CORRUPTION: Paying Off Afghanistan’s Warlords
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Pratap Chatterjee*
KABUL, Nov 18 (IPS) – Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.
Among the dozens of businesses dispatching these trucks are two [...]
POLITICS: U.S. Seeks to Limit Warlords in Karzai Cabinet
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Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) – The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for decisive action on corruption and governance reform, but its main objective is to prevent particularly corrupt and incompetent warlords from getting plum ministries as rewards for helping clinch [...]
AFGHANISTAN: U.S., NATO Forces Rely on Warlords for Security
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Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) – The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg of heavy [...]
