Afghanistan: Karzai Puts Peace Hopes in Hands of Warlords ...

The council’s only clear function is to administer the Peace and Reintegration Trust Fund, some $500 million in donor money earmarked to reintegrate Taliban foot soldiers. Western donors announced the fund in January.

Like Rabbani, many of the council members played prominent roles in 1992-1996 factional fighting that followed the collapse of Afghanistan’s Moscow-backed Communist regime. Several council members are suspected of having carried out human rights violations, but have never been convicted. -- Afghanistan: Karzai Puts Peace Hopes in Hands of Warlords ...

The warlord-mafia regime of Karzai would not be uncontaminated ...