In remote villages, Afghan government inspires little faith

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Ghulam Faruq Hamayoon, sub-governor of Logar province’s Kharwar district (sitting under the jacket), meets with soldiers and reconstruction officials in the cramped trailer that serves as his headquarters. Hamayoon, who was hired after the last sub-governor simply left and never returned, has no staff and says he feels abandoned by his government.



By Heath Druzin, Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes online edition, Tuesday, May 11, 2010

KHARWAR DISTRICT, Afghanistan — While many government jobs in Afghanistan are handed out as prizes, no one is fighting over the post of Kharwar district sub-governor.

Given the dingy shipping container that serves as both the sub-governor’s home and the district center for this rugged, volatile area high in the Hindu Kush mountains in eastern Afghanistan’s Logar province, it’s no surprise that the last appointee fled his job.

He’d been tricked into taking the post, and lasted just six weeks before he slipped out of a meeting of elders, never to return to the job, said U.S. Army Capt. John Williams, the commander of a small base in the district

For weeks, Kharwar had no district sub-governor. Now, they have a reluctant one, in Ghulam Faruq Hamayoon, who is afraid to travel into much of his district and says he has no support from Kabul.

“The government can’t do anything,” he said. “If they can’t build a district center, how can they help the people?”




unhappycamper comment: This picture says it all:



Gary Soiseth, a U.S. Department of Agriculture adviser working in Afghanistan, sits alone at what was to be a shura for farmers in Wardak province. Afghan Ministry of Agriculture employees scheduled to attend canceled at the last minute and no local villagers showed up.

And We The People are paying a million dollars per soldier per year for this.

Wake up people!

[ShortnFiery]

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