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Aziz Hakimi is Country Director of Future Generations in Afghanistan, an international non-profit NGO and parallel graduate school that builds local capacity worldwide through a Master’s Degree in Applied Community Change and Conservation. He has worked as policy advisor for President Hamid Karzai and as Human Rights Advisor with the United Nations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also directed an Afghan media NGO and expanded independent radio broadcasts and the distribution of weekly publications to Afghanistan’s provinces.
The United States and NATO effort to stabilize Afghanistan is showing signs of severe tension. As Afghanistan further descends into chaos, President Barack Obama’s administration is not of one mind about what course of action to follow in Afghanistan. The current review of President Obama’s Af-Pak policy, which was announced in late March 2009, has turned into a divisive debate of irreconcilable options between his senior national security team. The reverberations emanating from this debate are clearly felt in war-torn Afghanistan.
