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Afghans continue with demand for return of exiled vice president
[PRESSTV] People in northern Afghanistan have demonstrated to keep alive a demand for the return of exiled Vice President Abdul Rasheed Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...On the seventh day of demonstrations on Tuesday, protesters tore down pictures of 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. ..while threatening that they could cut highways and power lines, bringing electricity from neighboring Uzbekistan to the capital Kabul. Their major demand is for Ghani to coordinate the return of Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek leader and a member of Ghani’s current national unity government, who has not returned to Afghanistan since he went to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for medical treatment last year. The protests erupted last week after Nizamuddin Qaisari, a local police commander loyal to Dostum, was tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! Dostum went into exile after he was accused of torturing and sexually assaulting his political opponent Ahmad Ischi. There has been speculation that he may return to Afghanistan despite objections by the United States and other Western backers of Ghani’s government. Posted by: Fred 2018-07-11 |
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