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| U.S. and Britain suspend financial aid to Afghanistan Peace Council |
| 2016-02-06 |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] The United States and United Kingdom governments have reportedly suspended financial aid to Afghanistan High Peace Council. The Afghanistan High Peace Council (AHPC) confirmed Friday that the move by the major donors followed amid ongoing issues within the council, including the leadership of the council that lacks a chairman during the past one year. AHPC officials said the major donors that have suspended financial aid includes the United States Agency for International Development and the government of the United Kingdom. A senior member of the council, Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar, confirmed that the donors have suspended financial support to the Highe Peace Council since the beginning of the year. Qasimyar further added that the main motive behind the suspension of the financial support by the international donors have been the lack of chairman for almost a year and issues within the secretariat of the council. Without disclosing information on the amount of aid the council was receiving from the two main donors, Qasimyar said the new chairman and secretariat chief are expected to be assigned in coming days. The current Minister of Foreign Affairs Salahuddin Rabani was previously serving as the chairman of the council while the acting Minister of Defense Masoom Stanikzai was the secretariat chief. The Afghanistan High Peace Council was formed by the former 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... in mid 2010 to provide a platform for reconciliation talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban group. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The Afghanistan High Peace Council (AHPC) confirmed Friday that the move by the major donors followed amid ongoing issues within the council, including the leadership of the council that lacks a chairman during the past one year. Translation: No clue who to direct the graft to. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-02-06 11:55 |