KABUL Nicholas Haysom said the unity government in Kabul must overcome “five hurdles” to avoid “severe consequence.”
Briefing the UN Security Council (UNSC) in New York, Haysom, also the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said Afghanistan was being as severely tested in 2016 as it was in 2015 by the task of managing its difficult transition with its interrelated political, economic and security challenges.
To survive 2016, he said, the national unity government would need to overcome five distinct hurdles --- a contracting . . .









