The United Nations has launched its biggest-ever aid appeal for a single country. It's asking for 5-billion dollars this year for Afghanistan to avert a humanitarian catastrophe, and offer the war-ravaged country a future after decades of suffering.

Torek Farhadi is a former adviser to the Afghan government and former economic adviser to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. He joined us from Geneva.

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