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	Afghanistan's Chance to Heal
		Wardak, a serious woman of 49 with a sturdy build and dark green eyes, operates a rudimentary clinic -- a couple of beds, an IV drip and basic medical supplies -- out of her rural home.
		She was trained as a gynecologist, but in a province with so few doctors, she ends up handling any medical case that comes her way, day or night.
		Wardak conceded that her decision to enter politics was a gamble: Can she do more for the people of her destitute province in the parliament than in her clinic?
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121701119_pf.html (1376 words)

	3rd Battalion in action - Roanoke.com
		WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan – As the sun peeked over the mountains early on the morning of April 15, three CH-47 Chinook helicopters packed with U.S. and Afghan soldiers sped toward their target.
		Wardak Province is southwest of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.
		Ortner said a coalition presence in the province is important because of its proximity to the capital and the Ring Road, Afghanistan’s lone major highway that connects several of its biggest cities.
	www.roanoke.com /special_reports/wb/xp-22328 (559 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Projects Put Strain On Afghan Province
		By most standards, Wardak province should be a model for the rest of Afghanistan.
		Poppy is a relatively new crop in Wardak, and thus the region was deemed a relatively painless spot to initiate the government's new program to forcibly eradicate opium poppies.
		But they questioned why Wardak, whose farmers grow far less poppy than those in many other provinces, was the first to be targeted after two years of official indulgence.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A50495-2004May23?language=printer (1500 words)

	Afghanistan - Lessons in Terror: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan
		Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, straddles the road from Kabul to Kandahar.
		Wardak experienced a series of attacks on schools in 2005 and threats against schools, teachers, and other education officials.
		In December 2005, Human Rights Watch interviewed several teachers and education officials from the province who at first denied there were any security problems, then admitted that problems did exist, but blamed the Taliban-even though the province's distance from the Pakistani border and the influence of Sayyaf's forces make such a contention unlikely.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/afghanistan/2006/education/letter4.htm (228 words)

	VirginiaGuard.com ~ News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- As the sun peeked over the mountains early on the morning of Apr. 15, three CH-47 Chinook helicopters packed with U.S. and Afghan Soldiers sped toward their target in Wardak province.
		Wardak province is located southwest of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.
		Because of its proximity to the capital along with the fact that Ring Road – Afghanistan’s lone major highway that connects several of the country’s biggest cities – passes through the eastern part of the province, Ortner said a Coalition presence in the province is important.
	www.virginiaguard.com /news/apr2005/3-116thairassault.html (696 words)

	FAO Representation in Afghanistan
		The Spinghar torrents and watershed are in the Spinghar mountains south of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province.
		The mountains form the frontier with Pakistan and give rise to a complex of torrents which flow southwest into the valleys of Paktiya province and the plains of Khost province, and northeast to the fertile districts of the Nangarhar piedmont.
		The Logar River arises in the southern Hazarajat in central Afghanistan and flows southeast through Wardak province where it is replenished from a number of deep springs in Tangi Wardak, and on through Logar province to join the Kabul River at Kabul city.
	www.fao.org /world/afghanistan/prof_rivers_kabul_en.htm (579 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Afghan parliament unites former foes
		Wardak, 49, a serious woman with a sturdy build and dark green eyes, operates a rudimentary clinic — a couple of beds, an IV drip and basic medical supplies — out of her rural home.
		She was trained as a gynecologist, but in a province with so few doctors, she handles any medical case that comes her way, day or night.
		Wardak said her decision to enter politics was a gamble: Can she do more for the people of her destitute province in the Parliament than in her clinic?
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002691555_afghan19.html (1166 words)

	USATODAY.com - Uncertainty, violence darken Afghans' hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An hour's drive west of Kabul, Wardak province should be a success story — and for a while, it was.
		The progress in Wardak is being chipped away by a strengthening insurgency and emboldened criminal gangs.
		Wardak is still safer than lawless Kandahar and Helmand in the south.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-10-04-afghan-violence-cover_x.htm (2201 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nangahar Province police spokesman Ghafor Khan said the bodies of the woman as well as a wounded child were found in a house near the battle in Nangahar's Chaparhar district.
		Wardak Province police chief Pacha Gul Bakhtiary also reported the crash, saying local authorities were searching for wreckage.
		The governor vowed to eradicate poppy fields elsewhere in the restive province as the antidrug campaign in his area enters its fourth and final stage.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2006/03/6-SWA/swa-100306.asp (1997 words)

