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- ACT International. Drought & Food Insecurity. Geneva, 4 December 2008.
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Champtala is a refugee camp in Surkh Rod District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
The camp holds (as of December 2008) over 1,250 refugees who have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan. Some of the refugees travel 30 km to the city of Jalalabad to work as laborers.
The camp receives some water and facilities from UNHCR and UNICEF. Health assistance is provided by CWS, HNI, and the Afghan Ministry of Public Health.
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Jalalabad is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about 80 miles (130 km) from the capital Kabul. Jalalabad is located at the junction of the Kabul River and the Kunar River in a plateau to the south of the Hindu Kush mountains. It is linked by highways with Kabul to the west and the Pakistani city of Peshawar to the east including through the Khyber Pass.
Gul Agha Sherzai, also known as Mohammad Shafiq, is a politician in Afghanistan. He is the former governor of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan. He previously served as Governor of Kandahar province, in the early 1990s and from 2001 until 2003. In October 2013, Sherzai resigned from his post as governor and formally announced himself as a candidate for Afghanistan's 2014 Presidential Election. He is presently the minister of border and tribal affairs.
Nangarhār also called Nangrahar or Ningrahar, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country and bordering Logar, Kabul, Laghman and Kunar provinces as well as an international border with Pakistan. It is divided into twenty-two districts and has a population of about 1,735,531, the third highest of the country's 34 provinces. The city of Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province.
The Shinwari is an ethnic Pashtun tribe of Afghanistan and KPK. Among the famous Cricketers of Afghanistan are Rashid Khan and Samiullah Shinwari The Shinwari tribe is son of Kasi Pashtun tribe settled in the eastern disctricts of Nangarhar Province, in Haska Meyna, Achin, Rodat, Bati Kot, Kot, Chaprahar, Shinwar, Dor Baba and Nazian districts. A major portion of the tribe is centered in Jalalabad City of Afghanistan. These Shinwaris are mostly traders and businessmen. The Shinwari are also located in Kunar, Parwan, Kabul, Kunduz and Balkh Province. Reporting from 2010 states that there are around 400,000 Shinwari in Afghanistan.
Haji Abdul Qadeer was a prominent Northern Alliance leader in Afghanistan and opposed the Taliban. Originally a commander of the Hezb-i Islami Khalis faction during the Soviet-Afghan War, he then served as governor of Nangarhar Province, the head of the Eastern Afghanistan Shura, and later Vice President of Afghanistan and Minister of Public Works in the administration of Hamid Karzai from 19 June 2002 until his assassination on 6 July 2002. He was the older brother of fellow anti-Soviet and Northern Alliance commander Abdul Haq, who was executed in late 2001 by the Taliban.
Kama is a district in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, to the east of Jalalabad. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 180,000 in 2012. The district is within the heartland of the Mohmand tribe of Pashtuns. The district centre is the village of Sanger Srye Kama. The districts includes most of the Kama Valley.
Surkh-Rōd.(Pashto/Persian: سرخرود/ سره رود), also spelled as Surkh-Rūd or Sorkh-Rūd,Also called Sra-rod or Sra- road, is a district in the north of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The district centre is the town of Sultanpur. It is well known to locals because of its abundance of fertile land, however it is currently facing a lack of water.
Darūnṭa, also spelled Daruntah or Derunta, is a village in Jalalabad District of Nangarhar province. It is located next to Jalalabad city on route AO1 in Afghanistan.
Tetsu Nakamura, also known as Kaka Murad ,(15 September 1946 – 4 December 2019), was a Japanese physician and honorary Afghan citizen who headed Peace Japan Medical Services (PMS), an aid group known as Peshawar-kai in Japanese.
Dr. Mohammad Amin Fatemi is a noted Afghan physician and politician. He has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland for Mediterranean countries. He was the Public Health Minister of Afghanistan, appointed during a cabinet reshuffle in 2004, having previously served in the same role from 1993 to 1995. Suraya Dalil became acting Minister in 2010 and Minister of Public Health (MoPH) in 2012.
Sorubi is a community in the southern corner of Rodat District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
Hasti Gul Abid is an Afghan cricketer. Gul is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace and plays for the Afghanistan national cricket team.
Afghans in Pakistan are citizens of Afghanistan who are temporarily residing in Pakistan as refugees or asylum seekers. Most were born and raised in Pakistan during the last four decades. They are under the care and protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Among them are members and supporters of the Taliban, including those such as the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants who are awaiting to be resettled in the United States. Many are financially supported by family members residing in North America, Europe, Oceania, and elsewhere.
Hamidullah Qalandarzai was born in Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. He is the former governor of Khost Province, replacing Arsala Jamal.
Bihsud District is a district of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The district, which contains 40 main villages, is located around the city Jalalabad, spanning both sides of the Kabul River. The district was previously a unit which contained the city of Jalalabad, but in 2004 the city became independently administered under the municipality system, and the portions of the district not contained within the city became Bihsud District. Oranges, rice, and sugarcane grow in the fertile district, and the capital city has cane-processing and sugar-refining as well as papermaking industries. The district's year-round summery weather attracts many visitors.
Dr. Syed Ghulam Farooq Mirranay was born in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan in 1950. He is a senior member of the Afghan Social Democratic Party and was an elected member of the House of the People ) from 2005 to 2010. Mirranay is the official spokesperson for the Afghan Mellat Party and speaks both official Afghanistan languages, Pashto and Dari, as well as English.
2003 in Afghanistan. A list of notable incidents in Afghanistan during 2003
The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Afghanistan.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Afghanistan when its index case, in Herat, was confirmed on 24 February 2020.
This article documents the timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan.
