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Ghazni Province Online Research :: Information about Ghazni Province Ghazni is one of the thirty-four Provinces of Afghanistan. This province was once the seat of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire, that ruled all of Persian Empire and its eastern territories. The ethnic make-up of the province is mostly Pashtun with Hazara and Tajiks also present. www.in-northcarolina.com /search/Ghazni_Province.html   (191 words)

News Fresh : Article 'Herat Province' The province was one of the first major battlegrounds in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and remained an active area of guerilla warfare throughout, with local military commander and mujahideen Ismail Khan leading resistance to Soviet rule from 1979 until the Soviet withdawal in 1988 (see the article on the city of Herat for details). The province is currently (as of November 2003) ruled more or less autocratically by Khan, despite some attempts by the interim central government (headed by Hamid Karzai) to weaken the power of local strongment. January 10, 2003 The governor of Herat province, Afghanistan, Ismail Khan, placed further restrictions on women's education by banning women being taught by men in privately run courses and by preventing women from attending classes in a building at the same time that men are being taught. www.news-fresh.net /DisplayArticle257077.html   (16001 words)

iqexpand.com Sar-e Pol province Takhar province Vardak province Zabol province Geography Main article: Geography of Afghanistan Afghanistan is a mountainous country, although there are plains in the north and southwest... Sar-e Pol province Takhar province Vardak province Zabol province Geography Main article: Geography of Afghanistan Afghanistan is a mountainous country, although there are plains in the north and... Hamdard has complained that the recently built road between his province and neighboring Sar-e Pol Province is of poor quality, predicting that it will be damaged or destroyed after the first rainfall... sar-e_pol_province.iqexpand.com   (391 words)

RFE/RL Afghanistan Report It seems that a number of officials in frontier provinces travel out of the country in vehicles with political and foreign number plates and road passes without the permission of the center [capital]. All governors and security commanders of the provinces are responsible for invalidating all the road passes that have already been distributed. Kabul authorities complain that the 12 provinces, most notably western Afghanistan's Herat Province under Governor Ismail Khan, have been withholding their customs revenues from the central government. www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/05/17-230503.htm   (2980 words)

3C67FD1E64F1C3FAC1256C590046F0EA?OpenDocument With reports of security deteriorating in the north, and increased fighting in Gosfandi in Sar-e Pol Province, leading to the suspension of the UN mission there, Lubbers admitted there were still a number of problems. Further fact-finding in Northern provinces confirmed that while the number of displacements from the North has dropped significantly in recent months, conditions in a number of districts are such as to deter refugees and IDPs from coming back to their homes or even to prod further displacements. Return Commission for the North set up to facilitate the return of refugees and IDPs to the northern provinces (March 2003) www.idpproject.org /Sites/IdpProjectDb/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/3C67FD1E64F1C3FAC1256C590046F0EA?OpenDocument   (614 words)

Provinces of Afghanistan - TheBestLinks.com - April 13, March 28, 2004, Kondoz province, ... Provinces of Afghanistan, Afghanistan, April 13, March 28, 2004, Province... Provinces of Afghanistan - TheBestLinks.com - April 13, March 28, 2004, Kondoz province,... Note: The Daikondi and Panjshir province borders are not reflected in this map. www.thebestlinks.com /Provinces_of_Afghanistan.html   (97 words)

[ www.azadiradio.org ] General Abdul Sabur, a spokesman for Ata Mohammad, said fighting is continuing in Sar-e Pol Province, where he claimed seven fighters have been killed. Paktika Province Governor Mohammad Ali Jalali said on 29 September that up to 500 troops loyal to the Afghan Transitional Administration are being deployed in the Barmal District on the country's border with Pakistan, Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported. All seven men were bodyguards of Helmand Province Governor Mullah Shayr Mohammad Akhond, who was not with his bodyguards at the time of the attack. www.azadiradio.org /en/weeklyreport/2003/10/02.asp   (3159 words)

SAR Find graves of people named SAR at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know). Search the SAR Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available). Search the SAR Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available). www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/S/SAR.htm   (73 words)

Militia seizes capital of province in Afghanistan The San Diego Union-Tribune The governor of neighboring Sar-e Pol province also fled his post, Jalali said. Coming just two weeks after heavy fighting in the western province of Herat, a time when Afghan National Army troops also were deployed, the power struggle in Faryab highlights the continuing instability and the prevalence of armed militias that are plaguing much of the country. KABUL, Afghanistan – Forces loyal to Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum seized control of the capital of Faryab province in northern Afghanistan yesterday, forcing the governor to flee and drawing a sharp rebuke from President Hamid Karzai and his ministers in Kabul. www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040409/news_1n9afghan.html   (514 words)

