Taloqan (Afghanistan)

Type: City

Name: Taloqan (Afghanistan)

Country: Afghanistan

Latitude: 36.73

Longitude: 69.529999

population: 64,275

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Angela Merkel

Merkel in surprise visit to Afghanistan: spokesman

Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere have arrived in Afghanistan for a surprise visit, a German government spokesman said early Friday.File picture taken on April 2, 2012 shows a German soldier during a patrol near Taloqan, ... [Published XinMsn - May 10 2013]

Entities: Afghanistan, Angela Merkel, International Security Assistance Force, NATO, Thomas de Maizière

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Mullah Mohammad Omar

Six Afghan police officers poisoned, shot to death by comrade

TALOQAN, Afghanistan, April 26 (UPI) --Khwaja Ghar District Gov. Mullah Omar confirmed the report Thursday, saying the incident occurred while the victims were asleep. The police officers were initially poisoned by another officer, then shot to death, ... [Published UPI - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Poison, Taloqan (Afghanistan), Police, Mullah Mohammad Omar

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Taliban

The IMU Expansion in Afghanistans Takhar Province: Jumping Off Point to Central Asia?

While Helmand and other provinces in southern Afghanistan are the center of the Taliban insurgency and receive most media attention in the West, northern Afghanistans Takhar province has also come under increasing Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ... [Published Jamestown Foundation - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Taliban

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Reporters Sans Frontières

Afghanistan - Journalist still targeted by violence, threats and censorship

Reporters Without Borders condemns an increase in violence and threats against journalists in Afghanistan, as well as calls by government officials for the censorship of certain news media. There have been at least 30 cases of physical attacks and ... [Published Reporters Without Borders - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Reporters Sans Frontières, Threat, Censorship, Taliban

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Afghanistan: DEWS Weekly Epidemiological Report WER-16 (7th Yr) April 22, 2013

Source: Government of AfghanistanCountry: Afghanistan SUMMARY: This report includes surveillance data from 13th April to 19 th April 2013. Out of 347 functional Sentinel sites (SS), all 347 (100%) have sent their reports in Week-16 of 2013. Out ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Afghanistan, Measles, Meningitis, Pneumonia, Taloqan (Afghanistan)

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Discriminatory Ethno-Centric Russian and U.S. Strategies Imperil Afghanistan / By: Bruce G. Richardson

Discriminatory Ethno-Centric Russian and U.S. Strategies Imperil AfghanistanAnti-Pashtun Ethnic and Geographic Separation Plot serves as a Device to Counter Ascendant Taliban:Former Bush Administration Ambassador to India and Envoy to Iraq, Robert Blackwell ... [Published Dawat Independent Media Center - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Afghanistan, Pashtun, Taliban, Discriminatory, Kaskad

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

KfW Bankengruppe

Provincial Hospital in Taloqan will improve health care for the people of Takhar Province

On April 21st, 2013 in the presence of Mr. Begzad, the Governor of Takhar Province, parliamentarians of Takhar province, Provincial Health Director of Takhar and many elders and intellectuals of Takhar province the cornerstone ceremony for the new 160 ... [Published Afghan Voice Agency - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Taloqan (Afghanistan), Health Care, KfW Bankengruppe, Physiotherapy

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

TOLOnews 21 April 2013

Top news in this Bulletin:More than 59 female students from Bebee Mariam high school in Taloqan the capital of northeastern Takhar province were apparently poisoned early Sunday, local officials said. $ The provincial head of Public Health Kanishka Baktash ... [Published Tolo News - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: Polio, Taloqan (Afghanistan), Public Health, Poison

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

17 Hospitalised as Poisoning Claims Resurface at Takhar Girls School

At least 17 female students from the Bibi Hajira high school in northern Takhar province have been hospitalised Thursday with claims of gas poisoning, local officials said.The incident is being investigated by police in the provincial capital Taloquan ... [Published Tolo News - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Poison, Hafizullah, Taloqan (Afghanistan), National Directorate of Security

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Afghan Islamic Courts: A Pre-Taliban System With Post-2014 Potential?

Casey Garret Johnson A meeting in October 2010 between elders and government representatives in central Zhare District, Kandahar Province, after a military clearance operation.The American military has built much of its transition strategy in Afghanistan ... [Published New York Times - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Kandahar, Afghanistan, Taliban

First reported Dec 07 2012 - Updated Dec 08 2012 - 1 reports

Afghanistan: Getting through the winter

Source: Concern WorldwideCountry: Afghanistan Last winter, communities in Afghanistan suffered greatly because of the harsh weather conditions. Heavy snowfall in Takhar Province followed by flash flooding resulted in homes and livelihoods being destroyed. ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Dec 07 2012]

Entities: Afghanistan, Taloqan (Afghanistan), Concern Worldwide, Safe Water

Quotes

"This is fourth of fifth time that our daughters and our sisters are being poisoned in their schools. And those who are doing such actions are being released after short time and coming back to their homes" he said

17 Hospitalised as Poisoning Claims Resurface at Takhar Girls School [Published Tolo News - Apr 18 2013]

"The Nato mission has had a lot of mistakes such as the killing of civilians which is still going on. And compared to the money which has flowed here, not much work has happened. The goal was to bring security and eliminate violence, but this they didn't reach" he said

Pentagon underestimates Afghanistan by $10 billion, holds war request until May [Published Afghanistan News Center - Apr 12 2013]

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Merkel in surprise visit to Afghanistan: spokesman [Published XinMsn - May 10 2013]
The IMU Expansion in Afghanistans Takhar Provin... [Published Jamestown Foundation - Apr 26 2013]
Six Afghan police officers poisoned, shot to de... [Published UPI - Apr 26 2013]
Afghanistan: DEWS Weekly Epidemiological Report... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Apr 25 2013]
Journalist still targeted by violence, threats ... [Published Afghan Voice Agency - Apr 25 2013]
Afghanistan: Journalist still targeted by viole... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Apr 25 2013]
Discriminatory Ethno-Centric Russian and U.S. S... [Published Dawat Independent Media Center - Apr 25 2013]
Afghanistan - Journalist still targeted by viol... [Published Reporters Without Borders - Apr 24 2013]
Provincial Hospital in Taloqan will improve hea... [Published Afghan Voice Agency - Apr 22 2013]
TOLOnews 21 April 2013 [Published Tolo News - Apr 21 2013]
17 Hospitalised as Poisoning Claims Resurface a... [Published Tolo News - Apr 18 2013]
Afghan Islamic Courts: A Pre-Taliban System Wit... [Published New York Times - Apr 17 2013]
Pentagon underestimates Afghanistan by $10 bill... [Published Afghanistan News Center - Apr 12 2013]
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Distribution of Electronic IDs to Begin Next Week [Published Afghanistan News Center - Apr 12 2013]
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Afghanistan: Getting through the winter [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Dec 07 2012]