The battle for Afghanistan runs through its villages not through its cities Opinion | Emran_Feroz
in the province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan. The night before, Afghan and American forces raided another home in the region.
However, Karzai is just one of a few people who regularly speak on such issues. At the same time, the government of President Ashraf Ghani always tends to present its own version of events, or to be more precise, its "own truth".
However, during the last seventeen years of war, this has not happened, and it is one of the main reasons why we are losing the country's rural areas.We have cities like Kabul where many people care for “modern lifestyles” and watch soap operas or music competitions on Tolo TV and where a small elite benefits from the presence of foreign troops and the military-industrial complex.
But while he is celebrated as a national hero nowadays, many do not like to acknowledge that drones and special forces would likely hunt the prince were he alive today. We can find modernised Afghans in the capital's hip coffee shops talking about culture and politics while planning their next trip to Istanbul or Dubai. But they can never hide the lives of all the people who continue to live in war, mayhem and poverty and who cannot afford the luxury to think about TV shows, because they neither have electricity nor television, and they will probably never have one. These are the people who make up an underrepresented majority.
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