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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Panjshir
		Panjshir Province Panjshir province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
		Panjshir was also a battle ground from 1996 to 2001 in the United States led war on the Taliban.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Panjshir (252 words)

	Panjshir Valley information - Search.com
		Panjshir Valley was a very big battleground in Afghanistan from 1980 to 1988.
		Panjshir was also a battleground in 1996, when Massoud used it as his main base to direct the fight against the Taliban militia, which was created by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
		The word "Panjshir" literally means 'Five Lions' corresponding to the five brothers that were highly spiritual and Wali's (The Men Of God) and were centered in that valley.
	www.search.com /reference/Panjshir_Valley (185 words)

	Quaest.io on Panjshir Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Panjshir Valley, also spelt Panjsher Valley (Dari: دره پنجشير; literally Valley of the Five Lions) is a valley in Afghanistan, 150km north of Kabul, near the Hindu Kush.
		The region was propelled into the news by the eponymous Panjsher Valley Incident, a 1975 Islamist uprising led by Ahmed Shah Massoud, an ethnic Tajik.
		however, Massoud would later more successfully use the valley as the base for his Northern Alliance, and during the 1979-1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Panjsher Valley was one of the main centres of rebellion by Afghan mujahideen against the government of Mohammad Najibullah and the Soviet forces.
	www.quaest.io /?title=panjshir-valley (413 words)

	Panjshir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Afghan Opposition Flexes its Muscles In northern Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley held by the opposition, there is a sense of expectation as pressure builds up on the Taleban.
		BBC News: Profile: The Lion of Panjshir A portrait of the Mujahadeen commander of the Northern Alliance, Ahmed Shah Masood, and how serious a blow it will be for the alliance if it transpires that he has been seriously injured or killed.
		In Memory of Beloved Ahmed Shah Massoud 1953-2001 Photo tribute to the memory of the Lion of Panjshir.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Panjshir.html (245 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 reason is that the valley is the stronghold of the Panjshiri Tajiks, who continue to dominate the Defence Ministry.
	www.kabulcaravan.com /panjshir.php (404 words)

	[Women-peace-and-security] Disarmament drive in Panjshir Valley angers villagers
		PANJSHIR VALLEY: An assortment of heavy weapons were removed on Sunday
		from Jabal Siraj at the entrance to the valley.
		Mohammed Qaseem Fahim, in the Panjshir Valley in December.
	list.web.net /archives/women-peace-and-security/2004-February/000836.html (471 words)

	Afghanistan: Executions in Panjshir - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
	web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/Index/ASA110042001?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES%5CAFGHANISTAN (1800 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)

	TheStar.com - Slain hero protects Afghan valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The tomb of assassinated Tajik leader Ahmed Shah Massoud is on a hilltop overlooking his birthplace in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley which leads to the Tajikistan border.
		Such are the idiosyncrasies of the impregnable Panjshir Valley, which despite the occasional surprise that lurks beneath a traveller's mattress, remains far and away the safest place in Afghanistan.
		With the vast majority of their kind not in the valley proper, but mired in the more volatile capital Kabul, three hours drive southeast, the people of the Panjshir know that their fate will be tied to that which awaits the whole of Afghanistan.
	www.guelphmercury.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=677894c0713c4488&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1160430612578&call_pageid=1140433364397&col=1140433364286 (889 words)

	Afghan defence minister seen as brake on factions' disarmament
		An ethnic Tajik from the Panjshir valley, Fahim is seen as having strong ethnic loyalties to fellow Panjshiris, including Karzai's former education minister Yunus Qanooni, who has just stepped down in order to challenge Karzai for the presidency.
		Born in a small village in the Panjshir Valley to a Muslim cleric, Fahim went on to study Islamic law in Kabul.
		The general played a central role in the September 1996 strategic withdrawal from Kabul, returning to the Tajik heartland of the Panjshir to continue battling the Taliban, both in the valley and in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, where bloody fighting erupted in 1997.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040727123910.r4w0lk3i.html (482 words)

