Former UN envoy blasts new Hamid Karzai cabinet as 'corrupt - The Observer

The former deputy UN envoy to Afghanistan has launched a withering attack on President Hamid Karzai's latest effort to reinvent his government, saying the shake-up would do little to ameliorate the country's worsening crisis.

"Karzai has been in power for eight years. He has been at the head of an ineffective and corrupt government," said Galbraith. "He is in office because of fraud. Why should one believe that things are going to be different now? If I was Obama or Brown with over 100,000 troops in Afghanistan I would do what I can [to insist on change]. But this is a country in which it is impossible to monitor corruption."

Galbraith's critique was echoed by the Afghan political analyst Waheed Mujda, who said that, despite the alterations, "we do not see new figures or faces in this cabinet to give us any expectation for a major change for the country's future". Instead, observers suggested that many of the new figures in the cabinet appeared to be proxies for powerful Afghan figures, a view that is endorsed by Khaled Pashtun, an MP from Kandahar. - Former UN envoy blasts new Hamid Karzai cabinet as 'corrupt'

UN envoy blasts Karzai cabinet
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