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The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar
is in Taliban hands — all but a square mile at the centre of the city —
and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul.
Hamid Karzai’s deeply corrupted government is almost as powerless as
the Iraqi cabinet in Baghdad’s “Green Zone”; lorry drivers in the
country now carry business permits issued by the Taliban which operate
their own courts in remote areas of the country.
The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar
is in Taliban hands — all but a square mile at the centre of the city —
and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul.
Hamid Karzai’s deeply corrupted government is almost as powerless as
the Iraqi cabinet in Baghdad’s “Green Zone”; lorry drivers in the
country now carry business permits issued by the Taliban which operate
their own courts in remote areas of the country.
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