Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Abdul Hakim Jan (Argandab druglord)

rough work

 * 1) The nomination claims only a few paragraphs were devoted to Abdul Hakim Jan.  Below I clipped the portion of the article devoted to him, and appended a python program to count them.  Geo Swan (talk) 17:25, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

rawinput = """The Blue Commander is a peacock. Aged 50 but leather-skinned after decades of mountain fighting, Abdul Hakim Jan wears only shades of blue - save for his white, sequined shoes which have an exotic curled toe.
 * Despite his denials, the Blue Commander is reputed to be one of the biggest poppy-growers and opium traffickers in all of Kandahar province.
 * His house is tricked up like a Mafioso's shiny suit. Like the commander's wardrobe, it is painted in blues. The pillars are mirrored and, high on the front wall, his name is spelt out in fairy-lights almost a metre high. He keeps caged birds and penned antelope, and his rose beds are bordered by dozens of spent artillery shells that are banded in the national colours - red, green and black.
 * When the Herald's vehicle broke down on the way to his compound at Arghandab, west of Kandahar, we walked for three kilometres through fields carpeted with new poppy plants ... they went right to the commander's door and on to the mountains beyond. Asked who owned the crops, he replied: "I don't need to grow poppy - they belong to the farmers."
 * The Blue Commander has no official position. But there were two fully-kitted Afghan police vehicles in his driveway. The Herald asked how this could be so, and his guards laughed uproariously.
 * "It's the Afghan way," one of them said, just as it is the Afghan way for the warlord to own the farmers and his fighters - one of whom sat in the shade, deconstructing a cigarette which he then patiently repacked with hashish.
 * This commander still has his own private militia - 200 heavily armed men in the compound and another 800-plus that he can round up from "his" villages at short notice. When the Afghan National Army attempted to disarm him, locals say, his men captured 100 of the government troops, tied them up and then called the ANA brass in Kandahar to come out and fetch them.
 * Lounging on a fat red pillow in the late afternoon sun, he explained: "People side with the Taliban because they want the benefits of the opium. The Government and the Americans provide no alternative, so the farmers are angry.
 * "We don't have big problem with eradication here. I've been to the governor and told him he has to give the people something before he takes away the opium. He listened to me and we are having no eradication here this year."
 * Like many others in Kandahar and Helmand, the commander defended the poppy farmers: "What else can they do? They just grow it to feed their families. They don't smuggle it out of the country - most of them couldn't find their way back into Kandahar City or to Kabul.
 * "But the smugglers are looked after. The Taliban are their friends, and so are many people in high authority in the Government. There is a lot of corruption - it is huge."
 * This is how it works in Afghanistan, where senior government and security officials encourage poppy cultivation so that they can demand their cut of the illicit trade."""

wcount = 0

lcount = 0

ccount = 0

for word in rawinput.split: ccount += len( word ) wcount += 1

lines = rawinput.split( "\n" )

lcount = len( lines )

print "lines %d," % lcount,

print "words %d," % wcount,

print "characters %d" % ccount