Afghanistan

Afghanistan is moving backward
By Haroun Mir

KABUL – The Afghan government and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies are struggling to bring stability to Afghanistan as NATO’s stabilizing efforts are being undermined by bad governance.

Reforming government institutions and rebuilding vital economic infrastructures should have been the priority since the collapse of the Taliban regime in 2001. In fact, during the past three decades of continuous conflicts and civil wars and the Taliban’s assumption of power in 1996, Afghanistan’s administration and economic system became paralyzed and dysfunctional.

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