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Afghans fear Lack of Food Aid; Resent Corruption; Pakistan Abolishes Civilian Wing of ISI

Juan Cole 11/25/2008

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Aljazeera English reports on Afghan fears that foreign aid won’t reach them:

Pervasive corruption is also deeply angering the AFghan public.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan chief of staff, Ashfaq Kiyani, has abolished the political wing of the Inter-Services Intelligence, which had been accused of shaping Pakistni politics by rigging elections or destabilizing government it did not like.

Pakistan’s war on the Taliban is swelling refugee camps.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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