Tarin Kowt is the capital of Oruzgan (also written "Uruzgan") province in southern Afghanistan. It is a small and dusty city of about 7,000 people, with some 200 small shops in the city's bazaar. There are no medium- or large-scale economic enterprises in the city. The provincial governor, currently Maulavi Abdul Hakim Munib, lives and works in a compound adjacent to the bazaar. Tarin Kowt is isolated, its only airstrip is on the military base of the NATO-led Provincial Reconstruction Team. Its only access to the outside is a broken and insecure road to the regional center of Kandahar to the south. As of Summer 2006, NATO and Afghani troops have established Forward Operating Base (FOB) Martello [1] along the Kandahar - Tarin Kowt road. Oruzgan is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Province is a name for a subnational entity. ... The Grand Timcheh of Qoms Bazaar. ... A governor is a governing official, usually the executive (at least nominally, to different degrees also politically and administratively) of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state; furthermore the title applies to officials with a similar mandate as representatives of a chartered company which has... An airstrip is a kind of airport that consists only of a runway with perhaps fueling equipment. ... A military base is a facility, settlement, reservation, or installation that shelters military equipment and personnel. ... NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ... A provincial reconstruction team (PRT) is a group of sixty to one hundred civilians and military specialists who perform small reconstruction projects or provide security for others involved in aid work. ... For the 2001 movie by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, see Kandahar (film). ...
Afghan National Army soldiers distribute humanitarian aid items to the victims and families affected by the recent TarinKowt suicide bombing during a visit to the area, Jan. 7, 2006.
TARINKOWT, Afghanistan, Jan. 10, 2006 — Afghan National Army and U.S. soldiers, in conjunction with a Provisional Reconstruction Team representative, conducted a humanitarian assistance visit to TarinKowt Jan. 7 in the wake of a deadly suicide attack there two day earlier.
Afghan National Army and U.S. servicemembers and Douglas Garland, of the TarinKowt Provisional Reconstruction Team, arrived at the TarinKowt hospital to offer support to the victims and families affected by the recent suicide bombing in TarinKowt.
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