Hairatan
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Hairatan is a town in northern Afghanistan. It is a border crossing between that country and Termiz. Its height is 300m.
In the early 1990s, it was the location of the 70th Division of General Abdul Momen, loosely aligned with Abdul Rashid Dostum's National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan. After Momen's death after being killed when a RPG round hit his helicopter on 5 January 1994, the division split, with a Dostam loyalist, Colonel General Helaluddin, taking command.[1]
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- ^ Anthony Davis, 'The Battlegrounds of Northern Afghanistan,' Jane's Intelligence Review, July 1994
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Coordinates: 37°13′01″N 67°25′01″E / 37.21694°N 67.41694°E
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