Canadian soldiers patrolling in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar Province in October 2009.Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters
Remote Areas At Risk As Nato Acts To Protect Afghan Cities -- Times Online
Families in remote parts of southern Afghanistan will be left to fend for themselves as a result of Nato’s plan to switch the focus of the campaign to securing towns and cities.
The top general in the area told The Times that most of the surge would be deployed to five districts in central Helmand and the area around Kandahar city, where most of the region’s population lives.
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