Afghans to ask for $50 bln aid at Paris conference

"We did not know the level and depth of destruction of this country," Ishaq Nadiri, Karzai's senior economic advisor, told reporters late on Tuesday.

"The Afghan disaster was complete," he said. "The level of destruction was unlike anything I have seen in the developing world with the loss of human capital, physical capital and social capital.

"The collapse of Afghanistan was total, so now we have to build on all fronts simultaneously," he said.
Afghans to ask for $50 bln aid at Paris conference International ...
Afghan cure 'will take up to 10 years'