By Pfc. Mary L. Gonzalez
Combined Joint Task Force-101 Public Affairs Office
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – Afghanistan's only female governor met with a top U.S. national security advisor at the governor's palace in Bamyan province, Afghanistan.
Gov. Habiba Sorabi, Bamyan province, met with Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, and Army Brig. Gen. James McConville, Combined Joint Task Force-101 Regional Command-East deputy commanding general for support.
The governor and generals discussed ongoing needs for the province and the progress they have made with the help of the New Zealand provincial reconstruction team, TG CRIB 12, at Forward Operating Base Bamian.
"In many provinces, there are problems between provincial council and local government, but here, there is not," Sorabi said. "With the old system, the system of kings, they believed the people were slaves to them. With the new system, the democracy system, we believe we are the servants to the people."
According to Sorabi, the province's number one need is paved roads. Additionally, the province needs more electricity.
Still, the province is very politically stable, Sorabi said.