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	Progress Continues in Afghanistan's Panjshir Province
		Panjshir Province is a model of success because of the strength shown by the people living within the valley, White said.
		Panjshir only has been recognized as a province since 2004, but its residents and leaders have completed a micro hydro plant for electricity generation, new roads for commerce, bridges, wells, schools, and a radio station to connect the remote valley to the rest of the country.
		Panjshir province Deputy Gov. Kabini said he can tell the people of his province are growing more optimistic from the way their eyes and faces look, and the people are becoming more informed and connected to their government through their new radio station.
	www.army.mil /-news/2007/03/29/2452-progress-continues-in-afghanistans-panjshir-province (753 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Militias Transfer Heavy Arms, Bolstering Kabul's Authority
		PANJSHIR GATE, Afghanistan, Dec. 10 -- The huge green military truck rumbled and belched as its driver waited for the signal.
		A soldier slowly lifted the striped pole blocking the road, and a small arsenal began a historic journey from the militia lairs of the Panjshir Valley to the safekeeping of the Afghan government.
		The convoy of loaded missile launchers, tanks and artillery pieces left Panjshir Wednesday morning en route to an Afghan army compound in Kabul, 70 miles to the south.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A54404-2003Dec10?language=printer (794 words)

	Disarmament drive in Panjshir Valley angers villagers -DAWN - International; 16 February, 2004
		PANJSHIR VALLEY, Feb 15: An assortment of heavy weapons were removed on Sunday from Afghanistan's famous Panjshir Valley, the seat of anti-Taliban resistance, as villagers complained that the disarmament process amounted to a loss of their heritage.
		The disarmament of some 100,000 to 200,000 militiamen scattered around the country, as well as the removal of heavy weapons belonging to warlords, is seen as critical to the establishment of the rule of law in the country.
		However, Panjshir villagers were unhappy that the arms were being removed from their valley, saying that they had inherited the weapons from Ahmad Shah Massood.
	www.dawn.com /2004/02/16/int8.htm (433 words)

	Diplomats Visit Panjshir Reconstruction Team - DefendAmerica News Article
		BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Feb. 2, 2006 — Diplomats from around the world visited the new Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team in Panjshir Province on Jan. 21 to view the progress of the reconstruction efforts.
		The Panjshir team is the first of its kind.
		It is a joint effort between the members of Combined Joint Task Force-76 and the U.S. Embassy and is commanded by Fletcher Burton, a civilian with the U.S. State Department.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/feb2006/a020206tj2.html (331 words)

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		Panjshir is the former stronghold of Northern Alliance forces, who helped the US-led coalition topple the hard-line Taliban regime in
		Hundreds of heavy weapons such as tanks, mutiple rocket launchers and field artillery are still held by varying local militia forces in the valley, which first experienced war at the time of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
		Those protesting against the process on Tuesday told IRIN that they were ex-Jehadi officers who had seized the weapons from the Russians and the Taliban over the past two decades and now demanded salaries and privileges from the Afghan Ministry of Defence (MOD) to sustain their families.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=45001&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&SelectCountry=AFGHANISTAN (685 words)

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		PANJSHIR:- Out of a 110 usable and repairable heavy weapons collected from Afghan provinces, 80 pieces were collected from the northern Panjshir province, the UN said Sunday 27th.
		The weapons from Panjshir which included tanks and different types of cannons, were eventually moved to Jabal Saraj regiment.
		Mohammad Zahir Azemi, a spokesman for the defense ministry in Kabul, said that this was the fifth stage of moving weapons from the province.
	www.sabawoon.com /newsnew/miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=21381 (225 words)

	Lion of Panjshir
		Ahmed Shah Massoud was born in Jangalak in the Panjshir Valley in 1953.
		They were finally forced into the northeast corner of the country, the Panjshir Valley, and maintained control of between five to ten percent of the country.
		The United States and other countries who had armed and supplied their former allies in the war against the Soviet Union began to consider whether or not they should recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
	www.massoudhero.com /English/lion.html (585 words)

