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	Nurestan Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is bordered on the north by Badakhshan Province, on the west by Kapisa Province, on the south by Laghman and Kunar provinces, and on the east by Pakistan.
		The region was renamed Nuristan, meaning Land of the Enlightened, a reflection of the "enlightening" of the pagan Nuristani by the "light" of Islam.
		Nuristan was the scene of some of the heaviest guerrilla fighting during the 1979-89 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nurestan_Province (612 words)

	Interview with governor of isolated Nuristan province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		And in western Nuristan we have the Zunya and Peyar dispute.
		In the entire province we have 560 police officers and in the huge area of Nuristan, which has a 250 kilometre long border with Pakistan, it is impossible to maintain security without a proper and well-trained border police force.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=47861 (1746 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.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/feb/1185.html (708 words)

	CFLCC Media Release
		Although AED has project partnership agreements with several contractors, this is the first agreement between the district, the contractor and the ultimate user, the province of Nuristan.
		Nuristan is located in a mountainous and primarily inaccessible part of eastern Afghanistan.
		To its north are the high passes of the Pamir Mountains leading to China; to the south lie the Kabul gorge and the Khyber Pass; and to the east, Pakistan.
	www.arcent.army.mil /media_releases/2006/june/jun13_06.asp (630 words)

	Press Releases: Afghanistan, Afghanistan: SCA in Nuristan
		Nuristan province is an isolated mountainous province in Afghanistan with estimated population figure at about 300,000 inhabitants.
		This remote province has a complicated river system that divides the province into three valleys; Eastern and Central that are accessible through Kunar province and the Western that is accessible through Laghman Province.
		In addition to the remoteness of the province, its difficult terrain and scatteredness of the population and security represents a concern to the implementing NGO’s.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/DPAS-6LTFGD?OpenDocument (426 words)

	::ABOUT NURISTAN
		Contact Us Nuristan literally means “land of light” referring to the beauty of the people within it.
		Although the Nuristani people are known for their beauty, the Nuristan of today is no longer a reflection of its name.
		Nuristan has suffered the effects of 23 years of war, and as a result has been left in a state of ruin and instability.
	www.arianaoutreach.com /about_nuristan.html (149 words)

	AP Wire \| 08/12/2006 \| 3 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan
		The clash in Nuristan province's Waygal district on Friday also wounded three U.S. soldiers and one civilian as American forces kept up their hunt for Taliban fighters and extremists close to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network that are holed up in remote mountains hugging the Pakistani border.
		Elsewhere, a British soldier in the NATO-led force was killed in a vehicle accident in the southern Helmand province on Saturday, a British Defense Ministry spokesman said.
		A helicopter transported two of the wounded soldiers from a camp of the Estonian contingent in Garmser district to a hospital at the nearby British military base, while one received first aid from members of his unit, the military said in a statement.
	www.twincities.com /mld/twincities/news/nation/15255897.htm (572 words)

	(9/15/2005) Afghanistan Women Candidates Face Attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The gunmen who attacked her two days ago shot her three times in the leg and once in the ear while she was campaigning in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan for the national parliament.
		Before she was attacked, Nuristani said the support she has seen from the people of Nuristan province made her confident she would be elected to one of the 68 seats reserved for women in Afghanistan's 249-seat People's Council, which should compose the lower chamber of the National Assembly.
		Shah Naz is a war widow from Laghman Province who now lives in Kabul with her two sons and five daughters.
	www.monitor.net:16080 /monitor/0509a/afghanwomencandidate.html (1234 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: 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.
		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.
		In neighbouring Zabul province on Monday, a local Taliban commander and 29 other guerrillas surrendered to Afghan authorities as part of a government amnesty, said a spokesman for Zabul’s governor, Ali Khail.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2005/08/03/story214623.html (503 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.
	jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369742 (1308 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The operation, which began on Nov. 7, is currently taking place in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar and Nuristan Provinces.
		NURISTAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division lived up to their namesake, braving treacherous terrain and weather to accomplish their initial ground mission during the launch of the Coalition Joint Task Force 180’s latest strike in the war on terrorism, Operation Mountain Resolve.
		Coalition forces had received information about ACM activity all throughout the valley, said Co. B Commander Capt. Toby Moore, and it was their job to disrupt any ACM operations and deny them sanctuary in a province that coalition forces hadn’t been in since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/nov2003/a111703e.html (576 words)

