BLACK COMEDY IN KABUL AS BENT AG “DECLARES HIS CANDIDACY” --Sky Reporter

Never one to be accused of moving swiftly, much less decisively, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has finally fired his accident prone Attorney General, Abdul Jabar Sabet.

The concurrent practices of going soft on criminals while cracking down on the media should tell the people of western democracies everything they need to know about the Karzai regime, say its critics. “We are facing the old difficulties of Afghanistan’s history in the last 25 years,” says Shukria Barakzai. “Who is there who isn’t working for his own pocket, who is there who isn’t a warlord or criminal?

“The president is completely isolated from the people. He only listens to this mafia group inside the palace.”
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