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Ex-EU envoy flays foreign forces

Source: The Frontier Post

Kabul : Afghanistan | about 1 year ago

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As a result of continuing civilian deaths, the ex-envoy said, "a great deal of antipathy" had been created and that had contributed to increasing distance between the government of President Hamid Karzai and Afghan citizens. The situation was particularly perilous among the Pashtun...

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