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Karzai Forms Delegation to Address Election Issues
[Tolo News] President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has assembled a special delegation to work on solutions to problems that have cropped up around the election process over the past week, Attorney General Mohammad Ishaq Aloko said on Monday. Speaking at a gathering held in Kabul by the Qizilbashan Public Council, Mr. Aloko said that Karzai is actively working to resolve the disputes between presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... , his opponent Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and the election commissions. "President Karzai appointed a delegation to find an agreement," Aloko said. "The Attorney General's office has not yet received any issue about the election and hopes not to receive any in the future either; we hope the issues of the election will be solved." The Attorney General did not specify who was on Karzai's delegation, but indicated that it included tribal elders. "There are some elders working on the issue and Karzai has asked the two candidates to meet with each other," he said. "We believe in two candidates, they are very popular figures." The election process took a controversial turn shortly after Election Day when presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah began launching accusations of fraud against the election commissions, his opponent and Karzai himself. Abdullah demanded the suspension of a top election official and decided to boycott the Independent Election Commission (IEC) when his demand went unmet. He also called for the voting process to be stopped. Posted by: Fred 2014-06-24 |
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