, said in an exclusive interview with IRIN, that Nuristanis were faced with an extremely poor humanitarian situation and called on aid agencies and central government to revise their activities in the remote province.
		While, in the whole of Nuristan, we had only one incident in Kamdish when the office of the Afghan Aid [an International aid agency] was set on fire and even in that case they did not kill any staff members of the NGO.
		And in western Nuristan we have the Zunya and Peyar dispute.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=47861 (1746 words)

	Kabul Museum reopens with Nuristan art - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The museum is exhibiting artifacts from the remote region of Nuristan in the northeast of Afghanistan that have been a part of the collection since the museum's founding in 1931.
		The effigies, some of which are nearly life-size and include equestrian figures, were an integral part of ancestor worship practiced by the Kafirs, an animistic people who inhabited the mountains of the Hindu Kush, and were made in the 18th and 19th centuries.
		Nuristan (also known as Kafirstan) was forcibly converted to Islam a century ago and all but a few of the effigies were destroyed as "idols."
	www.washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20050203-013628-9941r.htm (198 words)

	Rebel attack kills eight in Afghanistan - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As dozens of army trucks carrying reinforcements made their way to Nuristan province, a roadside bomb exploded, killing a soldier and wounding five others, Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammed Saher Azimi said.
		A local official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said the attackers were wearing uniforms of Afghanistan's new U.S.-trained army.
		Nuristan has been spared much of the violence that has killed more than 900 people since a major upsurge in attacks in March across other eastern provinces and the country's south.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/08/03/rebel_attack_kills_eight_in_afghanistan (507 words)

	afghanchat.com - Karzai condemns killing of two UK election workers in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Britons were killed in Nuristan province, about 100 miles east of the capital, Kabul, said Global Risk Strategies, the British-based security company which employed the men.
		Nuristan, a rugged region of high peaks and wooded valleys on the Pakistani border, has its share of bandits.
		Nuristan is one of four provinces where insecurity has prevented that.
	www.afghanchat.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1136 (565 words)

	A Status Report on Gemstones from Afghanistan
		Gem-bearing pegmatites in Nuristan were first studied in the early 1970s by Soviet geologists (Rossovskiy et al., 1976; Rossovskiy et al., 1978; Rossovskiy, 1981).
		As with the emerald mines in Panjsher, the Nuristan miners usually work year round, in spite of the severe weather conditions that commonly plague the area.
		The spodumene crystals from the Nuristan region are among the finest examples of this mineral ever found.
	www.gems-afghan.com /articles/status.htm (4785 words)

	NURISTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nuristan (dt.: Land der Erleuchtung, früher auch Kafiristan) ist eine Provinz (velayat) in Ostafghanistan an der Südseite des Hindukusch.
		Sie wurde 2001 aus den nördlichen Teilen der Provinzen Laghman und Kunar gebildet.
		Die Provinz Nuristan grenzt an die Provinzen Badakshan, Kunar, Laghman und Kapisa (im Uhrzeigersinn, beginnend im Norden).
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/N/Nuristan (66 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Three die in Afghan attack
		The Britons were killed in Nuristan Province, 100 miles east of the capital, Kabul, said Global Risk Strategies, a London-based security company.
		Nuristan, a rugged region of high peaks and forested valleys on the Pakistani border, has its share of bandits.
		Nuristan is one of four provinces where a lack of security has held up registration.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/05/06/three_die_in_afghan_attack?mode=PF (663 words)

	>> Nuristan Florists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		By using our Nuristan Florists pages you will be avoiding the delays and charges associated with another national service provider.
		Nuristan Florists will also add an expression of thanks card free of charge which we will give you your confirmation of delivery without having to call back.
		If you are a local retail florist in Nuristan and would like to be a part of the Directory click here to join.
	www.florist-directory.net /Afghanistan/Nuristan/Florists.htm (194 words)

