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...which makes Karzai's mission to Rome later this week especially important. He is going there to bring back the country's exiled King, Mohammed Zahir Shah, in an effort to reconstitute national unity. The King's 40-year reign, the country's last taste of peace and prosperity, was ended by a coup in 1973 while the monarch was in Italy for mud-bath treatments. At an interview with TIME, the King appeared in notably better health than he did five months ago, when world leaders began looking to him to help fill the vacuum left by the Taliban...
...affairs Kieran Prendergast says. Moreover, in the run-up to the June 22 loya jirga, or grand meeting of all Afghanistan's regional elders, which will decide who succeeds Karzai's administration, tension is only expected to increase. Against the warlords, the frail 87-year-old former King Mohammed Zahir Shah is not anticipated to prove the instrument of peace his supporters hope...
...monarch also has some personal priorities upon his return. One of his first visits outside Kabul will be to a small farm 30 km north of the capital where he'd once grown grapes, melons and pears. After heavy fighting in the region, Zahir Shah doesn't know if the trees survived - or if they will ever bear fruit again...
Those difficulties won't be easy to confront. Taliban and al-Qaeda forces are regrouping in pockets around the country, and there are simmering feuds among tribal and ethnic factions. "The current conditions are not an ordinary state of affairs," Zahir Shah concedes. "But today, we can say there is no civil war in Afghanistan." There was disturbing evidence this month that the fragile internal peace may not hold, as U.S. commanders were reportedly forced to modify their assault in the region of Gardez because rival warlords fighting alongside the Americans were said to be ready to clash over...