Spin Boldak (Dari, Pashto: سپین بولدک)[a] is a border town and the headquarters of Spin Boldak District in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, next to the border with Pakistan. It is linked by a highway with the city of Kandahar to the north, and with Chaman and Quetta in Pakistan to the south. Spin Boldak has the second major port of entry between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Wesh-Chaman border crossing. It is also a major transporting, shipping and receiving site between the two neighboring countries.
The district is populated mostly by Noorzai and Achakzai Pashtuns.[1]
Kandahar and Quetta are about 40 and 50 nmi (93 km) respectively distant by air, and have the closest medium-sized airports; Pishin, Pakistan has a small airport 74 Kms to the east.[2]
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^"The Master of Spin Boldak: Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police" by Matthieu Aikins, Harper's Magazine, December 2009, p. 54. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
^Falling Rain Map of Spin Buldak. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
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greatly to the Pakistani ISI after demonstrating it could seize the SpinBoldak border crossing from a variety of mujahideen who had setup informal chain...
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estimated at 50,000. With their headquarters in the strategic border town of SpinBoldak, his forces were charged with guarding the road from there to Kandahar...
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operating bases: one in the northern martello, one in Zharey, and one in SpinBoldak. The Taliban's military leadership was led by Mullah Akhtar Mohammad...
covering a clash between Afghan Special Forces and Taliban insurgents in SpinBoldak, Kandahar, on 16 July 2021. His body was handed to the Afghan Red Crescent...
"Afghanistan, Pakistan: Ongoing protest activity likely to continue near Chaman-SpinBoldak border crossing through at least early December /update 1". Afghanistan...
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(1996-2001). He is an ethnic Pashtun and belongs to the Achakzai tribe from SpinBoldak district, Kandahar province. He was born in Khas Uruzgan District, Uruzgan...
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Kandahar. U.S. and Afghan National Army forces launched an operation in SpinBoldak with the goal of arresting Taliban leaders, particularly fugitive commander...
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