but the ghazni and the kandahar issue is totally different.i, because of constituency issues that existed, the election commission decided that it would postpone those elections and hold them, along with the presidential election, until we can find a solution to its constituency problem that it had. in kandahar, as a result of the unfortunate events, the brutal attack on the life of general raziq, the people of kandahar asked the government to delay the elections in kandahar, which we did, and we hope to hold them next week. and in the rest of the country, the polling stations that were safe and where we believed that elections could happen, all of those polling stations were open. we had some technical issues on day one, but it was repeated and an opportunity was provided to those stations and we had the elections on the second day. you are giving me plenty of detail, but i fear you're not addressing my main point. my main point, really, is a very simple one. how come, 17 years after the taliban government was toppled, how come that afghanist

ghazni was one of the reasons i took this job. me personally as an afghan to know that we failed our security forces from a policy standpoint. and i am dedicated, me and the national security council will be working to resolve all of those issues. i issued a statement to our people, our security forces that what i would be doing is to reflect their voices in our policies. it is true. we have not been able to deliver the kind of services that our soldiers on the front line deserve. they have not failed us, but i want to make sure that we also do not fail them when it comes to policies and strategies that protect their lives and their families. i am mindful of something, the former afghan president said as he was leaving office, something that deeply upset many people in the west, in nato, especially family of those who lost their lives. he said, "the nato exercises, all of its operations have cost afghanistan a lot of suffering and loss of life and no gains because our country is not secure." he said that of nato‘s operations and o