The clock of the Afghanistan Compact is now ticking.

It requires a lot of economic stimulus to increase the amount of revenue but also to have external aid allocated in a way which allows growth from both sides - one trying to bring in foreign income, the other saying the vast majority of the population are rural, so let's try and lift them up.

is indignant and condemns the American strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan.

There is clearly a lot of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan, less so in Afghanistan, but I think that this will feed into it.

per troppo tempo l'Afghanistan è stato usato come terreno di scontro nel "Grande Gioco" delle superpotenze. (...) hanno dato denaro e potere ai fondementalisti e signori della guerra, che hanno trascinato il nostro popolo in una situazione drammatica.

Despite everything that has befallen us, do we not continue to hold the destiny of this shattered and magnificent nation, together with the future of all our children-girls and boys alike-in the palm of our hands?