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| Advisors Blamed for a Shift in Karzai Behaviour Towards West |
| 2010-12-21 |
| [Tolo News] Misinformation said to President Karzai by his close ones has caused him to shift behaviour against the West in particular the US, leaks said Leaked US diplomatic cables claimed that some officials in Afghan government were after a big conspiracy. The documents viewed Palace Chief of Staff Mohammad Daudzai, Education Minister Farooq Wardak, and former Information and Culture Minister Abdul Karim Khoram as figures with maximum influence over President Karzai's decisions. Leaks said MFA Chief of Protocol Hamid Sidiq is convinced that Daudzai is working to advance Tehran's interests in the Palace. President Karzai's Chief of Staff Daudzai has restricted access to the president and has prevented other Palace staff from having one-to-one meeting with President Karzai, the documents claimed. Mohammad Daudzai, Farooq Wardak and Abdul Karim Khoram have links to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's ... who used to be known as The Most Evil Man in the Worldbut who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... Hezb-e-Islami Party and provide advices to Karzai in favour of their party, it said. Analysts rooted back the problem to President Karzai's appointment of officials in government circle. They said from now on President Karzai should seriously act against conspirators in Afghanistan. "This is a pity that these kinds of issues about Afghan officials are leaked," said Head of Afghan Journalists Union, Abdul Hamid Mubarez. Daudzai, Khoram, and Wardak were members of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-e-Islami Party in the 1980s, during the mujahideen struggle against Soviet forces and they still have kept their tie with the party, it said. |
| Posted by:Fred |