AS President Hamid Karzai prepares for the first week of his second term in office he faces such a multitude of problems that Hercules’ cleansing of the Augean Stables begins to look like a piece of light housework.
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Poverty and corruption ... the real allies of the Taliban
Conflict has ravaged Afghanistan, but, as a new OXFAM report reveals, it is a systematic failure by the west to address the country’s economic plight that now poses the biggest challenge
