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Jalalabad
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Jalalabad (jəlä'läbäd`, jəlăl`əbăd), city (1979 pop. 53,915), capital of Nangarhar prov., E Afghanistan, near the Khyber Pass Khyber Pass (kī`bər), narrow, steep-sided pass, 28 mi (45 km) long, winding through the Safed Koh Mts.
..... Click the link for more information. . The city dominates the entrances to the Laghman and Kunar valleys and is a leading trading center with India and Pakistan. Oranges, rice, and sugarcane grow in the fertile surrounding area, and the city has cane-processing and sugar-refining as well as papermaking industries. Jalalabad is a military center and a winter resort. Present-day Jalalabad was the major city of the ancient Greco-Buddhist center of Gandhara Gandhara (gəndä`rə), historic region of India, now in NW Pakistan.
..... Click the link for more information. . Babur, founder of the Mughal Mughal (m
..... Click the link for more information.  empire of India, chose the site for the modern city, which was built c.1570 by his grandson, Akbar. During the First Afghan War, British troops held (1842) Jalalabad against an Afghan siege. The Pashtus constitute most of the population. The city has a university and medical school.
Jalalabad
a city in NE Afghanistan, capital of Nangarhar province; a trading, military, and tourist centre on the main route between Kabul and the Khyber Pass. Pop.: 140 611 (1991 est.)


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Documents and other materials found in abandoned al-Qaeda training camps around Jalalabad, Afghanistan, connect terror chieftain Osama bin Laden to radical Muslim guerrillas in Bosnia and Kosovo -- provinces of the former Yugoslavia that are now United Nations protectorates.
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