A draft Afghan constitution was unveiled today calling for the country to be renamed the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The charter commission said in a statement, “The draft is based on Islamic principles and recognises that no law can be contrary to the sacred religion of Islam.”
In other news from Afghanistan, a U.S. soldier was killed over the weekend becoming the third American killed there in a week.
And a new United Nations report has found that poppy is now being cultivated in 28 of Afghanistan’s 32 provinces.