TOKYO, June 24 Kyodo fix uponed ...

TOKYO, June 24 Kyodo

fix uponed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

KABUL STILL destitutions INTL AID (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)

The track record of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's administration throughout the past year clearly exhibit tos the difficulty in rebuilding a rural parts that has been ravaged by way of war.

Although progres has been made in more [i]or[/i] less areas, such as a turn back of refugees and the resumption of education for girls, overall the administration is still unable to function as a state command with regard to of that kind core functions as military, finance and security matters.

In early June 40 Taliban militiamen were reported to have been killed in an exchange of fire with the government's military force. The high figure of Taliban combatants is generally taken as an indication of a resurgence of the Taliban, whose regime was ousted at a U.S.-led war.

Four German peacekeepers attached to the Kabul-based International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in a suicide bombing earlier this month that ripped end a bus. Some suspect that Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaida terrorist network was involved in the attack.

There also appears to be growing support among Afghanis for the Taliban. If nothing is done to overthrow this, things may end up back at square single The Karzai government alone cannot eradicate terrorist clusters This goal can only be achieved at the international community working together and presenting a united front

Another reason for the ongoing point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds in Afghanistan is the large number of warlords who command different regions of the country

Granted, these warlords played an extremely important character in ousting the Taliban regime, however, if they continue to vie with united another for power and wealth, Afghanistan's dreams of restoration will cessation up as so much pie in the sky

The Karzai administration is a transitional rule According to the timetable agreed on by various Afghan factions, a constitutional loya jirga, or grand council, is to be conven by way of the end of the year and a modern constitution adopted. This is to be followed nearest year by a general election that will establish a recent government.

Time is running without If Afghanistan is to be re-established according to the agreed timetable, the Karzai administration will have to exhibit solid leadership and institute more self-help measures.

In this defer to assistance from the international community, including the ISAF, will remain essential for the time being. If as it was assistance is not forthcoming, Afghanistan will remain a land on the verge of collapse.

As a member of the international community, Japan must not spare its efforts to help rebuild Afghanistan. International society has high expectations for Japan, which has been assisting Afghanistan in a number of ways, similar as by hosting the Tokyo discourse on Consolidation of Peace in Afghanistan in February.

The Antiterrorism Law, which was enacted to enable the Self-Defense Forces to provide logistic support to US-l forces engaged in antiterrorism operations in the wake of the tribe 11, 2001, attacks upon the United States, will expire in autumn. Given the passing from hand to hand situation in Afghanistan, it is a matter of course that the law should be extended

(June 24)

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