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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (270364)2/14/2006 7:45:33 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1573682
 
Signs of poverty are everywhere.

Which is surprising for what reason? Afghanistan is and has been poor.

I notice you bold all the negative parts of the article but not -

"School enrollment has soared from 900,000 to 5 million. Many of those students are girls attending classes for the first time in nearly a decade after being banned from studying by the hard-line Islamic Taliban.

Roads have been rebuilt, including one linking the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif in the north to Kabul in the center, Kandahar in the south and Herat in the west.

Two national elections were held, one that saw Karzai elected as president and a second for a new parliament. A new currency has been introduced, and the economy is growing.

Some 4.4 million refugees have returned home. Thousands of militiamen who fought against the Taliban or Soviet troops in the 1980s have been demobilized, while 33,000 soldiers have been recruited and trained for a new army."
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