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...Security Council met late Tuesday to discuss its response to the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. The focus of that discussion was how to provide urgent aid to the millions of Afghanis who face starvation, but high on agenda was a request from Afghanistan's exiled king, Zahir Shah, to send peacekeeping troops to Kabul in the event of the Taliban's collapse. King Zahir is the lynchpin of Western hopes for a consensus-based government in Kabul that could begin rebuilding the failed state of Afghanistan with international assistance. Maintaining the security of such a government in the face...
...exiled king, Zahir Shah, has appealed to the UN to send peacekeeping troops to a post-Taliban Afghanistan. Presumably there will be some pressure on the U.S. to be part of such a force - how will the Pentagon view such a possibility...
...messianic praise of the Taliban. When the mullah gathers his robes and exits from the dark, carpeted room into a courtyard of flies and the blinding white light of the desert, Achakzai says with a grin: "Once the Taliban falls, that mullah will be cheering the return of Zahir Shah." Loyalty is something the Taliban can no longer count on among all its fellow tribesmen...
...answers to terrorism. The growth of democracy, political participation and civil society is the final answer. By softening its endorsement of the struggle for democracy and the protection of human rights, the U.S. will inadvertently strengthen dictatorial regimes, thus replicating past associations with Marcos, Suharto and the Shah of Iran...
...These are desperate times for the Afghans. Even the migrants working for the brickmakers in Pakistan say they cannot see any way forward for their country. "I cannot say it will be peaceful again in my lifetime?only God knows," says Ahmed Shah, who left his village of Bachkot in Nangarhar a year ago. The despondency is widespread. Farras has a constant cough, a runny nose and an open sore on his cheek. His mother puts kohl around his eyes to ward off bad spirits?they cannot afford medicine. Neither Farras nor any of his 10 brothers have gone...