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Zarghun Shar, Paktika

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Afghanistan

Time zone
  
+ 4.30

District
  
Zarghun Shar

Province
  
Paktika Province

Zarghun Shar, Paktika

Zarghun Shar (Pashto: زرغون ښار‎), or Zarghun Shahr (Persian: زرغون‌شهر‎‎), Katawaz (Pashto: کټواز‎), or Khayr Kot (Pashto: خير کوټ‎), is a town in and administrative seat of Zarghun Shar District, Paktika Province, in eastern Afghanistan.

Map of Zarghun Shahr, Afghanistan


In the 1970s Zarghun Shar was a town of some 5,000 people, but that population decreased during the years of fighting after the Soviet invasion and the Afghan civil war.

References

Zarghun Shar, Paktika Wikipedia


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