Pervasive corruption and shaky security are encouraging Afghan merchants to dream of a return to Taliban rule.

Engineer Rafur Rahmani should be pretty pleased with himself
– he is second in command at Azizi Hotak Group, one of Afghanistan’s largest companies. The firm is Afghanistan’s sole Nissan supplier, runs one of its few private banks and imports 80 percent of the country’s liquefied petroleum gas.

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F. Brinley Bruton has been a journalist for over ten years, and worked in Kabul, Mexico City, Philadelphia, and New York City. Now based in London, she is an editor, producer and writer at msnbc.com, a leader in breaking news and original journalism online.

Before joining MSNBC.com, Brinley wrote about security, business and finance, international development and women's issues. She has worked at Reuters in London and New York, and her pieces have appeared in the New Statesman, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Long Island Newsday, The Star-Ledger, and Arabies Trends, among others. She also wrote and blogged for AlertNet, Reuters' humanitarian news website.
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