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Karzai has already begun to violate the electoral law!
Note: While Karzai Administration is taking its last breathes before the elections of next year, it would be better to write and reveal the truth that how the current administration violate the electoral law and make efforts to win the election and maintain the power for another period. It is very important to the world and to the people of the countries that support this failed administration to know transparently where and for what purpose each penny they help is spent. Here is the translation of a report that was sent to Kabul Press a few months ago (at the end of April 2008).
Now in a countdown for the upcoming elections 2009 in Afghanistan we thought to post it here as an example of such violations. Please read the report.
Written by Kamran Mirhazar
Now in a countdown for the upcoming elections 2009 in Afghanistan we thought to post it here as an example of such violations. Please read the report.
Written by Kamran Mirhazar
Translated by Amin Wahidi
Monday 21 April 2008
Hamid Karzai the current president of the Afghan government is making preparations from now to be the winner in the next year presidential election. A reliable source, whose name is not disclosed here (for security reason), has said to Kabul Press that Hamid Karzai as his other electoral rivals would spend a tremendous amount of money in the electoral campaign to hire the influential people in different spots of Afghanistan. This source has added that in the first step, Karzai team has purchased 50 luxury vehicles and has distributed them among the powerful and influential commanders.
While the governmental budget is a part of the public wealth, it would be illegal to purchase these vehicles by the government budget in this period of time for a false purpose that is a personal interest.
The commanders, who were recently gifted vehicles by Hamid Karzai, are the commanders of previous Northern Allies some of whom are in the parliament. Most of these hired commanders by the Karzai team are the people affiliated with Zarar Ahmad Moqbil the current Minister of Interior*. Some of these commanders are MPs in the parliament and some others serve as consultants for the government. Among them, familiar names are heard such as; Commander Amanullah, Mullah Taj Mohammad, Commander Almas, Commander Maulanaye Sayed Khail in Baghlan and all other commanders belong to a specific ethnic. There are also Hezb e Islami commanders as well in this list, who were promoted from lieutenant to general rank at once last year by president Karzai.
Almost a major part of these commanders who seemed to be with the National Front, are already purchased and hired by Karzai team. It is very interesting that Zalmaye Hewad who is a rhetorician of tribalism has traveled village to village in Herat to consent the people to vote for Karzai.
Some of these commanders being purchased by Karzai team are accused of war crimes and looting of public wealth.
Seeing the speed in preparation for the next year elections, it is expected that there will be more electoral violations in the next months and millions of dollars will be spent in this way.
Some of the possible nominees for the next year presidential elections are obviously affiliated with foreign countries and will appear on the campaign with their directly and indirect supports.
Among others the current president, having enough governmental resources, more than the others, has more possibility for any kind of electoral violations.
In the last parliamentary and presidential elections (2004 and 2005) that were the first ever elections in Afghanistan, the influential people of the international organizations have also made enormous embezzlements. For instance in the UNDP office (United Nation Development Program), 1100 one thousand and one hundred Russian Jeep vehicles were purchased each at 3,000 USD$ three thousand dollars but in the inventory list of elections budget they were quoted at 7,000 USD$ seven thousand dollars each, that means only in one purchase about 5,000,000 USD$ five million dollars is being embezzled by the UNDP influential people in Afghanistan.
In the coming election also millions of dollars will be spent and a big part of that will be paid by the drug traffickers and the different countries.
Considering the power and influence of some of the nominees, some of the campaigning expenses will be provided illegally from the government budget that is a gross betray to the nation.
Monday 21 April 2008
Hamid Karzai the current president of the Afghan government is making preparations from now to be the winner in the next year presidential election. A reliable source, whose name is not disclosed here (for security reason), has said to Kabul Press that Hamid Karzai as his other electoral rivals would spend a tremendous amount of money in the electoral campaign to hire the influential people in different spots of Afghanistan. This source has added that in the first step, Karzai team has purchased 50 luxury vehicles and has distributed them among the powerful and influential commanders.
While the governmental budget is a part of the public wealth, it would be illegal to purchase these vehicles by the government budget in this period of time for a false purpose that is a personal interest.
The commanders, who were recently gifted vehicles by Hamid Karzai, are the commanders of previous Northern Allies some of whom are in the parliament. Most of these hired commanders by the Karzai team are the people affiliated with Zarar Ahmad Moqbil the current Minister of Interior*. Some of these commanders are MPs in the parliament and some others serve as consultants for the government. Among them, familiar names are heard such as; Commander Amanullah, Mullah Taj Mohammad, Commander Almas, Commander Maulanaye Sayed Khail in Baghlan and all other commanders belong to a specific ethnic. There are also Hezb e Islami commanders as well in this list, who were promoted from lieutenant to general rank at once last year by president Karzai.
Almost a major part of these commanders who seemed to be with the National Front, are already purchased and hired by Karzai team. It is very interesting that Zalmaye Hewad who is a rhetorician of tribalism has traveled village to village in Herat to consent the people to vote for Karzai.
Some of these commanders being purchased by Karzai team are accused of war crimes and looting of public wealth.
Seeing the speed in preparation for the next year elections, it is expected that there will be more electoral violations in the next months and millions of dollars will be spent in this way.
Some of the possible nominees for the next year presidential elections are obviously affiliated with foreign countries and will appear on the campaign with their directly and indirect supports.
Among others the current president, having enough governmental resources, more than the others, has more possibility for any kind of electoral violations.