	Robert Lindsay: June 2006
		Recent reports indicate that local tribal leaders are being abused by Salafist guerrillas who have overran the province and imposed their writ on the local tribes, who seem to be powerless to stop them.
		Waghuz District, Ghazni Province: 2 Taliban fighters on motorcyles shot dead the district intelligence chief for this district as he was returning from his office.
		Qalat, Ghazni Province: Goverment forces seized a donkey laden with 66 pounds of explosives and a guerrilla who was reading the animal to detonate it by remote control as part of a guerrilla attack.
	robertlindsay.blogspot.com /2006_06_01_robertlindsay_archive.html (13195 words)

	MichaelMoore.com : 3 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan
		U.S. troops used artillery to repel the attack in Nuristan province Friday, and helicopters rushed the wounded soldiers to medical care, said Col. Tom Collins.
		Their mission is to crush militants loyal to the Hezb-e-Islami militant group of renegade Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the toppled Taliban regime and remnants of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
		In other violence, gunmen killed a former deputy governor outside his home in a restive southern Afghan province Friday night, five months after his former boss was assassinated in an ambush.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/latestnews/index.php?id=7637 (582 words)

	Nuristan province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	provinces.getoveritstl.com /nuristan-province.html (648 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Afghan attacks claim many lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"A group of 50 terrorists attacked a checkpost in Kamdesh district of Nuristan province in which four soldiers and four police were killed yesterday evening," interior ministry spokesman Lutf Allah Mashal said on Wednesday.
		Mashal said: "I can confirm that five civilians were killed in a shootout in Laghman province yesterday, but it is not yet clear how the shootout took place or if coalition forces were involved".
		Last month an Afghan electoral worker was shot dead in Paktika province and his son wounded.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/157612AB-51E2-4FC6-A474-BE8DB7B667A0.htm (507 words)

	Security forces rush to eastern Afghanistan after rebel attack kills eight North County Times - Nation / World - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		Meanwhile, suspected Taliban rebels attacked Afghan forces in southeastern Paktika province, sparking a gunfight that left one insurgent wounded and led to the seizure of a weapons cache, the U.S. military said.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/08/04/news/nation/17_45_568_3_05.txt (853 words)

	friendly printed version:Action Update: July 11 – Aug. 7, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hamid Mohammad Sarwar, a civic educator for the elections, was shot and killed by two men in Paktika province on
		The head of Afghan intelligence in Zabul province was shot and killed by four Taliban militants riding on motorcycles on
		July 21 that 30 airports will be built over the next three years in provinces across the country.
	www.cdi.org /friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=3108 (1458 words)

	CPJ News Alert 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		New York, September 15, 2005—Unknown assailants seized a journalist, a cameraman, and a government employee in Nuristan province, near the border with Pakistan on Wednesday, local media reported.
		A spokesman for the governor of Nuristan was quoted as saying that the attackers wore military fatigues.
		The company was making a video about culture in Kunar and Nuristan provinces for the Women's Affairs Ministry.
	www.cpj.org /news/2005/Afghan15sept05na.html (192 words)

	NATO Forces Kill Up To 23 Militants In Afghanistan - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The militants attacked the convoy in the Kamdesh area of Nuristan near the Pakistani border, destroying one vehicle.
		NATO and Afghan troops were involved in fighting further south in the Paktia Province that border Pakistan's tribal area.
		In the southern Helmand Province a rocket hit a house during a battle between NATO forces and suspected Taliban militants near the village of Tajikai.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2006/10/5BD2D1FA-0CBC-4A24-BADA-B396B013FB80.html (220 words)

