SECTOR SCAN - U.S. Army Spc. Brian Coelho scans his sector while key leaders meet at the district center in Arghandab, Afghanistan, July 26, 2011. Coelho is assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul. Team members frequently meet with government leaders and village elders to solve security issues around the province. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Grovert Fuentes-ContrerasTowards A Regional Solution In Afghanistan -- Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, The Hindu
Many observers have suggested that perhaps the best way to seek salvation for Afghanistan's difficulties is to strive to restore that country to its traditional stance of neutrality.
The eminent scholar, Hamid Ansari, and this writer proposed nearly seven years ago (The Hindu, December 24, 2003) a ‘neutral' status as the best possible solution for Afghanistan's persistent problems. Since then, much water has flowed down the Amu Darya. The country has gone through, and is still experiencing, unending violence, assassinations and instability. The international community, with the United States in the lead, has invested a huge effort in human and material terms to assist Afghanistan over the past 10 years to achieve a degree of calm and security. But the results have been less than hoped for.
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