By empty (9/10/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said that insecurity in the country remains a major concern threatening to undermine the peace process and the transitional government. Mr Brahimi told a conference at the United Nations that many Afghans still felt that they were at the mercy of local commanders or armed groups. Rival factions clashed in the Afghan city of Khost over the weekend, leaving at least 15 people dead, just days after a failed assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai, in the city of Kandahar.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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