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Nuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It is divided into seven districts and is Afghanistan's least populous province, with a population of around 167,000. Parun serves as the provincial capital. Nuristan is bordered on the south by Laghman and Kunar provinces, on the north by Badakhshan province, on the west by Panjshir province.
Colonel General Abdul Kadir Dagarwal was an Afghan politician, diplomat, and a military officer in the Afghan Air Force who participated in the coup d'état that created the Republic of Afghanistan under the President Dawood Khan, and later directed the Afghan Air Force and Army Air Corps squadrons that attacked the Radio-TV station during the Saur Revolution.
Afghanistan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The Central Asian nation returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona.
Afghanistan is a multiethnic and mostly tribal society. The population of the country consists of numerous ethnolinguistic groups: mainly the Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and Uzbek and minorities of Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashai, Nuristani, Gujjar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Pamiri, Kyrgyz, Sadat, and others. Altogether they make up the Afghan people.
Watapur District is situated in the central part of Kunar Province in Afghanistan. It was split from Asadabad district. The district is mountainous with 60 large and small villages. The population is around 60,000. Degan, Safi, Ragakhel, Sharbekhel, Nanekhel, Doshakhel, Kohestani, Saidan are the few tribes living in this beautiful place. Watapur District has a high school located in south part of the district. The villages are located in the valleys or in the high mountains, with difficult or no road access to the center - Asadabad, and it takes one day to reach some of them. There was a medical clinic north of Qatar Kala, built by ISAF, until it was destroyed by local militants.
Afghanistan has competed in 15 Summer Games. They have never appeared in any Winter Games. The country made its first appearance at the Berlin Games in 1936. It has sent a delegation to 14 of the 19 subsequent Summer Games since then. It is organised by the Afghanistan National Olympic Committee, which is currently presided by Nazar Mohammad Mutmaeen.
Mir Akbar Khyber was an Afghan left-wing intellectual and a leader of the Parcham faction of People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). His assassination by an unidentified person or people led to the overthrow of Mohammed Daoud Khan's republic, and to the advent of a socialist regime in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Mohammad Tamim Nuristani is a businessman and politician from Nuristan Province of Afghanistan. Mohammad Tamim was the previous governor of Nuristan Province and replaced by Hafiz Abdul Qayyum.
National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, former Afghanistan National Olympic Committee is the National Olympic Committee representing Afghanistan.
Abdul Qadir Nuristani was an Afghan Minister of the Interior during the Republic of Afghanistan.
Mawlawi Mohammad Afzal was a Panjpiri-educated Afghan clergyman of the Kam tribe from Barg-i-Matal, Nuristan Province. He studied in Deoband, and later at Akora, Pakistan, before teaching at a madrassa in Karachi, and then in his native village of Badmuk.
Ahmad Jahan Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player who played for the national team. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, playing in all three of his team's matches.
Mohammad Jahan Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player and a member of the national team. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics, playing in one field hockey match against Great Britain.
Abdul Kadir Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player who played for the national field hockey team.
Din Mohammad Nuristani is an Afghan former field hockey player who was a member of the national field hockey team. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games and the 1956 Summer Olympic Games. He played in all six of Afghanistan's field hockey matches in the two Olympics.
Jahan Gulam Nuristani is an Afghan former field hockey player.
Mohammad Kadir Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player who played for the national team.
Noor Ullah Nuristani was an Afghan field hockey player who played for the national team. Nuristani competed at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games, playing in all three of his team's matches.
The following is the list of squads that took place in the men's field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
