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Khost (Pashto/Dari: خوست) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan located in the southeastern part of the country. Khost consists of thirteen districts and the city of Khost serves as the capital of the province. Historically, Khost used to be a part of Paktia and a larger region surrounding Khost is still referred to as Loya Paktia.
In Afghanistan, climate change has led to a temperature increase of 1.8 °C since 1950. This has caused far-reaching impacts on Afghanistan , culminating from overlapping interactions of natural disasters (due to changes in the climate system), conflict , agricultural dependency , and severe socio-economic hardship.
Khōst (Pashto: خوست) is the capital of Khost Province in Afghanistan. It is the largest city in the southeastern part of the country, and also the largest in the region of Loya Paktia. To the south and east of Khost lie Waziristan and Kurram in Pakistan. Khost is the home of Shaikh Zayed University.
At the same time, climate adaptation requires national-level coordination, a challenge in Afghanistan, where the Taliban’s international isolation has left the government out of key discussions.
Yaqubi [1] is the center of Sabari District in Khost Province, Afghanistan.It is located on at 1,113 m altitude in the southeastern part of the district. Yaqubi was the birthplace and home of Dilawar, an Afghan farmer and taxi driver who was tortured to death in 2002 by US Army soldiers at the Bagram Collection Point, a US military detention center in Afghanistan.
Khost (Matun) District (Pashto: خوست ولسوالۍ) is situated in the central and eastern part of Khost Province, Afghanistan. The district center is the town of Khost . Khost Airfield is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of the town of Khost.
Khost wa Fereng or Khost wa Firing (Persian: خوست و فرنگ) is the easternmost district of Baghlan province, Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush mountains. Its capital is Khost wa Fereng . The population of the district was estimated to be around 60,300 in 2011–2012, [ 2 ] of which ethnic Tajiks made up 90% and Hazaras 10% of the total ...
Gurbuz District (Pashto: ګربز ولسوالۍ, Persian: ولسوالی گربز) is situated in the southeast part of Khost Province, Afghanistan. It borders Tani District to the west, Mando Zayi and Khost districts to the north and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan to the southeast. Governor of Gurbuz District is Abdulhai Zazi. [1]