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Afghan president changes interior minister
The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, has replaced his Interior Minister, Taj Mohammad Wardak, with a former resistance leader. The new minister is Ali Ahmad Jalali, who was a senior military commander in the mujahideen rebellion against Soviet occupation in the 1980s. He has recently returned from the United States where he was head of the Pashto and Persian service for Voice of America. The ministerial change follows criticism of the way Mr Wardak handled student demonstrations in Kabul last year in which at least one person was killed. There were also complaints about the security situation in Afghanistan.Good luck to him. Unless he's Darth Vader, he's gonna need it... There's more on this on the Ariana website. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-28 |
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