Nawabad

Nawabad
Coordinates	37 ° 2 ′ N , 69 ° 15 ′ E Coordinates: 37 ° 2 ′ N , 69 ° 15 ′ E
Basic data
Country	Afghanistan
province	Kunduz
District	Char Darah
ISO 3166-2	AF-KDZ
Residents	15,000 (2011)

Nawabad is an Afghan town in the province of Kunduz in the district of Char Dara District .

population

Around 15,000 people (as of 2011) live in Nawabad, the majority of whom belong to the Pashtun ethnic group.

history

In the war in Afghanistan since 2001 , Nawabad was the responsibility of the Bundeswehr in the troubled district of Chahar Darreh in the province of Kunduz . For a long time it was considered a Taliban stronghold . With an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 inhabitants, Nawabad was by far the largest town in the district. The situation was therefore viewed as critical to the success of the security situation and the success of the Bundeswehr's operations in the north of the country.

In autumn 2011, Nawabad was the main target of various phases of Operation Omed (Afghan for “ hope ”) for several weeks . During this time, the Bundeswehr showed a massive presence in the city. Sometimes up to 900 soldiers were deployed at the same time in the northern Chahar Darreh . Thanks to the intensive conduct of operations by the German training and protection battalions , it was possible to put the enemy forces under such pressure that they were forced to move en masse to the neighboring district. This development is regarded as one of the greatest military successes of the Bundeswehr in 2011 in the Kunduz area.

As part of these operations, a shura also took place in Nawabad in September 2011 . The village elders met with soldiers from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the Afghan National Police (ANP) to negotiate how to proceed and possible development projects.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Marco Seliger : A job in the course of the wars. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 11, 2012, accessed February 15, 2012 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Andrè Spangenberg: The “little miracle” of Nawabad. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . September 26, 2011, accessed February 15, 2012 .
↑ Marcel Bohnert & Andy Neumann: Panzergrenadiers in combat in Afghanistan , in: Freundeskreis der Panzergrenadiertruppe (ed.): Panzergrenadiers. A class of troops in the course of time , Munster et al. 2016, ISBN 3-933802-35-0 , p. 48.
↑ Marcel Bohnert : COIN at the base: To implement the concept in a combat company of the Kunduz Task Force . In: R. Schroeder & S. Hansen (eds.) (2015): Stabilization deployments as a national task. Nomos: Baden-Baden, p. 252f.

[FAZJob-1] A ^b ^c Marco Seliger : A job in the course of the wars. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 11, 2012, accessed February 15, 2012 .

[MZWunder-2] Andrè Spangenberg: The “little miracle” of Nawabad. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . September 26, 2011, accessed February 15, 2012 .

[3] Marcel Bohnert & Andy Neumann: Panzergrenadiers in combat in Afghanistan , in: Freundeskreis der Panzergrenadiertruppe (ed.): Panzergrenadiers. A class of troops in the course of time , Munster et al. 2016, ISBN 3-933802-35-0 , p. 48.

[4] Marcel Bohnert : COIN at the base: To implement the concept in a combat company of the Kunduz Task Force . In: R. Schroeder & S. Hansen (eds.) (2015): Stabilization deployments as a national task. Nomos: Baden-Baden, p. 252f.