KABUL -- In Afghanistan, the interim administration led by Hamid Karzai faces a double challenge: keeping its population alive through the winter and starting to rebuild for the future.
The humanitarian crisis is certainly not over. Millions of Afghans, many of them children, remain at high risk, threatened by severe winter weather. Many have been forced from their homes by conflict and drought into miserable camps with no means of livelihood, dependent on food aid, blankets, clothing or medicine for months to come.
At the same time, many Afghans are looking forward to the recovery and reconstruction of their country? There is no time to waste.