Militants found recruits among Guantanamo's wrongly detained Jun 18, 2008
"Buzby, the Guantanamo commander, said that he, too, suspected that information flowed freely between militant leaders and their men at Guantanamo's camps."It would be foolish to not believe that there is a hierarchy of information being passed up and down the chain of command," Buzby said., an Afghan detainee who spent time in Camp Four, said that radical detainees used the system to their full advantage.Zuhoor said he remembered watching groups of senior Taliban and Arab detainees meet in the... (Anchorage Daily News)
AFGHANISTAN: Tackling rising drug addiction in Parwan Province Mar 31, 2008
CHARIKAR, 30 March 2008 () - Sitting on his bed in a room with four others at a drug rehabilitation centre in Charikar, capital of Parwan Province, northern Afghanistan, 18-year-old Kharun tells how he got addicted to drugs ... Mohammed returned to his native town of Charikar in 2004, but could not get rid of his habit. (AlertNet)
Bagram, the other Gitmo Jan 16, 2008
This is a prison located on the US military base in the ancient city of Bagram near Charikar in Parvan, Afghanistan. The detention center was set up by the US military as a temporary screening site after the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan overthrew the Taliban. (Asia Times Online)
ACTED Afghanistan: Post Flood Emergency Response Situation Report Apr 7, 2007
The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD), in conjunction with UNAMA and other partners have reported heavy floods in Parwan, specifically; Syed Khail, Ghorband, Bagram, Charikar, Salang, and Shinwari has resulted in the following losses. Siagerd: 50 houses destroyed Shinwari: 150 houses destroyed Salang: 400 houses destroyed Jabul Seraj: 200 houses destroyed Charikar: 150 houses destroyed Bagram: 100 houses destroyed Said Khail: 450 houses destroyed. (AlertNet)
Fields of conflictBreaking out of Afghanistan's cycle of poverty and war Feb 18, 2007
In a dingy room in Charikar, north of Kabul, I watched as women in identical blue burkas sat patiently on the floor, clutching pieces of pink paperwork. They had all joined a Bangladeshi microfinance scheme, receiving loans to set up small businesses, and getting free healthcare and education for their children. (BBC News)
