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  • The new large Bagram prison, called the Detention Facility in Parwan (DFIP), similarly has interrogation facilities and isolation cells.

    Jonathan Horowitz: Bagram's Evil Twin Jonathan Horowitz 2010

  • The new large Bagram prison, called the Detention Facility in Parwan (DFIP), similarly has interrogation facilities and isolation cells.

    Jonathan Horowitz: Bagram's Evil Twin Jonathan Horowitz 2010

  • It was partly at the direction of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, now the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, that Bagram was ordered closed and another facility, known as Parwan, built at the edge of the airfield a few hundred yards away.

    U.S. adopts reintegration strategy to subdue Afghan insurgency 2010

  • Karzai on Thursday abruptly demanded that the U.S. military turn over full control of the prison, officially known as the Parwan Detention Center but generally referred to as the Bagram prison, within a month.

    The Seattle Times 2012

  • Karzai on Thursday abruptly demanded that the U.S. military turn over full control of the prison, officially known as the Parwan Detention Center but generally referred to as the Bagram prison, within a month.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Kay Johnson 2012

  • Detainees then can be held up to 14 days in a temporary facility before being either released or transferred to a public detention facility called Parwan that is jointly run by the United States and Afghanistan.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Detainees then can be held up to 14 days in a temporary facility before being either released or transferred to a public detention facility called Parwan that is jointly run by the U.S. and Afghanistan.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • U.S. military officials confirmed Friday that around 650 U.S. army troops serving in the northern Afghan province of Parwan left for the United States on Wednesday.

    First US Troops Begin to Leave Afghanistan 2011

  • At the beginning of June, Jawad Zuhaak, the head of the provincial council in peaceful Bamyan province, was kidnapped and executed while traveling along Parwan's increasingly dangerous central highway.

    Erin Fitzgerald: The Talibanization of Central Afghanistan Erin Fitzgerald 2011

  • On August 14, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vehicle in front of the offices of Abdul Baseer Salangi, governor of Parwan province, which is located just north of the capital.

    Erin Fitzgerald: The Talibanization of Central Afghanistan Erin Fitzgerald 2011

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