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| [[Image:School reopening, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.jpg|right|thumb|350px|{{#ifexist:Template:School reopening, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.jpg/credit|{{School reopening, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.jpg/credit}}<br/>|}} | | '''Nangarhār''', whose capital is [[Jalalabad]], is a province in the east of Afghanistan and has a border with Pakistan. The province is noted for its agriculture, especially fruit and nut production. It is traversed by the country's Highway One from the Pakistan border through Jalalabad to [[Kabul]]. |
| March 25 2006 re-opening of the Agam High School, [[Pachir wa Agam Distrct]], Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.]]
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| '''Nangarhar Province''', whose capital is [[Jalalabad]], is in the east of [[Afghanistan]], on the Pakistani frontier, which forms its south and eastern sides. [[Kabul Province]] is on its west, [[Laghman Province|Laghman]] and [[Kunar Province]] to the north, and small borders with [[Logar Province|Logar]] and [[Paktiya Province]] in the southwest.
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| Highway 1 traverses it from the border with [[Pakistan]] at [[Towr Kham]], through Jalalabad, and eventually connecting to Afghanistan's capital, [[Kabul]].
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| [[Osama bin Laden]] was believed by the U.S. military to have been hiding in a complex of caves and underground bunkers in the [[Tora Bora mountains]], in Nangarhar, following the US invasion, in late 2001. | | [[Category:Reviewed Passed]][[Category:Suggestion Bot Tag]] |
| ==Government and security==
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| *Governor: Gul Agha Sherzai
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| *Chief of Police: Sayed Ghaffar
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| It is in the Eastern Regional Command of the [[International Security Assistance Force]], and the Afghan National Army 201st and the 203rd Corps. There is a U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team in Jalalabad.
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| The western and northern districts, away from the border, are relatively safe. Insurgents in the Haqqani Network under [[Jalaluddin Haqqani]] and his son [[Sirajuddin Haqqani]] and Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin under [[Gulbuddin Hekmatyar]] present probelms in the southern districts of Khogiani, Pachir Wa Agam and Chaparhar. There is tribal violence, and street crime in Jalalabad.
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| It is a major agricultural area, and, in general, the population closest to the river are most strongly pro-government.
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| As of September 2008, it had been declared [[poppy]]-free. <ref>{{citation
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| | title = Poppy-Free Nangarhar Province Shows Afghanistan Improvements
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| | author =Gerry J. Gilmore
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| | journal = American Forces Press Service
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| | date = September 26, 2008
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| | url = http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51322}}</ref>
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