	Our Programs
		ERD is working in the province of Wardak where the average income is less than $10/month, and in the poor suburb of Kabul called Jangalak where hundreds of children beg in the streets to survive.
		ERD is supporting the construction of the Wardak Primary/Secondary School in the Wardak Province, south-west of Kabul.
		The villagers of Wardak Province requested a clinic to serve the needs of the local population.
	www.er-d.org /programs_59282_ENG_Print.html (603 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For instance, two respondents who resided in Shindand in Farah province reported that they would return to the district to work as an itinerant harvester in their own village after completing the opium poppy harvest in Helmand.
		The number of provinces from which respondents came from and the resettlement of different tribes in the canal area of lower Helmand during the 1960's and 1970's probably explains the diversity of Pashtoon tribes represented amongst those interviewed.
		Indeed, whilst the majority of respondents indicated that they had travelled from their district specifically to obtain work on the opium poppy harvest, a number of respondents reported that they had only taken work in the opium poppy fields due to their failure to find wage labour opportunities in the local area.
	www.unodc.org /pakistan/en/report_1999-06-30_1_page004.html?print=yes (1632 words)

	Institute of Journalism, Wardak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wandering through the various scenes of Chak District, Wardak Province, it becomes immediately evident that the valley reflects both Afghans and ancient Wardika culture.
		The inhabitants â“ Wardaks â“ were host of an estimated 20,000,000 Afghans â“ particularly women and children â“ all for free over a decade period of Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
		Brightness and hospitality are the key features of these valleys inhabitants as in whole Wardak region there was intentionally no single restaurant to sell food, instead all refugees were warmly welcomed and accommodated at homes at large.
	www.ijwa.net /4.html (347 words)

	INTERVIEW WITH ROHANI WARDAK, A PRO TALEBAN COMMANDANT
		Rohani Wardak, the director of the Afghan Centre for Rural Development (ACRD), an Afghan NOG operating in the Wardak Province near the capital Kabul said the situation in Afghanistan is calm "due to heavy snow fall" that has stopped almost all military operations.
		Wardak ruled out any possibility of the Taleban accepting to form a broad-based coalition government with other organisations, as suggested by UN and firmly supported by neighbouring Islamic Iran.
		Rohani Wardak - Same old differences over power sharing that led the different factions after the ousting of the Russians to fight each other for four years, ruining what was left from the occupation.
	www.iran-press-service.com /articles/wardak.html (1681 words)

	Air Force Times - News - More News.
		Salangi, Eikenberry and Wardak Gov. Abdul Jabbar Naeemi moved on to ask more ordinary Afghans about their lives near this village about 35 miles west of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
		USA Today accompanied Eikenberry Friday on a day trip to Wardak province, an area that is far from the fighting in Afghanistan’s eastern and southern provinces.
		Red tape in Kabul has blocked funding needed for Wardak to set up radio and television stations, something Eikenberry believes is crucial for keeping Afghans informed about the upcoming election and what their government is doing.
	www.airforcetimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-970774.php (958 words)

	As a consequence of nearly 20 years of war, tragedies are added one after another to the Afghan nation which make the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This was especially true in Logar province but in 1998 due to the high precipitation and thus high relative humidity the incidence of rust disease was responsible for decreasing the wheat's yield.
		The two clinics in Wardak as well as the one in Logar are successfully operating while the fourth one located in Ghazni was stopped at the end of September 1998 due to the difficulties in logistical issues.
		One of the most important problem of herdsmen in provinces of Logar and Wardak is shortage of quality feed in long winter, animals are too weak in early spring to do their draughting and delivering their calves and lambs, and produce the milk.
	www.pcpafg.org /Organizations/coar/Coaranr98.htm (11230 words)

	ISN Security Watch - A long, bloody summer ahead for Afghanistan
		Helmand, Uruzgan, Zabul and Kandahar provinces, all of which border on Pakistan, are commonly referred to as ârestiveâ or âvolatileâ - but these descriptions now also apply to places like Wardak, a mere 40 kilometers from the capital Kabul.
		The insurgents in Wardak are working to classic guerrilla tactics designed to cut the American troopsâ fuel and supply lines, and to intimidate the local population and erode cooperation with the foreign troops, and with the central Afghan government they protect.
		According to many Wardak residents, mullahs in the province are taking the side of the insurgents, using prayer gatherings to preach jihad and urging locals to take part in the struggle against the government and the Americans.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=16205 (2608 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He lives in Wardak province, a test tube near Kabul for all the government's new programs.
		It is the first province in Afghanistan that aims to eradicate poppy fields entirely; officials said recently that about 3,300 acres of crops had been destroyed.
		Like the rest of Wardak province, this village started to grow poppies for the first time last year.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/C65D5B95EEA4F72287256ECE005449F7?OpenDocument (1009 words)

	Afghan Resistance Attacks Against US Continue US Base Hit With Missiles
		Two police officers died and one was hurt on Sunday by a remote control device in Sia-sang, a village in restive Uruzgan province, provincial governor Jan Mohammed said.
		Police chief of Nangarhar province have claimed to arrest two suspected Pakistani nationals Niaz Gul and Naveed from Chatrob area, while they were roaming in the area in police uniform.
		Four rockets, fired from an unknown location, hit building of the communication department in Maidan Shahr, west of the central capital.Colonel Masoom Khan, deputy police chief of the province, told Pajhwok Afghan News the rockets were fired from Lalandar area, six kilometres south of the provincial capital.
	www.rense.com /general67/vad.htm (721 words)

