Talk:Badakhshan Province

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The text was identical to this text: http://www.badakhshan.20m.com/ Danny 11:34 25 May 2003 (UTC)

To the contributor,

You are more than welcome to add information to Wikipedia, but it should be your own information, not material copied from some other website. I encourage you to rewrite the material in your own words so that we will have an article on the topic. Alternately, if you own the copyright to the site from which the text was taken, please state so here. Thanks, Danny


The article is confused between the Afghan province and the part of Tajikistan of the same name. Gorno-Badakhshan (which is simply a half-Russifed translation of Mountainous Badakhshan) is the eastern part of Tajikistan. Its capital is Khorog. FitzHugh 17:51, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Error

"The province was about to fall to the Taliban when the American invasion allowed Massoud and his allies in the Northern Alliance to reclaim control of the country with the aid of American military air power and assistance [1][2]."

Mossoud died two days before the September 11th attacks and the subsequent U.S. invasion.

[edit] Economics : "Massive Resources"

What are these resources? Are they being mined? I'm interested in knowing more about this. Brian Pearson 07:24, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Differendt gem stones, but mostly Lapis. Epecially the southern districts have a lot. and they are being mined, however much of is is being smuggeled into Pakistan. Lapis is the only other income in the area, the first one being opium.

[edit] removed that Chitral is a tribal area

Chitral is not a part of the Federally adminstered tribal areas in pakistan. The FATA areas in pakistan are pashtun majoirty, but in chitral district the khowar and Vakhana are dominant, who are not pashtun but of dardic(kashmiri) origin. there is not taliban here

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