NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kunar Province

Kunar (also spelled Konar) 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. Pashtuns makes up majority of the province. Image File history File links Afghanistan-Konar. ... Afghanistan consists of 34 provinces, or velayat: Badakhshan Badghis Baghlan Balkh Bamiyan Daikondi - established March 28, 2004 Farah Faryab Ghazni Ghowr Helmand Herat Jowzjan Kabul Kandahar Kapisa Khost Konar Kondoz Laghman Lowgar Nangarhar Nimruz Nurestan Oruzgan Paktia Paktika Panjshir - established April 13, 2004 Parvan Samangan Sar-e Pol Takhar Vardak... Asadabad (or Asad Abad) is a city of Afghanistan, the capital of Kunar province. ...

Kunar has always been a place of conflict from which freedom fighters had been fighting the USSR's occupation. It is a rugged mountainous area. The first Afghan who fired the first bullet against the USSR occupation was Ghazi Yahya Khan Zamani. Yahya Khan Zamani is the grand son of Loee (great) Khan Mir zaman Khan*: See the book Dree Ghazyaan written by Roshan Khadem (Rokhan Khadem) published in Peshawar, Pakistan, An Afghan journalist, Publisher, Radio programmer, Writer, who wrote many books. He is the son of great Molana Qyamuddin Khadem a well known Afghan journalist, writer, Senator, founder of the (ASDP) Afghan social Democratic Party (AFGHAN MELLAT) who wrote and left behind more than 150 published and unpublished books. Engineer Gulbuddin Hekmatyar had a lot of power in this province where more than 4000 Soviet Communist were killed in combat against the warriors of Mr. Hekmatyar. Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska (USA) has the largest visible base-to-summit elevation difference on Earth. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 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 continues. On June 30 2005, 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. ... A Royal Air Force Chinook A field artillery section slingloading a M-198 howitzer for airlift by a CH-47 Chinook The CH-47 Chinook is a versatile, twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. ... The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors (propellers). ... Flag flown by the Taliban. ...

U.S. officials said al-Qaida fighters also were in the region. Osama bin Laden was not said to be there — though he is believed to be somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier. Osama bin Laden UsÄmah bin Muhammad bin Awad bin LÄdin (Arabic: ; born March 10, 1957 [1]), most commonly known as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden (Ø£Ø³Ø§Ù…Ø© Ø¨Ù† Ù„Ø§Ø¯Ù†) is an Islamic fundamentalist, a primary founder of the al-Qaeda Islamic fundamentalist organization and a member of the immensely wealthy...

The region’s wooded mountains are popular with militants because they are easy to infiltrate from neighboring Pakistan and have plenty of places to hide.

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. ... Assadullah Wafa is the governor of the Kunar Province of Afghanistan and a previous governor of the Paktia Province where he was succeeded by Hakim Taniwal. ...

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