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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pyandj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to Kahane, the "fundamental issue" which prompted the suspension of UNHCR operations was the "presence of combatants" among the Afghans displaced in Pyandj.
		Mixed up with the civilian population who fled the Taliban's advance into northern Afghanistan and have been camped on the Pyandj river flood plains since November are a group of armed fighters of the opposition Northern Alliance.
		Despite the suspension, the February mission found that the situation of the population on the border was "better than the situation of other Afghans internally displaced in Afghanistan and of the Afghan new arrivals in Jalozai (in Pakistan)."
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pyandj (233 words)

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		The Afghan embassy in Dushanbe says the fighters were there to protect the camps from Taleban attack.
		On May 1, Northern Alliance forces launched an offensive to secure the strategically important river port of Sherkhan on the Pyandj river.
		Should Massoud's forces seize the town, the refugees sheltering in the area should be able to return home.
	www.1worldcommunication.org /afghanrefugeesabandoned.htm (820 words)

	Panj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Soviet times it was known as Baumanabad and later as Kirovabad.
		It has also been known as Pyandj, Pyandzh, Kirowabad, Sarai, Sarai-Kamar, Saray Komar, and Saray-Kamar.
		It is not to be confused with the Tajik town of Dusty which has been known as Pyandj, Pyandzh, Molotovabad, Dŭsty, and Dusti.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panj (102 words)

	WHTL-2110.doc
		Its territory is unified lot located to the undercurrent of Pyandj River and found on its left bank.
		The relief is indented by deep gorges and streaming down to south west rivers with steep precipitous slopes.
		Pyandj and Obihingou Rivers are the main water streams on the territory of the reserve.
	whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=326&l=en&id=2110&&action=doc (405 words)

	Tigrovaya Balka - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		The reserve situated in the undercurrent of Vakhsh River between Pyandj and Kafirnighan rivers at the board of Afghanistan.
		Its territory elongated for the 40 kms from south-west to north-east.
		Ecosystem of water reservoirs and wetlands of the reserve widespread along Vakhsh and Pyandj Rivers and numerous lakes located in flood lands of their lower territories.
	whc.unesco.org /fr/listesindicatives/2108 (774 words)

	Basin Water Organization “Amudarya”
		Amudarya is the largest river in catchment area and water availability in Central Asia and is formed by Pyandj and Vakhsh rivers conjunction.
		Within 12 km from Pyandj and Vakhsh conjunction place Kunduz River (Afganistan) inflows from the left, within 38 km from the right Kafirnigan River, within 137 km Surkhandarya River, within 180 km Sherabad River.
		Recent years this is single possible point for Amudarya water resources assessment, because on rivers Pyandj, Vakhsh, Kafirnigan located in Tajikistan flow account is not carried out because of set of reasons.
	www.icwc-aral.uz /bwoamu.htm (2313 words)

	Radio Voice of Christ - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A joint Russian-Tajik commission will spend ten days being engaged in the take-over and delivery of ten border stations and three outposts with all infrastructure required for guarding the state border as well as the Khalkayar training center rated as one of the best in the FSB frontier guard service.
		After the take-over of property rallies with the participation of local authorities and neighboring village residents as well as a ceremony of downing the Russian flag and hoisting the Tajik flag will be held at the border stations.
		As the transfer of the Pyandj strip is over, the Tajikistan frontier guard committee will protect all the 1,344 kilometers of the Tajik-Afghan border.
	rvoc.gospelcom.net /news22.html (208 words)

	RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN
		To continue to meet the demand in Pakistan, UNHCR plans to open several new registration centres in the coming days, with at least one planned to begin registering returning Afghans from next week at Azakhiel, near Peshawar, and another in Karachi.
		In northern Afghanistan, Afghans have begun leaving their precarious camps in the Pyandj river, which forms the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
		Tuesday, Day 2 of the Pyandj operation, saw more than 1,500 Afghans leave the squalid sites where more than 9,000 Afghans have been stuck for a year and a half after fleeing the Taloqan region when it was taken by the Taliban in late 2000.
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/afghan?page=news&id=3cb46a104 (771 words)

	Publications
		It originates in the Pamir mountains and forms the Pyandj river at the Tajik-Afghan border.
		From its headwaters, the Amu Darya flows 2540 km west across Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and finally crosses the Uzbek region of Karakalpakstan to discharge into the Aral Sea.
		In the upstream section, the flow of the Amu Darya steadily increases due to the Kunduz, Kafirnigan, Surkhandarya, and Sherabad tributaries.
	www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu /publications/related_research/votrin/votrin_thesis.html (15304 words)

	Contributions: Afghanistan, Assistance to Tajikistan OCHA Situation Update No. 13, Situation Reports: Tajikistan, ...
		Reports of skirmishes at the Afghan/Tajik border are increasing and unconfirmed information that members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who until recently were fighting with the Taliban, have been observed close to the border posts 13 and 14 was announced at the Inter Agency meeting.
		This is an area close to the site of the largest concentration of the Afghan families displaced on the banks of the river Pyandj.
		On January 17, UNICEF provided assistance to a new settlement of displaced Afghan families on island no. 9 who were found to be in poor shape, with children barefoot and shivering in the cold temperatures.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACOS-64BUHC?OpenDocument (1943 words)