	The Vertebrate Fauna of Afghanistan
		It is restricted to the forests of the east in Nuristan and Pakthia.
		The wild goat Capra aegagrus is found in the drier mountains of central Afghanistan including the Hazarajat and Uruzgan mountains, the Feroz Koh and Siyah Koh in the headwaters of the Hari Rud, Farah Rud, Helmand and Arghandab rivers.
		The markhor Capra falconeri is distributed in the eastern forested regions of Nuristan, Laghman, the Kohe Safi area of Kapisa province and the Kabul gorge.
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /afghanistan/Fauna.htm (2555 words)

	Asian Folklore Studies: Hunters' lore in Nuristan.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hunters' tales are composed along traditional lines in a given society, having a particular form and including particular topics.
		The hunters' folklore told in Nuristan (northeastern Afghanistan) is characterized by a strong emphasis on fairies and supernatural events.
		The fairies, who are believed to live in the high mountains, are of special importance for hunters, because they are said to be the keepers of the wild mountain goats (markhor), the...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:85241369&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (179 words)

	Georg Morgenstierne -- map
		The secluded area of Kafiristan remained virtually unknown to Europeans until George Robertson in 1896, the year of the disastrous invasion of The Land of the Infidel, published his experiences from a year's stay with the Kati in 1892.
		Nuristan- a large area in the east of Afghanistan, meaning The Land of Enlightment, the name introduced after the forceful Islamisation of Kafiristan in 1896.
		Today, Nuristan is a much smaller area than it was as Kafiristan before the partition between Afghanistan and Colonial India (Durand-line of 1893).
	www.nb.no /baser/morgenstierne/english/map.html (394 words)

	Pegmatites of Laghman, Nuristan, Afghanistan
		Until recently, Afghanistan was principally renowned in the world of the mineralogists and gemologists for the famous deposits of lapis lazuli in the Badakhshan (a province in the northeastern part of the country, separated structurally from Nuristan by the Pandjshir fault) and also, in lesser measure, for the rubies in the Jegdalek marble near Sorobi.
		Even though Nuristan is geologically one distinct structural unit, essentially crystalline and limited on the south by the Quaternary basin of Jalalabad, it is administratively divided into two provinces: Laghman to the west, and Kunar to the east, bordering the Pakistani province of Chitral.
		Then a full day on foot is needed to traverse the 25 km of narrow gorges which separate that bridge from the nearest houses (5 houses, one belongs to the subgovernor) one hour away from the village of Dahaneh-Pyar, at the junction of the Kolum and Alingar rivers.
	www.palagems.com /afghanistan_bariand.htm (3477 words)

	Nuristan, Afghanistan architecture
		The traditional timber and stone architecture of Nuristan is one of the most stunning of the many indigenous forms of housing found in Afghanistan.
		Nuristan is located in an mountainous and inaccessible part of eastern Afghanistan; to its north are the high passes of the Pamir mountains leading to China; to the south lies the city of Jalalabad, the Kabul gorge and the Khyber Pass.
		Many elements of Nuristan's domestic art and culture are still tied to the pre-Islamic traditions which are maintained by the Kalash people who live just over the Pakistani frontier, on the borders of the valley of Chitral.
	www.anahitagallery.com /aharch03.html (1173 words)

	Osama bin Laden: Cornered in Kunar or Nuristan?
		That is now the newly created province of Nuristan officially designated in 2004 with its capital also called Nuristan.
		Nuristan (land of light) has a 250-kilometer long border with Pakistan's Chitral state.
		Nuristan and part of Chitral state adjoining it were known as Kafiristan (land of the animist unbelievers) before people there were converted to Islam toward the end of the 19th century.
	www.jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369742 (1316 words)

	Nuristan and Afghanistan - Bibliographic listing of published material on Afghanistan - Schuyler Jones
		The purpose of the information which follows is to provide the library researcher with bibliographic references to published materials on Afghanistan and, in particular, that region of Afghanistan known as Nuristan, which, in the 19
		Men of Influence in Nuristan: A Study of Social Control and Dispute Settlement in Waigal Valley, Afghanistan.
		With Professor Morgenstierne leading the way, these scholars have produced an impressive body of published reports that will serve to guide and inform their successors for generations to come.
	www.drschuylerjones.com (1347 words)

