The US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said that international forces in Afghanistan are on the right track as he stated in an interview, "We are on the right course. We have made significant progress. We are making transition. Our troops are doing a great job. The Afghan troops are doing a great job. The country is more secure." He also emphasized on promotion of good governance to continue the political development in Afghanistan as he said, "To make this work we're going to have to continue to ensure the Afghan National Army (ANA) grows and does a good job. We're going to have to ensure that governance is there, Afghan governance is there."

Earlier, Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim, the first Vice-President, said that everyone was tired of the current government. He further stated that even those who govern were tired of the way they govern. These remarks, which came in a ceremony to introduce Salahuddin Rabbani as the new chairman of High Peace Council, was an expression of accumulated frustration by the officials within President Hamid Karzai's government that have an extremely symbolic role.

Corruption runs rampant; insurgent groups dare to launch and carry out well-coordinated complex raids right into the heart of the country; High Peace Councilors are making money from the international aid without any results or progress in achieving peace; people continue to get more and more frustrated by the lack of responsiveness by Karzai's government; and people feel less safe and secure than before in the last ten years. This is a real picture of a failure that needs to be fixed.

There are growing threats to schools, teachers and students in different provinces. Violence exercised by the Taliban over the last ten years has included killing of school teachers and children. Afghan people believe that it is time for the Taliban militants to come to terms with the fact that education is the only way for Afghanistan to overcome its economic and other problems.