Afghanistan The two famous statues of Buddha in the Bamiyan province were destroyed by the Taliban because they were regarded as being symbols of another religion. The earthquakes occurred at Samangan Province (March 3) and Baghlan Province (March 25). Afghanistan consists of 34 provinces, or velayat : www.randomnugget.com /resource-Afghanistan.html   (1556 words)

Afghanistan Provinces By 1964, the provinces of Badghis, Baghlan and Pul-i-Khumri, Bamian, Ghorat, Kalat, Kapisa, Konduz, Kunarha, Laghman, Lowgar, Nangarhar, Nimruz, Oruzgan, Paktia, Samangan, Talugan, and Wardak and Maiden had been formed, and Eastern, Kataghan, and Southern had disappeared in the process. provinces located in the territory of the old provinces. The tendency has been to create more provinces over the years. www.statoids.com /uaf.html   (1057 words)

[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ] International aid to Sar-e Pol Province and neighboring Faryab Province has been halted for the past two months because of "continuous confrontation in the region." Faryab Province has been the scene of sporadic clashes between commanders loyal to Jamiat-e Islami and the Junbish-e Melli parties (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 29 January and 24 February 2003). One of the commanders, Rahin, was reportedly among those killed in the fighting in the Gosfani District of Sar-e Pol Province. The hard-line daily warned that using such issues could undermine unity in the province, which is predominantly inhabited by Arabs but which also is home to Bakhtiari, Dezfuli, Lur, Behbehani, and Shushtari tribes. www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/03/6-SWA/swa-070303.asp?po=y   (2094 words)

Litchfield County Times - News - 11/14/2003 - An Area Group Finds a Way To Help Province in Afghanistan Sar-e Pol is home to 27,000 children under the age of 2. She showed slides from her 2001 trip to Sar-e Pol and shots of children brought some gasps from a quiet crowd. Three Towns for Sar-e Pol is now planning other programs in Washington and Bridgewater soon. www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10514317&BRD=2303&PAG=461&dept_id=478976&rfi=6   (882 words)

[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ] According to Hillier, NATO is expected to expand its force to the northern provinces of Balkh and Faryab, AFP reported on 16 June. Hamid Agha, the deputy head of the refugee department in Kandahar Province, was shot dead, the BBC reported on 15 June. He said the main challenge will not be to convince Hazrat Ali and his fighters that disarming is the way forward, but rather to make sure the young men under their command can find enough work to keep them in civilian clothes. www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/06/23-230604.htm   (3584 words)

Pakistanis to Aid U.S. Forces Near Border In recent weeks, factional fighting also has broken out in Nimruz province in the far southwestern part of the country, Wardak province just outside Kabul and Laghman province to the northeast of the capital. The warning to Bacha Khan could test the government's ability to establish control over provinces that historically have ignored edicts from Kabul. The use of government forces to settle a long-running dispute among local factions could set a precedent for bringing disputatious regional leaders to heel, or it could serve to widen the conflict. www.mea.gov.in /bestoftheweb/2002/05/02bow01.htm   (850 words)

[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ] Loyalists of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, head of the Junbish-e Melli party, have prevented Abdul Haq Shafaq from assuming his post as the new governor of Sar-e Pol Province in northern Afghanistan, Radio Afghanistan reported on 13 June. A Reuters correspondent in the southern province of Kandahar reported today that schoolchildren as young as 13 are being registered as if they are 18 years old. "As of today [8 June], if all went according to plans, the last two provinces that did not have registration sites, [Nuristan Province in the east and Paktika Province in the southeast,] now have them," de Almeida e Silva said. www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/06/22-180604.htm   (5298 words)

dxld1156.txt - The Taleban repulsed attacks of the Northern Alliance in Dara-e Suf in Samangan Province and in Gospandi and Sang Charak Districts of Sar-e Pol Province yesterday night. Media round-up 22 October 2001 Balkh radio heard on 22 October Radio Voice of Shari'ah of Balkh Province - the Taleban-controlled provincial radio station based in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif - was heard broadcasting its scheduled morning transmission from 0230-0430 gmt on 22 October. Balkh radio Following are items from the Pashto broadcast at 1330 gmt on 21 October: - The Taleban forces freed Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghowr Province, and its environs from the Northern Alliance this morning. www.angelfire.com /ok/worldofradio/dxld1156.txt   (6994 words)

