Banyan∣Ashraf Ghani against the chaos

摘要

What would Afghanistan looklike now if Ashraf Ghani, not Hamid Karzai, had been the Anglophone Pushtun prompted by America, back in 2001, to lead the country? Afghanistan's new president, a frail figure in white salwar kameez, grins, eyes twinkling, tantalised by the suggestion. "Let's not discuss what we cannot change," he then says, seated, for his first interview as president, in the shoddy grandeur, of his palace in Kabul. So let Banyan attempt an answer.