	Afghan News Network {Latest News about Afghanistan} First in Afghan News Worldwide!
		PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan (AFP) - Sitting in a tiny chamber in the shadow of grey Hindu Kush mountains, Yasamin, a female electoral worker, struggles to keep up with the number of voters coming to register for Afghanistan's first presidential elections.
		The Panjshir valley, a stronghold of resistance against the fundamentalist Taliban regime, has produced one of the strongest registration turnouts in the country and is a bastion of support for President Hamid Karzai's chief rival in the presidential race and former anti-Taliban commander, Yunus Qanooni.
		In the Panjshir 110,414 eligible voters had signed on to electoral rolls by July 28 -- more than double the 49,573 eligible voters the United Nations had estimated lived in the province.
	www.afghannews.net /index.php?action=show&type=news&id=730 (827 words)

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		In Panjshir, however, the local population was estimated by the district head, Saranwal Mahmud, as 205,000 according to the last census taken five years ago.
		Refugees living in the Panjshir valley who were displaced from the fighting this summer in the areas north of Kabul currently number approximately 60,000 - 65,000, according to figures from NGO representatives and local government officials.
		In the district of Panjshir, there are 49 schools -- 15 for girls, 34 for boys -- with a total enrollment of approximately 15,000 students.
	membres.lycos.fr /afghanainfo/sirrs.html (3204 words)

	Red Cross Red Crescent - News
		Not only is it in the Panjshir valley that storms have threatened the livelihood of rural communities this year.
		Even as supplies were being handed out in the Panjshir villages last week, ARCS disaster response teams elsewhere in Afghanistan were busy assessing the devastation caused to farmers’ houses and fields by the most recent, torrential three-day downpour in the provinces of Wardak, Paktika, Khost and Logar.
		Returning late in the afternoon from the Panjshir distribution, along the jolting valley road, young boys could be seen swimming in the receding grey flood waters that lapped around the base of the apricot and walnut trees lining the river banks.
	www.ifrc.org /docs/news/03/03072202 (674 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Warriors bid farewell to Lion of Panjshir
		THE Lion of Panjshir returned home for the last time yesterday, his final resting place a bare hilltop, his mourners thousands of weeping warriors.
		The Lion of Panjshir was many things in his time - a slayer of Soviet invaders, an MI6 ally who is said to have been trained in guerrilla warfare in the Cumbrian hills, a government minister.
		When the rear doors of the helicopter which delivered Massoud's body for the funeral swung open, a chorus of wailing and keening went up from the mass of officials, men under arms and hangers-on welcoming him back to the valley of his birth.
	news.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/17/wlion17.xml (762 words)

	Brendan's Blog: The Panjshir Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The other day we bounced up the Panjshir Valley to visit a school which we are building (before I go any further, I would just like to clarify: my job involves bouncing around on bad roads in the middle of the most beautiful scenery imaginable.
		I begin to imagine how it was that the Panjshir alone held out against the Taliban and the Russians, despite overwhelming odds.
		The prospect of pushing through that narrow neck with a bunch of insane rocket-bearing nutters dotted all over the mountain-side would not be attractive, I don't care who you are.
	brendan.scottishclimbs.com /archives/000126.php (636 words)

	Farewell to a Hero
		Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir, hero of the jihad against the Soviet invasion and fighter for freedom of his country against the fanatic taliban, is dead at age 49.
		Among the war prisoners in the Panjshir prison I talked with just the week before Massoud was killed was a seasoned fanatic idealogue who calmly informed me that the over-all plan was to use Afghanistan, when it was all under taliban control, as the center for disseminating the taliban's extreme form of Islam.
		He is being buried today near his home in the beautiful Panjshir Valley, a place clear and clean and bright as a child's drawing.
	www.parsa-afghanistan.org /farewell_to_a_hero.html (740 words)

