Gordon Brown met Karzi yesterday the 6th Nov, and said that his government was too corrupt and would loose international support if he failed to improve it's performance, this I would suggest as his brother is a major figure in the drugs trade it was suggested in a news paper this October and a position was held for him in this government, now Brown is tightening the screws and telling him to clear up the parliament. General Aminullah Amarkhail, the former head of security at Kabul airport was sacked for his succsess in arresting heroin smugglers he says you have to pay £6,000 in bribes to get a job as a chief of police any where on the border! Between 10,000 and 15,000 Afghan Police have been killed in the past 5 years 4 times more likely to be killed than their military counterparts, not surprising that recruitment is at a whole time low. Curruptiom is rife and Nadine Ghouri says in the Guardian on 7th Nov senior officers commonly pay a fee to secure promotions, the more senior the post the higher the upfront fee.
It is difficult with this scale of corruption going on what possibily can Karsi do? Abdullah Abdullah has pulled out of the run as he felt the initial election was fraudulent, does this have an echo of Iran about it and I believe an individual took on Ayatollah Kamini and with a telephone conversation.
No comments:
Post a Comment