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...McGirk and Ghulam Hasnain
...impoverished south and east. "If we fail" to restore civil order in the country, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson told reporters at the NATO parliamentary assembly this month, "we will find Afghanistan on all of our doorsteps." Unfortunately, dire warnings alone will not win the Afghan peace. --By Tim McGirk...
...writing about Afghanistan, Tim McGirk noted, "This war isn't 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...
...split the Taliban's ranks. But the President's program could falter at the start: Karzai's advisers say Muttawakil has already declined a Cabinet post, and is considering asylum in an Arab country--possibly Qatar--far from Mullah Omar's long memory and vengeful grasp. --By Tim McGirk and Rahimullah Yusufzai
...military relies on for intelligence on al-Qaeda and the Taliban and to provide hired guns are mixed up in the drug business. "Without money from drugs, our friendly warlords can't pay their militias," says a Kabul diplomat. "It's as simple as that." --By Tim McGirk...