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Kandahar

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Kandahar or Qandahar , city (1989 est. pop. 203,000), capital of Kandahar prov., S Afghanistan. The country's second largest city and chief trade center, Kandahar is a market for sheep, wool, cotton, food grains, fresh and dried fruit, and tobacco. It has an international airport and is linked by road with Kabul, Herat, Quetta, and the nations of Central Asia. Woolen cloth, felt, and silk are manufactured. The surrounding irrigated region produces fine fruits, especially grapes, and the city has plants for canning, drying, and packing fruit. The old city was laid out by Ahmad Shah ... Read more

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Kandahar • aargh , Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa...gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, ... Read more

Kandahar
Kandahar (Qandahar) City and provincial capital in s Afghanistan, c. 480km (300mi) sw of Kabul. Because of its location on important trade... Read more

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	CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM: Kandahar - March of feared warlord seals fate of stronghold ; KANDAHAR'S FATE may have been sealed by the imminent arrival of...said Omar agreed to leave within 24 hours. The loss of Kandahar could be the ultimate blow to the Taliban movement as...have only ventured once to the capital Kabul. Without Kandahar, the Taliban would be reduced to a guerrilla movement... Read more
	CIDA: Canada Delivers Emergency Aid and New Reconstruction to the People of Kandahar ; KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN--(CCNMatthews - Oct. 23, 2006) - The Honourable...for tens of thousands of the most vulnerable families in Kandahar Province, who face acute food shortages and internal displacement...finance reconstruction and repair of roads and bridges in Kandahar, as well as to help build rural ... Read more
	Profile: Reconstruction in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan ; 00-00-0000 Profile: Reconstruction in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan Host: MELISSA BLOCK Time: 8:00...Steve Inskeep has this report from the city of Kandahar. STEVE INSKEEP reporting: Kandaharis built their city to last, and it has considering... Read more
	Drive on Kandahar ReportedNorthern Alliance and Tribes Both Claim Advances ; ...International Herald Tribune 11-30-2001 Kandahar, the final Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan...the report of fighting on the edge of Kandahar City, adding that it seemed more plausible...Alliance fighters might have entered Kandahar Province, still an important move toward... Read more
	CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM: Kandahar - Tribal leaders fear bloodbath as Taliban troops prepare for last stand in leader's spiritual home ; ...TALIBAN made a desperate last stand for Kandahar, their spiritual home, yesterday, while...Taliban leader, was still believed to be in Kandahar trying to regroup his troops. "The command...central hospital told al-Jazeera that Kandahar was still in Taliban hands. The US airforce... Read more
	Taliban surrounded in Kandahar but Pashtun forces remain divided.(Knight Ridder Newspapers) ; ...pressure the Taliban into surrending Kandahar, their last southern Afghanistan bastion...to have captured strategic areas near Kandahar. The extent of the gains could not be...that the area in Taliban control around Kandahar was shrinking. But the campaign has its... Read more
	Rebels surround Kandahar ; AMERICA AT WAR Rebels surround Kandahar Southern militias move in, cut off main...verge of laying siege to the city of Kandahar, the last major bastion of Taliban military...bomb Taliban positions in and around Kandahar, opposition militias cut off the main... Read more
	Tribal Groups Edge Closer to Kandahar ; ...moved closer to the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, claiming tonight that their fighters...southern city's airport. Airstrikes on Kandahar have intensified over the past few days...radical Islamic movement. Thousands of Kandahar residents have fled the city, making... Read more
	WAR RETAINS A GRIP ON KANDAHAR ; KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban fighters and Al Qaeda terrorists have mostly been chased out of their former stronghold of Kandahar, the new governor of the province declared last night...they are preparing for a guerrilla war. Once security in Kandahar is stabilized, "our next step will be to clear the ... Read more
	Kandahar in Panic, Refugees Say; Some Report Taliban Fighters Leaving Stronghold for Mountains ; ...northern regions set off a wave of panic in Kandahar, a large southern city that is the power...weapons and rocket launchers, entering Kandahar early this morning. By the afternoon...city for nearby mountains, according to Kandahar residents, aid workers and anti- Taliban... Read more

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