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  • Governance and exit strategies in Afghanistan

    02/03/2010 9:19:06 AM PST · by Ordinary_American · 96+ views
    United Press International ^ | February 3, 2010 | Lawrence Sellin
    HELSINKI, Finland, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. military recently announced that the elders of the Shinwari tribe, which comprises 600,000 people in Nangarhar province and spans the Afghan-Pakistan border, signed an agreement to keep the Taliban out of their area. The United States agreed to pay $1 million into a Shinwaru tribal fund and $200,000 for a jobs program. The tribal elders admitted that the pact grew as much out of frustration with the Afghan central government as from hostility toward the Taliban. U.S. frustration with the present Afghan central government is no secret. In November, Karl Eikenberry, the...