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SUBJECT: PRT CHAGHCHARAN: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY,
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SITUATION IN GHOR PROVINCE
¶1. (SBU) Summary: Ghor Province should be one of
Afghanistan?s success stories, but because it remains unable
to attract the resources needed to overcome its developmental
deficit, the province continues to lack the wherewithal for
economic and political "take-off". Marginal progress was
made over the last six months on some fronts, and, very
importantly, a food crisis appears to have been averted.
What is more, there is widespread appreciation throughout the
province for its relative peace and security, which residents
realize from listening to the radio contrasts markedly with
the situation in the south and east. On the other hand, that
same medium is fueling the belief -- and resultant
unhappiness -- that Kabul and the International Community are
largely ignoring Ghor?s needs while addressing those of
other provinces. Perhaps not coincidentally, there have been
a number of serious security incidents since last summer.
These reflect, among other things, the inability of
legitimate government authority to neutralize competing
tribal- arms-, and crime-based centers of power, some of
which are willing to do the Taliban?s bidding. End summary.
Security
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¶2. (SBU) It is all but impossible to find a Ghor resident who
does not thank his or her lucky stars that the security
situation in the province is so much better than in many
other parts of the country. Ghor?s relative peace has
several, sometimes paradoxical sources: its largely Tajik
population, still quietly armed and ready to resist the
Taliban; the difficult terrain, harsh climate, and lack of
good transit routes; the watchful eye of an active but
non-aggressive PRT; and, perhaps most importantly, the
delicate balance between the province's competing centers of
power (legitimate and illegitimate), which rarely comes under
direct challenge. The security climate in Chaghcharan, the
provincial capital, is so permissive that UNAMA now plans to
open an office there in the spring. Just before Christmas
the contrast between Ghor and those parts of the country
suffering ongoing hostilities was thrown into especially
stark relief with the arrival at PRT Chaghcharan of a U.S.
Army Police Support Team (PST), complete with fresh combat
experience, more restrictive yet robust operating procedures
than the other PRT elements, and a certain initial
unfamiliarity to encountering smiling and waving adults and
kids along the road.
¶3. (SBU) There is, however, another side to the story. The
PRT headquarters has not come under RPG fire again, as it did
last May, but a Croatian patrol operating near Ghor?s border
with Helmand and Farah was targeted by direct small arms fire
in late June and narrowly avoided casualties. The French NGO
"Mission d?Aide au Development des Economies Rurales en
Afghanistan" (MADERA), for years the backbone of the NGO
community's presence in Ghor's southern districts, has yet to
return its international staff to the area following the RPG
and small arms attack on its premises in Pasaband last May
¶25. On May 31 the administrative center in Saghar district,
again on Ghor?s southern border, was attacked. One week
earlier the district administrator in Shahrak was killed,
followed in October by the murder of the head of the
important Palawan tribe in the district. Back on July 23 an
Afghan doctor working for World Vision and his driver were
murdered north of Chaghcharan in Charsada district. Two
weeks later a World Food Program (WFP) truck was attacked
nearby. On August 24 the Pasaband police station came under
RPG and small arms fire. At almost the same time, three tent
schools in neighboring Taiwara were attacked. Finally, on
November 23 prominent Mullah Sarwarjan from Taiwara district,
known for having opposed Taliban propaganda, was killed at a
Taliban checkpoint in northern Helmand Province.
¶4. (SBU) The circumstances of many of these acts of violence
remain murky. Reports suggest they had their origins
variously in criminality, family or tribal disputes,
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jockeying for power among competing strongmen, simple shows
of force, and/or ideologically or monetarily motivated
support for the Taliban. What they all clearly demonstrate
is the limited reach of legitimate state authority. Of at
least equal concern are the repeated warnings voiced since
late last year by local officials responsible for tracking
Ghor?s security situation that individual acts of violence
may now be in the planning stages, intended not just for the
province's periphery.
Politics
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¶5. (SBU) Political institutions in Ghor are formally up and
running, but they remain in the "sputtering" stage, as likely
to grind to a halt as finally kick into high gear. The one
real exception is Governor Afzali, who doggedly continues to
push for real policy outcomes in the face of obstacles at
every turn. In one telling incident a few months back, when
word was slow to get out that he had returned from Kabul,
Afzali began looking for government workers in their offices
and, finding those offices empty, promptly locked the
relevant doors. Before long there was quite the crowd of
displaced civil servants on his doorstep. On more than one
occasion, the Governor has declared publicly that, if people
are content to snipe at him instead of working for real
progress, then he would be just as content to move back to
Kabul. Privately he remains genuinely concerned at the lack
of what he feels are the resources needed to do an effective
job. He has received, for example, only a fraction of the
funds he has sought to keep the main transport routes open
during the winter, a campaign he personally has taken in hand
with repeated visits to the affected mountain passes.
