By David Loyn in Kabul
Published: 18 May 2006 Samihullah is just the kind of returned refugee his country needs. Aged 30, with a wife and two children, he was well educated in the camps across the border in Pakistan. After the Taliban were pushed out in 2001, he returned home and joined the Afghan Ministry of Education, where he helped to rebuild the higher-education sector. But not any more.
I found him working as a security guard at the UN's World Food Programme headquarters in Kabul. With allowances he earns a total of $270 a month there, compared with $50 at the Afghan higher education. The decision to move jobs was not a hard one. But it is the international system that is sucking Afghanistan dry. Any returnee who speaks English can be guaranteed a job at a higher level in the UN, or the myriad big NGOs that have set up shop in Kabul. |
Last Updated Wed, 17 May 2006 22:42:56 EDT
CBC News With the latest death of a Canadian soldier fresh in their minds, members of Parliament have voted to approve an extension of the military mission to Afghanistan.
The vote was close, but the government prevailed 149-145. It means Canadian soldiers will remain in Afghanistan two years longer than previously planned. |
Thursday, 18 May 2006, 11:41 GMT 12:41 UK
Afghanistan has been hit by some of the heaviest fighting since the US-led invasion in 2001 to oust the Taleban.
Taleban fighters are battling police in Helmand province where officials say about 50 militants and 13 police died. Comment: We are sure you all recall Afghanistan. It was supposed to be the "successful" component in the war on terror. You know, where they had elections and formed a government, even if that dastardly Osama had managed to slip through the tightening knot around him when for some unknown foul-up, US troops backed off to leave a wide opening for him to "slip through". Another sign of "incomptence", no doubt.
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