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Adnan Abidi / Reuters
Patients sit inside their ward at a mental hospital in Kabul on November 11, 2012. The war in Afghanistan is creating a generation of people mentally damaged by their exposure to incessant conflict, a buildup of problems which could undermine the country's reconstruction and development efforts.
Reuters reports — On a low bed in a quiet, all-female hospital ward, a depressed Afghan teenager huddles silently under blankets, her mother close by. In a nearby room are men suffering from schizophrenia, delusions of persecution and power, anxiety and panic disorders.
As Taliban regroup, victims battle for 'free' Afghanistan
Among them are some of the unseen victims of the war in Afghanistan: a generation of people mentally damaged by their exposure to incessant conflict.
Adnan Abidi / Reuters
Ghazia Sadid, 26, a patient suffering from depression, speaks during an interview with Reuters at a mental hospital in Kabul on November 14, 2012.
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More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.
Ghazia Sadid, a 26-year-old mother, endured depression for years after a family member was killed in a bomb attack, and she fled her home in fear of more violence.
"I still hear the sounds of explosions. I still remember the fighting, but since I have come here my behavior has changed," she said, speaking at the Kabul Mental Health Hospital, a green-walled building on the outskirts of the city.
"I was totally lost and my life was over. After two years of treatment, now I love my children," she said. "I loved them then too, but in my imagination I had done something wrong." Read the full story.
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A patient scribbles on his hand as he sits inside his ward at a mental hospital in Kabul on November 11, 2012.
Adnan Abidi / Reuters
Patients sit inside their ward at a mental hospital in Kabul on November 11, 2012.
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It is so sad that the leaders of the world's countries allow their people to remain uneducated, suppressed, oppressed and brainwashed so as to continue generations of armies of men and women to continue their own selfish, greedy agenda and war games.
evil is winning
No, it isn't, but it is fighting back. We've made more progress in the last century than in all the others before it regarding world peace and human rights. Humanity is winning, but not if the naysayers give up the fight before the final battle.
Before the followers of Islamic cult set their feet, Afghan and Paki regions were quite prosperous.
Muslim extremists can't even tolerating Buddha's statue in Afghanistan.
Islamic heroin addiction in both Pakistan and Afghanistan are responsible for the mess!
As nicely shown in this article, Muslims are killing Muslims!
Here Pakistan is primarily guilty and is responsible for most of the problems in Afghanistan.
In Pakistan, once the cancer of Islamic extremism gradually got control, Pakistan has become raping, stealing, looting and killing fields.
Pakis have become breeding and exporting centers for illegal activities including drugs growing and trading and export of Islamic radicals and terrorists all over the world.
Here Afghanistan is hurt most!
British invented Pakistan in 47 and Pakistan is supposed to be a pure Islamic nation. In Pakistan, it was massive genocides of minorities in between 48-50.
Percentages of Hindus and Sikhs were reduced from about 24 percent less than three years by rapings, stealing, lootings, terrorizing and killing on a massive scale.
Paki Islamic religious madness did not end there.
Sunni Pakis are after Ahmedias, Sufis (fake love and dance Islamic soap opera people), Shiites (20 percent), Hazaras, and Baloochs and other minority sects/tribes.
Shiites, Sufis, Ahmedias and other minority sects/tribes people are blown up while they pray in their mosques on Fridays. Ad even hospitals are bombed to kill those injured.
A Washington, DC based think tank Middle East Media Research Institute (www.memri.org) provides good details on what is going in Pakistan.
As long as you allow terroists to live and operate in YOUR country you will never have peace. When the U.S. leaves the Taliban will once again take over and then you will have to live with that nonsense. Take control of your country. And what is with those tribal areas anyway?
In Afghanistan, Pakis have backstabbed the US and NATO forces big time. Half of NATO forces deaths are due to ungrateful and backstabbing Pakis.
When the NATO forces were entering Kandahar in 2001, Pakis airlifted key al-Qaida, Taliban, ISI and others militants by back door from Kandahar.
This includes Mullah Omar, Osama and many including Paki Haqqani militant network leaders.
Hope people remember about Pakis sheltering Osama.
These Paki Islamic religious Nazis don't bother about their people and they are into reckless killing games in the name of jihad.
Drone attacks are not enough. To reduce NATO forces losses, carpet bomb Paki militant areas just like 1991 Iraqi war.
Or else just get out right now
AT THE SAME TIME:
Also no Paki liability should be permitted inside any non-Muslim nation, especially the US.
It is time for the Paki Trojan horses in the US, UK and other places to get out at earliest and go to their beloved Pakistan.
They will be happy and we will be happier!
we cannot win in afghanistan if the people here don't want to.The people here need to be given a solid reason to win. Our own government has hobbled our military by micro-managing from washington.Many of you will disagree with this but seeing it 1st hand would make almost anyone a believer.I am not trying to be a defeatist.There are so many things going on here that are not being reported correctly in the right light.Things here are not all bad.In fact alot of good has been accomplished too.(just not considered newsworthy)
...Throughout history, no outside country has ever been able to take Afghanistan. ...Send our soldiers home to hold our own borders! ...We won the Mexican-American War once and we can do it again.
After withdrawing from Afghanistan, it should be complete cut off from Afghanistan and ungrateful and backstabbing Pakistan once for all!
No reconstruction business and no economic or military aid when Pakis or Afghans beg with some weeping child!
Also close the gates on all Pakis and kick out those inside! We don't need Pakis with their Paki baggages!
Most of the Pakis and likes of them ruin their nations and then sneak into the US, Britain, Europe and other places doing their Ramadan style soap operas or Sufi love and dances!
Then it is back to square one!