Jalalabad Afghanistan
2004
1111--12/04/04 Emergency Wheat Seed Distribution; Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Nangahar Province; Jalalabad, Afghanistan ... [Read More]
Reconstruction
U.S. sponsored American Corners provide English-language materials on American history, culture, politics and economics as well as Internet resources, English language classes and seminars on topics related to the U.S. This is the first of five American Corners to be opened in Afghanistan. The other four American Corners will located in the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalalabad and Heart and at Kabul University. ... [Read More]
Afghanistan
In July, HRW released a report titled "Killing You is a Very Easy Thing for Us" which described numerous cases of local militia arresting, beating, and holding people for ransom, especially in the southeastern part of the country. The report cited a case in early April in which a resident of Jalalabad reported that local police beat his cousin while in custody. The resident said his cousin was "brought to Darunta Dam [a hydro-electric dam on the western side of Jalalabad], and he told us that they held him over the side of the dam by his feet and threatened him to make him sign a paper admitting that he had committed a crime." In August, a Ministry of Interior investigation into disappearances in Herat found signs of recent torture with electric cables on the feet, legs, and ears of some prisoners. ... [Read More]
Afghanistan
MEDICAL FACILITIES AND HEALTH INFORMATION: Well-equipped medical facilities are few and far between throughout Afghanistan. European and American medicines are available in limited quantities and may be expensive or difficult to locate. There is a shortage of basic medical supplies. Basic medicines manufactured in Iran, Pakistan and India are available, but their reliability can be questionable. American travelers may seek emergency medical services at the International Security Assistance Forces medical facilities in the Kabul area, but routine care is not available. The ISAF German Hospital, located about 10 kilometers from Kabul on Jalalabad road, and the combined forces ISAF clinic, adjacent to Kabul International Airport, offer medical care to American citizens who can show a pas ... [Read More]
Humanitarian Assistance
1111--12/04/04 Emergency Wheat Seed Distribution; Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Nangahar Province; Jalalabad, Afghanistan ... [Read More]
Afghanistan
111111--06/15/04 San Diego – Jalalabad Sister Cities ... [Read More]
Essential Services - US Department of State
Humanitarian Assistance: The Jalalabad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) conducted a humanitarian aid mission on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Nov. 16, providing clothing, blankets, school supplies, and tools to more than 780 men, women, and children living on government land. As of late November, 13 PRTs were operating in Afghanistan. Two more are scheduled to open in the near future, one each in Lashkar Gar and Tarin Kowt. (Defense Dept.) ... [Read More]
The New Afghanistan: Progress and Accomplishments - US Department of State
Afghan farmer Abdullah Amiri works in his wheat crop field near Jalalabad, where last year he grew opium poppy. (©AP/WWP) Counter-narcotics: On March 10, Afghanistan adopted the 2005 Counternarcotics Implementation Plan to target the cultivation, production, and trafficking of drugs. In 2004, the Afghan Special Narcotics ... [Read More]
Afghanistan (04/05)
Cities: Capital--Kabul (1,780,000; 1999/2000 UN est.). Other cities (1988 UN est.; current figures are probably significantly higher)--Kandahar (226,000); Herat (177,000); Mazar-e-Sharif (131,000); Jalalabad (58,000); Konduz (57,000). ... But in May 1992, Rabbani prematurely formed the leadership council, undermining Mojaddedi's fragile authority. In June, Mojaddedi surrendered power to the Leadership Council, which then elected Rabbani as President. Nonetheless, heavy fighting broke out in August 1992 in Kabul between forces loyal to President Rabbani and rival factions, particularly those who supported Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-i-Islami. After Rabbani extended his tenure in December 1992, fighting in the capital flared up in January and February 1993. The Islamabad Accord, signed in March 1993, which appointed Hekmatyar as Prime Minister, failed to have a lasting effect. A follow-up agreement, the Jalalabad Accord, called for the militias to be disarmed but was never fully implemented. Through 1993, Hekmatyar's Hezb-i-Islami forces, allied with the Shi'a Hezb-i-Wahdat militia, clashed intermittently with Rabbani and Masood's Jamiat forces. Cooperating with Jamiat were militants of Sayyaf's Ittehad-i-Islami and, perio ... [Read More]
Afghan Riots Not Tied to Report on Quran Handling, General Says - US Department of State
Washington – The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says a report from Afghanistan suggests that rioting in Jalalabad on May 11 was not necessarily connected to press reports that the Quran might have been desecrated in the presence of Muslim prisoners held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ... According to initial reports, the situation in Jalalabad began on May 10 with peaceful student protests reacting to a report in Newsweek magazine that U.S. military interrogators questioning Muslim detainees at the Guantanamo detention center “had placed Quran s on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book.” By the following day the protests in the city had turned violent with reports of several individuals killed, dozens wounded, and widespread looting of government, diplomatic and nongovernmental assets. ... [Read More]
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