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...
will punish governors who haven't been productive and competent.
A latest study conducted on continuity of PRTs missions in Afghanistan by Afghan Killid Group, a research group based in Kabul, said majority of governors back the PRTs to continue their mission.
But President Karzai has branded governors incompetent and has vowed to punish them.
While Afghan governors protest activities of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) and a lack of coordination between PRTs and local government bodies, they say the PRTs should be allowed to continue their mission, the study says.
President Hamid Karzai called PRTs a serious obstacle ahead of good governance in Afghanistan and urged the termination of the teams.
Around 24 Afghan governors have been interviewed in the study.
"The governors, who say they need provincial reconstruction teams, appear not to have been good governors. We should find out about them and punish them," Karzai has said. "Governors wouldn't be able to work if they do not rely on themselves."
According to the study, Pashtun-infested Logar governor has said reconstruction contractors have allegedly bought sixty guns for anti-government groups to prevent disruption of a road construction project in the province.
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) Spokesman General Josef Blotz sees PRTs' mission fruitful.
According to the study, 27 PRTs are operating in Afghanistan and most of them belong to the United States.