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...shops at significantly lower prices than the Afghan-produced bottles. The cost of safeguarding Coca-Cola's local bottling plant and employees from attacks has soared as suicide bombings have increased in Kabul. And some of the government's pro-business promises have not materialized, says Sayed Mustafa Kazimi, the former Commerce Minister who signed the Coca-Cola license on behalf of the government. "I didn't go to the [factory] opening ceremony because I didn't want to be embarrassed when they said that I brought [Coca-Cola] to Afghanistan," says Kazimi, who claims his successors in the commerce...
...Government corruption is also a formidable obstacle, as it is in many developing countries. "If you need land, you have to pay a bribe," says Kazimi, the former Commerce Minister. "Electricity, you have to pay someone off. To import goods, you have to pay baksheesh. Everyone has a 'tax.'" Those who refuse to pay risk losing out to their business rivals. When Roshan, a cellular-phone company jointly owned by the Geneva-based Aga Khan Development Network, Monaco Telecom and MCT Corp. of the U.S., began building a network in Afghanistan in 2002, transmission equipment languished in customs for months...
...From Afghanistan to Egypt, not one country that has had an election in the past year has emerged more stable as a result of the experience. In Iraq, three elections-the last one little more than a "census," in the words of Iraqi journalist Nibras Kazimi-have increased the probability of partition or civil war and installed a corrupt, Iran-leaning government of religious conservatives, which will undoubtedly remain in power when the new "permanent" government is formed. In Afghanistan, elections have brought narco-warlords to positions of significant power. Even the Potemkin elections in Saudi Arabia and Egypt resulted...
...Nazik D. Kazimi, a Newton resident who ismarried to an MIT professor, said she sees Ashrawias proof that not all Arab women, stay "behind theveil...
...presents a very good view of Arab women,"Kazimi said...