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		Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan - Assassinated Afghan opposition commander Ahmad Shah Masood, the "Lion of Panjshir," was buried on Sunday at a funeral attended by thousands of emotional villagers in the Panjshir Valley.
		Masood's coffin arrived at his beloved Panjshir Valley by helicopter from northeastern Takhar province, where the veteran guerrilla died on Saturday of injuries sustained in a suicide bombing the previous Sunday.
		The 48-year-old ethnic Tajik defended the Panjshir against the Soviet army throughout the 1979-89 occupation and has never let it fall to the radical Islamic militia which captured Kabul in 1996.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?sf=2813&set_id=&sf=2813&click_id=3&art_id=qw1000630382466M231&set_id=1 (800 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.
		Massoud's tomb is a plain white building with a gleaming green dome towards the valley entrance.
		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)

	Soldier of Fortune Magazine
		Historically, the natural barriers that isolate the people of the Panjshir Valley from neighboring communities also offer inhabitants a tactical sanctuary.
		Local optimism for the road project was apparent when all shopkeepers in the valley volunteered to tear down their storefronts to allow for the 6-meter-wide road.
		Dianna Wuagneux, USAID development advisor to the coalition, said two important factors contribute to the success of the Panjshir Valley road project.
	www.sofmag.com /news/permalink/2006/7/13/0235082783845.html?section=Armed_Forces_New&start=150 (492 words)

	New Afghan Road Offers Gateway to Optimism
		Construction on the 47-kilometer paved road began in June and is scheduled for completion by the end of this year.
		To supplement the USAID project, the coalition is using Commander's Emergency Reconstruction Program funding to extend the road approximately 20 additional kilometers down the main valley floor at a cost of $2.8 million.
		While the physical remoteness of the Panjshir Valley has created a secure, tight-knit society, its ancient seclusion also has served as an economic hindrance -- that is, until now, U.S. officials said.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,104400,00.html?ESRC=dodnews.RSS (459 words)

	Afghanistan News Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Panjshir is the former stronghold of Northern Alliance forces, who helped the US-led coalition topple the hard-line Taliban regime in December 2001.
		The heavy weapons identified in Panjshir Valley constitute the majority of those assessments still outstanding in the nationwide cantonment of HW [heavy weapons], Jesko Johannsen, an information officer for the ANBP, told IRIN.
		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.afghanistan.org /news_detail.asp?17531 (646 words)

	Stars & Stripes: Mujahedeen of Afghan valley slow to warm to disarmament
		PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan — For the legendary fighters of the mujahedeen, defending the Panjshir Valley against the Soviets and the Taliban was an epic struggle, one that has earned this valley a revered place in Afghan history.
		The valley, which American officials say is overflowing with weapons — officials estimate that there are more than 100 weapons depots hidden in the rugged terrain, or about 3,000 truckloads’ worth — is part of a U.N. program that aims to disarm illegal and former militant groups in Afghanistan.
		While the disarmament process has been largely successful both nationally and in Panjshir Valley — nearly 37,000 weapons have been recovered nationally; in the valley, nine to 15 truckloads are surrendered each week — officials say the valley is uniquely reticent to give up its defenses.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=35345 (802 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)

	Ahmad Shah Massoud \| Obituaries \| News \| Telegraph
		GENERAL AHMAD SHAH MASSOUD, who has died aged 49, was the military commander of the guerilla forces that resisted the hardline Islamic Taliban regime in Afghanistan; his was the only cohesive military opposition to the Taliban and the only such group to be taken seriously in the West.
		Massoud became known as the "Lion of Panjshir" to his followers during the 1980s for his success in resisting Soviet efforts to seize his strategic stronghold in the Panjshir valley in central Afghanistan.
		Massoud was forced to resume his life as a guerilla commander in the north, raising funds for his struggle through taxation of the trade in emeralds from the Panjshir Valley and lapis lazuli from southern Badakhshan; he bought munitions from Russia and Iran.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/17/db01.xml (929 words)

	Warriors bid farewell to Lion of Panjshir \| Afghanistan \| Asia \| International News \| News \| Telegraph
		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.
		Mourners use an armoured vehicle at the burial of Massoud in the Panjshir valley yesterday
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/17/wlion17.xml (790 words)

