Jalalabad
alternative words: Jalalabad city
keywords: town
related topics: Kabul , Khyber pass
related web sites: http://www.geocities.com/afghanistan_ca/Jalalabad.html , http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/23884.html
explanation: Capital of Nangarhar province, lying 150 km east of Kabul on a fertile valley, Jalalabad is occupying a strategic place on the road to Pakistan via Khyber pass. People are cultivating orange, rice and sugarcane and it was a prosperous winter resort during prewar period. Hada located near Jalalabad had been a great center of Gandhara's Buddhism culture between 2th and 7th centuries. During the first Afghan war in 1842, Afghan rebels laid siege to British troops.