Afghanistan’s foreign backers should not see Sunday’s elections as a signal to disengage but rather to increase support until the country can stand on its own feet, the president said on Tuesday. Speaking to government officials and tribal elders in the western city of Herat, Hamid Karzai said it would be years before Afghanistan was able to go it alone and foreign troops and money were still needed. “The international community should not immediately think Afghanistan’s work has been done and it’s over and let the Afghan people forge ahead with their work with their own resources.Full Story
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