In Afghanistan, Soccer or Civil War?

In Afghanistan, Soccer or Civil War?

This plan for Afghanistan’s first professional soccer league illustrates how the country has changed over the past decade, no matter what judgment you make about the U.S.-led counterinsurgency effort. Afghanistan is now connected by cellphones and television: 60 percent of the population watches TV regularly, and there are 17 million mobile phones, compared with zero in both categories in 2001.

The biggest force for change in today's Afghanistan may be urbanization, not politics. In the past several decades of war, Kabul has become a city of about 5 million; Herat, Kandahar and Jalalabad have all tripled in size.

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