Afghan National Police officers began learning U.S. Army Combatives techniques Aug. 14, so they can teach the skill to other ANP officers in each of the seven districts in the Panjshir province, Afghanistan.
There are hundreds of millions of dollars worth of marble in the Panjshir province, and some Afghan entrepreneurs are working with the U.S. Agency for International Development and Provincial Reconstruction Team Panjshir to develop the industry.
Panjshir Gov. Keramuddin Keram met with Provincial Reconstruction Team Panjshir July 1 to discuss a project that could potentially bring 35,000 new trees into the province by the end of the year.
Shakela, an 11-year-old student, is pursuing a typical American dream of wanting to go to college and become a doctor with a practice in her hometown – but Shakela isn’t an American, she’s an Afghan living in the Panjshir province of Afghanistan.
