Afghans not expecting much change under Obama: report

Barack Obama’s pledges to step up pressure on militant safe havens in Pakistan and to boost troop numbers in Afghanistan have raised hopes in government for a new tack in the war against extremists. But many ordinary Afghans do not expect to see real change from the incoming Democratic administration after seven years of US intervention in which a Taliban-led insurgency has only grown. President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman, Homayun Hamidzada, said he hoped for “a radical change in the

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