In the last parliamentary and presidential elections (2004 and 2005) that were the first ever elections in Afghanistan, the influential people of the international organizations have also made enormous embezzlements. For instance in the UNDP office (United Nation Development Program), 1100 one thousand and one hundred Russian Jeep vehicles were purchased each at 3,000 USD$ three thousand dollars but in the inventory list of elections budget they were quoted at 7,000 USD$ seven thousand dollars each, that means only in one purchase about 5,000,000 USD$ five million dollars is being embezzled by the UNDP influential people in Afghanistan.
In the coming election also millions of dollars will be spent and a big part of that will be paid by the drug traffickers and the different countries.
Considering the power and influence of some of the nominees, some of the campaigning expenses will be provided illegally from the government budget that is a gross betray to the nation.
Click here to see the original post in Kabul Press
Monday, December 1, 2008
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The Hazaras abandon the ANA (Afghan National Army)
Years after Hashim Khan’s death, still his decree is strongly in force!
Written by Jafar Rezayee
Translated by Amin Wahidi
Sometime ago, MoD or the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan announced that the number of soldiers of the army will be doubled within next four years. Good news it would be to hear about formation of an army in a militated and chaotic country like Afghanistan but the concern is about the fair and just ethnic composition in such an army that is called national.
In spite of lies of leaders of Hezb e Wahdat who call the Hazara people for silence and obedience of the current government when ever they have a chance to preach for them, claiming that justice and equality is applied through out the country but the reality is totally different.
Coincidently with the MoD announcement, the Economist Magazine published a report about the ANA which had a remark on the low presence of the Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmens and other deprived minority ethnicities of Afghanistan. A part of that report was translated and posted on BBC Persian website but it is clear that as always, this time either BBC didn’t publish the parts that were a bit critical on the Afghan government regarding unjust treatment with the minor or deprived ethnicities. But for sure there are always people who read the BBC English about Afghanistan and easily find the differences of such censors between English and Persian versions of the same report about the Hazaras of Afghanistan and Karzai’s insufficiency that have been many times criticized in the English version but were never published on the Persian version of BBC so far.
Written by Jafar Rezayee
Translated by Amin Wahidi
Sometime ago, MoD or the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan announced that the number of soldiers of the army will be doubled within next four years. Good news it would be to hear about formation of an army in a militated and chaotic country like Afghanistan but the concern is about the fair and just ethnic composition in such an army that is called national.
In spite of lies of leaders of Hezb e Wahdat who call the Hazara people for silence and obedience of the current government when ever they have a chance to preach for them, claiming that justice and equality is applied through out the country but the reality is totally different.
Coincidently with the MoD announcement, the Economist Magazine published a report about the ANA which had a remark on the low presence of the Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmens and other deprived minority ethnicities of Afghanistan. A part of that report was translated and posted on BBC Persian website but it is clear that as always, this time either BBC didn’t publish the parts that were a bit critical on the Afghan government regarding unjust treatment with the minor or deprived ethnicities. But for sure there are always people who read the BBC English about Afghanistan and easily find the differences of such censors between English and Persian versions of the same report about the Hazaras of Afghanistan and Karzai’s insufficiency that have been many times criticized in the English version but were never published on the Persian version of BBC so far.
“However, the Economist Magazine, in addition to remark on the unjust representation of the Hazaras in the ANA, has quoted from a Hazara Officer in the Army that he has never been promoted because of his ethnicity and thus he is going to quit the army.”
That is not a Hazara officer’s predestination in the ANA but is the destiny of all Hazaras in the army as the facts show. Along the history, the Hazaras have always had a little presence in the army and still the decree of Hashim Khan is in force in the country against the Hazaras although not formally but in unwritten forms. In this decree it was stated that the Hazaras are not allowed to have access in higher levels of education and military schools. It seems that no one wants a Hazara work in a governmental office and have a personality.
Seeing the symbolic presence of the Hazaras as extras on the political stage of Afghanistan not only in Karzai’s cabinet and Afghanistan’s foreign political agencies but in the lower levels in the Army and Police as well, we can say, years after his death, still Hashim Khan’s decree is strongly in force.
Here there is no need to blame the people continuing Hashim khan’s movement but the silence of Hazara writers and intellectuals is questionable in this important period of time when the issue of social justice and ethnic equality is very critical for the Hazaras to get their rights as well as for all the other Afghans in Afghanistan.
Click Here to read The Economist Magazine report on ANA
Afghanistan’s army Good news from Arghandab
That is not a Hazara officer’s predestination in the ANA but is the destiny of all Hazaras in the army as the facts show. Along the history, the Hazaras have always had a little presence in the army and still the decree of Hashim Khan is in force in the country against the Hazaras although not formally but in unwritten forms. In this decree it was stated that the Hazaras are not allowed to have access in higher levels of education and military schools. It seems that no one wants a Hazara work in a governmental office and have a personality.
Seeing the symbolic presence of the Hazaras as extras on the political stage of Afghanistan not only in Karzai’s cabinet and Afghanistan’s foreign political agencies but in the lower levels in the Army and Police as well, we can say, years after his death, still Hashim Khan’s decree is strongly in force.
Here there is no need to blame the people continuing Hashim khan’s movement but the silence of Hazara writers and intellectuals is questionable in this important period of time when the issue of social justice and ethnic equality is very critical for the Hazaras to get their rights as well as for all the other Afghans in Afghanistan.
Click Here to read The Economist Magazine report on ANA
Afghanistan’s army Good news from Arghandab
Sunday, November 30, 2008
The logic and mentality of the Tailban
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