Afghan Quote by Lakhdar Brahimi

“One only had to go to Kabul airport to see a classic example of the aid community helping itself rather than Afghans. The scariest…

— Christina Lamb

“marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.”

— Khaled Hosseini

It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much,…

— Khaled Hosseini

The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not…

— Larry Heinemann

The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate…

— Seumas Milne

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report,…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact…

— Allen West

In Afghanistan, I was talking to Afghan elders who were world-weary of a lack of sustained attention from their own government and from the…

— Jo Cox

Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly…

— Cynthia McKinney

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people…

— Khaled Hosseini