Taliban far from defeated in Australian zone: report

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The Age, 22 April 2012
Australian newspapers report about a TLO report assessing the situation at the eve of the country’s troops’ withdrawal that has been censored by the country’s authorities that originally had commissioned it. Among other, it states that Taliban still control almost half of the Afghan province where Australian forces operate, and remain an ”ever-present threat”, and while the lives of local people have slowly improved, recent gains are in the balance, with the province at a crossroads