| A dedication ceremony was held in late July in Balkh province for the hand over of 100 km of recently constructed farm-to-market roads. |
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| The project is being carried out in six provinces: Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Nangarhar, Balkh and Kunduz. |
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| In the productive northerly provinces such as Kunduz, Baghlan and Balkh, prices have fallen because of the good harvests. |
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| Atta Mohammad Noor, a former warlord, is the immensely wealthy satrap of Balkh province in the north. |
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| Next came a challenging assignment in Afghanistan in 2007, as institutional development and management advisor to the Balkh provincial governor. |
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| After a brief visit to his family in Pakistan, he is now serving as the shadow governor of the key northern province of Balkh. |
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| Economic expert at the Governor's House, Ahmad Wali Sangar, said women had great achievements in diverse fields in Balkh including business. |
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| In the northern province of Balkh, where opium cultivation is said to have collapsed to zero, there is evidence that farmers have turned to marijuana instead. |
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| The development advisor of the PRT, Malm, said 30 percent of Sweden's donations are spent in Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul, Samangan and Balkh provinces. |
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| Both General Dostum and AttaMohammad Noor, the powerful governor of Balkh province in the north who played the role of Dr Abdullah's attack dog after the disputed vote, must somehow be kept happy. |
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| Rahimullah Samandar, the head of the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association, says his arrest is linked to articles written by his brother, Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, criticising the Balkh provincial authorities. |
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| Hamid al-din Appointed as Chief Justice of Balkh by command of Seljuk Sultan Sanjar at the end of Jumada al-ula 547 AH and took his own father's place. |
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