{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"The Battle for Afghanistan’s Hearts and Minds has been Lost","author_name":"Asar Iqbal","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article5961.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article5961.html'\u003EThe Battle for Afghanistan’s Hearts and Minds has been Lost\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHamid Karzai has been the leader of Afghanistan since the Bonn Conference, which took place shortly after the expulsion of the Taliban in 2001.  This means that President Karzai has been in office for eight years with another four yet to be served.  With all that time under his belt, shouldn\u2019t we have seen some accomplishments?  His speeches, full of promises, are merely black lines on paper; he has not brought us peace, nor prosperity, nor the hope for a better future. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nThe Afghan people (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}