His white hair neatly parted, Major-General Muhammad Khalid of the Pakistani armed forces looks out over a sandy beach from his air-conditioned office in Liberia's capital, Monrovia. His command of local un forces is but one of a string of peacekeeping posts he has held in the past two decades, none as comfortable as this. His troops are better equipped and organised than any he has seen, while conflict has become rare. His main worry is bureaucracy. "I cannot spend a dollar without filling out forms," he says. "A lot has changed."
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