Word: kabul
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While the U.S. and its allies have dithered for months over whether to deploy more troops outside Kabul, Afghanistan's countless warlords have established a reign of terror in the nation's small towns and rural areas. At the same time, a recrudescent Taliban, aided by its al-Qaeda allies, has stepped up attacks on U.S. troops and reconstruction efforts in southern and eastern regions of the country, assassinating 13 aid workers since May. The latest, a French U.N. employee, was shot in the face and killed early last week by suspected Taliban gunmen in the southern town of Ghazni...
...reach barely extends past the front door of his Kabul office. The national army and the police force are still new and feeble. Most of his provincial governors are viewed as corrupt, and all are toothless in the face of regional warlords who rule life outside the capital. Far from appreciating the esteem that Karzai enjoys in the West, many Afghans see him as an American puppet. Most are either more loyal to or more frightened of the well-armed warlords...
...teach at a Karachi school and visited Afghanistan for a week in October. I went by car, without a guard, and traveled in an area around Kabul. Everywhere I saw people going about their lives, harvesting wheat and putting up hay for the animals to eat in winter. I visited some schools, including one with 5,700 students who come to classes in shifts starting at 7 in the morning. At no time did I feel threatened. I would say the majority of Afghans simply want to get on with living. RUTH DEIBLER Karachi...
...ending anytime soon." That is probably true, but I had a different perspective when I visited the country recently. I teach at a Karachi school and visited Afghanistan for a week in October. I went by car, without a guard, and traveled in an area around Kabul. Everywhere I saw people going about their lives, harvesting wheat and putting up hay for the animals to eat in winter. I visited some schools, including one with 5,700 students, who come to classes in shifts starting at 7 in the morning. At no time did I feel threatened. I would...
Karzai's chief aide, Omar Daudzay, told a Kabul radio station that "the talks were initiated at the Taliban's request." But why has Karzai, of all people--the man who rode into Afghanistan on a motorcycle soon after the Sept. 11 attacks to foment an anti-Taliban revolt among Pashtun tribes--responded to their overtures? In a word, pragmatism. The Taliban and al-Qaeda are gaining ground in remote areas, where they have found support among Pashtun tribesmen who feel Karzai's government is too top-heavy with Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara tribal leaders--their rivals for political power...