MIC Remembrance Wall: Country, state and province codes Click on a country code to obtain the states, regions or provinces for that country: MIC Remembrance Wall: Country, state and province codes Autonomous communities (17); These are not prefaced by the ES country code: mic.imtc.gatech.edu /remembrance_wall/country.htm   (192 words)

Sar-e Pol Province -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Sar-e Pol province is one of the thirty-four (Click link for more info and facts about provinces of Afghanistan) provinces of Afghanistan. Sar-e Pol Province -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sar-e_pol_province.htm   (39 words)

Country Wire - Countrywatch.com 1338 At least five children were injured in a mine explosion in the Sar-e Pol Province yesterday. 1402 A reporter in Kandahar Province says that seven employees of a foreign organization were killed in an attack in Zabol Province today. It is said that roughly 30 per cent of all female teenagers use drugs in this province. aol.countrywatch.com /aol_wire.asp?vCOUNTRY=1&UID=1524728   (598 words)

miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=21937 A local commander, who was a member of Military Division No 82 in Sayed Abad District of Sar-e Pol Province, has voluntarily joined the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration [DDR] programme today. At the ceremony, the deputy commander of Military Division No 82 made a speech and voiced support for the policies of the central government. Military Division No 82 had earlier been disarmed. www.sabawoon.com /newsnew/miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=21937   (111 words)

Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear: V. Obstacles Confronting Women Parliamentary Candidates A woman from northern Sar-e Pol province said she would not run for parliament because she knows she will not win. [Woman from a province in the north] Because I’m independent, if I start campaigning, ten thousand people may come to me, but I should not campaign, because the political factions may come and stop me. It is said we can win by votes, but the reality is that factions will create…problems. [Woman from a province in the west] If someone is an independent candidate for parliament, and she is not supporting the [current authorities], they will make problems for her, men or women. www.hrw.org /backgrounder/asia/afghanistan1004/5.htm   (2118 words)

ISO_3166-2:AF ISO 3166-2:2004-03-08 (This newsletter added Khost province and Nurestan province, which were created in 2001 and 2002.) ISO 3166-2:AF codes for the provinces of Afghanistan. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such. www.partsquote.com /search.php?title=ISO_3166-2:AF   (104 words)

Emergency assistance reaches flood victims in Sar-e Pol KABUL, 20 May 2004 (IRIN) - Following heavy flooding in the northern province of Sar-e Pol, food aid and emergency assistance has been dispatched to badly affected families, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) told IRIN on Thursday. According to UNAMA, residents of some five remote villages in the Kohistanat district of Sar-e Pol, recently hit by a flash flood, received emergency supplies provided by UNAMA, UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=41176   (433 words)

Parvan province Online Research :: Information about Parvan province Parvan is one of the thirty-four Provinces of Afghanistan. Parvan province Online Research :: Information about Parvan province www.in-northcarolina.com /search/Parvan_province.html   (59 words)

2002 Floods Archive for HkH area - extracted from the Global Register of Extreme Flood Events Badghis Province - Qala-i-Naw and Ab Kamari districts. Rohri Canal Breach in Sindh Province on July 30. Guangdong province - Wuhua county in Meizhou city. www.southasianfloods.org /archives/flood/2002.html   (1636 words)

IRVAJ English - In an effort to provide thousands of internally displaced persons and refugees with the first hand information on conditions in their places and following the series of successful go-and-see visits to Northern provinces, (Fariab and Jowzjan) UNHCR is organizing the next one to the Sar-e Pol [Province] soon. Khuzestan Province, 9 May: A member of the board of directors of the Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce, Gholamreza Akbarizadeh, said here Sunday [9 May] that continuing insecurity in Iraq's cities is having a negative impact on Iran-Iraq trade. The predicted results (some words indistinct) and in the central provinces of the country the national army has been given the task of destroying poppy plants. www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=05&d=09&a=9   (7864 words)

Town Times - News - 10/07/2004 - Area Calendar Films for Sar-e Pol, Bank St. Theater, New Milford, film forum of five classic films to benefit women and children in Sar-e Pol province of Afghanistan. Henry E. duPont Planetarium Shows: 1 and 3 p.m. www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13084924&BRD=1379&PAG=461&dept_id=162912&rfi=6   (810 words)

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