	Afghanistan: Executions in Panjshir
		Six prisoners were executed in Panjshir at 1pm on 6 December 2000 by members of the United Front under the command of the anti-Taleban military commander, Ahmad Shah Masood, who reportedly ordered their execution less than 40 hours after their arrest.
		Panjshir valley, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Kabul, is the stronghold of Ahmad Shah Masood, a strong military commander allied to Jamiat-e Islami of Borhanuddin Rabbani.
		When cornered, they have moved back to their stronghold of Panjshir valley which they have defended fiercely against Taleban assault in much the same way as they had in the past halted the advance of Soviet troops.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/afghanistan/document.do?id=15DFFC9E2054E22E802569F4005AF779 (1985 words)

	Masoud
		THE PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan - For millions all over a digital world desperate for a bit of romance, he is as iconic as Che Guevara: the romantic ideal of the intellectual warrior.
		It is a mythology as uplifting as the Shangri-La landscape of the Panjshir Valley in the north of the country which is his home.
		Masoud insists, though, that all the women in the Panjshir are combat-ready - and this is normal in a war situation.
	www.thewednesdayreport.com /twr/masoud.htm (2381 words)

	Panjshir Farmers in Afghanistan Learn New Techniques - Salem-News.Com
		Doctor Gangwer is working with the Parwan and Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Teams, and remains impressed by both the knowledge and interest displayed by local farmers enrolled in his agriculture courses.
		This is important because the irrigation system in Panjshir fell into disrepair during decades of fighting and is being rapidly re-established, ensuring that the farmers are able to maximize the growing season.
		Panjshir has traditionally produced high value crops, such as fruits and nuts, which were sold outside of the province.
	salem-news.com /articles/december122006/isaf_121106.php (507 words)

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		Dans le Panjshir cependant, la population locale a été estimée par le chef de la zone, Saranwal Mahmud, à 205.000 selon le dernier recensement il y a cinq ans.
		Cependant, les chiffres précis pour le Panjshir étaient disponibles et peuvent refléter des tendances semblables dans les autres régions.
		Actuellement, toutes les écoles dans le Panjshir sont fermées afin de permettre aux réfugiés de loger dans les bâtiments scolaires.
	membres.lycos.fr /afghanainfo/sirrs4.html (3388 words)

	Asia - Selected situations
		Displacement from the Shamalle Plain into the Panjshir Valley and Kabul began in August 1999 as a result of fighting between the Taliban Government and opposition forces in the area.
		Panjshir is one of the main strongholds of the government opposition within Afghanistan.
		The nutritional assessment was not a survey, as it was not considered representative of the total population due to the difficulty of obtaining reliable population figures (partially because the IDPs were constantly moving around the valley during the time the assessment was conducted).
	www.unsystem.org /scn/archives/rnis30/ch3.htm (6436 words)

	Election Gives Group That Battled Taliban Chance at a Comeback
		Foreign election officials have privately expressed concern that Qanooni's recent complaints about the vote-counting procedures planned for the legislative elections are an attempt to lay the groundwork for claiming fraud again if he is unhappy with the results.
		Also, because former fighters in the Panjshir were slow to disarm, they did not receive the financial compensation and job training called for in the program as quickly as counterparts in other provinces.
		And this year, the government declared the valley a province, granting it separate representation in the new parliament even though its population and land area are far smaller than those of many existing provinces.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/14/AR2005091402437_pf.html (1138 words)

	Kabul Caravan - Country Guide - The Panjshir Valley
		The Panjshir Valley is one of the most beautiful parts of Afghanistan, and is readily accessed on a day trip from Kabul.
		Never captured by either the Soviets or the Taliban, Panjshir was formally upgraded to provincial status in 2003, as recognition of the part it played in the country's struggles - and recognition of the current political influence of the Panjshiris.
		The road through Panjshir is poor (although currently being upgraded), but aside from this, there are no outstanding security issues.
	www.kabulcaravan.com /panjshir.php (404 words)

	« oddfellow : sometimes daily » (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Having grown up in the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, he was perhaps one of the best candidates for organizing defensives there during the Soviet invasion from '79 to '89.
		The Panjshir Valley is one of the only passages from Russia to the Afghan capitol, and whoever controlled the Valley had the upper hand.
		For this, Massoud became known as the Lion of Panjshir.
	www.chatterwaul.com /odd/archives/0202.php?id=568 (582 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Four weeks on from the killing of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Panjshir's legendary commander against the Taliban, they're remembering him at prayers in the mosque at his home village.
		THOMPSON (on camera): It is, for the moment, something of the land of plenty in the Panjshir Valley.
		The industrial economy of the Panjshir is destroyed by war.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0111/04/sm.05.html (718 words)

