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Afghan president asks UN to add Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah to sanctions list
 [DAWN] Afghanistan's president asked the United Nations...boodling on the grand scale... on Monday to add the Taliban's new leader to its sanctions list, in a further blow to efforts to revive the stalled grinding of the peace processor. Afghan forces have struggled to contain the Taliban insurgency, with two deadly suicide kabooms claimed by the group at the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... air base in Bagram and at a German consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif in just the past week. "We want the UN to add names of turbans including Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah to its sanctions list," President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. said in a statement after meeting with members of the U.N. sanctions committee in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... Haibatullah was named leader of the Taliban after the death of his predecessor Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour in a US drone strike in May. One of the Taliban's main demands for peace talks is for their senior commanders to be taken off the UN blacklist that imposes asset freezes and travel bans. The grinding of the peace processor broke down last year almost immediately after preliminary talks began in Pakistain. Since then, there have been various efforts to get it started again, including a series of talks involving the United States, Pakistain, China and Afghanistan, but none has so far had any success. Posted by: Fred 2016-11-15 |
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