Baglan (city)

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بغلان
Baglan
Baglan (Afghanistan)
Baglan
Baglan
Coordinates 36 ° 11 ′  N , 68 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 36 ° 11 ′  N , 68 ° 45 ′  E
Basic data
Country Afghanistan

province

Baglan
District Baglan
ISO 3166-2 AF-BGL
height 528 m
Residents 83.117

Baglan (also Baghlan ; Pashto / Dari :بغلان) is a city in Afghanistan .

The city consists of three districts along the asphalt road between Pul-e Chumri and Kunduz: Baghlan-e Kohna Old Baghlan in the north, Baghlan-e Jadid New Baghlan in the middle and Fabrica in the south. It is the most important city and namesake of the Baglan province in the north-east of the Central Asian country. However, the capital of the province is Pol-e Chomri . The city is located about 60 km south of the city of Kunduz in the valley of the Kunduz River . According to an extrapolation in 2012, the population of the city is set at 83,117.

In the area around Baglan, sugar beet and cotton are mainly grown. When building the New Baghlan Sugar Company Ltd. the German seed company KWS Saat took part . The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development supported the reconstruction project.

During a visit to the sugar factory by a group of parliamentarians, a bomb attack was carried out on November 6, 2007, in which at least 75 people were killed. These included 60 children and 6 members of the national parliament, all of whom were part of the ten-person economic committee. One of the MPs killed was the well-known private sector representative Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif .

Another incident occurred on April 15, 2010, at around 2:30 p.m. local time, a joint patrol of German, Belgian and Afghan soldiers attacked and four Bundeswehr soldiers were killed.

In a suicide attack on October 7, 2010, one Bundeswehr soldier was killed and six others injured, some seriously.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Case Study Afghanistan 3: New Baghlan Sugar Company. Peace Security and Development Network, September 2009, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Katrin Zöfel : Sugar and Future. In: The time. January 15, 2007.
  3. ^ Website of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
  4. ^ Chairman of the CRC buried in Kabul. November 10, 2007.
  5. ↑ Immediate aid from KWS for Baghlan / Afghanistan. ( Memento of March 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) November 7, 2007, KWS press release.
  6. ↑ Matthias Gebauer, John Goetz : Bundeswehr mission in the Hindu Kush: four German soldiers killed in Afghanistan. on: Spiegel Online. April 15, 2010.
  7. ↑ Suicide attack: German soldier killed in northern Afghanistan. on: Spiegel Online. October 7, 2010.