Word: afghanization
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...appearances are deceiving. This onetime deputy governor of an Iraqi province and two-time author isn't garbed as a City banker in order to project upper-class Britishness, but, he says, "to show respect" to Afghans. In Stewart's latest incarnation, as President Hamid Karzai's appointed reviver of traditional Afghan architecture and crafts, earning the respect of the locals is crucial-especially because the work must take place in a war-ravaged country with no real peace on the horizon. How can preservation be achieved amid so much destruction...
...Stewart does it through winning community support. For the past year, he has labored tirelessly to transform the Murad Khane slum in Kabul's 200-year-old city center into a heritage district and tourist magnet for Afghans and foreigners alike. At first, local reaction was about the same as one would expect if some bowler-hatted Brit showed up at a Rio favela and proposed that he help residents spruce the place up. "I told him he would fail," says Palawan Aziz, the neighborhood's headman and now the project's strongest supporter. Stewart persevered, visiting residents and charming...
...International missions have indeed promised the world to Afghanistan-from judicial reforms to paved roads. These measures, while essential for a country that has been without effective central government for nearly 30 years, take time, and Afghans first need to see tangible results-like garbage off the streets-before they can have faith in higher-minded, longer-term pledges and objectives. Stewart's cleanup of Murad Khane has thus given him the license to embark on the cultural projects that are his real passion. He is directing the area's architectural restorations, and he has set up the Centre...
...stewardship, the school has become a substantial development program that provides jobs and has improved the lives of the 700 residents of Murad Khane. "I wouldn't see the point of teaching this stuff unless I thought that it could be a vibrant, living, income-generating project for Afghans," he says. "Because if it was just beautiful Afghan tradition, it may as well just sit in a museum...
...Tense Times at the Border The article on Talibanistan highlighted the grim realities faced by the people in the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan [April 2]. Every possible effort should be made to pacify negative elements there. This requires coordinated efforts by locals, the Afghan and Pakistani governments and coalition forces. Even so, it is mind-boggling that so much blame is heaped on Pakistan. How is it possible that the coalition forces right across the border are not able to stop negative elements from crossing into Afghanistan? Is there any responsible force in control on the Afghan side? Muhammad...