'Allies' lives squandered'' World briefs.AFGHANISTAN Afghanistan (ăfgăn`ĭstăn', ăfgän'ĭstän`), officially Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, republic (2005 est. pop. 29,929,000), 249,999 sq mi (647,497 sq km), S central Asia. : The Afghan government was today accused of squandering squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. the lives of its Western allies The Western Allies were the democracies and their colonial peoples, within the broader coalition of Allies during World War II. The term is generally understood to refer to the countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations and part of the military of Poland (from 1939), exiled amid a sea of corruption. President Hamid Karzai's chief rival Abdullah Abdullah, speaking after five British soldiers were shot dead in Helmand Helmand or Helmund (both: hĕl`mənd), river, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, rising in the Hindu Kush Mts., NE Afghanistan and flowing generally SW to the Sistan basin, SW Afghanistan, where it helps form the Hamun-i-Helmand province, said the government had wasted eight years of opportunity and international help. The Afghan election commission's decision not to have a run-off election after a fraud-marred first round was not legal and had created a government that could not be trusted to follow the rule of law. |
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