A revealing map from the Times of London:
The Times, Dec 5, Nick Meo in Kabul: Almost half of Afghanistan is now too dangerous for aid
workers to operate in, a leaked UN map seen by The Times shows. In the past two years most
foreign and Afghan staff have withdrawn from the southern half of the country,
abandoning or scaling back development projects in rural areas and confining
themselves to the cities or the less risky north....
The unpublished map,
acquired by The Times in Kabul, is for UN staff and aid workers
and illustrates risk levels across the nation. It shows a marked 
deterioration
in security since 2005, when compared with a similar map from March of that year. Then only a strip along the Pakistan border and areas of mountainous
Zabul and Uruzgan provinces in the south were too dangerous for aid workers.
Now nearly all the ethnic Pashtun south and east is a no-go zone categorised as
high or extreme risk and there are even
pockets in the north of the country that are becoming dangerous for aid
workers.
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