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| Afghanistan | |
| Taliban Support Declining Among Afghans | |
| 2011-11-16 | |
| [Tolo News] Support for the Taliban among Afghans has steadily decreased in recent years and people strongly back a government peace initiative, according to a survey conducted by Asia Foundation. But it doesn't matter whether Afghans support the Taliban or not. They'll do what they're told or they'll be killed, usually in manners unpleasant...
The survey has found that majority of Afghan adults, 82 percent, are in favour of reconciliation and reintegration efforts of the Afghan government. The number of those who have said they sympathised with the aims of the Taliban has dropped to 29 percent compared to 40 percent last year and 56 percent in 2009, it said. The survey has also found that there is some confidence in Afghanistan's economic development, but it showed dissatisfaction with the state's ability to deliver both security and clean government. It has identified a lack of security as the biggest problem in the country by 38 percent of those polled, especially in the south and eastern region where insurgency has been at its highest. Seventy one percent of those polled have said they did not feel safe travelling from one part of Afghanistan to another. Although roughly half of those polled thought the Afghan police and army were "unprofessional and poorly trained," a growing number of people thought they were steadily improving, the survey showed. The number of those who feel Afghan cops can operate without international help has reduced, but the majority of people think they can't. Foreign troops started security transition to Afghan forces in July and it will be completed by the end of 2014. Afghan cops have taken over security responsibility of seven areas in the first phase. There are around 130,000 foreign troops, 90,000 of them US forces, fighting hard boyz in the country. The report says that nearly half of those asked, or 46 percent, thought the country was moving in the right direction. Reconstruction and rebuilding, good security in some areas and improvements in the education system were the main reasons. But for the first time since the survey began in 2004, a rising number now think that Afghanistan is moving in the wrong direction - an increase to 35 percent from 27 last year, it says. Those who thought the country was moving in the right direction, Forty percent who thought the country was moving in the right direction highlighted reconstruction as the primary reason. | |
| Posted by:Fred |