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| Afghan MP survives bomb attack |
| 2014-11-17 |
| [ARABNEWS] An outspoken female Afghan politician survived a suicide kaboom attack on her vehicle on Sunday, suffering slight wounds, but three civilian bystanders were killed, a police front man said. Member of Parliament Shukria Barakzai is a women's rights advocate and a close ally of new 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. .. , who condemned the attack in a statement. "I survived because of my people's prayers," Barakzai said by telephone from her hospital bed. The bombing was the latest to target members of the US-backed Afghan government, which is fighting a fierce onslaught by the Taliban movement as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan by the end of the year. Hashmat Stanekzai, a front man for Kabul's police chief, said three non-combatants were killed by the suicide kaboomer and more than 10 maimed. Stanekzai said social media reports that Barakzai's daughter had been killed were not correct. Barakzai told Rooters in a 2005 interview that she had run a secret school for girls during the Taliban's five-year rule, during which harsh restrictions were imposed on women. The Taliban's government was toppled by US-backed Afghan forces after it refused to hand over the Al-Qaeda planners of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Barakzai is a member of the team Ghani appointed to help choose a new Cabinet after he took office in late September after a lengthy and bitter dispute over election results with rival Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... finally ended in a coalition government. Continued disputes between the two camps have delayed the new Cabinet's appointment. |
| Posted by:Fred |