Day: September 3, 2022
Library for School
In 2019, Panjshir province education support team declared it as the (year of the book) and took a significant step towards promoting education and literacy. A group of friends in cooperation with the Afghanistan Information Center based in Kabul university , established the first library in Karpitab High School of Paryan district, Panjshir province providing […]
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PANJSHIR I, APRIL 1980: FIRST BLOOD
THE PANJSHIR VALLEY From the very first, the Soviet commanders realized that Massoud’s forces in the valley represented a threat to the Hairatan–Kabul highway, after they had launched attacks on convoys near Jabal-os-Saraj and sent raiding parties into the Salang Pass along the Shutul River, a tributary of the Panjshir. A battalion of the DRA’s […]
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The Panjshir Valley became the Mekong Delta of the Soviet-Afghan War
Book: AFGHANISTAN A MILITARY HISTORY FROM ALEXANDER THE GREAT TO THE FALL OF THE TALIBAN The Panjshir Valley became the Mekong Delta of the Soviet- Afghan War, assuming a psychological significance beyond the already consider- able importance of its geography. The mouth of the Panjshir opens onto easily passable ground a day’s march above Bagram […]
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