¶6. (SBU) Still in its inaugural year, the Provincial Council
is trying to find its way. The ill-will that characterized
relations with the Governor early on has been replaced,
thanks to outside mediation, with a rudimentary workman like
relationship. The Council meets with the Governor at least
once a week now, sends a representative to most larger-scale
government-sponsored events, and on occasion seeks
information from various department heads. Like most
institutions of all sorts in Ghor, the Council is severely
short on human capital (it is rumored to include warlords,
relatives of warlords, and drug traffickers). After one of
the PRT?s poloffs recently devoted an afternoon to
suggesting to the PC Chairman a possible way ahead for the
sub- group on human rights and good governance, which the PC
Chairman heads, the Chairman arrived an hour late for the
actual subcommittee meeting, in time to sign off on the
conclusions that the PRT poloff had been compelled to extract
- for wont of anyone else willing to push discussion -- from
the participants.
¶7. (U) In the absence of any ANA presence in Ghor, even the
limited progress on the police front over last six months is
noteworthy. The ANP in Ghor, though permanently present only
in district centers with a total force (officers, enlisted,
civilians) of 923 as of January 2007, remains the only
available "pointy end" of governmental authority. Having set
his house in order with the Ministry of Interior, Police
Chief General Noori has over the last month come out from
under the cloud of probation and returned to the job
demonstrating greater engagement as a partner with the PRT's
Dyncorps mentors (and their PST support team) and Lithuanian
police trainers.
¶8. (SBU) Dyncorps continues to do its best to turn even
illiterate recruits into functioning policemen in 13 weeks,
to drag police officialdom into properly supporting police
pay reform, and to call up the infinite patience required to
bring a functioning Provincial Coordination Center (PCC) into
being. The Lithuanians also continue their yeomen's work,
building up the provincial ANP?s radio transmitting
capabilities practically from scratch, furnishing the most
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basic elements of mobility (motorbikes), and offering the
first forensic training since the Soviet occupation. The
PRT's military element recently began supplemental weapons
training for the police and is gearing up to cover a
significant part of the curriculum that must be taught in
order to stand up Ghor?s 150-strong auxiliary police force
contingent.
Economy
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¶9. (U) Ghor?s economy made scant progress over the last six
months. Government revenues are expected to amount to a
paltry $200,000 for the year ending in March. Retail
activity in the capital was lively enough over the summer,
though perhaps not to the extent city authorities may have
anticipated (as evidenced by the number of municipal-owned
shop stalls left only half-built). Over the winter, sales
have stagnated due to the seasonal drop-off in customers from
outlying villages. The province continues to have virtually
no commercial enterprises. Transport "companies" consist of
one or two privately owned vehicles. According to the
director of transport, the whole province only has about 40
functioning trucks and about 30 privately owned passenger
transport vehicles. There is no commercial banking in the
province. Satellite dishes continue to sprout up, even in
rural areas. Given the dearth of
legitimate economic activity, that and other displays of
wealth often give rise to the suspicion that drug trafficking
proceeds are at the base of such conspicuous consumption.
¶10. (U) Chaghcharan city has 400 kilowatts of generating
capacity (enough for five hours of electricity a day) but at
a price beyond the reach of most consumers. In December a
group of consultants working for the Asian Development Bank
identified a site 17 kms. east of Chaghcharan on the Hari Rud
River that they deemed suitable for a 5 megawatt dam. The
decision on whether to select Ghor as one of three provinces
to get such a potentially transformative boost rests with
Energy and Water Minister Ismail Khan. Ghor is not slated to
received any electricity from the giant Salma dam nearing
completion in Herat Province, even though the water powering
the dam comes from Ghor and the dam is located practically on
its border.
