1TV: Ahmad Zia Massoud, the president’s Special Representative in Reform and Good Governance, blasted the unity government for considering partisanship and ethnicity in recruitment than competency. As many as 90 percent of civil servants are not professional to carry out their mandate, according to the official. Click here to read more (external link).
HRW: Afghanistan’s new national unity government failed to make significant gains in achieving human rights reforms in 2015, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2016. Little progress was made in reining in abusive militias, reducing corruption, promoting women’s rights, and reforming the courts. Click here to read more (external link).
By Pete Baumgartner January 27, 2016 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty An international monitoring group says people around the world demonstrated to governments in 2015 that they must become more transparent and tackle the large-scale corruption that continues to plague so many countries and hinder their development. In its 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released on January
Press TV January 21, 2016 US reconstruction projects in Afghanistan are “political corruption” by Pentagon officials and a way to steal American tax money, an American journalist in Phoenix says. “What the American people and the people of the world need to realize is that many of these Defense Department reconstruction projects are nothing but
The American Conservative: The Afghan military sustained twice as many losses in the last year as U.S. forces killed in the entire 13 years of war in Afghanistan. And the pace of casualties is escalating, suggesting that the Taliban is stronger than the Pentagon and mainstream media have ever let on—in fact, the Afghan security forces
Press TV January 21, 2016 A US government watchdog has found that a Defense Department agency wasted millions of dollars on reconstruction projects in Afghanistan. The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, John Sopko, accused the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO) of “poorly planned, and ill-conceived projects” in Afghanistan. TFBSO, a division
Propublica: A Senate subcommittee is looking at waste by a Pentagon task force. It would do well to review the reasons why a major hydroelectric power plant sits unfinished. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: Afghan governor Yasin Zia disguised himself as ordinary man to catch two attorneys taking a bribe. The attorneys in Takhar province asked a man to pay 60,000 for his son to be released from custody. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) threatened on Monday to disclose the names of Kabul Bank defaulters who have failed to repay their loans and refuse to appear in court. Spokesman for the AGO Abdul Basir Azizi said that more than 60 percent of Kabul Banks debts have however been recovered. Click here to read
Tolo News: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction on Thursday spoke out about corruption in the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum and said flawed infrastructure, unprepared projects, and corruption were all inhibiting factors in the development of Afghan resources. In this report SIGAR has reviewed some $488 million USD spent on a number of projects in