From a Reporter's Notebook: Afghanistan One Year Later: The Struggle for the Soul of a Nation

Sep 25, 2002

Afghanistan is less stable today than it was six months ago because of U.S. reluctance to provide security outside Kabul and the international community's failure to deliver the full amount of the reconstruction aid it promised, says Ahmed Rashid.

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