	News: Afghanistan, Tajikistan: UNHCR suspends relief to Pyandj fearing aid to fighters, News: Afghanistan: Cold Wave - ...
		The decision was relayed to Tajik authorities in the capital Dushanbe on Monday, he said.
		The Afghans are in an area to which access is controlled by the Tajik authorities and the Russian Border Forces in Tajikistan.
		People were living in makeshift shelters on a small flood plain and in permanent shelters on a bigger one nearby.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/b1385b3b2d0bd7be85256a0e00530004 (875 words)

	News: Afghanistan, Tajikistan: UNHCR suspends relief to Pyandj fearing aid to fighters, News: Afghanistan: Cold Wave - ...
		News: Afghanistan, Tajikistan: UNHCR suspends relief to Pyandj fearing aid to fighters, News: Afghanistan: Cold Wave - Feb 2001, Tajikistan: UNHCR suspends relief to Pyandj fearing aid to fighters, News: Afghanistan: Drought - Apr 2000, Tajikistan: UNHCR
		ISLAMABAD, 13 March (IRIN) - UNHCR's relief operations to 10,000 Afghan displaced stranded on Pyandj river flood plains on the Tajik-Afghan border have been suspended for fear of supporting armed fighters living within the population.
		In its report, the assessment team said the population at the Pyandj site appeared to have "stabilised".
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/3a81e21068ec1871c1256633003c1c6f/b1385b3b2d0bd7be85256a0e00530004?OpenDocument (875 words)

	Pyandj is a city in northern Tajikistan Tajikistan It is...
		Pyandj is a city in northern Tajikistan Tajikistan It is...
		"Pyandj" is a city in northern Tajikistan Tajikistan.
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	www.biodatabase.de /Pyandj (60 words)

	RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN
		As many as 70,000 people fled the renewed fighting, in addition to those already trying to escape the ravages of the drought.
		An estimated 10,000 civilians became trapped in freezing conditions on two spits of land in the Pyandj River which marks the border with Tajikistan after they were refused permission to enter that country.
		Another 60,000 people fled to Pakistan before that country closed its borders in November, 2000, saying it was unable to cope with any more refugees in the absence of ongoing international financial support.
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/afghan?page=newcrisis&pageNo=2 (299 words)

	EuropaWorld 12/1/2001 Children Dying of Cold in Afghan Camps
		Even larger numbers remain, displaced from their homes, inside Afghanistan with 150,000 homeless on the provinces of Heart and Badakhshan alone.
		The agency is also extremely concerned about 10,000 Afghans - mostly women and children - who have been stuck for weeks on a string of islands on the river Pyandj separating Afghanistan from Tajikistan.
		Tajikistan has so far refused to allow them in, despite UNHCR's interventions.
	www.europaworld.org /issue17/childrendyingofcoldinafghcamp12101.htm (198 words)

	Official web site of "Elena-tour" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There are more than 5000 species of plants and flowers, while mammals include bear, fox, lynx, marten, snow leopard and wolf, many of them (including the Bukhara deer) indigenousn.
		The valleys of the rivers Vaksh and Pyandj are well - stocked with brushwood deer, and the Pamirs are the ancient home of the wild ram.
		Tadjikistan has the geatest potential for expansion, however, perhaps lie in the country's very considerable mineral and energy resources.
	www.elenatour.uz /asia/tajikistan.html (607 words)

	Russian border forces intercept drug smugglers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		ISLAMABAD, 15 Dec 2000 (IRIN) - Russian border guards on Wednesday intercepted a boat carrying 15 armed drug smugglers attempting to cross from Afghanistan into Tajikistan, Interfax news agency reported.
		The incident happened as the Afghan group were met on the bank of the river Pyandj, on the Tajik-Afghan border, by a supporting team from Tajikistan.
		An exchange of gunfire broke up an attempted handover and both groups fled, the report said.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=7725 (252 words)

	Irrigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The rivers and their tributaries begin outside Uzbekistan.
		The Amudarya is formed by the confluence of the rivers Pyandj and Vakhsh, and the Syrdarya by the confluence of the rivers Narin and Karadarya.
		The Syrdarya is longer than the Amudarya, but has less water.
	umid.uz /Main/Uzbekistan/Geography/Irrigation/irrigation.html (660 words)

	PSR: Updated Information on the Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This development allowed for a train carrying 1000 tons of food to cross into Afghanistan.
		The Nijni Pyandj river crossing between Tajikistan and Afghanistan has also been opened and will enable Russian humanitarian aid to enter Kabul (Department for International Development, UK).
		Food tonnage entering Afghanistan has doubled in the last two weeks as the World Food Program has scaled up its operation; the final shipments to the Central Highlands needed to support almost one million people through the winter have been dispatched (The World Food Program).
	www.psr.org /home.cfm?id=pressroom15 (927 words)