	U.S. Escalates War in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In late October, a U.S. military attack in Nuristan province resulted in numerous civilian deaths and casualties.
		Maulavi Rabbani, a local religious leader said American planes and helicopters opened a three-hour attack on his home village of Arans in Nuristan on the night of Oct. 30.
		Shireen, 15, Ahmad Shah, 7, and Hamida, 5, were all found dead beside the gully, together with the old woman, he said.
	www.anti-imperialist.org /afghan_11-23-03.htm (204 words)

	project proposal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		To provide the students all the facilities and educate them basically and to improve or to rehabilitate the culture of Nuristan.
		Guidance seminar for each primary school, 3 from HECB members in Nuristan, will be guiding the teachers.
		In the first week of the project period, HECB trainers/ teachers with assistance of supervisor and conducted a 4 day training seminar which lasted 6 hours a day to provide their activities and teaching plans.
	www.geocities.com /classna/projectproposal.htm (409 words)

	Afghan News Network {Latest News about Afghanistan} First in Afghan News Worldwide!
		The wooden statues from Nuristan, one of Afghanistan's mountainous northeastern provinces, are an apt subject for an inaugural exhibition.
		The figures were brought to Kabul by the army of Emir Abdur Rahman, a ruler of Afghanistan who forcibly Islamized Kafiristan in 1896 and renamed it Nuristan, or Land of Light.
		A large male bust he found in 1971 and temple posts with deity figures acquired by a Kabul museum expedition in 1976 are missing, he said.
	www.afghannews.net /index.php?action=show&type=news&id=1419 (778 words)

	IOL: Eight killed in Afghanistan rebel attack
		As dozens of army trucks carrying reinforcements made their way to Nuristan province, a roadside bomb exploded, killing a soldier and wounding five others, Defence Ministry spokesman Gen Mohammed Saher Azimi said.
		By the time the troops reached the site of the attack in Nuristan, the militants had already fled into the nearby rugged mountains that stretch into neighbouring Pakistan, Interior Ministry spokesman Latfullah Mashal said.
		He said that dozens of rebels had assaulted a police post in the region yesterday, sparking a gun-battle that lasted several hours and left four soldiers and four police officers dead.
	breakingnews.iol.ie /news/story.asp?j=151523838&p=y5y5z4544 (443 words)

	PeaceWomen- Working to monitor and advocate for the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325
		In Nuristan and Faryab, he added, civic education contributed to the high turnout.
		Mohammad Kabir Ranjbar, director of the Afghan bar association, said Nuristan had historically been a matriarchal society until the local population converted to Islam.
		According to Ranjbar, since women in Nuristan are the main providers, they have more freedom and were able to participate more fully in the vote.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/Afghanistan/Oct04/showing.html (572 words)

	Tar or dutar middle eastern music instruments also known as tambour, târ or tanbur
		The oldest string instrument in northern-eastern Afghanistan is the tar.
		The simplest appearance of this instrument has two strings which is still found in the villages of Nuristan.
		The songs and melodies that the people of Nuristan sing have not altered when they were first sang four thousand years ago and they where and are accompanied with the string instrument known as tar.
	www.belly-dance.org /tar.html (312 words)

	Bahrain Tribune Daily Newspaper, Bahrain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The wooden statues from Nuristan, one of Afghanistan’s mountainous northeastern provinces, are an apt subject for an inaugural exhibition at the National Museum of Afghanistan.
		The figures were brought to Kabul by the army of Emir Abdurrahman, a ruler of Afghanistan who Islamised Kafiristan in 1896 and renamed it Nuristan, or Land of Light.
		A large male bust he found in 1971 and temple posts with figures acquired by a Kabul museum expedition in 1976 are missing, he said.
	www.bahraintribune.com /ArticleDetail.asp?CategoryId=7&ArticleId=55889 (835 words)

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