Among the 13 stations that were rejected last week was a unique station entitled Zahrat al Ghor which means the flower of the valley.
Mawlavi Mohammad, a member of Ghor's religious council, an advisory board of local mullahs, contended that Friday prayers — a religious obligation for all able-bodied Muslim men — would be voided in a community led by a woman, because women cannot preside over a communal prayer, according to religious custom.
Some 300 people died in a single district of the badly hit central province of Ghor, a local official said as the snowbound area was reached for the first time in weeks by United States Black Hawk military helicopters.
Samples from the site show that an extremely hot, explosive event leveled an area of almost 200 square miles including the Middle Ghor - a circular plain to the north of the Dead Sea.
The mainly agricultural economy of Ghor, a mountainous province that is rendered largely inaccessible for up to six months a year by harsh winters, is battered by floods, drought and avalanches.
Joyenda's background as the daughter of a single mother who rose from the depths of poverty in Firoz Koh inspires many in Ghor, a province where 80% of the children are forced into menial labor, according to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
Police opened fire on demonstrators who threw rocks and set tents on fire near a military airfield in Ghor province, said Maj. Martin O'Donnell, a spokesman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
"There is so little water here," says William, a Jordanian water engineer and resident of Ghor Mazra'a, a small village near the Dead Sea (which, by the way, is falling one meter a year as Jordanians, Israelis, Lebanese, and Syrians pump fresh water from the Jordan River, depriving the Dead Sea of replenishment).
Before sunrise on the northern edge of Herat in western Afghanistan only a couple of hundred meters from the US Consulate and on the edge of a main road families from Ghor province warm themselves by fires and in makeshift shelters and tents.
We could be looking at millions of deaths". Mr Nutt recently travelled from the city of Herat to a village in the hills of the Ghor province called Barkhol, a 200 mile journey which took two days on rutted tracks.
