Friday, January 30, 2009

Moving tails for Obama!



Written by Kamran Mirhazar, Kabul Press Editor - in - Chief
Translated by Amin Wahidi

Kabul Press: Since it was revealed that Barack Obama will take the power in the White House as the next president of the United States, the subservience and moving tails began by the affiliated ones in Afghanistan.

Gul Agha Sherzai the grand drug smuggler and governor of Nangarhar, Abdullah “Abdullah” one of the most corrupted figureheads in two three decades who is said to have hand in Masoud’s assassination, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai one of the most illiberal person and a spiritual supporter of the Taliban whose financial misuse during his ministry is recently flawed to the media and Ali Ahmad Jalali a former minister who did not dare to expose the names of governmental drug dealers are the famous figures who make efforts to approach the new administration of the United States.


Different resources say that these four persons in spite of not having a public support are hardly trying to accost people in the coming presidential election.

They hire their close friends and relatives to make publicity for them in different provinces. The hired messengers travel to provinces and tell to people that these figures have the full support of the United States of America and it is the USA that decides who would be the president of Afghanistan.

They promise and threat the people as well. They tell people to vote for them to be with the power and wealth otherwise they will be in contrast with power and will be ignored and inculcated.
Indeed the only point they boast on is their affiliation to the United States of America as they say to people.
This group spends millions of dollars for their electoral campaign from unspecified sources.

Like the usual electoral tricks for propagandas, they promises acceleration of reconstruction, fighting against corruption and bringing security stability for people, as Hamid Karzai did promise but in practice during his presidency most things got worse than ever before.
Public interest looters, human rights violators, drug smugglers and family members of Karzai have done anything they wanted during this time, more freely than ever without fear of charges or prosecution.

It is interesting and funny when Gul Agha Sherzai, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Abdullah “Abdullah” and Ali Ahmad Jalali talks on campaign against corruption.
Gul Agha Sherzai Photo by Viewimages

A report in a Canadian journal sometime ago wrote that Gul Agha Sherzai has a vast hand in the drug production and trafficking in the province under his governance, and when he was the governor of Kandahar (before being governor for Nangarhar), he has had an income of One Million US$ Dollars per week from drug trafficking in that province.

This journal wrote that most of the embezzlements and financial corruption root back to the time when millions of dollars were given to people like Gul Agha Sherzoi by the US Special Forces and CIA in the war against the Taliban in 2001 and then after the collapse of the Taliban these people were again empowered and there again spaces for them in the new Afghan Administration.

Along with drug trafficking, stealing from custom and toll revenues, Gul Agha Sherzai is the repressor of the media and intellectual personalities in the eastern and southern provinces.

Nor the journalists in Kandahar and Nangarhar dare to criticize what Gul Agha Sherzai does in these two provinces, neither the members of parliament from these provinces do.

In Nangarhar, where Gul Agha Sherzai is the governor, only the governmental media reflects a pretending satisfactory of the public from the governor which is obviously broadcasted by his direct order.


Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai
The spiritual supporter of the Taliban and a well known figure for prejudice in Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai who was one of the founders of corrupted administration of Karzai now talks about campaign against corruption who want to get the support of Washington in addition to support of London. It is said that he is one of figureheads of Great Britain in Afghanistan; Great Britain, that country that has supported the conservative and narrow minded figures in Afghanistan and in the region in the recent centuries.

When Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was the minister of finance, he contracted with two American companies to control financial corruption and allocated millions of dollars for this project, but nowadays the officials as well as his rivals say that he has been corrupted during his ministry. Some say he has been keeping the governmental money in his personal accounts. Ashraf Ghani attacks on corrupted administration of Karzai while he has been one of the founders of this administration. After ministry of finance, when he was appointed as the Chancellor of Kabul University, he has ignited the fire of discrimination against Dari Persian language in the university. It is still a question for the Kabul university students; how would he administer a country when he is corrupted and does not have the capability to administer only a university?!
It is to say that Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai has built a big house as a palace in Darullaman where the two historical places are located.



Who is Abdullah “Abdullah”?
Abdullah “Abdullah” the spokes person of one of the parties involved in civil war of Kabul, former minister of foreign affairs and the current president of Regional Peace Jirga is said to have had hand in the conspiracy of Masoud’s assassination.

As said to Kabul Press by a reliable source adjacent to the National Front, Abdullah “Abdullah” the former minister of foreign affairs in Karzai administration is a person directly involved in the conspiracy of Masoud’s assassination. This information is revealed by a relative of Motamed Abdulhamed Mohtaat the former vice president during Dawood Khan. Mr. Mohtaat has written that book which is not published yet. For his book, he is still to wait and discuss with the leaders of Jamiat and Masoud’s family, because in his book he has evidenced the relation of Abdullah “Abdullah” to the conspiracy.
His previous book ‘The analytic history of Afghanistan” has caused the anger of many officials and people on power. Therefore he lives in Ukraine now.

The ministry of foreign affairs was one of the most corrupted offices during the ministry of Abdullah “Abdullah”. Rangeen Dadfar Spanta the current minister of foreign affairs has not been able yet to expulse the illiterate appointees of Abdullah “Abdullah” and refine the foreign ministry structure.
There are still people who were given jobs in the ministry without merit. Abdullah “Abdullah’s” appointees are persons like Mehraabudeen Mastan, who are accused of embezzlement of millions of dollars and are not yet prosecuted like many other public wealth looters and human rights violators.

In this ministry, no merit criteria existed for the appointment of foreign diplomats and ambassadors; only relationship with the minister was enough and people with this specific characteristic as an advantage were promoted to key positions overnight.

And now, Abdullah “Abdullah” in the international arena pretends to be an expert on “Afghanistan issues” and wants to be the next president or the vice.


Ali Ahmad Jalali; coward or compromiser?!
The ministry of interior who commands the national police whether directly or indirectly should protect the law and civil rights of citizens but Ali Ahmad Jalali never did his job well during his ministry.
A clear example is the people’s land properties that were being usurped by the warlord officials in Sherpur Kabul while Ali Ahmad Jalali not only did not do anything, but he was also among the land usurpers.

The warlords such as; Burhanudeen Rabani, Mullah Taj Mohammad, Ata Mohamamd Noor, Mohammad Sharif (Yonus Qanooni’s brother), Yonus Qanooni, Qasim Fahim and others like Zalmai Hewadmal (Karzai’s consultant minister), Mohammad Yousuf Pashtoon, Mohammad Hanif Atmar etc who forced people to evacuate their houses, built their own palaces on the land properties of the poor people.

Based on his past, Ali Ahmad Jalali doesn’t seem to be capable for presidency of Afghanistan and there is doubt that he would compromise and make deal with the warlords and the factors of corruption.

When Jalali talked proudly about the existence of drug smugglers among senior governmental officials but could never reveal the list of names. For sure he still prefers his political dealings rather than fighting against corruption therefore he can never be a president for people. Rather than thinking about welfare of the people, he thinks for his own personal welfare and before to think about public interest, he thinks about his own business and wealth raise.

The only boasting point they have is “moving tails” for Obama, while the people of Afghanistan do not trust them for their negative background and their failure in the past.

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