Afghan Prez controls only 30% of country

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THE Afghan government under President Hamid Karzai controls only 30 per cent of the country, the top US intelligence official said yesterday.

Michael McConnell, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate armed services committee that the resurgent Taleban controlled a further 10 to 11 per cent of the country. But more than six years after the invasion to oust the Taleban and establish a stable central government, most of the population was still under local tribal control, he said.

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