However the improved paths impressed the inhabitants, and requests for assistance greatly increased soon after only a few improvements had been completed.
We should increase input in agriculture, develop advanced technologies, curb market speculation, increase food assistance and intensify cooperation in food.
Many Afghans find it bizarre that the West should devote so much money to Mr Karzai, yet be unable to hold him to account over something so basic as stuffing ballot boxes on an industrial scale.
UNAMA said the torture aimed to obtain information and confessions, which it said are often the sole form of evidence submitted in Afghan criminal trials.