It is all the more impressive then that Col. Jamila Bayaz, 50, was just appointed the country's first-ever female district police chief, serving in District 1 in the capital city of Kabul.

That ministry’s occupant, Danyal Bayaz, frets that Germany has squandered the “globalisation dividend” of the past 15 years, underfunding the public realm in an era of low interest rates.