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Gunfight, explosioons broke out in Helmand Afghanistan Bank by Paki-Punajbi ISI militants
Suspected Pakistan-Punjabi ISI Taliban militants engage in a firefight with security forces after detonating a suicide bomb and storming a bank branch in the southern Afghan province of Helmand,...

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Do you want to listen to Taliban cassette? Matiullah Matie asks as he steers his white Toyota Corolla along a narrow road surrounded by cornfields and mud huts. He keeps the tapes in the car for long drives, Matie explains, just in case he picks up a hitchhiker who looks like a Talib. They think I am such a pious mujahid man, the round, bearded businessman laughs. They dont know I am screwing them all.

We are driving to the Nawa district, just 30 minutes outside Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province in the southwest corner of Afghanistan. Matie is going to show us how he first became a millionaire.

Earlier that morning, photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli and I found Matie sprawled on his office floor. Hed spent the night Facebookinguntil he passed out. In the corner, on the armrest of a brown couch, a Dell laptop flashed an error message. Stacks of blue posters for the cell phone company Salaam lay against the wall. Matie had recently bought the local Salaam distribution license. Its his latest project.

When we drive into the bazaar at Nawa, people recognize Matie immediately. Many wave at him. Hes done business here beforeand hes already brought Salaam to the district. Thats the reason one man with a neatly trimmed beard approaches the car and leans in to chat. Matie curses his luck under his breath.

I have bought 100 SIM cards but no one buys, says the guy, a retailer representing Maties franchise. Matie tells him to be patient. Its a new company, he explains, business will pick up.

Will you come back for lunch, all of you be my guests? the man asks.

Sure, Matie says. Make some chicken for lunch once we drive back from Garmsir.

Matie has no intention of going to Garmsir or lunch with the man. The bastards son still has links to the Taliban, he says as we drive on. You really cant trust anyone.

In a few minutes we reach the compound of the 1st Battalion 9th MarinesThe Walking Dead, as a yellow logo proclaims inside one of its rooms. The U.S. Marines packed up a year ago, and all thats left is a series of shipping-container offices that once housed U.S. Agency for International Development contractors. The desks and furniture are locked inside; the windows are covered in dust and cobwebs. But when the Marines ruled Nawathe district governors office was within their compoundthe Americans started Matie on his road to prosperity. In the U.S., wartime contracting is often associated with such names as Blackwater (now known as Academi), DynCorp International, Triple Canopy, and others, but on the ground in Afghanistan, the Pentagon depended on a small army of locals. And as hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money poured into the country, it created a new class of wealthy, entrepreneurial Afghans.

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In the frequent audits of US spending in Afghanistan,a word that comes up again and again is unsustainable.

Whether it be the Western-style Afghan Army the United States has tried to create, the millions thrown at vague governance projects, billions wasted on opium eradication, or complicated power plants that run on expensive fuel, a common thread in the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstructions reports is this: Gains are likely to be reversed once the international funding tap is inevitably turned off.

That finding is often woven with another, related thread: US spending has been tracked poorly, and claims of a causal relationship between any improvements made and US spending often cant be proven.

This sad, largely ignored story line is repeated in SIGARs report out Thursday on US efforts to improve conditions for Afghan women.

Twelve years in, theres no coordinating body for tracking and accounting for spending targeted at Afghan women by the Pentagon, State Department, and USAID. We determined DOD, State and USAID have not assessed the overall impact of their efforts to support Afghan women, the report says. A former [interagency gender] working group co-chair told us that when the strategy was created, the requirement for an assessment was more of an 'optimistic, aspirational statement.'

The report predicts that oversight will worsen in this area, as in all other areas, as US soldiers and officials continue to withdraw from Afghanistan.

Between 2011 and 2013, SIGAR says the US spent $65 million on projects for Afghan women. The inspector general says a further $850 million in spending was reported to be related to the status of women, but that his investigation could not identify the specific amount of funds within [these] projects that directly supported Afghan women."

The results? Unclear. There are far more women and girls receiving an education than under the Taliban, which banned high school and tertiary education for women. About 80 percent of Afghan girls are in primary school now, up from 40 percent in 2002, and high school enrollment has improved from 6 percent to 30 percent, according to USAID.

But societal attitudes about the role of women have been slow to change, and tolerance for violence and rape remains high. The Afghanistan Independent Commission on Human Rights reported a 25 percent increase in cases involving violence against women in 2013 from 2012.

In early 2014, Afghanistans parliament passed, and former President Hamid Karzai signed, a law that prohibited family members from testifying against each other, making prosecutions of domestic rape and other forms of violence almost impossible. Karzai later issued a decree rescinding it, but the fact that the law made it that far and that parliament didn't strike it down speaks to where attitudes stand.

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As the UN-mandated international combat mission in Afghanistan enters its final days after a democratic transfer of power, a Security Council debate put the spotlight on the terrorist threats to the fragile nation with India warning of the support extremists get from abroad and tying together the this week's deadly attacks in Kabul, Peshawar and Sydney.

India's Acting Permanent Representative Bhagwant S. Bishnoi told the Security Council Thursday that those responsible for the "evil scourge of terrorism" have managed to survive "immense military pressure" in only because they "continue to benefit from support from beyond Afghanistan's borders, and continue to access resources from transnational terrorist and criminal networks."

He added, "The attacks in Kabul, Sydney and Peshawar only underline the fact terrorists do not respect borders, and make no differentiation between states. They pose a common threat to humanity." Bishnoi said UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Nicholas Haysom should focus on this problem.

Haysom, in his briefing to the Security Council, noted that till November-end there were more civilian deaths and injuries in Afghanistan than any other year since 2008, with civilian casualties increasing 19 pe cent from last year.

"The recent increase in security incidents is a cause for concern," he said. "It is too early to assess whether this surge is timed to coincide with the withdrawal of international military forces, or will become the new normal."

Striking a defiant note, Afghanistan Ambassador Zahir Tanin said, "As they commit acts of violence and brutality against innocent men, women and children, extremist armed groups should know that the courageous Afghan security forces stand ready to fight for the future of Afghan democracy, peace and security."

Pakistan, which is reeling from the Taliban massacre of 132 school children, also joined in targeting terrorism, with Deputy Permanent Representative Sahebzada Ahmed Khan calling it a common enemy, which must be fought by common endeavours and without distinction.

United States Ambassador Samantha Power recalled the sacrifices made by "2,200 Americans and more than 1,200 citizens" of International Security Assistance Force nations "to root out terrorism and try to build a more stable and a more secure Afghanistan." She referred to the rising wave of the terrorist attacks, in particular the one at a volleyball game that killed more than 50 people and said that "those responsible for such attacks must be neutralized and must be brought to justice."

Most countries did not specify the terror groups, but Russia and Iran named names. Russian Ambassador Vitaly I. Churkin said that the Taliban and Al Qaeda were still active but this was notably absent from the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's report on the Afghan situation.

Teheran "strongly condemns all violent attacks committed by the Taliban, A1 Qaeda and other violent and extremist groups," Iranian Ambassador G. Hossein Dehghani said. "We condemn any cooperation with and encouragement provided to these groups ."

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