Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, has not suffered a serious attack in months and the streets are full of bustle and commerce.
The makers of The Fifth Estate may be relieved that Assange is in no position to attend the world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, as in January this year he claimed that the version of the screenplay he had seen "was a hostile work; a serious attack on Wikileaks and the integrity of its staff".
The measure in the Trade Union Bill will reduce Labour's funding, and was described by Mr Corbyn yesterday as a "serious attack on democratic rights and freedoms".
What was unique about this Barbie Doll biopic was that it was a serious attack on the dangers (and the public's ignorance) of anorexia.
Secondly, the report contains one proposal that is, to say the least, curious indeed: suggesting that a quota of women on boards of private companies ought to be established by law points to a serious attack on individual liberties and does women little service.
A decision of this kind, were it to be made, would immediately be perceived as a serious attack on Israel's security and would inevitably result in an American Israel Public Affairs Committee intervention in Congress.
He said this was desperately needed "if there is going to be regeneration of the economy and a serious attack on the appalling poverty that is now three-generational in some parts of our country".
It took them nearly 20 minutes to mount a serious attack, having started the game slowly and ponderously.
In firing Comey after allegedly pressing him to drop the Flynn investigation, Trump grossly abused his power, and launched a serious attack on the institutions of American democracy.
The court's decision was "a serious attack on freedom of the press and gagging of independent journalism," the Miami-based Inter American Press Association told Agence France-Presse at the time.