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		PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Patients walked as far as six miles, and waited as long as eight hours, for treatment by Air Force medics from the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team who visited the Paryan district on July 15 and 16.
		Three medics from the Panjshir PRT treated more than 200 patients during the Medical Civic Action Program, or MEDCAP, which was coordinated at the invitation of Panjshir Director of Health Dr. Jellani.
		At nearly 10,000 feet above sea level, Paryan is the northernmost, and has the highest elevation, of the six districts in the Panjshir Valley.
	www.centcom.mil /sites/uscentcom1/FrontPage%20Stories/Panjshir%20PRT%20medics%20visit%20remote%20Afghan%20district.aspx (554 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Ahmad Shah Massoud was born September 2, 1953 in Jangalak, Panjshir Valley, the son of police commander Dost Mohammad Khan.
		Massoud's nickname, the "Lion of Panjshir" is a rhyme and play on words in Persian, which alludes to the strength of his resistance against the Soviet Union, the mythological exaltation of the lion in Persian literature, and finally, the place name of the Panjshir Valley, where Massoud was born.
		The place name of "Panjshir" Valley in Persian means (Valley of the) Five Lions.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Ahmed_Shah_Massoud (2158 words)

	A Kuchi child is seated on a donkey as a family leaves the Panjshir Valley for Kabul \| Afghans.in (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A Kuchi child is seated on a donkey as a family leaves the Panjshir Valley for Kabul
		A Kuchi child is seated on a donkey as a family leaves the Panjshir Valley for Kabul
		A Kuchi child is seated on a donkey as a family leaves the Panjshir Valley for Kabul, some 100km north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005.
	www.afghans.in /node/19 (142 words)

	SABCnews.com - world/asia1pacific
		They went to the Panjshir Valley, some 100 km, where the UNHCR housed them in tented camps.
		They were settled by the UNHCR in Awaringha camp in the Panjshir Valley.
		Of these, about 4 000 families are in the Panjshir Valley, while 2 500 families are living in "difficult conditions" in the former Soviet Union compound in Kabul.
	www.sabcnews.com /world/asia1pacific/0,2172,25925,00.html (537 words)

	News: Afghanistan, Thirty killed in Afghan landslide: report, News: Afghanistan: Drought - Apr 2000, Thirty killed in ...
		KABUL, July 30 (AFP) - Thirty people are dead after a massive landslide in the Panjshir valley northeast of the Afghan capital, a television report said Wednesday.
		The report did not say when the disaster occurred or give its exact location in the valley, whose entrance is 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Kabul.
		Last month three children were killed and 10 adults injured by landslides triggered by heavy rain that devastated their remote village in the northern province of Badakhshan, which borders the watershed at the northern end of the Panjshir.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACOS-64C23Z?OpenDocument (206 words)

	info: Panjshir_province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Panjshir team aids mosque repair 1/5/2007 - PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- Thanks to the cooperative efforts of an Afghan village, coalition forces and an engineering firm, a mosque that was in the way of a road...
		Panjshir PRT facilitates mosque repair 1/5/2007 - PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Thanks to the cooperative efforts of an Afghan village, Coalition Forces and an engineering firm, a mosque that was in the way of a road construction...
		Afghanistan Provinces Panjshir province split from Parvan (former AF.PR, AF22).
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Panjshir_province.html (378 words)

	Afghanistan in bloom after 7 years of drought
		PANJSHIR VALLEY, Aug 08 (SANA): Seven years of drought had left fields monochrome plains of brown dust.
		But good snows and rains have many Afghans seeing color again -- seas of golden wheat undulate in the breeze, green apricot trees are plump with yellow fruit, melons of every hue dot fields.
		Opium harvest benefits, too A little farther north into the Panjshir Valley -- where Islamic guerrillas battled Soviet occupation troops in the 1980s -- apricot and mulberry orchards line the banks of Panjshir River.
	www.kashar.net /complete.asp?id=2019 (444 words)

	Islamic Relief - Panjshir Flood Relief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A natural dam in the Hazara Valley of North central Afghanistan collapsed damaging and destroying 60 houses, farmland, mills and killing animals and several people.
		For many in this area, the annual wheat crop was on the verge of being harvested when it was washed away by the flood.
		12 villages of Darah Azara District of Panjshir Valley were devastated by the flood.
	www.islamic-relief.com /projects/afghan/11.htm (308 words)

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