michael hanlon ex director of research.nd from lahor pakistan, a journalist and author much several foreign policies books including "decent into chaos" thanks to all of you for being here. hamdela, this election was contested for six months. president ghani and doctor abdullah disagree on all kind of issues. the concept sounds good but what after gans have seen up until the inauguration is a complete lack of unity between the two. so what is the president's plan to change the public impression and convince after gans on both sides that progress is actually possible? >> well, yes. it's been a difficult and bumpy road, but to us, it's a success because we just awarded a war. no one wants that. the unity government may not be what they wanted. they probably want add clear winner and that's why so many of them came out to vote. but the fact that it got in to a situation where we could have getten where afghanistan could have got into a war, we avoided that. >> shows despite the fact that the democracy is still now, it needs a