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Afghan Senate chief threatens to resign
Mujaddidi is widely respected among Afghans for being a spiritual leader. He is also chief of the government-backed Reconciliation Commission assigned with the task to bring anti-government elements and dissidents in the fold of the government. Addressing a ceremony in Kabul to receive the 16 Afghan prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, Mujaddidi said President Hamid Karzai and Attorney-General Jabar Sabit were giving no weight to his advice on ending corruption in Afghanistan. He said undesirable people were present in the government. He had time and again asked the government to purge the administration of those undesirable people but the government did not act. "Now, if they (the government) failed to take concrete steps on this front, I shall quit my job," said Mujaddidi. Sources in the Afghan government told KUNA that the elderly politician, Mujaddidi, was not happy with the new Attorney-General Abdul Jabbar Sabit who is carrying out anti-corruption war in the country. The sources said an official, who was close to Mujaddidi, has recently fallen victim to Sabit's anti-corruption war and the chairman was not happy about that. Sabit was recently appointed by Karzai and got vote of confidence from the Afghan parliament to purge government departments from corruption which is widespread in this war-shattered country. Both the international community and donors have repeatedly expressed reservations about widespread corruption in virtually all government branches. Posted by: Seafarious 2006-10-13 |
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