	Technician treats livestock in Nuristan Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Roberts, of the 79th Medical Detachment at Bagram Airfield, treated more than 100 animals in two days in Nuristan Province.
		A veterinary technician from Bagram Airfield treated more than 100 animals during veterinary civic assistance program March 19 and March 20 in Nuristan Province, in eastern Afghanistan.
		Residents of surrounding areas brought their livestock to here and the nearby villages Nangaresh for treatment by Army Spc.
	www.blackanthem.com /News/military_2006032403.html (440 words)

	Taleban Shoot, Injure Woman Electoral Worker
		The attack occurred in Kamdesh district of remote Nuristan province some 210 kilometers northeast of Kabul on Sunday.
		The electoral worker was wounded “in an armed attack by the enemies of peace and stability,” Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told AFP, referring to remnants of the ousted Taleban regime.
		In another incident in eastern Nangarhar province a police investigation officer was wounded in an attack on his residence in Dur Bala district on Sunday, said Mashal.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=4§ion=0&article=67157&d=19&m=7&y=2005 (512 words)

	Briefs (left) - The Tech
		A parliamentary candidate was shot in Nuristan province on Wednesday morning, and two of her supporters were kidnapped, in an attack before the national election on Sunday, local officials said on Thursday.
		The candidate, Hawa Alam Nuristani, an anchorwoman on the state-run Afghan Television and Radio in Kabul, was traveling by car to a campaign meeting in Nuristan, her native province, in the east when she was injured.
		Another woman, the representative of the Women’s Affairs Ministry in Nuristan, was in the car, but was not injured, Mohammad Tamim Nuristani, the governor of the province, said.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V125/N39/39shorts1.html (482 words)

	Nuristan secessionist movement 1970's (Afghanistan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dietl is quoting 'oriental expert' Dr. Detlev Khalid on an autonomy (secessionist?) movement in Nuristan, a province northeast of Kabul.
		Obviously the people in Nuristan were first opposed against a 'Pashtu chauvinism' allegedly forwarded by Taraki and Amin in 1978.
		The Nuristani were mainly followers of Anwar Amin and his 'Front of islamic Jihad of Nuristan'.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/af}nur70.html (168 words)

	News: Afghanistan, Afghanistan: Interview with governor of isolated Nuristan province
		News: Afghanistan, Afghanistan: Interview with governor of isolated Nuristan province
		KABUL, 28 June (IRIN) - Development work and aid has all but dried up in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan because of the lack of security and only a minimal government presence.
		We don't have any development funds but we have talked with some private sector enterprises to establish hotels and other facilities for visitors.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KKEE-6DSPE7?OpenDocument (1817 words)

	The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan
		Afghanistan is not suffering from a large number of reported HIV/AIDS case yet, but there is an increasing pattern of risky behavior signals and action needs to be taken now to stem the course of a possible epidemic.
		On the 19 September the provincial hospital in the city Mazar-I-Sharif, Balkh Province was struck by a fire due to some electricity problems in the premises.
		Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) is happy to announce that the two SCA doctors that were kidnapped on a monitoring mission in Eastern Nuristan Province on Thursday 22 June 2006 are now released.
	www.swedishcommittee.org /archive/articles (309 words)

	Operation Enduring Freedom: Coalition Fatalities (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Afghan intelligence officers have seized two trucks transporting hundreds of kilogrammes (pounds) of bomb-making materials in a province.
		THE governor of the volatile Afghan province where British troops are fighting the Taliban has attacked the UK Government for failing to send millions of pounds of development aid.
		According to reports, a Nato vehicle was attacked by a suicide bomber in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the turbulent southern province of Helmand.
	www.icasualties.org.cob-web.org:8888 /oef (987 words)

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