¶11. (U) The continuation last summer and fall of the
Region?s severe drought reinforced what has become a
seasonal as well as permanent trickle of economic
out-migration from Ghor to Herat, southern Afghanistan, Iran,
and Pakistan. On the other hand, this winter?s snowfall,
looking to be somewhat greater than last year?s, shows signs
it might bring with it a reverse flow, at least in some areas
and at least through the winter wheat harvest. Humanitarian
assistance (including almost 6 metric tons so far in WFP aid)
appears to have averted widespread hunger.
¶12. (U) Limited development work, some supported by USAID,
continued, aimed at improving literacy, teacher training,
health, and drinking water/irrigation. The Japanese finished
work on five large schools in Lal district. Only about 90 of
the 300 kms. of gravel roads into Chaghcharan originally
slated by the UK and USAID for grading, culverting, and
compacting were reconstructed before money ran out. Even so,
they have served to remind Ghor residents of just how bad
they have it with the rutted tracks that make up the
remainder of the province?s road
network.
Society
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¶13. (U) Morals and mores remain quite traditional in Ghor,
but these tend to be leavened by an enthusiasm for education
and a continuing hope for a better future, nurtured in turn
by the province?s generally good security environment.
Unfortunately, at the same time both educational opportunity
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as well as an otherwise fairly optimistic spirit are being
undercut by poverty, something that likewise appears to be
creating fertile ground for the perception that Kabul and the
International Community are ignoring Ghor in favor of other
areas of the country.
¶14. (U) The desire for schools and the acknowledgment of
education as the path to a better future are palpable
throughout the province. Schools usually beat out even
clinics as top on villagers? wish lists According to the
director of education, 124,000 children and teenagers go to
school, a figure he estimates takes in about 70 percent of
the school-age population. Only 32 of 390 schools actually
have a school building. Others are in tents or the open air,
a circumstance that in traditional Ghor is said to create a
hurdle for girls? attendance. All the same, fully half of
the 14,000 first-time registrants for the upcoming school
year are girls. Enrollment at Chaghcharan?s girls? school
(one of several in the province) has shot up from 400 to 1800
in the course of the last three years. (Some girls also
attend mixed gender schools.) Only 600 of the province?s
2,600 teachers have attended a teacher training institute.
Kabul has approved in principle the opening of Ghor?s first
teacher training college in Chaghcharan, but the actual
start-up appears to have been delayed for at least a year.
¶15. (U) The health care situation in Ghor has improved
somewhat but overall remains extremely poor. Its
600,000-plus population is served by a single, six-doctor
provincial hospital in Chaghcharan -- for many simply beyond
their reach, given the expense, their own remoteness, the
severe weather, and the mountainous terrain. In principle
there are five comprehensive health care centers and a
scattering of basic health care centers in the districts, but
these too are often inaccessible to the affected population.
Two NGOs, World Vision and Coordination of Humanitarian
Assistance (CHA), have been supporting these clinics, in the
case of World Vision with the help of USAID funding. As of
September 1, the EC assumed responsibility for supporting
both NGOs. Despite the presence of three foreign-operated
specialty clinics in the east of the province and sometimes
adequate supplies of medicine, the core problem remains a
serious shortage of basic health care facilities throughout
the province and a nagging difficulty in staffing the clinics
that already exist. The current director of the government
health care center in Lal district, for example, is a
pharmacist; while Sharak?s district administrator
characterizes the clinic in his district center as nothing
more than a first aid station.
¶16. (SBU) Comment: It is not without reason that Aristotle
believed the mountains on Ghor's border marked the end of the
earth, as Rory Stewart points out in "The Places in Between,"
the account of his walk across Ghor. Whether it?s the
three-day drive required to reach the province?s capital
from Kabul, the impossibility of recruiting a gynecologist
for the provincial hospital even with the offer of premium
pay, or Chaghcharan?s nightly near black-out (with available
city electricity costing more than 12 times the going rate in
Herat) - living in Ghor really does feel like falling off the
planet. Many believe it will take a revolutionary
improvement in infrastructure (for example, the long sought
east-west highway) to kick-start the development process that
in turn will lead to a take-off in legitimate economic
activity, inflow of human and material capital, burgeoning of
governmental legitimacy, and atrophying of competing centers
of power. In the meantime, the PRT and its national
capitals, along with the few NGOs active in Ghor, are working
hard to provide patient counsel and encouragement, resources
to the limited extent available, and a link to other, outside
sources of development funding. This last has become a
priority even for the PRT?s poloffs, given the promise such
funds hold for preserving the province?s precious stability
and solidifying support for elected government.
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