... "(The insurgency in Afghanistan's heartland - Asia Report No. 207, 2011, p. 8) Such activities diminish the official administration's power and ability to govern the typically rural areas where the insurgent factions wield more power. Perhaps the most telling statement about the Taliban's intentions is captured in a 2010 interview with a former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan who indicates that the "...Taliban leaders have ... a rift within the forces altogether. • The ANP's reputation is not providing any sense of security in the majority of the Afghan provinces. Corruption, issues per...

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... after years of civil war, the process is being hampered by an absence of nationwide political parties. Instead, most of Afghan politics is in the hands of powerful figures or factions whose support comes from one or another of the country's ethnic groups. Afghanistan's new Education Minister and top internal security adviser Mohammad Yunis Qanuni formed a new party recently, he did ... , has described the Afghan intellectuals' past role in his book, "The Search for Peace in Afghanistan." He wrote, "Although political parties were not permitted to compete in parliamentary elections, vario...

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... Sunni Muslim 84%, Shi'a Muslim 15%, and other 1%. Afghanistan is a weird place and although the Taliban rules most of it there is no functioning central government, it is administered by factions. They don't have a constitution or a legal system there either. But that is small compared to its other problems. Afghanistan has always been a very poor country; in fact the third-poorest ... ...

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