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U.S Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

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By Dr. Chris Seiple on 04 August 2009

It is not often that one hosts an influential Pashtun Islamist for 10 days. So, when the chief minister of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), Akram Khan Durrani, visited America for the first time a few years ago as my guest, I wasn't quite sure what to say when we first met. I found myself asking, why do you do what you do?

He replied: "I believe that I will stand before God on the last day and be held accountable for whether or not I governed my people with justice." I told him that I believed something similar.

Read the complete article at The Christian Science Monitor

Last updated 06 October 2009

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