Kunar province
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Kunar (also spelled Konar) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country and on the border with Pakistan. Its capital is Asadabad.
Kunar has always been a place of conflict from where freedom fighters had been fighting the USSR's occupation. It is a rugged mountainous area. Engineer Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (The only highly-educated Afghan Freedom Fighter) had a lot of power in this area where more than 4000 Soviet Communists were killed in combat against the warriors of Mr. Hekmatyar.
Kunar is also a place where conflict still is continuing against occupation. Recently on June 30, 19 American Forces were killed when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down. Hekmatyar and the Taliban took responsibility.
U.S. officials said al-Qaida fighters also were in the region. Osama bin Laden was not said to be there — though he is believed to be somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier.
The region’s wooded mountains are popular with militants because they are easy to infiltrate from neighboring Pakistan and have plenty of places to hide.
Politics
As of 2005, Assadullah Wafa is the current governor of the province.
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