Spokesman Captain Farhad Hama Ali said fighting was going on in two areas immediately south of the city: the subdistrict of Mala Abdulla, which has a mixed population of Arabs and Turkmen, and the contested village of Besir.
And he resisted pressure to move a Christian subdistrict head from the solidly Muslim residential area where she had been appointed.
The households in this corner of the subdistrict rely instead on a gift from the United Nations Foundation: a $4,000-filtration plant, which can strip arsenic and iron from up to 2,000 litres of water a day.
If it finds its way into a person's organs the poison can accumulate, causing black lesions and terminal cancers.Arsenic has contaminated over 90% of the shallow tubewells in Muradnagar, a subdistrict three hours from Dhaka.
Large yellow diggers prise out coal and tip it into 60-tonne lorries that huff their way to the top of the open-cast mine in Pauh subdistrict.
He was a subdistrict president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA; 1900 06) and national secretary-treasurer (1913 24).
The men tied up the driver and put Mr Primrose in their car before driving off toward the Ranto Peureulak subdistrict, he said.
Below the urban district level, police substations supervise the population, and subdistrict or neighbourhood offices handle civil affairs in their areas.
Subdistrict administrative units are governed by a tiered structure of elected councils.
The name was also used for the āmil, or chief officer of a subdistrict, or pargana.
Brzezinski had seemed to suggest that a problem with America's counter-insurgency strategy in countries like Iraq lay in its proximity to European colonial policies; we send out expeditionary armies and civilian administrators whose missions look uncomfortably like those of imperial subdistrict officers of old.
