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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.
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| ==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 and the Islamic Party of Afghanistan Gulbuddin present problems 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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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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