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Map showing Konar province in Afghanistan

Kunar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country and on the border with Pakistan. Its capital is Asadabad. Afghanistan consists of 34 provinces, or velayat: Map showing provinces of Afghanistan Badakhshan province Badghis province Baghlan province Balkh province Bamiyan province Daikondi province - northern part of Oruzgan province - established March 28, 2004 Farah province Faryab province Ghazni province Ghowr province Helmand province Herat province Jowzjan province Kabul province Kandahar... Asadabad (or Asad Abad) is a city of Afghanistan, the capital of Konar province. ...


Kunar has always been a place of conflict from where freedom fighters had been fighting the USSR's occupation. It is a rugged mountainous area. Engineer Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (The only highly-educated Afghan Freedom Fighter) had a lot of power in this area where more than 4000 Soviet Communists were killed in combat against the warriors of Mr. Hekmatyar. Mount Cook, a mountain in New Zealand A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... An engineer may be someone who practices the engineering profession, or the driver of a rail locomotive. ... Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (born 1947 in Imam Saheb, Kunduz province, Afghanistan) is an Afghan warlord. ... Soviet redirects here. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...


Kunar is also a place where conflict still is continuing against occupation. Recently on June 30, 19 American Forces were killed when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down. Hekmatyar and the Taliban took responsibility. June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, and the last day of June. ... The CH-47 Chinook is a highly versatile, twin engine, twin rotor heavy-lift helicopter. ... A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ... The Taliban (Pashtun and Persian: طالبان; students of Islam), also transliterated as Taleban, is an Islamist movement which ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, despite having diplomatic recognition from only three countries: the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. ...


Politics

As of 2005, Assadullah Wafa is the current governor of the province. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...



Provinces of Afghanistan Flag of Afghanistan
Badakhshan | Badghis | Baghlan | Balkh | Bamiyan | Daikondi | Farah | Faryab | Ghazni | Ghowr | Helmand | Herat | Jowzjan | Kabul | Kandahar | Kapisa | Khost | Konar | Kunduz | Laghman | Lowgar | Nangarhar | Nimruz | Nurestan | Oruzgan | Paktia | Paktika | Panjshir | Parvan | Samangan | Sar-e Pol | Takhar | Vardak | Zabul

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KUNAR, a river and valley of Afghanistan, on the north-west frontier of British India.
The Kunar valley (Khoaspes in the classics) is the southern section of that great river system which reaches from the Hindu Kush to the Kabul river near Jalalabad, and which, under the names of Yarkhun, Chitral, Kashkar, andc., is more extensive than the Kabul basin itself.
The lower reaches of the Kunar are wide and comparatively shallow, the river meandering in a multitude of channels through a broad and fairly open valley, well cultivated and fertile, with large flourishing villages and a mixed population of Mohmand and other tribes of Afghan origin.
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