When Habiba's elderly husband was badly beaten in a village brawl there was only one place, she said, that she could turn to for help and justice. Barefoot and weeping, the farmer's wife, 50, trekked for four hours through Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains to meet the local Taleban commander. "My feet were bleeding and I cried the whole way but I didn't care about my safety," she said. "We are poor people. We know the Government doesn't help people like us." Corruption and incompetence in...
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