Nowabad

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Nowabad, the biggest settlement in Chardara district and culturally center of Chardara.

The Taliban have established a fully-functioning parallel administration. They have set up offices in the Nawabad area to the west of the district centre, in concrete buildings and assigned full-time clerks to respond to people’s demands. They use laptops, printers and fingerprint scans, all captured during their temporary takeover of Kunduz. Ironically, Nawabad is where the US Special Forces used to have a base – which the Taliban now use – and where they used to train local ALP units. They reportedly handle cases and issue decisions swiftly, in contrast with the government’s slow, bureaucratic and corrupt administration. (www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id...

Also spelled Nawabad.