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Brutal Winter Adds to Afghan Hardships
CAIRO — Winter is the time that exposes the West's failure and broken promises in war-torn Afghanistan, with tens of thousands, including in the capital Kabul, struggling to survive in teeth-chattering temperatures as they already lack the minimum of infrastructure and amenities that could have helped them cope with the elements or stay alive, The Washington Post reported Monday, January22 .
"It is so hard for people," lamented Rabbani, an elderly man who sells firewood in the Old City district in Kabul.
Rabbani says it breaks his heart when many people, who are living hand-to-mouth, are forced to choose between buying bread and wood.
"They ask for three kilos (of firewood), and I know it will only burn for an hour," he bitterly added, wondering how on earth people can survive with a meager $ 2a day.
More than five years after the US-led overthrow of Taliban and the advent of a US-backed government, the country is still so destitute and undeveloped that most inhabitants have no central heating, electricity or running water.
In Kabul, the majority of locals are living in frigid slums.
Homes receive electricity only a few hours every other night, assuming that they are wired at all. Water must be heated in buckets, and bathing can be an excruciating ordeal, the paper says.
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Rabbani says it breaks his heart when many people, who are living hand-to-mouth, are forced to choose between buying bread and wood.
"They ask for three kilos (of firewood), and I know it will only burn for an hour," he bitterly added, wondering how on earth people can survive with a meager $ 2a day.
More than five years after the US-led overthrow of Taliban and the advent of a US-backed government, the country is still so destitute and undeveloped that most inhabitants have no central heating, electricity or running water.
In Kabul, the majority of locals are living in frigid slums.
Homes receive electricity only a few hours every other night, assuming that they are wired at all. Water must be heated in buckets, and bathing can be an excruciating ordeal, the paper says.
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http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1168265779918&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
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