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Senate Passes Anti-Money Laundering Law, Awaits Karzai's Signature
[Tolo News] Members of the upper house of the Afghan parliament passed the Anti-Money Laundering Law with majority vote and without amending the law on Tuesday. The law now is awaiting the approval of 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... The Central Bank of Afghanistan's Gov. Noorullah Delawari is expected to present the approved law at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) conference in Gay Paree on Wednesday. Delawari says that he is in touch with the president's office and expresses hope that the law will be available for him in Gay Paree to present to the delegation. "After the approval of the law by both the House of Representatives and Senate, we were in touch with the president's office ensuring that the law will reach us tomorrow," Gov. Delawari said. A number of analysts say the president should consider the time limit and sign the law as soon as possible so that Afghanistan is protected from being blacklisted from the international banking system. "My demand from the president is to sign the law as soon as possible and ignore the administrative process and inform the Gay Paree conference," political commentator Mir Ahmad Joyenda said. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... a number of senators on Tuesday wanted to discuss a few articles with the possibility of amending them, but the fear of leading the country into being internationally blacklisted pushed the Senate to vote. Posted by: Fred 2014-06-25 |
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