A forgotten conflict

THE world, preoccupied with the Middle East conflict, appears to have completely forgotten Afghanistan, the other conflict, the other front. Yet this was the country that US President Bush, not long ago described as the first front in the so-called war on terror and ‘greater struggle’ for democracy in the Muslim world. Where is Afghanistan headed today? Unfortunately, no one seems to have an idea, not the US-led 'coalition of the willing' and not certainly the government of President Hamid Karzai.