Framsteg i Afghanistan

Afghanistan har nu en folkvald president. Mycket kan fortfarande gå fel förstås. Men för den som tittar med öppna ögon finns det många tecken på att utvecklingen går åt rätt håll. Arthur Chrenkoff skriver för Wall Street Journal:

Sitting around a table with their burqas (top to bottom covering veil) on chairs, Arefa Zareh, a school teacher and her fellow women were preparing to broadcast the first trial programme of Quyash (the Sun), a newly established local women’s radio station in the northern city of Maimana.

Radio Quyash is now one of the four local women’s radio stations and one of over 30 independent radio stations in the country. It counts as the only independent media outlet in troubled Maimana, the provincial capital of Faryab.

Det finns också utrymme för tidigare förbjudna nöjen:

At a resort that became a battlefield, Afghans teed off . . . in their country’s first open golf tournament in more than 30 years.

Det kan gå vägen.