	Why War? Heavy Fighting Breaks out in Central Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At least nine people have been killed in heavy fighting in Afghanistan's central Wardak province between two warlords vying for control of the region, according to Afghan Islamic Press reports.
		Wardak, a former Taliban stronghold, was the scene of the first major clash between the Northern Alliance and the Islamic militia after they fled Kabul in November.
		Fighting in Afghanistan's outlying provinces is causing mounting concern for the interim government ahead of moves to establish a Loya Jirga, or traditional grand assembly, to select the country's next leadership.
	www.why-war.com /news/read.php?id=1420&printme (390 words)

	Partnership for Education in Afghanistan - School Projects
		Partnership for Education of Children in Afghanistan (P.E.C.A.) works with designated authorities in Afghanistan to assist in the education and health care of children in rural Afghanistan where the educational needs of girls and boys are underserved by the larger educational aid organizations.
		Our goal is to obtain sponsors for the 102 students in the 5th and 6th grades and we are happy to report that we now have sponsors for 27 of the 102 students.
		The irrigation system collapsed during the twenty-three Soviet occupation and civil war and because Wardak was on the front line in the war between different resistant groups.
	www.afghanimodelschool.org /school_projects.htm (1984 words)

	U.S.-Afghanistan Reconstruction Council
		Status: The Ministry of Planning has approved the technical plan for the construction of a the new facility to be funded by Japanese Government.
		The demand for education in Afghanistan is great and must be met quickly.
		To meet this need, US-ARC has partnered with the Omaid Foundation to help establish the first ever girls' school in Godah, Wardak Province, with the overwhelming support of the Shura (village council).
	www.us-arc.org /education_godah.asp (1217 words)

	AFGHANICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On Thursday 26 February a contract for the Performance-based Partnership Agreement (PPA) for Wardak province was signed between the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and the Ministry of Health.
		We have a good performance record in Afghanistan over many years, and we are happy to be a part of the new development in health.
		Since October 2003, SCA is implementing partner for the Ministry of Health in Kunduz province.
	www.afghanica.org /news/sca_wardak.htm (600 words)

	Spero News: In Afghanistan 4 health workers die in explosion
		At least four Afghan health workers were killed when their vehicle was hit by a land mine in the central province of Wardak, officials confirmed on Tuesday in the capital Kabul.
		The blast occurred on Monday in Jalrees district of Wardak province while the medical team was travelling towards Daikundi province, Abdullah Fahim, health ministry spokesman, told IRIN.
		In 2005, a total of 31 aid workers were killed in different parts of the country; an increase over the 24 killed in 2004, according to the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office (ANSO), based in Kabul.
	www.speroforum.com /site/print.asp?idarticle=3698 (390 words)

	‘Da manai gul mela’ held in Maidan Wardak
		MAIDAN SHAHR, May 14 (SANA): Hundreds of writers, poets, literary figures, government officials and common citizen joined the traditional "Da Manai Gul Mela" (apple flower), which was held in the Saidabad district of the central Maidan Wardak province.
		The function was organised with the assistance from the Asia Foundation, Afghan Wireless Communications and the provincial government.
		"Da Manai Gul Mela" is being celebrated in the Maidan Wardak province since the ouster of Taliban in 2001.
	www.kashar.net /complete.asp?id=3574 (164 words)

	Feminist Wire Daily Newsbriefs: U.S. and Global News Coverage
		All of the schools were located near the Afghan capitol of Kabul in the Wardak province.
		Seven other girls’ schools have also been targets of violence, including a school in the Wardak province that was forced to close by a group of gunmen earlier this month.
		In addition, two schools in the northern provinces were burned to the ground and three in the southeastern province of Zabul.
	www.msmagazine.com /news/uswirestory.asp?id=7233 (505 words)

	A once-violent Afghan village trades guns for peace \| csmonitor.com
		For Jaghatoo and other villages and towns in the province of Wardak, west of Kabul, disarmament is a milestone in the region's return to normalcy, and perhaps prosperity.
		Wardak and Crown Prince Mirwaiz Shah with five Kalashnikov assault rifles, something even the poorest rural Afghan household keeps for protection.
		But at a nearby weapons cache, local security chief Mohammad Sharif says that the people of Wardak have always wanted to give up their guns – they were compelled to defend themselves when they were attacked by others.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0805/p07s01-wosc.html (906 words)

	Project Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		OLC is currently seeking for funds to build permanent structures for Noor Khel and Godah girls schools in Wardak province.
		The communities of Wardak province—a region where few, if any, NGOs are currently focusing their efforts—desperately need these facilities.
		Permanent buildings for Noor Khel and Godah schools are crucial in providing students with a safe and stable education; these structures will also offer the students protection from the sun, wind, and other elements while they are in school.
	www.advocacynet.org /cpage_view/AfghanSchools_WARDAKPROVINCE_37_458.html (329 words)

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