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Category Archives: Corruption

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NPA’s Awarding of Massive Wheat Shipping Contracts Under Scrutiny

10th January, 2020 · admin

Tolo News:  Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) on Friday criticized an agreement enabling the presidential operations unit to import thousands of metric tons of wheat from India. According to Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA), the National Procurement Authority (NPA) has taken the contract for shipping thousands of metric tons of Indian wheat into the country from one

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Ashraf Ghani Government |
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9 Billion Afghanis To Be Transferred To Ministry Of Finance Against Law

29th December, 2019 · admin

Ariana: This is the third time that the ministry of finance will transfer at least nine billion Afghanis to its treasury which is against the law, said officials in the lower house.   “The treasury of the ministry of finance is empty, and that’s why employees haven’t received their salaries,” said Ramazan Bashardust, member of the lower

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Political News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Parliament, Ramazan Bashardost |
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Leaders Unite Against Rise of ‘Fraudulent’ Govt

26th December, 2019 · admin

Tolo News: Some of Afghanistan’s mainstream political leaders and former mujahideen figures on Thursday vowed to defy the establishment of a government arising from “electoral fraud.” Among the main critics was CE Abdullah Abdullah, who reiterated that he will always defend the valid votes of the Afghan people. Click here to read more (external link). Related

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Posted in Corruption, Elections News, Political News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Dr. Abdullah, Election Fraud |
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Papers Reveal Controversial Appointment at Afghan Embassy in US

25th December, 2019 · admin

Tolo News: The Afghan Ambassador to the United States Roya Rahmani has appointed Mir Haris Ansari, the son-in-law of Shad Mohammad Sargand, as a senior adviser to President Ashraf Ghani on infrastructure as an embassy employee, according to documents seen by TOLOnews. Documents seen by TOLOnews reveal that Ansari was sent to the embassy under the

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Posted in Corruption, Political News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Corrupt Ghani, Mir Haris Ansari, Roya Rahmani, Shad Mohammad Sargand |
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From Vietnam to Afghanistan, all US governments lie

20th December, 2019 · admin

The Conversation:  The Washington Post has, after more than two years of investigation, revealed that senior foreign policy officials in the White House, State and Defense departments have known for some time that the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan was failing. Interview transcripts from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, obtained by the Post after many lawsuits, show

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Posted in Corruption, Security, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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US Congress Also Bears Responsibility for Prolonging Afghanistan’s Unwinnable War

16th December, 2019 · admin

Michael Hughes:  The Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers was met with deafening silence because most astute observers already knew the U.S. military had painted a false picture of the war, not to mention the fact the document dump was released to an indifferent American public. That said, the documents still shine a bright light on the incompetence and

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Posted in Corruption, Opinion/Editorial, Security, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Ghani calls for immediate arrest of ex-police commander Paikan

15th December, 2019 · admin

1TV: Addressing an annual anti-corruption conference, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday ordered the acting interior minister to immediately arrest Zmaray Paikan, a former commander Civil Order Police. Paikan had been sentenced by the country’s anti-corruption court to over eight years in prison in late 2017, but he has not been arrested yet. Click here to

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Posted in Corruption | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Zmaray Paikan |
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The real outrage of the Afghanistan war papers that no one wants to talk about

14th December, 2019 · admin

Salon: If it disturbs us that the U.S. public was misled, shouldn’t we be even more disturbed by the way that the Afghans themselves were lied to? If the lies to the U.S. public are disturbing, wouldn’t the ones to Afghans be even more so? And, how is it that the cost to the U.S.

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Corruption, Opinion/Editorial, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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If you’re surprised by what’s in the Afghanistan Papers, you haven’t been paying attention

12th December, 2019 · admin

The Washington Post: On Monday, The Washington Post published the Afghanistan Papers, a major years-long investigation into the costs and conducts of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. These papers largely consist of more than 400 interviews conducted by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)’s for its Lessons Learned project. Click here

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Posted in Corruption, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Pentagon Denies Intentionally Misleading Public on Afghan War

10th December, 2019 · admin · 30 Comments

Carla Babb VOA News December 10, 2019 PENTAGON – The Pentagon has denied intentionally misleading the public about the 18-year war in Afghanistan, after The Washington Post published a trove of government documents revealing that officials made overly optimistic pronouncements they knew to be false and hid evidence that the conflict had become un-winnable. “There has been

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Posted in Corruption, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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