A US Army soldier stands guard at the Baraki Barak District Center in Logar province, Afghanistan. (From The U.S. Army's Flickr page)
Yesterday, we reported on a new opinion poll commissioned by the BBC and ABC News that found that things were looking up in Afghanistan. Nearly 70 percent of people surveyed said that their country was going in the right direction (up from 30 percent from last year) and 41 percent said job prospects are very good.
However, an overwhelming majority of people polled agreed that corruption was a huge problem that was strangling growth. To get reaction on the ground to the study's findings we go live to Kabul, to Abdul Niazi and Ali Faizi. We also hear from Dr. Nadir Atash, a former Afghan government official and author of TURBULENCE - The Tumultuous Journey of One Man's Quest for Change in Afghanistan.
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