Jalalabad

/ dʒəˈlæləbæd /

noun

1. a city in NE Afghanistan, capital of Nangarhar province; a trading, military, and tourist centre on the main route between Kabul and the Khyber Pass. Pop: 96 000 (2004 est)

Example Sentences

Only one out of five children who need hospital treatment can get it at Jalalabad hospital.

From BBC

The Jalalabad hospital caters to the population of five provinces, estimated by the Taliban government to be roughly five million people.

From BBC

She and her family had to leave Pakistan last year and now live in a dusty, dry settlement in the Sheikh Misri area, a short drive on mud tracks from Jalalabad.

From BBC

Suffering from severe acute malnutrition, she occupies half a bed at a ward in Jalalabad regional hospital in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province.

From BBC

The border, at the northwestern end of the Khyber Pass on the road between Peshawar in Pakistan and Jalalabad in Afghanistan, is usually closed by sundown.

From Reuters