December 21, 2001	Friday	Shawwal 5, 1422

LONDON, Dec 20: International humanitarian aid for Afghanistan is failing to reach those who need it because the Taliban have been replaced by “banditry and lawlessness”, according to a British parliamentary report published on Thursday.

“The collapse of the Taliban did not bring the safe humanitarian space which had been hoped for, it often substituted one security concern for another,” said the report by the International Development Select Committee.

“Banditry and lawlessness replaced military conflict,” it added.—AFP