Kandahar District or Dand District is situated in the central part of
Kandahar Province
Kandahār ( ps, ; Kandahār, prs, ; ''Qandahār'') is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country, sharing a border with Pakistan, to the south. It is surrounded by Helmand in the west, Uruzgan ...
,
Afghanistan
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, surrounding the city of
Kandahar
Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a List of cities in Afghanistan, city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population ...
. It borders
Panjwai District
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to the west,
Arghandab District
Arghandab (Pashto/ fa, ارغنداب) is a district in the central part of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It borders Panjwai and Khakrez districts to the west, Shah Wali Kot District to the north and east and Kandahar District to the east a ...
to the north,
Shah Wali Kot District
Shah Wali Kot District ( ps, شاه ولي کوټ ولسوالۍ, fa, ولسوالی شاه ولی کوت) is situated in the northern part of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It borders Khakrez District to the west, Naish District and Oruzgan P ...
to the northeast and
Daman District to the east and south. The population is 468,200 (2006). The district center is the city of Kandahar.
History
In March 2009, the Dand District Centre was destroyed by a
suicide bombing by two
Taliban insurgents. In December 2009 it was rebuilt by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Canadian civilian police of the Kandahar
Provincial Reconstruction Team
A Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) was a unit introduced by the United States government, consisting of military officers, diplomats, and reconstruction subject matter experts, working to support reconstruction efforts in unstable states. PRT ...
. The construction project was one of two major initiatives undertaken by the Canadians – the other was in
Tahkta Pul (southeast of Kandahar city).
Situated just outside the former
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pasht ...
capital Kandahar city, Dand was strategically important as a staging post for Taliban attackers intent on regaining their former stronghold.
Education
The Dand district has 30 schools. Due to security concerns over half of the schools were closed down, but as of March 2011 all had reopened. Approximately 12,000 students attend the schools.
Governance
The Dand District Chief is Ahmadullah Nazook.
The number of national police in the district is 350.
Notes
*On some websites this district is shown as Dand District. Dand is now part of the city.
References
AIMS District Map
Districts of Kandahar Province
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