Meanwhile in Afghanistan ...

Forget not that there is still a war there in Afghanistan, and the US troops coming back home depends on a government in place.  So, what is the latest about good governance in Afghanistan?

The Afghan parliament has rejected 10 of 17 new cabinet nominees suggested by President Hamid Karzai.

The vote comes two weeks after MPs turned down most of Mr Karzai's first choices, dealing him a serious blow.

So, how about everything else? British soldiers dead:

TWO British soldiers have been killed by a Taliban bomb while on foot patrol in the north of Helmand province.
The troops from 3rd Battalion The Rifles died on Friday evening near the town of Sangin. Their families have been informed. ....
The latest deaths came as David Miliband, the foreign secretary — visiting Kabul yesterday — renewed his call for Nato allies to do more, saying: “The burden [of fighting the Taliban] should be fairly shared.”

How about the regular Afghan life, you ask?

A suicide bomber killed 20 people -- including three children -- Thursday in a market in central Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against Afghan civilians in more than three months.

The bomber detonated his explosives in front of a currency exchange shop in an arcade of stores in the town of Dihrawud in Oruzgan province, a mostly ethnic Pashtun area about 250 miles southwest of Kabul. Thirteen people were wounded, according to a NATO statement.

District police chief Omar Khan said the attacker might have been headed for a regular security meeting of NATO and dozens of tribal elders. Khan, who was at the meeting, could not explain why the bomber detonated his explosives before reaching the heavily guarded venue.

Can we please end all these wars?  Enough already!
Oh, BTW, in neighboring Pakistan:

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives on the Pakistani side of the Kashmir region on Saturday in a rare attack on the Pakistani military there.
The bomber blew himself up as a Pakistani military vehicle passed, wounding two soldiers, a Pakistani military spokesman said. The attack took place near the town of Rawalakot, in the Pakistani part of Kashmir, a Himalayan region at the center of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan.
For years, militant groups had focused their efforts on the Indian side of the disputed territory, some with the support of the Pakistani state, though those attacks have fallen significantly. The Pakistani side had long been free of violence, but a number of attacks in the past year have broken that calm and raised worries that militant groups in Pakistan are widening their fight.