Let’s not forget that she was an official in the Karzai government. You have hit the nail where it should be hit.

This government is currently engaged in a civil war. The Afghans are not fighting a civil war, we feel, we are resisting occupation, forced on us through a token puppet, kept alive by Amreeki and elite Israeli bodyguards.

She has been a casualty of being seen as a collaborator. 

I think that the CIA and the KGB have done a number on the Afghani people and the results are once again hurting any chance for real improvement.

A western set of (im)moral values were imposed by the athiest Soviet Regime.  The CIA armed men in the name of their religion to wage war on our enemy.  (Anyone who thinks the Cold War was Cold doesn't understand history.)  And then when they turned around and plunged the Afghani people back 500 years.  We cried foul.

This woman was murdered for multiple reasons.  I'm sure her place in power, her social programs and her "coziness" with the Americans had much to do with it. 

I still say that schools are the answer instead of bombs.  And I also feel that Islamic Missionaries establishing Madrasses (I know I mispelled that) for boys and girls would be a huge benefit to Afghanistan.  Imagine having every boy and girl fluent and literate. 

Poverty cannot end without education.  The Afghani people cannot stand on their own without empowerment.  They cannot decide their own path without knowing what's out there. 

A western set of (im)moral values were imposed by the athiest Soviet Regime.  The CIA armed men in the name of their religion to wage war on our enemy.  (Anyone who thinks the Cold War was Cold doesn't understand history.)  And then when they turned around and plunged the Afghani people back 500 years.  We cried foul.

This woman, like thousands and thousands of others is a casualty of  chaos, war, greed and oppression.

Two absolutely divine statements.

At times, even watching some wellknown commercials, aka the BBC news, can solve certain riddles.

This morning I saw this huge global promo, wrapped up as some competition, with a signature tune, put together by some spin masters trained at Anna Freud´s school of Fraudology.

"Changing the Lives of People" must be some noble aim. In fact many champions have been awarded Nobel Prizes just for that - Changing the Lives of People!

Experience shows that such poetic flow past our screens as preambles of more interesting efforts of "changing" peoples´ lives, say, with therapy from 52,000 feet in the air or some other more interesting changes like Qaboos suddenly being flown to take over from his own father - who was declared mad for starting to think of his own people first!

Could anyone please fill me in one the following questions:

Is it possible that when you talk of changing our lives, you are reflecting, in fact, a dream to change your own life?

Is everyone in our world living in the same concrete jungle, with hyped pressures, two visits a week to the shrink and other such status symbols?

Is it ever possible that some people in our world are living more happy lives than you could possibly imagine, but you have to be shown just how "lucky" you are for running hot water and a regular seat at the local theatre?

Is it possible that mothers in some parts of the world might feel a wee different from their sisters stuck in the Madison Avenue?

Why must we change our lives to the west´s prescriptions when all its medicine come pre-packed with 22 side effects?

How important it is for a three years old to know that mama is some Nuerosurgeon or that she is flying the 19:40 to Dubai and will be back by the morning?

Great industrial symbols always work, eveywhere?

How many of know here that every single child across the Muslim world can read the Quran before they are nine. They are taught at home or at the Madrassa?

We are terribly afraid of becoming like you.

(More later . . . must rush)