	FOXNews.com - U.S. Gives Boats, Gear to Tajik Guards - International News \| News of the World \| Middle East News \| ...
		DUSHANBE, Tajikistan —; The United States on Monday donated patrol boats and electronic equipment to help Tajikistan guard its borders and stem the flow of heroin from neighboring Afghanistan.
		The U.S. Embassy said in a statement that it gave the Tajik Border Protection Committee five patrol boats to be used along the Pyandj River border, as well as more than 100 computers and 60 power generators to be used at desolate checkpoints.
		The equipment, worth $585,000 will help the ex-Soviet nation patrol its boundaries more efficiently, U.S. official Paul Shott said during a ceremony.
	www.foxnews.com /wires/2006Sep25/0,4670,TajikistanUSAid,00.html (466 words)

	Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The UN agency, UNHCR, is urging the Dushanbe authorities to admit the refugees, who fled fighting between the Northern Alliance and the Taleban movement in the north-east of Afghanistan.
		UNHCR is warning that 10,000 Afghans, marooned on islands in the Pyandj River, which runs along the border between the two countries, are threatened by disease and sporadic Taleban shelling.
		Military activity in the region has hampered efforts by aid agencies to supply food and clothing to the makeshift refugee camps.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/feb/19/19022006ed.htm (3503 words)

	UN News Centre - News Focus
		Two more vital corridors to ferry in urgently need humanitarian supplies in to northern Afghanistan re-opened during the weekend.
		On Saturday, Tajikistan opened the Nijni Pyandj - Shirkan Bandar River crossing between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and on Sunday, Uzbekistan allowed access across the so-called Friendship bridge, which links Termez to the northern Afghan town of Hairaton.
		WFP, UNHCR and UNICEF have already began moving supplies stored in Termez to Hairaton.
	www.un.org /apps/news/infocusnews.asp?NewsID=95&sID=5 (663 words)

	Nonviolence USA Global Hotspots2
		Oshima said 75 percent of that aid will be shipped to northern regions of Afghanistan.
		Oshima discussed with Tajik Emergency Situations Minister Mirzo Zieev the possibility of transporting relief aid via Tajikistan's Nizhnii Pyandj region.
		At a second press conference the following day, Oshima estimated the number of Afghan displaced persons in the regions of the country bordering on Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan at 500,000, ITAR-TASS reported.
	pages.prodigy.net /gmoses/nvusa/sept11l.htm (3355 words)

	U.N. Urges Tajikistan to Admit Afghans
		GENEVA, Switzerland- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Wednesday urged Tajikistan to admit up to 10,000 Afghans who have been stranded for weeks on the border between the two countries.
		The agency said the refugees, who had been pushed out of their homes by fighting in northeast Afghanistan, are marooned on islands and peninsulas in the Pyandj River that marks the border between with Tajikistan.
		This is only an excerpt from the full story.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/12/06/168.html (173 words)

	Pravda.RU AFGHAN REFUGEES FLEE TO TADJIKISTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Yesterday, about 100 people, apparently Afghan refugees, tried to illegally cross Tadjikistan's border in the Pyandj area.
		The border guard forced the refugees to return.
		The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.
	newsfromrussia.com /politics/2000/10/30/568.html (1326 words)

	Le Tadjikistan rejoint la Convention de Ramsar
		40º20'N -70º10'E) dans l'extrême nord-est du pays; la partie inférieure du fleuve Pyandj (ou Pjandj) (620 km de cours, berges et îles mais aucune superficie donnée, env.
		40º20’N 070º10’E), en el extremo nororiental del país; la parte inferior del río Pyandj (o Pjandj) (620 kilómetros de río, riberas e islas, pero no se especifica su superficie, ca.
		40°20’N 070°10’E), in the far northeast of the country; Lower part of Pyandj (or Pjandj) River (620km of river, shoreline, and islands, but no area given, ca.
	www.ramsar.org /archives/archives_trans_tajikistan1.htm (648 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		Interior Minister Temirbek Akmataliev, whose dismissal the opposition has called for, was named a member of the commission.
		The last of the estimated 12,000 Afghans who took refuge in late 2000 on islands in the Pyandj River that marks the Afghan-Tajik border to escape fighting between Taliban and Northern Alliance forces have set off for their abandoned homes, Asia Plus-Blitz reported on 19 April (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 2 and 16 April 2002).
		They have been supplied by the UNHCR with flour, soap, and materials to build temporary dwellings.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2002/04/2-TCA/tca-220402.asp?po=y (1538 words)

	SANDNet Weekly Update, December 14, 2001
		Through various measures, including troop deployment along its border with Afghanistan, Pakistani government has prevented the anticipated inflow of a large number of Afghan refugees into the country.
		The recent opening of the Friendship Bridge linking Uzbekistan to Afghanistan, as well as the Nijni Pyandj - Shirkhan Bandar River crossing between Tajikistan and Afghanistan was welcomed by the UNHCR.
		Writing for the Far Eastern Economic Review, Murray Hiebert describes the difficulties faced by various humanitarian aid agencies in getting emergency supplies to millions of Afghans.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/sand/Updates2001/V2N52.html (1350 words)

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