Word: kabul
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...least of Muqimyar's concerns. She has four months to improve her technique and cut down her time. After a week training on Islamabad's rubberized track, she rolls her eyes and clutches her shins in mock pain at the thought of returning to the broken concrete track of Kabul stadium. Then she pauses, and a shadow crosses over her face. "They did terrible things there, you know. They killed people and cut them up." The Taliban used the stadium as a public execution ground. "With my success, and the success of others," she says, "I think we will make...
...wish list. But as Karzai admitted, the big donations don't mean the country's problems are close to being solved. With elections just six months away, says Barnett Rubin of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, the big issue is the lack of security outside Kabul: "They certainly won't be able to carry out reconstruction if they don't have security in the provinces." The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force has 6,500 troops in Afghanistan, but few outside Kabul. The Afghan army of 10,000 men is smaller than most of the militias...
...with secure computer terminals and phones, their toil is long and arduous but never dull. "It's day right now in half the world, so this shift's pretty fast paced," says an official. "In another hour, it's morning prayers in East Africa. It's morning already in Kabul...
While they sound upbeat, the commanders are worried that one catastrophic event--like an attack on Karzai, who will be campaigning outside Kabul this spring--could shatter the current fragile peace. The U.S. military presence in Afghanistan remains the only guarantor that the country will not fall apart. "If we left," says a U.S. official, "Karzai would be dead within days." So the troops are staying--and attempting, at least, to kick-start the reconstruction of a country the U.S. has now effectively inherited...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai talked with TIME's Tim McGirk and Michael Ware in Kabul...