Today's sober assessments stand in contrast with the expectations when the Andar uprising first started.
"I defused a bomb the day before here, " Mr. Andar said, pointing to an unpaved road.
Weapons are easy to come by, he says, since most Andar homes own at least one.
ECONOMIST: Villagers take the counterinsurgency into their own hands
Confrontations had happened before, but the scale and duration of what is taking place in Andar is unusual.
ECONOMIST: Villagers take the counterinsurgency into their own hands
Mr. Faizan, the Andar uprising's leader, flatly denies having received any official Afghan government or coalition military help.
The coalition and the Special Operations Command in Kabul declined to discuss the situation in Andar for this article.
El andar recolectando estos objetos por el mundo me ha generado algunos inconvenientes.
Now, as the spring fighting season begins, it is increasingly clear that the Andar uprising didn't live up to these hopes.
The anti-Taliban rebels say their 250 fighters control some 50 of Andar's 400 or so villages and are in active pursuit of 50 more.
The Andar rebels benefit from their inside knowledge of the enemy.
Mr. Andar, who hails from the area, said he defected from the insurgency after he witnessed what he said was the Taliban's collusion with Pakistani forces.
Top U.S. military officials in Kabul say they aren't providing any support to the Andar movement but are watching whether they can help without damaging its organic development.
"We were compelled to do it because we were between a rock and a hard place, " explained Lutfullah Kamran, a 24-year-old computer-science graduate who is commander of the new Andar ALP.
"If this uprising fails, the people's only hope dies, " said Sarwar Khan, a resident of Andar, one of the most dangerous districts in the volatile province of Ghazni, in Afghanistan's southeast.
Rules appeared stricter in Andar than elsewhere.
ECONOMIST: Villagers take the counterinsurgency into their own hands
Shim's body was found on the side of the road at daybreak Tuesday in the village of Arizo Kalley in Andar District, about 5 miles west of Ghazni city, said Abdul Rahim Deciwal, the chief administrator in the area.
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