	Observer \| Waiting for a last battle with the Taliban
		Sitting on their tank in the ruins of a royal summer palace, the fighters eat cherries and yoghurt, listening to the dull thud of artillery on the frontline.
		Their leader is Ahmed Shah Massood, the legendary guerrilla commander whose tactical brilliance and acute political mind made him the most effective, and best known, of the Mujahideen who fought the Soviet occupation 20 years ago.
		Last week Massood was back in the Panjshir, staying at his mud-and-brick home in the village of Jangalak where he was born.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3878406-102275,00.html (1128 words)

	AHMAD SHAH MASSOUD
		Guerre e distruzioni segnarono gli anni dal 1992 al 1994, che costrinsero Massoud a lasciare la capitale, combattendo i gruppi wahabiti pashtun (aiutati dal Pakistan), meglio forniti in armamenti ricevuti dagli USA, nelle sue montagne del Panjshir.
		Nessuno ha mai riconosciuto l'attentato, ma i sospetti puntarono su i Taliban o al Qaeda, l'assassinio doveva, impedire all'Alleanza del Nord di liberare il paese, con l'appoggio, allora a livello teorico, degli USA.
		Difese per anni la valle del Panjshir e la sua gente, oltre che dai Taliban, anche dall'invasione dell'Armata Rossa.
	www.24pm-affiliation.com /encyclopedia/A/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud (221 words)

	Beautiful Atrocities: AHMAD SHAH MASSOUD
		Known as the Lion of the Panjshir & the Eagle of the Hindu Kush, Massoud was the legendary Tajik warlord who defied both the Soviets & the Taliban, until he was murdered by 2 Al Qaeda assassins on September 9 2001.
		The Soviets were defeated 8 times in Panjshir, leading to their defeat in Afghanistan, &, ultimately, the collapse of the Soviet empire.
		Junger's epitaph on Massoud: "Despite him not being able to see the defeat of the Taliban, his war is finally won." Pilgrims come from all over Afghanistan to pay their respects at his tomb in the Panjshir Valley.
	www.beautifulatrocities.com /archives/2004/09/ahmad_shah_mass.html (429 words)

	Asia Times
		The monument, located in one of the definitive Shangri La-like corners of the Panjshir, in a lush green valley bisected by the Panjshir River, is dwarfed by imposing naked mountains.
		The Taliban were planning a final offensive to wipe out any resistance, take control of the whole of Afghanistan and increase their support of hardcore Islamist movements in Central Asia, such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).
		One day, the Lion of the Panjshir himself showed up at the guesthouse, but they were away.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/DI12Ag02.html (3255 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Ahmed Shah Massoud \| Lion of Panjshir Ahmad Massoud Masoud Afghanistan
		Ahmed Shah Massoud ('the Lion of Panjshir'; born c.
		Osama bin Laden's point of view, it was necessary to eliminate the Lion of Panjshir in order to secure local territory for the expected retaliation from the US when he attacked NYC and the Pentagon.
		Panjshir Valley, and nine times they were repelled by forces commanded by Massoud.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /ahmed_shah_massoud.html (1629 words)

	The Survival Guide to Kabul - Photo Story: Panjshir and Massoud's Tomb
		The Panjshir Valley lies around 100 kilometres northeast of the capital, Kabul, but the drive to get there takes more than five hours.
		The first 50 kilometres are tarmac road, but suddenly the road ends and after that it's just rocks and dust, making the ride rather uncomfortable.
		The Panjshir River is one of the few fast flowing rivers in the country after five years of drought and the valley floor is a scene of biblical lushness, especially around harvest time in September (also the time of the anniversary of Massoud’s death).
	www.kabulguide.net /kbl-photostory-panjshir.htm (264 words)

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